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The U.S. military will announce on Friday that has it taken disciplinary action against 16 service members over a deadly Oct. 3 air strike in Afghanistan that destroyed a hospital run by the international medical charity...

China is planning to build nuclear reactors that will take to the sea to provide power in remote locations, possibly including the controversial man-made islands in the contested waters of the South China Sea.Podcast fav...

Rescue services say there has been no sign of survivors but workers are doing "everything possible" to save those on board.

Two dozen police injured and more than 120 arrests during night of demonstrations nationwide against watering-down of worker rights Two dozen French police officers have been injured, three of them seriously, as violence...

China has passed a controversial law imposing new regulations on foreign nongovernmental organizations and charitable groups.

It's wonderful to give notice when you leave your job but it isn't always possible or practical. Here are five times not to give notice.

The UKIP leader delivers a stark message and berates the official Leave campaign for not being assertive enough on immigration.

US Army Sgt Charles Martland admitted kicking and body slamming an Afghan police commander after he laughed off raping a boy.

A South African court has ruled that a decision to drop 738 corruption charges against President Jacob Zuma should be reviewed, adding to the leader's legal troubles. …

Crews are responding to a natural gas explosion and well fire in Pennsylvania where at least one injury has been reported

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Cambodian authorities arrested five human rights workers Friday on accusations they tried to help cover up a woman's affair with the deputy leader of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party. The action is the lates...

Tusks from over 6,000 illegally killed elephants will be set alight in Nairobi national park to highlight the poaching crisis Tusks from more than 6,000 illegally killed elephants will be burned in Kenya on Saturday, the...

A family who lost both of their children at sea describe returning to Afghanistan with nothing but two small coffins.

A former Auschwitz Nazi death camp guard apologises at his trial in Germany to victims, saying he feels "ashamed" of his work at a "criminal organisation".

North Korea sentenced a naturalized U.S. citizen to 10 years in prison, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported.          

Two men are accused of meeting Brussels and Paris attacks suspect Mohamed Abrini in a Birmingham park - and handing him £3,000.

An adult bald eagle in Pittsburgh was seen on an online livestream Tuesday bringing a cat back to the nest for its two young eagles. Some viewers watching the Hays nest site were disturbed by what they saw on the video. ...

US presidential hopeful Ted Cruz has been called "Lucifer in the flesh" by the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have recently introduced us to a nifty new rewards system: The Woman Card.

Donald Trump's kids -- and millions of other New Yorkers -- should have gotten the chance to vote in last week's presidential primary but were blocked because of an unconstitutional system, a new lawsuit charges. Manhatt...