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The children's author on growing up at the foot of the Cheshire cliffs that he would later come to treasure The Garners don't travel. Mostly they stay around the slopes of the hill of Alderley Edge in Cheshire, on the sq...

Saracens triumph after a torrid first half as their England No8 has the final word against Leinster in Newcastle Just occasionally two teams can be so evenly matched it is almost impossible to separate them. Initially th...

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Authorities say at least 300 rare Himalayan yaks have died of starvation in the high mountains in the northeastern Indian state of Sikkim, close to the border with China. Government …

Unidentified attackers fatally shot a prominent female journalist in Afghanistan. Two men on a motorcycle approached Mena Mangal on Saturday morning while she was waiting for a car on her way to work, witnesses told US b...

On April 30, Venezuela seemed to be on the verge of a historic military and civilian uprising. The next day, that momentum died, and the country that had been bracing for change ended up trudging into a week much like an...

A 14-year-old boy was mauled to death by a pack of dogs at the Massachusetts home of a professional dog trainer, according to reports. Ryan Hazel was attacked as he cared for the animals in Brighton, Massachusetts on Thu...

The new minister, from a right-wing, anti-immigration party, told an interviewer that people knew what was healthy and she would not be the "moral police."

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At least three attackers storm the hotel in Gwadar in Balochistan province, officials say.

Assailants storm Pearl Continental Hotel in seaside city, engage in battle with security forces, says official.

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Gunmen attacked a hotel in Pakistan's southwestern port city of Gwadar on Saturday and were battling security forces while helicopters circled overhead, officials said.

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Witnesses posted images on social media showing the swirl near the Marina Bay Sands hotel.

German police say it took them several hours to recover the body of a woman from an asylum center in the Bavarian city of Regensburg because angry residents there pelted …

Federal prosecutors are looking to talk to victims of billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein before deciding whether to toss his 2008 plea deal. The Justice Department is investigating the plea deal that secretly ended a ...

A California sex offender evading law enforcement for nearlythree years by faking his own suicide was finally caught living in a storage container in Florida last week, authorities said. Michael Patrick Manning, 58, was ...

Two men have appeared in court charged with rioting in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, on the night journalist Lyra McKee was shot and killed. Prosecutors allege Paul McIntyre and Christopher Gillen …

Gunmen have targeted a hotel in the city of Gwadar in southwestern Pakistan and are engaged in a stand-off with security forces.