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Veteran Labour MP and father of the House of Commons who famously labelled his party's 1983 manifesto 'the longest suicide note in history' In Sir Gerald Kaufman, who has died aged 86, the Labour party had not only one o...

Top chefs' classic dishes from coq au vin to salade nicoise, selected by Observer Food Monthly • Part 2 of this series launches on Tuesday Makes 8 servingschicken legs 8onion 1 medium, slicedcarrot 1 medium, slicedcele...

Driver Lewis Stratford lost control of his car as he argued with his girlfriend on the phone.

Tom Godat, a union electrician who has always voted for Democrats, cast his ballot for Donald Trump last year as "the lesser of two evils" compared to Hillary Clinton. He's already a little embarrassed about it. There's ...

Just last week, the Pentagon sought to tamp down reports that Philip Bilden might pull out

With Trump promising a shipbuilding spree, China is set to respond with its own military buildup

The White House on Monday will send federal departments a budget proposal containing the defense spending increase President Donald Trump promised, financed partly by cuts to the U.S. State Department, Environmental Prot...

When Nguyen Thi Xuan said goodbye to her Japanese husband in 1954, she thought he was going off for a year or two on another long assignment. She never imagined …

President Trump plans to spend more on the military -- and to leave spending on Social Security and Medicare, the two biggest entitlement programs, unchanged. The administration will begin notifying federal agencies Mond...

President Donald Trump's speech on Tuesday offers him an opportunity to stand before millions of viewers around the United States and the world, and try to reframe his presidency

A Philippine senator and leading critic of President Rodrigo Duterte's deadly crackdown on illegal drugs has petitioned the Supreme Court to nullify a Manila court's arrest warrant against her for …

Jimmy Kimmel started off the night with political satire.

He also defended the media's role in keeping leaders in check.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer orchestrated phone calls between outside officials and reporters to try to tamp down reports Trump campaign officials had been talking to the Russians before the election, according to a...

In Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia and Montenegro, signs of ethnic tension are on the rise again A familiar billboard face looms large over the shabby streets and squares of the Balkan city of North Mitrovica. "The Serbs stood by...

Man, who was in his eighties, was passenger in car struck by falling tree near Church Stretton in Shropshire on Thursday A man in his 80s has died in hospital three days after his car was struck by a falling tree during ...

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A grandmother, who has been married to a British man for 27-years, was deported to Singapore on Sunday by U.K. authorities. Irene Clennell, 53, says she was deported without money or a chance to pack her bags. “They ju...

Philippine government says armed forces made every effort to save 70-year-old but he was killed after ransom deadline passed Militants in the southern Philippines have beheaded a German man after a deadline to pay his ra...

Almost 1.5 million or 11% of all households in South Africa are now run by women over the age of 60

Head of Frontex calls for rescue operations in Med to be re-evaluated and says NGOs work ineffectively with security agencies NGOs who rescue people in the sea off Libya are encouraging the traffickers who profit from da...

'It's just a different way of being born,' says Rosita Mabuiango, whose dramatic rescue helped raise funds for thousands of people Rosita Mabuiango's birth in a tree above swirling waters 17 years ago thrust her into ins...