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A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake has killed at least 28 people in Ecuador, this is the moment it struck.

NERC chief has final say and faces dilemma between credibility of the organisation and burden of public opinion Forget the EU referendum. The major test of modern democracy has fallen into the hands of the Natural Enviro...

A powerful, 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook Ecuador's central coast on Saturday, killing at least 28 people and spreading panic hundreds of miles away as it collapsed homes and buckled a major overpass.

Former Kiss lead guitarist Ace Frehley has been hospitalized for exhaustion and forced to cancel a show in New York.

President Correa calls national emergency after at least 142 people killed and over 500 injured in 7.8-magnitude quake 12.40pm BST Ecuadorian vice president Jorge Glas has told a press conference at least 142 people have...

Pope Francis says one of the refugees he met on the Greek island of Lesbos was the Muslim widower of a Syrian Christian woman killed by extremists for refusing to renounce her faith. …

Multiple quakes leave 41 dead, thousands injured and entire communities homeless with little access to food or water.

Video shows hundreds of people attacking each other with metal bars, planks of wood and other debris near Stalingrad metro.

Police in the western city of Essen say they are keeping an open mind about the reasons for an apparently deliberate explosion at a Sikh temple that injured three people late Saturday

Friends and foes of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff called each other "putchists" and "thieves" ahead of Sunday's vote in Congress' lower house on whether to proceed with her impeachment, as unprecedented levels of vi...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday his country will never withdraw from the Golan Heights and the strategic plateau bordering Syria will forever stay in Israeli hands. …

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Second night of festival in Buenos Aires cancelled following deaths of at least five people of suspected drug overdoses The second night of a major electronic music festival being held in Argentina's capital was cancelle...

General staff says PKK members targeted with warplanes and helicopters in country's eastern and southeastern provinces.

Government's denial of aid to people who have lived in UK for less than 12 months is being contested by Public Law Project The government's residence test that deprives those who have lived in the UK for less than 12 mon...

Following a pair of deadly earthquakes, U.S. Forces will provide aircraft.

Myanmar's new president has pledged to continue efforts to release remaining political prisoners and try to avoid making such arrests

Ireland's former PM speaks out against the UK leaving the EU as one Cabinet minister warns of "disastrous" consequences.

Myanmar's new president has pledged to continue efforts to release remaining political prisoners and try to avoid making such arrests

Authorities say man who shot two firefighters making a welfare check in a Maryland suburb of Washington has been released from custody

A New York City man charged with harassing relatives of a teacher killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre is set to return to court to disclose whether he will accept a plea deal

Residents in the capital Quito streamed into streets and authorities warned of strong waves on the nation's coast Authorities said more than 20 people had been killed after an earthquake of magnitude 7.8 struck off the n...