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In large cities and rural towns, the Omicron variant has workers calling in sick with Covid-19. But in the small towns, it is often hard to find a Plan B.

Sedef Kabaş faces imprisonment for saying a proverb, with colleagues condemning arrest as attempt to intimidate media A prominent Turkish TV journalist has been detained and could face imprisonment after being charged w...

Officials in Texas say a constable deputy has died after a driver fired multiple shots at him during a traffic stop early Sunday

The Dolan Fire torched over 120,000 acres in Big Sur, Calif., including Nacimiento fire station in Los Padres National Forest.

The head of the German Navy is stepping down over controversial comments favorable to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Tenor who sang Wagner's Tristan under Reginald Goodall, Beethoven and Mahler at the Proms, and many rarer works A familiar figure on the concert platform and a prolific broadcaster for the BBC, the tenor John Mitchinson ...

Bloc would unify to respond within days, says official on eve of foreign ministers' meeting The European Union will be ready to launch sanctions against Russia "within days" of a military attack on Ukraine, a senior offi...

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In the city's favelas, a new generation of 'narco-pentecostals' are embracing Christian symbols "Pastor, do you think we could hold a service at my house next Thursday?" the peroxide-haired gangster wondered, cradling an...

Democrats failed spectacularly this week to change filibuster rules in the Senate.

The head of the German navy has resigned after coming under fire for saying Russian President Vladimir Putin deserved "respect" and that Kyiv would never win back annexed Crimea from Moscow.

All 14 of Mississippi's black, state senators refused to vote on a bill banning the teaching of critical race theory in the state's public schools, walking out in protest instead.

More than 70 people have been killed in the fighting between militants and Kurdish-led forces.

Beijing government says officials in Henan province were found to have deliberately underreported the disaster Officials in a Chinese province deliberately underreported or concealed 139 deaths from last year's devastati...

Those opposed to the coup say they will stay on the streets until the generals leave power.

US preparing to approve evacuation from embassy in Ukraine.

The case is the first involving a hamster in the care of an owner following pet shop outbreak A hamster surrendered to authorities by its owners has tested positive for Covid-19 and more than 2,200 hamsters have been cul...

Paul Vernon Hoeffer, 60, also pleads guilty in federal court to threats against Kim Foxx, a prominent district attorney in Illinois A Florida man has pleaded guilty to threatening to kill Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Nan...

The most satisfying lives are those which involve challenge, fear and struggle, says psychologist Paul Bloom The simplest theory of human nature is hedonism- - we pursue pleasure and comfort. Suffering and pain are, by t...

Dutch military police say man taken to hospital and that his age and nationality have not yet been determined A stowaway was discovered in the wheel section under the front of a freight plane that arrived at Amsterdam's ...

The First Minister says Covid rules made enough of a difference to justify the financial impact on business and hospitality.

Epidemiologist optimistic that UK deaths and hospitalisations will fall thanks to high immunity levels Coronavirus - latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The UK is past the worst of the Covid pandemic but shou...