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Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, one of Mexico’s most-feared drug lords, has been released from a U.S. prison after serving most of a 25-year prison sentence

Heat building up in country's centre and driving south-east is causing 'really unusual' heatwave that is breaking winter records Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australia's winter runs from Ju...

Cantonese soy chicken but cooked in a crusty-topped baked rice, and a crackly-topped cinnamon and lemon rice pudding with blackberries I could eat my own body weight in pasta, but when I want to dial up the comfort in my...

Risk of raising tensions after parallel institutions serving Serb minority are declared illegal and shuttered by ethnic Albanian-led government Kosovo authorities on Friday closed five parallel institutions working with ...

Neighbor held in disappearance of Stephanie and Daniel Menard from a Redlands, California, nudist resort A couple living in a southern California nudist community who were reported missing earlier this week are presumed ...

At a rally in western Pennsylvania, the former president insisted that he had not been seeking publicity at the military cemetery on Monday and defended his campaign's actions.

The crash is the latest incident in an escalating row over key zones in the South China Sea.

A North Korean defector and human rights activist will address a Manhattan Community Board Six meeting this week to urge the naming of the street in front of the North Korean mission to the UN after Otto Warmbier.

Popularised by Hollywood and the wedding of the crown princess, the patriarchal 'handover' is catching on. Now Lutherans want to stop it From equal parental leave and an almost gender-balanced parliament to pole position...

Companies and politicians braced for heavy criticism, with bereaved hoping it will lead to criminal prosecutions Survivors of the Grenfell Tower disaster expect the public inquiry's final report next week to finally halt...

Republican candidate tells conservative group his daughter should have been UN ambassador and the 'most brilliant leaders' come from Scotland like his mother Donald Trump has claimed that when he was president he wanted ...

Pavel Durov will probably use French legal disputes to position himself as a champion of free speech, say observers When Pavel Durov came under criticism from Russian regulators over the spread of pornography on the VKon...

People in Gwynedd will need to get planning permission to turn a house into a holiday let or a second home.

Nadia Lee Cohen for & Other Stories, Sézane launches childrenswear - and Camilla and Marc talk about ovaries

The Israeli military asked the public not to speculate, but many Israelis assumed the announcement referred to dead hostages. The news amplified calls for a cease-fire and hostage-release deal.

Iran president says investment needed to achieve 8% annual economic growth.

Two other officers were also shot, and one of them remains hospitalized. After a pursuit, the suspect was killed by the police, authorities said.

In eastern Germany, anti-far-right protestors are worried.

Interim coach says players take pressure 'in stride' Carsley backs Harry Kane to refind his best form Lee Carsley believes the new generation of England players are less affected by pressure and are better at coping with...

Young fourth and Hahn sixth in T38 100m finals David Weir finishes eighth in T54 5000m race The growing strength of ­parasport across the globe was brought into sharp focus in a packed Stade de France on Saturday night ...

Following the recent discovery of a World War II bomb in northwestern Czech Republic, experts detonated it at a chemical plant in a controlled explosion.

This Gallic drama about a real-life serial rapist is an important artefact of the attitudes that saw him go free for 30 years. It's an uncomfortable, but hugely valuable watch This six-episode series fictionalises the st...