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The BBC radio presenter and author talks about moving around as a child and how teaching is in his family's DNA I had quite an itinerant childhood - my dad was a headteacher - and I went to a few schools, both state and ...

China has formally arrested the popular head of a village who won a rare open election in 2012 following a standoff with the ruling Communist Party. …

There is the proposition that we must choose the lesser-evil in 2016. Yes, both are bad. We must now prepare to never allow this again.

The surprise revolt by Mugabe's aging corps of loyalists comes after nationwide anti-government protests

President decries intelligence failures ahead of coup attempt and promises swift military restructure The European Union has expressed its concern at Turkey's decision to impose a three-month state of emergency as the co...

The heavily guarded event comes against a backdrop of deep divisions in Israel between its secular majority and ultra-Orthodox camps

Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday, promising to restore “law and order” to the United States and the world. “We will be a country of generosity and warmth,” he said. “But ...

Prosecutors say they have formally charged a German man with murder in the slaying of an 11-year-old girl on New Year's Day. …

A Dutch court has convicted four men in absentia for travelling to Syria to join extremists, including the Islamic State group, and sentenced them to six years in prison. …

French President Francois Hollande announced new help Friday for Iraq's military in fighting Islamic State extremists, trying to show his government is taking action amid criticism that there weren't enough police protec...

24 year-old Levi Shirley was killed inside Syria earlier this month.

There is strong pro-European fervour in Ukraine but also a sober assessment of the medium-term chances of joining bloc Johannes Hahn's job title sounds a little incongruous these days: he's the EU commissioner for Europe...

Two steps forward, one step back

Demonstrations of outside the Republican National Convention spilled into the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland on Thursday night during Donald Trump's presidential acceptance speech.

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson calls on allies fighting the so-called Islamic State group to do more to gather evidence of war crimes.

Perry Coniglio arrested in New York state for allegedly abusing 81-year-old man in motel that stood next to police station A man held an 81-year-old Marine Corps veteran hostage in a squalid motel room for at least four ...

Here's the thing about Pokémon Go: Despite heaps of alarmist news stories and think pieces, Pokémon Go is at the end of the day just a game, if an absorbing one. Sure, your kid may be addicted to it. That actually may ...

"Please enter your username and password." Few words fill me with more dread. Like so many of us, I have my browser set to remember all of my login credentials, so when I get the occasional request to re-enter informatio...

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Brits divided over whether catching a tan in a public place without wearing a bikini or swimming trunks is socially acceptable As Britain basked in tropical conditions this week with temperatures soaring towards 35C, peo...

The little-noticed police shooting of Deravis Caine Rogers as he drove his car elicited a swift murder charge for officer James Burns but it is far from the norm Just weeks before residents of Atlanta shut down their own...

The 2016 election has become so unbearable that one woman’s obituary says it killed her. Elene Meyer Davis died last month. The cause of death, according to her obituary in the Houston Chronicle, was “complications ...