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Ex-President Michel Martelly’s presidential pick Jovenel Moïse agrees to rerun election Three top finishers endorse Jude Célestin in new round At least 24 out of 54 presidential candidates have confirmed their partic...

Florida wildlife officials believe they've captured the alligator that dragged a 2-year-old Nebraska boy into the Seven Seas Lagoon at Walt Disney World.

North Korea claimed to have conducted a successful test-firing of a intermediate-range missile on Thursday -- an apparent reference to a missile that the South Korean military said was fired into the sea one day earlier.

Footage is passed to the BBC which appears to show fox cubs being put into the kennels of hunting hounds allegedly to train the dogs to kill.

With the campaigning over it is time for voters to have their say on the UK's future membership of the 28-nation bloc.

The BBC has obtained exclusive material from activists from the divided northern Syrian city of Aleppo.

Schools across China have been ordered to remove running tracks made from toxic materials that have been blamed for sickening students, in the latest in a long line of product scandals blamed on corruption and weak overs...

It was the 15th leg of a planned around-the-world flight

An Egyptian hijacker who's fighting his extradition says Egypt's military-backed government "must have tortured and murdered" an Italian doctoral student who he claims he saw being interrogated in a Cairo prison. …

Some U.N. peacekeeping units and officers who did not respond to a deadly attack on a U.N. base in South Sudan where 48,000 civilians had sought refuge will be sent home, the U.N. peacekeeping chief said Wednesday. …

After approximately 30 Democratic lawmakers staged a sit-in on the House floor Wednesday to push House Republicans to hold a vote on gun control legislation, Speaker Paul Ryan tried to gavel the house to order at around ...

A majority of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community feel the need to lie about their gender or sexual identity, a survey suggests.

Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has made the term "Make America Great Again" popular during his campaign, but Tennessee restaurant owner Rick Tyler is giving him a run for his money -- or sloga...

WASHINGTON -- A tie vote by the Supreme Court is blocking President Barack Obama’s immigration plan that sought to shield millions living in the U.S. illegally from deportation. The justices’ one-sentence opinion on ...

Police said Thursday that there is a "threat situation" at a movie theater in a town in southwestern Germany which probably involves a weapon. …

A Pakistani provincial minister says his local government has allocated $3 million to a Taliban-linked seminary in the region, along the border with Afghanistan. Mushtaq Ghani said Thursday that the funds will be used to...

A man is found guilty of murdering a 17-month-old toddler who was beaten to death with a garden chair.

They are protesting the lack of a vote on gun-control legislation

Nathan Matthews and Shauna Hoare lose appeals against convictions and sentences for killing Bristol teen Becky Watts

A tornado and hail storms in eastern China has killed 51 people, according to the country's state media.

Sean Buckley and Chloe Thomas also guilty of child cruelty after her son Finley, aged 17 months, was beaten with chair A man who beat his new girlfriend's baby with a garden chair has been found guilty of murder. Finley ...

Zoe Woolmer died while trying to have her photo taken on a cliff edge - encouraged by her tour guide, a court hears.