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The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James (Dover, $4). James' ghost story The Turn of the Screw famously reckons with the unreliability of human perception. But I find his late novella The Beast in the Jungle even more conf...

The synthetic painkiller fentanyl has been the driving force behind the nation's opioid epidemic, killing tens of thousands of Americans last year in overdoses. Now two states want to use the drug's powerful properties f...

President Trump is offering his voice in support of Roy Moore in Alabama.

More than 8,000 are sleeping rough overnight in sub-zero conditions to raise money to tackle homelessness.

The UK Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, ended a trip to Iran on Sunday with no announcement on the fate of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British woman who has been in a Tehran jail since April 2016 on spying charges.

Scores of Lebanese and Palestinian demonstrators have clashed with security forces outside the US Embassy in Beirut over President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The protesters ga...

The Trump administration is considering new sanctions to make sure Russia abides by the terms of a 1987 nuclear-arms treaty that limits intermediate-range missiles. Russian companies that helped develop a new version of ...

Colombian authorities are seeking to re-arrest a former hit man for the late drug lord Pablo Escobar.        

Noaa scientist: 'You do have to use the extinction word' Study suggests whales leave protected areas to feed US federal officials say it is time to consider the possibility that North Atlantic right whales could become e...

Cellphone video and body-cam footage has emerged showing the moment that a man was shot and killed by a Broward Sheriff's Office deputy in Lauderdale Lakes.

Former soldier 'disgusted and betrayed' by FCO as his fiancee accuses Boris Johnson of hypocrisy following release of men A former British soldier who spent four years in an Indian prison has said he will never forgive t...

The top U.S.-led coalition commander is congratulating Iraq on defeating the Islamic State group. In a statement released by the coalition Sunday, U.S. Lt. Gen. Paul E. Funk II pledged …

The group wants 'national interest' to be put above politics with an EU Withdrawal Bill amendment.

A leading activist in the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, has likened her group's aim with her struggle to survive the atomic bombing …

Kuwait has announced new picks for Cabinet, with five out of 16 members hailing from the royal family, including the ruler's son who has been chosen to head the Defense …

The Rev. William Aitcheson told Philip and Barbara Butler he was “blinded by hate and ignorance” when he targeted them in 1977 at their home.        

Authorities in the French port city of Calais say a ferry with 313 people onboard has run aground, interrupting boat traffic across the English Channel. The Pas-de-Calais prefecture said the …

An Italian right-wing party leader has used a rally opposing easier citizenship for foreigners to seek more support in Italy's upcoming election. Matteo Salvini, head of the anti-migrant Northern League, …

The United Nations children's agency says 137 children stranded in a rebel-held suburb near the Syrian capital require immediate medical evacuation amid a crippling siege in which five have died …

Moore's strategist said he expect his candidate to win Tuesday.

Russia's political elite enjoy ballet about famous dancer at Bolshoi Theatre but Kirill Serebrennikov is conspicuously absent The most hotly anticipated and controversial Russian ballet in years has been premiered as Mos...

"This is kind of the new normal," California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) said Saturday of the massive wildfires in Southern California that have claimed at least one life and burned tens of thousands of acres. "With climate cha...