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The US confirms the death of a senior al-Qaeda leader targeted by a US drone strike in Afghanistan.

Take a leaf out of a French inventor's book for a compost heap that's cheap as chips My allotment site made a deal with our local tree surgeon to take his brush and wood chippings. Very soon we were swimming in them - so...

China's cabinet has issued a new climate plan targeting an 18-percent cut in carbon emissions by 2020 compared to 2015 levels.

African nations are seeking to initially suspend and then get rid of the first U.N. independent expert charged with investigating violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. …

Donald Trump is pursuing an aggressive multistate strategy in the final days of the presidential race, while Hillary Clinton has fallen back on a conservative course as she attempts to lock down traditionally safe Democr...

Court convicts teenager who named domestic network 'Daesh21' after neighbour reported it to police A French court has handed a three-month suspended jail sentence to a teenager who named his domestic Wi-Fi network after ...

NEAR HAMMAM AL-ALIL, Iraq

Armed group fighting Turkish troops in Iraq says it was behind blast near police station in Diyarbakir that killed nine.

WASHINGTON -- Melania Trump was paid for 10 modeling jobs in the United States worth $20,056 that occurred in the seven weeks before she had legal permission to work in the country, according to detailed accounting ledge...

SAN ANTONIO -- A San Antonio police officer has been fired after an internal investigation determined he tried to give a homeless man a sandwich with feces inside it. Police Chief William McManus said in a statement Frid...

There is controversy over a vast new statue in Moscow honouring the 10th Century prince who founded the forerunner to the Russian state, but who is claimed by Ukraine.

One of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria in 2014 was found Saturday by the Nigerian army, the army said.

Embattled South Korean President Park Geun-hye faced at least 40,000 angry protesters demanding her resignation in Seoul on Saturday. Park is accused of giving an old friend, Choi Soon-sil, undue influence in state affai...

Friday marked the end of early voting in the battleground state of Nevada, and the final returns brought decidedly good news for Democratic presidential nomineeHillaryClinton. Registered Democrats turned out in force in ...

POTUS 45 won't have much time to celebrate.

At least two children killed and four wounded in an explosion officials blame on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party.

Nigerian army says it found one of the girls abducted from school more than two years ago during raid on Boko Haram forest hideout One of the Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram more than two years ago has been r...

Barack Obama finally fulfilled Bill Maher’s long-held wish: He appeared on the comedian’s “Real Time” show while he’s still president of the United States. The interview, which was taped in the White House on W...

Men succumb to peer pressure of 'extreme shaming and humiliation' despite feeling scared and degraded, report says Whether they involve jetting off to an eastern European capital, paintballing or simply a pub crawl, stag...

France's defense ministry says a French soldier was fatally injured in an attack in northern Mali after a mine was detonated at his passing armored vehicle during a supply mission. …

WASHINGTON

A federal judge ordered three North Carolina counties to restore thousands of voter registrations canceled too close to Election Day