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Scientists trying to unravel the mysteries of the Zika epidemic in Brazil hope they can learn from cases of women giving birth to twins in which only one...

An assailant tries to shoot prominent Turkish journalist Can Dundar outside Istanbul's court ahead of a verdict in Dundar's trial on charges of...

Home security video shows a house in Canada's Fort McMurray being consumed by a massive wildfire that has forced the evacuation of some 80,000 people.

In a reminder to the world of its role in liberating the historic Syrian city of Palmyra from Islamic State, Russia's Mariinsky Theatre performs a...

At least 28 people, including women and children, have reportedly been killed in air strikes that hit a camp for internally displaced persons in Syria's...

Kenyan rescue workers in the capital Nairobi free a woman who had been trapped under the rubble of a residential building that had collapsed six days...

Up to 4 million Zimbabweans face hunger because of poor harvests during a harsh drought induced by El Nino weather, as the government declares a state of...

Families who live in the neighbourhood where two toddlers were found tied in the yard raise funds to help the children and say the woman charged with...

At least two police officers are killed and 23 people wounded in a suicide car bomb attack on police headquarters in the southeastern Turkish city of...

Hundreds of supporters of Moqtada Al Sadr stormed into Baghdad's Green Zone and set up tents beside parliament after denouncing the failure of...