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The blast walls that cut through Kabul like ramparts are being pulled down, part of a counter-intuitive makeover by local...

Dawn has barely broken as three of Senegal's estimated 50,000 child beggars dart through the capital's streets, hoping for a...

Neymar, serene amid a frenzy of transfer speculation, scored the first-half goal that gave Barcelona a 1-0 victory over Manchester...

Police brutality, "fake news" propaganda and official cover-ups at the height of apartheid have been laid bare in a South...

Cameron McEvoy expects a "very fast" men's 100m freestyle final at the world championships on Thursday with a "dog-fight" on...

New music from world-renowned Australian Aboriginal singer Gurrumul will be released next month, his record label said, with one album...

Two chants emerged as hallmarks of Donald Trump's campaign rallies as he made his improbable run for the White House....

A new exhibition is seeking to ignite a painful conversation in the United States about "racial terror" from the past...

Wallabies captain Stephen Moore announced his retirement Thursday from international rugby at the end of this year, but he will...

Britain plans to play a bigger role in Asia after Brexit, including deploying its military to the area if necessary,...

New York police detective WenJian Liu was ambushed and killed two and a half years ago in a murder that...

A small green sponge discovered in dark, icy waters of the Pacific off Alaska could be the first effective weapon...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said late Wednesday he wants to expel Qatari broadcaster Al-Jazeera from Israel amid tensions over...

A Detroit grand jury on Wednesday indicted a former Fiat Chrysler executive in charge of negotiating US labor agreements, charging...

US Secretary of State on Wednesday Rex Tillerson denied suggestions that he plans to resign because of disagreement with the...

Tunisia's parliament on Wednesday passed a bill designed to "end all violence against women", strengthening protection and help for victims...

Facebook on Wednesday reported that its quarterly profit leapt 71 percent from a year ago to $3.9 billion as it...

A US-backed alliance has ousted Islamic State group jihadists from half of their Syrian bastion Raqa, a monitor said Wednesday,...

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that transgender people may not serve "in any capacity" in the US military, upending a...

Egypt has created a "national council" to combat the rise of Islamist "terrorism" which has targeted its security forces and...