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British Museum, LondonWhether wrestling lions or skinning prisoners alive, the Assyrian king ran a murderously efficient empire. This is the art of war - and it's terrifying You have to hand it to the ancient Assyrians -...

Criticising peace campaigners for wearing this poppy is wrong. It represents a generational shift in attitudes towards war Why does the anti-war poppy, symbolising peace for all, provoke heated debate in the run-up to Re...

The words "Murder" and "Go vegan" are spray-painted on the door of Greendale Farm Shop.

The tech giant is said to have settled on Long Island City in Queens as one of two locations to house some 50,000 employees. The other is in Virginia.

Citing political correctness, President Donald Trump lamented to a crowd in Ohio that he can't call his daughter Ivanka "beautiful."

More Japanese children and teenagers killed themselves between 2016 and 2017 than in any year since 1986, according to a new government report.

The blue wave is going to hit with a vengeance in Tuesday's midterm elections, according to pollsters who say Democrats should easily capture the 23 seats they need to regain control of the House. But an upbeat President...

Lawsuit comes after Edmund Zagorski was executed at a maximum security prison in the state using the electric chair Four Tennessee death row inmates are asking a federal court to allow them to have a firing squad used as...

The couple's catamaran sank off the coast of Cuba last year - her body has never been found.

They were abducted at a Presbyterian school in an English-speaking region

Exiled ethnic Uighur shares accounts of harassment by Chinese authorities and expresses concern for missing family members caught up in sweeping security operations back home.

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) chose to spend his last day of campaigning before the midterms sharing with voters his fantasy about two Supreme Court justices. King has been known for making inflammatory remarks, but this year...

They'll have to rewrite the record books after Tuesday's elections. Michigan's Rashida Tlaib and Minnesota's Ilhan Omar -- both Democrats -- are likely to become the first Muslim-American women in Congress. Tlaib would b...

The BBC has had unique access inside Europe's largest burns unit, to see how one survivor is recovering.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Two condemned multiple murderers, including a convicted serial killer, apparently committed suicide within hours of each other on the nation’s largest death row, according to California officials ...

Democracy thrives when more people participate. Florida voters have the power to make that happen.        

On Friday afternoon, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to halt a trial over the Trump administration's attempt to sabotage the 2020 census by adding a citizenship question. This decision did not sit well with the court's fa...

A man in Arizona allegedly shot his brother over a “Tupperware-style dish.”        

A new fuel that can store energy from the sun for up to 18 years. That’s what group of scientists in Sweden say they have developed.        

The portable toilets kept on disappearing -- and now a German company knows why. Two men in Germany have been convicted of stealing more than 100 portable toilets. The dpa …

Six people have been arrested as part of a preliminary investigation into a suspected plan to attack French President Emmanuel Macron, a judicial source close to the investigation told CNN on Tuesday.

South Africa's top police officer says officers arrested the adult son of a Danish woman suspected of a huge fraud at home, as he was about to leave the country …