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As Saudi Arabia prepares to host the hajj pilgrimage next week, authorities face the unprecedented challenge of balancing their responsibility as stewards of the Muslim world's most important religious event with the nee...

Jane Buckingham, a 52-year-old Beverly Hills marketing executive and author of the "Modern Girl's Guide to Life" book series, always told her two kids, Jack and Lilia, that "they'd end up fine, that she didn't care if th...

When British Prime Minister Boris Johnson landed on Thursday in Orkney, an archipelago off Scotland's northern coast, he boldly proclaimed that the trip proved his commitment to a united nation.

A homeless Las Vegas man went for a dip in the Bellagio’s world-famous dancing fountains pool, where the water can be as deep as 13 feet, and ended up drowning. The man, in his 40s, had been talking to himself Friday b...

President Trump took a victory lap after signing four executive orders aimed at reducing the cost of prescription drugs. “Yesterday I signed four measures that will massively reduce the prices of prescription drugs, in...

Activists want London mayor Sadiq Kahn to cancel Silvertown road tunnel project Three Extinction Rebellion activists have locked themselves to a rig in the middle of the Thames to protest against a planned road tunnel un...

Councils reap £55m profit from fees rising far beyond inflation Families struggling to pay for funerals are facing rising prices across the country, helping councils to net a £55m surplus from cremations and cemetery b...

The president with a penchant for telling lies also claimed he "too often" wishes he hadn't posted something on his favorite social media platform.

A San Jose Police officer seen in cellphone video kicking and dragging a woman across a parking lot during an arrest has been placed on administrative leave, pending an internal affairs investigation of the incident. CBS...

The president says his executive orders will overhaul the drug market, but some experts are sceptical.

The church said it was subject to more severe limits than casinos and restaurants.

In the view of some American diplomats, Mr. Johnson's willingness to carry out President Trump's request to seek the British government's help in moving the British Open to his golf resort in Scotland was only the latest...

Lewinsky made light of affair with Bill Clinton in 'I have a joke' tweet that quickly went viral Monica Lewinsky has made light of her affair with Bill Clinton with a tweet that quickly went viral. "I have a joke" was tr...

Saudi Arabia prepares for a dramatically scaled-back annual pilgrimage.

Mrs Justice Judd's comments about woman pretending to have a cough were accidentally heard by high court A high court judge has been taken off a case centred on the care of a child after "pejorative comments" she made ab...

Masha Gessen writes about the use of federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security to crack down against protesters in Portland, Oregon.

Trump has moved to send federal officers to other Democratic-led cities to combat crime

Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Doolittle Raiders were the first pilots to successfully strike Japan. The mission was one of the defining moments of World War Two. The raid has been well documented, bu...

The US consulate in Chengdu, China, has been cordoned off by security as diplomats prepare to shutter the building amid a tit-for-tat scuffle and escalating tensions between the world’s two largest economies. US diplom...

Hanna is first hurricane of 2020 Atlantic season and could bring 6in to 12in of rain through Sunday night Tropical Storm Hanna was upgraded to a hurricane on Saturday, moving towards the Texas coast and threatening to br...

"I'm doing all the things a person would normally do, except I'm doing it with the help of a best friend who happens to be 77 pounds of love wrapped in soft yellow fur," Thomas Panek said.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is conducting a war on words against his countrymen speaking like their neighbors to the south, according to a report. Widely screened video lectures showed North Koreans being punished fo...