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The Innovation Prize for Africa has announced their ten finalists. This year's prize is themed Made In Africa, and focusses on home-grown solutions.

Divers at a Disney World resort found the body of a ­2-year-old boy Wednesday, a day after he was snatched by an alligator at a lagoon -- where there are no signs warning of the creatures. Officials admitted that the da...

Omar Mateen called a local TV news station during his deadly rampage at an Orlando gay nightclub, ranting in a foreign language before proudly declaring, "I did it for ISIS. I did it for the Islamic State." Matt Gentili ...

Abu Sayyaf has already murdered two Canadians

The Central Intelligence Agency has released 50 declassified documents detailing its use of brutal interrogation techniques on terrorist suspects in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.

A former altar boy became the third person to publicly accuse Guam's archbishop of sexual abuse four decades ago

He wrote on one of at least five Facebook accounts believed to be his

The World Health Organization's research arm has downgraded its classification of coffee as a possible carcinogen, declaring there isn't enough proof to show a link to cancer.

A photo of a 12-year-old shot dead by police in 1976 travelled the globe. Now the family of the teenager who tried to save him reflect on South Africa then and now The sky above was dark with smoke. At the railway statio...

A former legislative assistant to a Republican Vermont state senator has testified he forced her into oral sex and intercourse at his home farm where she worked

An MP is in a critical condition after suffering serious injuries in an apparent shooting and stabbing attack in her constituency.

Report based on interviews with survivors says group seeks to destroy Yazidis through murder, sexual slavery, rape and torture Islamic State fighters are committing genocide against Yazidis in Syria and Iraq by seeking t...

Drug lord Hector "El Guero" Palma, one of the founders of the Sinaloa Cartel, returned to his native Mexico after serving almost a decade in a U.S. prison and was immediately transported to another maximum-security locku...

NATO is planning to send combat-ready troops to Eastern Europe in a move likely to anger Russia.

Two leading public health organisations call for the possession and personal use of all illegal drugs to be decriminalised in the UK.

On Wednesday, Canadian lawmakers voted to change the English version of "O Canada," the country's national anthem, to make the lyrics gender neutral. The bill would remove the words "in all thy sons command" and insert "...

Franklin Medhurst, 96, hopes his letter to the Guardian, widely shared online, can make a difference in referendum In his 96 years Franklin Medhurst has lived through too much - including six years of service in the RAF ...

The 41-year-old MP for Batley and Spen is seen on the floor with her face bleeding after a man pulls a gun and fires two shots.

Russian FM says US may want to spare al-Qaida's branch in Syria in the hope of using it to topple Assad

Thai police raided a Buddhist temple complex to arrest a popular abbot accused of accepting $40 million in embezzled money but were thwarted by thousands of his followers who said he is too ill to be taken into custody

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Suicide car bomb kills 10 members of forces allied to UN-backed government and wounds seven others west of Sirte.