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U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks at a town hall at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa January 24,...

  LONDON: The publisher of Britain’s Guardian newspaper plans to cut running costs by 20 percent in a bid to break even within three...

  Geneva: Childhood obesity has reached alarming rates globally and become an "exploding nightmare" in the developing world, including Africa where the number of...

    Johannesburg: South African prosecutors said Monday they would oppose Oscar Pistorius's attempt to have his murder conviction overturned in the Constitutional Court, describing...

  London: Asylum seekers will no longer have to wear wristbands to claim food at a centre in Britain, its management announced Monday, after...

French Prime minister Manuel Valls (2ndR) speaks with former French Justice minister Robert Badinter (2ndL) during the presentation of a report on the...

  DOUALA: Four suicide bombers killed about 25 people in a village in Cameroon's Far North region on Monday, a local official said, the...

File photo/ AFP Amsterdam: The Islamic State group has honed the ability to launch global attacks and is set to focus more on...

A Fulani herdsman waters his cattle on a dusty plain between Malkohi and Yola town on May 7, 2015. AFP Kano: Gunmen believed...

The new Google logo is seen at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California November 13, 2015. Reuters    London: A UK parliamentary committee...

The city of Fort McMurray, Alberta, is seen in an aerial view in this file photo taken September 17, 2014. Reuters   By Nia...

A handout shakemap released by the US Geological Survey (USGS) shows the location of the earthquake in the Mediterranean Sea, some 60km north...

Lisbon:  Veteran centre-right politician and television pundit Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has won Portugal's presidential elections. With nearly 99% of the vote counted,...

A screenshot of a man referred to by his nom de guerre as 'Abu Fu'ad al-Faransi' is seen in this image taken from...

There were 438,000 malaria deaths in 2015, most of them of children aged under five, and the majority of them in Africa, according...

A snow man is seen on Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House, following this weekend's blizzard, in Washington, DC, USA, 24 January 2016.  ...

  Lisbon: Portuguese voters were electing a new president Sunday in a ballot being closely watched in Brussels as the country recovers from a...

  WARSAW: The United States is scrutinising developments in Poland, the U.S. trade czar said on Sunday when asked if Washington was concerned about...