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The killings come amid escalating violence in the region, where a four-year Islamist insurgency has resulted in thousands of deaths Authorities in Burkina Faso have declared a two-day period of mourning after suspected m...

As a child, I saw shock flash in my grandfather's eyes when he was accosted by a swan. I have been terrified ever since. But I want to find peace with these beautiful birds I don't remember a time in my life when I was n...

Two members of international humanitarian group missing after killings in Kayah state Two members of the international humanitarian group Save the Children are missing after Myanmar government troops rounded up villagers...

The bomber approached the building but was stopped by security guards outside, local officials said. Instead of trying to enter, he simply set it off outside.

An artist and seminal toy designer who helped shape the massively successful 1980s toy franchise He-Man and the Masters of the Universe died Thursday.

An Oregon dad who told President Biden "Let's go Brandon" during the annual White House NORAD Santa-tracking phone call claims he used the coded vulgarity as "a joke," according to a report.

Desmond Tutu, South Africa's Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights and retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has died, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Sunday. He was ...

It is not known if Chen Quanguo's replacement by Guangdong governor Ma Xingrui signals fresh approach China has replaced the Communist party official widely associated with a security crackdown targeting ethnic Uyghurs a...

Crystal Palace will be without Patrick Vieira for Sunday's match at Tottenham after the manager tested positive for coronavirus.

Groups from the continent are going elsewhere, tour operators say, deterred more by passport and visa rules than the pandemic Post-Brexit changes to Britain's immigration rules have triggered an unprecedented collapse in...

At least 30 people, including women and children, were killed in the eastern Myanmar state of Kayah on Friday, according to the Karenni Human Rights Group, with two members of international humanitarian group Save the Ch...

A suicide bomber struck a restaurant in the Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern city of Beni on Saturday, killing at least five people as well as himself, officials said.

The traditional site where Jesus was born in Bethlehem remains shut to would-be foreign Christian pilgrims because of Israel's latest response to the omicron variant of the coronavirus.

New restrictions are coming into force today in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland in a bid to curb rising coronavirus cases.

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Now wowing visitors at his museum, the famous spoon bender recalls his rise from poverty to stardom.

Erika Wulff Jones, 43, was detained around 8:45 p.m. Friday, according to police records.

Virgin and Amazon bosses do well in our awards for business brass neck, but there are also nods to big oil, big money - and a powerful whiff of Musk Every Christmas, Observer Business Agenda casts its eye over the year t...

The three women, who had suffered obstetric emergencies, had been sentenced to 30 years in prison under the nation's strict anti-abortion laws.

An ocean bath looked like shelter on a high swell day. Then an almighty wave picked Gadia Zrihan and her daughter up, dragging them into open water On a Monday afternoon, late last summer, my eight-year-old daughter and ...

I became an elephant, an octopus, a balloon. I grew giant hands. But I couldn't shake my sadness.