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Neighbours raised alarm after hearing 43-year-old moaning at house in Freienfels, Bavaria A 43-year-old German man has been rescued from a house in Bavaria after apparently having been held in isolation by his parents fo...

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte urged President Obama to "go to hell" in remarks Tuesday, complaining that the US does not want to sell his country weapons. "Instead of helping us, the first to hit was the State De...

The death toll from two landslides last week in southeastern China following a major typhoon has risen to 16, with searchers finding the bodies of more people reported missing.

News flash: President Obama didn't learn anything in eight years in the White House. And he's proud of it. As Obama admitted in an interview with New York magazine: "If you go back and you read speeches I made when I was...

The man behind attempts to develop synthetic rhino horn has told the BBC that he hopes to have a "bio-identical" product on the market in two years.

Thai authorities, reportedly acting on a request from Beijing, detained a Hong Kong teen pro-democracy activist on his arrival at Bangkok's airport in the latest sign of what rights groups …

The Mexican Soccer Federation says it will appeal a fine imposed by international soccer's governing body over anti-gay chants by fans. It was the third time in 10 months that …

President Vladimir V. Putin, analysts say, is advancing goals in the Syrian conflict while President Obama is on the way out and his replacement is undetermined.

The boy, Jacob Hall, was a kindergartner at Townville Elementary School.

French far-right firebrand Jean-Marie Le Pen asked a court Wednesday to force the party he founded to let him back in, after he was expelled for anti-Semitic comments that embarrassed …

Albania's main opposition Democratic Party has asked for a Constitutional Court opinion on a law, drafted together with EU and U.S. experts, requiring checks on the personal and professional backgrounds …

Evacuations are underway in Florida and South Carolina to get people away from the vulnerable coastline as Hurricane Matthew continues its trek toward the East Coast

Simpson-Kent killed his partner, former EastEnders star and their two children before fleeing to Ghana The partner of former EastEnders actor Sian Blake has been told he will spend the rest of his life behind bars for mu...

Central banks are bearing too much of the burden for sustaining growth, the IMF says. Policy chiefs must act before it's too late First it was the august Bank for International Settlements. Now it is the International Mo...

The U.S. Embassy in Ethiopia is confirming that an American has been killed in a part of the country that has seen months of deadly protests.

In a racially charged scene, a mostly black group of South African student protesters in Johannesburg has confronted white students who want demonstrations for free education to stop so they can complete the academic yea...

Desperate and cold after spending the night out in the open, more than 100 migrants who set off on foot toward the Hungarian border to protest EU's closed borders agreed Wednesday to end their march and return to the Ser...

Mugabe has at times admitted to corruption among his cabinet ministers but says police lack the evidence.

A Michigan grandmother who became an internet sensation after she chose to embark on the cross-country journey of a lifetime instead of undergoing chemotherapy, has died at the age of 91. Norma Bauerschmidt spent the pas...

At least three people were killed by Typhoon Chaba in South Korea on Wednesday, and the Ministry of Public Safety and Security expects the death toll to rise, Reuters reported. The typhoon hit Jeju, a resort island popul...

A man drugged four men he met on gay networking sites before sexually assaulting and killing them, a court hears.