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Protest follows complaints by women's groups of lenient sentences given to perpetrators Thousands of people marched in Peru's capital on Saturday to protest violence against woman and what they say is the indifference of...

The plane's parachute successfully brought the family down to safety.

Many turn to panning for black-market gold in the watery pits of mines, where mosquitoes infect them. Once they return home to recover, the disease spreads.

Some areas reached up to 2 feet of rain in just 24 hours.

Motive for the shooting of Maulama Akonjee and another man not immediately known A Muslim imam and a second man were fatally shot on Saturday while walking home from afternoon prayers at a mosque in the New York borough ...

Mayor says violence fed by social media

The knifeman and one of the victims from Saturday's attack on a train in Switzerland have died of their injuries in hospital, police say.

Police cars were set on fire and vandalized, police said.

McCollum, who was released from prison in Peru after serving sentence for cocaine smuggling, arrives at Dublin airport The convicted drug smuggler Michaella McCollum has arrived back in Ireland after being released from ...

WARDAK, Iraq

FAIRFIELD, Conn.

Dramatic footage from Louisiana shows the moment a woman and her dog are saved from a car sinking in flood waters.

Golden finale: Phelps gets 23rd Olympic gold with relay win

Rand Paul calls country 'unreliable ally' after Democrat Chris Murphy criticises US support for Saudi intervention in Yemen's chaotic civil war Days after the Obama administration approved a major arms sale agreement to ...

The experience of 28-year-old Fadi Mansour is a far cry from that of Tom Hanks's character in The Terminal Sitting in Turkey's biggest airport watching the Hollywood film The Terminal, Fadi Mansour hoped to find common c...

Some of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls have been killed in Nigerian military air strikes, according to a new video appearing to come from Boko Haram Islamic extremists, which shows one of the alleged victims pleading fo...

The Latest on the deadly attack on a Swiss train (all times local): …

Olympic organizers will take "extreme measures" by draining one of the pools that turned green and refilling it by Sunday morning, just a few hours before the start of the synchronized swimming events, an official said.

Court of Appeals ruled the German tech entrepreneur could not recover his assets because he is 'a fugitive' German tech entrepreneur and alleged internet pirate Kim Dotcom will seek a review of a Federal Court decision w...

HELIN, China

(Reuters) - Multiple reports of gunfire sent a crowded mall in Raleigh, North Carolina, into chaos on Saturday, and several people were injured trying to flee the shopping center, police said.

With carriages full of unhappy travellers who have paid to be incarcerated, it's no wonder talk of nationalisation has spread beyond duffel coat-wearing socialists Last week Southern Rail staff went on strike, leaving th...