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Airline says plane, which took off from France's Charles de Gaulle airport late on Wednesday night, has gone missing with 69 people on board 4.59am BST The fact that the plane was inside Egyptian airspace when contact wa...

A heavy bomber comes down during training at Andersen Air Force Base in Yigo, a village in the Pacific island and US territory.

The Republican-led House voted convincingly Wednesday to approve a $602 billion defense policy bill after rejecting attempts by Democrats to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and to repeal the war pow...

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Authorities have released a suspect in the Nov. 13 Paris attacks who is charged with terrorism offenses and accused of having links to suspects in the case. …

69 people were onboard the Cairo-bound flight from Paris.

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Canadian prime minister accused of elbowing Ruth Ellen Brousseau and 'manhandling' another politician in angry exchanges in House of Commons Justin Trudeau, Canada's prime minister, apologised in parliament on Wednesday ...

Norway issues licences for fresh areas of exploration for the first time in 20 years as part of what minister calls 'a new chapter' for petroleum industry Norway awarded Arctic drilling licences to 13 oil companies on We...

The 13-year-old boy sits on a mat in a darkened hut not far from Leer Town in South Sudan, his skeletal knees pressed against his ears, and tells the story of what happened to him and more than 50 other men one day late ...

A container filled with nails injured one person as it exploded Thursday after being found on a city bus in the southwestern Polish city of Wroclaw, officials said. …

The Israeli military says a Palestinian prisoner who ended a 94-day hunger strike in February has been released to his home in the West Bank. …

City councilors in a northern Polish city have decided to move a giant monument honoring the Red Army out of a central square and into the main cemetery. …

EgyptAir flight disappears from radar with 66 aboard.

Museum staff discover gold ring and necklace hidden by death camp prisoner in false-bottom mug A gold ring and necklace hidden by an Auschwitz prisoner in a false-bottom mug for fear of looting by German Nazis has been d...

1st Chibok teenager to escape from Boko Haram has been flown to Nigeria's capital where she is expected to be feted by the president

A regional government in Spain has outlawed the killing of bulls at town festivals in a measure that likely will stop the animals being speared to death at one of the country's goriest summer events

Goats, which naturally like weeds such as poison ivy and can eat up to 25 pounds a day, are cleaning up Prospect Park with no negative environmental impact Overexcited children and reporters mill around the fence enclosi...

Heavy rains Thursday continued to pound the central Sri Lankan region where at least three villages have already been swallowed by mountains of mud, forcing army soldiers and police to suspend rescue work

A study finds unchecked climate change could destabilise Antarctica's huge Totten Glacier in the coming centuries, pushing up global oceans by 2m, or more.

More than 800,000 Britons have made Spain their home and may have a lot to lose if the UK votes to leave the European Union.

The presumptive Republican nominee's remarks in an hour-long interview are likely the most aggressive attack on a candidate's spouse in US political history In an hour-long, sit-down TV interview, presumptive Republican ...