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The United Nations has commended China's "continued strong leadership" for backing a landmark international agreement to curb climate change. …

With a rumored annual purchasing budget of $1 billion, Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani is one of the most powerful women in the art world -- and one of the most secretive.

If true, the rocket could allow nuclear strikes on the U.S. mainland

Prosecutors are seeking a six-month jail sentence for disgraced former US House Speaker Dennis Hastert, who is alleged to have paid to cover up abuse.

Russia's prime minister on Saturday defended Moscow's policy of selling arms to both Armenia and Azerbaijan, whose military forces have faced off in a sharp escalation of fighting around separatist Nagorno-Karabakh. …

A woman who was on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted fugitives list for the killing of her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend in Texas has been detained in Mexico. …

Killings come as ceasefire between Yemen's warring parties is due to begin on Sunday.

A sixth person was arrested during a series of raids across Brussels on Friday, prosecutors have confirmed.

US air force says powerful long-range bombers will target ISIL positions strategically without carpet-bombing.

Copies of a November edition of the French magazine are being confiscated or destroyed over an article about the monarchy.

A man who escaped from a Washington state psychiatric hospital where he was held after being found too mentally ill to face charges that he tortured a woman to death was found hiding under a pile of debris in the woods a...

King Salman unveils "historic step to connect Africa and Asia" during Cairo visit as allies seal multiple trade deals.

Chicago Public Schools officials say 247 members of the Chicago Teachers Union reported for work on April 1, the day teachers walked out classrooms to highlight funding woes. Schools spokeswoman Emily Bittner says most o...

Transportation Security Administration Administrator Vice Adm. Peter Neffenger had just landed at the Brussels airport when suicide terrorists detonated bombs in the terminal last month.

Teenager faces court on Saturday following fatal stabbing of 17-year-old musician known as MDot in south London on Sunday A 15-year-old boy has been charged with the murder of an aspiring young musician in south London. ...

A U.S. man held captive in Yemen's rebel-controlled capital has been released after Omani negotiators interceded on his behalf, authorities said, becoming the latest American freed through the sultanate's quiet diplomacy...

BEIRUT -- The Islamic State group has released most of the 300 cement workers it abducted near Damascus after questioning them to find out who were Muslims and killing four who were members of the minority Druze sect, a ...

The London mayoral candidate, 45, on meeting Neil Kinnock, the problems with renting a home, and why heroic failure is not for him My grandparents were emigrants from India to Pakistan. My parents were emigrants from Pak...

Bernie Sanders boasted on Friday that he was invited to a conference at the Vatican, but an official there said he forgot to mention who extended the invitation -- himself. Margaret Archer, president of the Pontifical Ac...

U.S. intelligence estimates now put the number of ISIS fighters in Libya between 4,000 to 6,000, double the number in the war-ravaged country last year, according to the top U.S. military commander in Africa.

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World heavyweight title fight updates from the O2 Arena Joshua and Martin all smiles but primed for a bruising battle Email [email protected] | Tweet @niallmcveigh 10.56pm BST Joshua is on his way to t...