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We take a look at reaction in countries around the world to the news that Boris Johnson is the UK's top diplomat.

Foreign secretary to pursue 'peaceful and rules-based approach' to dispute when he meets China's premier, Li Keqiang, at Asem summit in Mongolia The Philippines has urged Beijing to respect an international tribunal's ru...

President Obama held a four-and-a-half hour meeting on Wednesday inviting civil rights advocates and law enforcement to offer solutions to mend their relations. In the midst of national tension surrounding the death of t...

Quittle Williams stood near a baby stroller as she surveyed the crowd who had gathered outside the Boston police headquarters Wednesday night. She was surrounded by more than a thousand others, but she was thinking of on...

WASHINGTON ― In the course of one year as an elected official, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) was pulled over seven times by law enforcement. Another time, a Capitol Police officer demanded that Scott show him his ID because ...

Evan Mawarire had charges against him ruled unconstitutional

Royal household says shock reports are 'not true' as country grapples with idea of beloved monarch stepping aside to make way for son Japan's Emperor Akihito has no plans to step down, the imperial household has insisted...

Pulse owner Barbara Poma described it as a "bittersweet day"

A simple jab of the finger is all it takes for a prince of England to bring attention to the fight against HIV.

The first time Rosa Mina Joseph met Julio Cesar Posse he was hanging out in civilian clothes on the beach in her hometown in southern Haiti, where he was stationed as a member of a U.N. peacekeeping force. …

Ineffectual attacks by the Islamic State group's followers in Southeast Asia have shown them to be fragmented and lacking in the expertise that has produced devastating death tolls elsewhere in the world

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday traveled to Springfield, Ill., where Abraham Lincoln delivered his famed "House Divided" speech about the perils of slavery, and said Donald Trump is tearing the Republican Party and the nati...

A Dutch court has sentenced a 44-year-old man to 30 days imprisonment for calling the country's king a "murderer, rapist and thief," in a rare use of a law against insulting the monarch. …

Su Bin, 51, admitted conspiring with China-based hackers who targeted projects including F-22 and F-35 fighter jets on behalf of People's Liberation Army A Chinese businessman who admitted taking part in the hacking of U...

America is reeling after a heart-wrenching Independence Day week.

International community greets news of former London mayor's big appointment with a mixture of fear, bemusement and panic The world of politics, diplomacy and celebrity has reacted with a mixture of amusement and horror ...

Prime Minister Theresa May is expected to continue to form her new government - as she begins her first full day in Downing Street.

Three-year-old boy treated for puncture wounds after scurry of creatures emerge from hedge in Tehidy country park Visitors to Cornish hotspots have long been wary of close encounters with aggressive gulls, swarms of jell...

Exhibit invites visitors to perch where a statue of the former Soviet leader stood until it was toppled during protests in 2013 For decades, Vladimir Lenin enjoyed a splendid view over Kiev's Besarabsky market, until the...

Authorities in Romania have formally detained 38 people on suspicion they took dozens of vulnerable men and boys as slaves, kidnapped them and chained them up, and forced them to work or fight each other for entertainmen...

Feeding alligators is illegal

Afghanistan, Pakistan pointing fingers at each other for failure to revive efforts to get Taliban to negotiating table