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Former governors, ministers and state employees accused of raiding the public purse as goverment kicks off anti-corruption campaign Scores of people, including former governors, cabinet ministers and government workers, ...

UK could have responded much faster if Department for International Development had not waited for the WHO to act, says select committee The UK could have responded much faster to the Ebola crisis if the Department for I...

Hong Kong police say they have requested a meeting with bookseller Lee Bo, whose mysterious disappearance last month caused international uproar, after Chinese authorities confirmed his whereabouts.

Members of Myanmar's Kachin ethnic group called Tuesday for justice for two young volunteer teachers who were raped and murdered in a case they believe highlights sexual violence by government soldiers. ...

A woman whose ex-boyfriend is in custody suspected of killing a police officer called 911 before the officer's death to warn police in an Ohio village that they were in danger

Amnesty International says it has traced cobalt used in batteries for household brands to mines in DRC, where children work in life-threatening conditions Children as young as seven are working in perilous conditions in ...

When Iranian officials released footage of 10 U.S. sailors being taken captive, it made John Kerry "very, very frustrated," the secretary of state told CNN on Monday.

An Italian woman placed an embarrassing call to her local fire department after losing the key to her iron chastity belt, The Telegraph reports.

UK's family doctors have the highest stress levels and shortest consultation times out of 11 industrialised countries - and almost 30% are planning to quit The NHS has the most stressed GPs by western standards, as a res...

The Jihadi Next Door will feature Abu Rumaysah, the London Muslim convert thought to have overseen the murder of five men Unseen footage of the man suspected of being the latest British face of Islamic State propaganda i...

Five-lanes halted westbound as cars slow in unison and passengers pass chains through windows as part of protests for Martin Luther King Jr Day Protesters with the Black Lives Matter movement blocked traffic on the westb...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in Saudi Arabia for a two-day visit as part of a Middle East tour that will include stops in Egypt and Iran. ...

WASHINGTON

Yasutaro Koide, who died on Tuesday in central Japan, was born just months before the Wright brothers made their first successful flight.

Agafia Lykova, 70, is waiting to be airlifted back to solitude after being treated for a pain in her leg A 70-year-old Siberian hermit is returning to solitude in the Russian wilderness after being airlifted to a hospita...

Nearly 19,000 civilians were killed in Iraq between January 2014 and October 2015 -- a toll the United Nations calls "staggering" in a new report.

British lawmakers have debated whether the Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump should be barred from entering the country.

Former Conservative MP makes claim after Metropolitan police ends investigation of child abuse allegations against war hero Lord Bramall A former Conservative MP who is under investigation for child murder has accused th...

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- A vestige of the drug wars that made Miami notorious for violence and smuggling is being torn down. Demolition began Tuesday on a pink waterfront mansion in Miami Beach owned in the 1980s by Colombia...

U.S. officials believe Robert Levinson may no longer be in Iran, a White House spokesman said Tuesday, vowing that the U.S. would keep up the search for the former FBI agent who disappeared from an Iranian resort nearly ...

French auto-maker calls in nearly 16,000 diesel-engined Capturs after it found a fault in their emissions-reduction system Renault is recalling thousands of vehicles to make engineadjustments after emission levels were f...

The Supreme Court is agreeing to an election-year review of President Barack Obama's plan to allow up to 5 million immigrants to "come out of the shadows" and work legally in the United States.