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From teenage runaway to young stripper and writer of disturbing New York stories, US author Mary Gaitskill has always done things her own difficult way. Here she talks about writing, parenting and teaching in the age of ...

Investigators earlier said other black box retrieved from site where plane crashed into Mediterranean confirmed smoke alarms had sounded onboard The word "fire" is heard on the cockpit voice recorder of EgyptAir 804 befo...

Tens of thousands of Venezuelans have crossed into neighboring Colombia to buy food and medicine after authorities briefly opened the border that has been closed for almost a year. …

"No regrets," says brother of Pakistani social media sensation after he strangles her to death in family home.

Opposition groups brace for onslaught as US and Russia agree to cooperate, and Ankara sends peace feelers to Moscow and Damascus Just over a month into Syria's uprising in 2011, the leader of Lebanon's Druze sect, Walid ...

French Muslims in Nice speak about the tensions that have arisen since the beachfront lorry attack on city.

(Reuters) - Nekima Levy-Pounds, president of the Minneapolis chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, compares the city's mostly white police department to "an occupying force" when its ...

Every four years, US political parties hold conventions to make official whom they've selected to become their nominee for president. But what actually happens there?

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Scotland could stay in the UK and the EU, while the rest of the UK leaves the bloc, Nicola Sturgeon says.

The Latest on the truck attack in Nice on Bastille Day that killed 84 people: (all times local): …

Brexit minister David Davis says EU migrants who arrive between now and the UK's departure could be sent home to prevent a last-minute rush to Britain.

After a failed military coup attempt in Turkey

Antidoping officials from leading countries in global sports are awaiting the results of an investigation into allegations of a state-sponsored doping program in Russia.

The two have both frequently disrespected Catholic values

The Israeli military says two soldiers have been killed after a grenade one of the troops was holding exploded. …

After a very slow start, cyclones are coming thick and fast, in one region.

The reclusive cleric Fethullah Gulen, blamed by President Erdogan for the failed coup in Turkey, suggests that the government could have staged the uprising.

Buildings sway as 4.4 magnitude quake strikes about 37km southwest of Lahore at depth of 10km.

Heavy rain in parts of China's Hunan Province have caused a landslide that destroyed a row of houses in a village.

Migrants who come to the UK before it exits the EU may not be given the right to stay, the new Brexit secretary says.

Protesters, balloons, elephants and delighted conservatives - it's the Republican national convention. Here's a selection of choice moments over the years