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Holidaymaker confirmed dead off Cornish coast, while a teenage girl dies in Cardiff river incident A holidaymaker has died after getting into difficulty in the sea off the Cornish coast as emergency services warn of the ...

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A Florida county's former tax collector allegedly paid for sex with an underage girl and tapped the state’s motor vehicle database for records on people with whom he was engaged in "sugar daddy" relationships, federal ...

Joe Biden says he will close the country down to stop the spread of the coronavirus if scientists recommend he do so. The democratic presidential nominee made the startling promise — and affirmed his resistance to defu...

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has been in a Siberian Hospital since Thursday after a suspected poisoning has arrived in Germany for treatment. Chris Livesay is in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, where the ...

Prosecutors say Peter Rafael Dzibinski Debbins, 45, was recruited by the Russians as early as 1996 A former US army green beret living in northern Virginia has been arrested and charged with divulging military secrets ab...

John O. Brennan is a witness, not a target, in the inquiry being led by John H. Durham, a U.S. attorney, but the C.I.A. under Barack Obama could be subject to further criticism by the Trump administration.

Al-Fatih Hamdallah relives Darfur conflict and neglect that blighted many lives and exodus that led to the death of Abdulfatah The Sudanese village that Abdulfatah Hamdallah came from is so small that it is not actually ...

Prosecutors said he provided classified information to Russian intelligence operatives for years, betraying the United States.

In praise of a rich, cultured and often progressive nation that makes Brexit Britain look bad and sad Not so long ago my wife and brother-in-law, whose parents were born in the Weimar Republic, had their German nationali...

South Korea records most cases since early March; South Africa infections pass 600,000; Brazil on 'downward trend' Coronavirus - latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The world should be able to rein in the cor...

Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Saturday morning.

An officer with the Gwinnett County Police Department in Georgia was fired following a controversial arrest that was caught on video and widely shared on social media.

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador ran on a promise to wipe out corruption.

Protesters remain defiant but there is a sense of foreboding as embattled Lukashenko digs in "During this week, we have lived many lives," Maria Kolesnikova, one of the leaders of the Belarusian opposition, said in a vid...

Justice minister vows to 'find and judge' vandals who defaced Oradour-sur-Glane Vandals have scrawled graffiti denying the Holocaust on a wall in the village that was the site of the Nazis' biggest massacre of civilians ...

Harris' first name is pronounced "KAH'-mah-lah" -- or, as she explains in her biography, "'comma-la,' like the punctuation mark."

Plans to cut back expert staff, put treasures in storage and develop 'more active, fun and useful experiences' draw fury It is an exquisite example of Italianate architecture, filled with classical paintings, sculptures ...

Yorkshire Wildlife Park says Victor was euthanised after kidney failure diagnosis The UK's oldest polar bear has died at Yorkshire Wildlife Park after a short illness. Victor, 22, became ill on Friday and "despite the be...

Four men ran from grey BMW after cyclist Andell Goulbourne was hit and left to die Police are looking four men suspected of being involved in a hit-and-run in which a cyclist was killed. Andell Goulbourne, 59, was hit by...

Police call for witnesses as man attacked in Walworth by up to six men with baseball bats and knives A man is critically ill in hospital after being attacked by a group of up to six men "armed with baseball bats and kniv...

Gulf Coast residents need to pay attention as not one, but two tropical systems could impact the area in the coming days.