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The United States officially opened its deeply controversial Jerusalem embassy on Monday in a ceremony that included a video address by President Donald Trump. Trump told the ceremony that the United States remained committed to…

New Zealand’s pregnant Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, on Monday revealed her government’s plans for running the country after she gives birth and takes six weeks maternity leave. Ardern, 37, said she will continue working as close…

Clashes erupted along the Gaza Strip’s border with Israel on Monday between Palestinians and Israeli forces ahead of the controversial inauguration of the US embassy in Jerusalem, AFP journalists reported. Gaza’s health ministry said…

Meghan Markle’s father, Thomas Markle, who will walk his daughter down the aisle at Windsor Castle on Saturday, has been caught on CCTV willingly posing for faked photos that have been sold to newspapers around the world for up to £100,000.…

America will help rebuild North Korea’s economy if it agrees to give up its nuclear weapons, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said. The US would be “prepared to work with North Korea to achieve prosperity on the par with our…

An Arizona woman, Jacqueline Ades, who broke into a Paradise Valley home, and reportedly sent tens of thousands of disturbing text messages to the man’s phone after the pair went on one date, was found in the Paradise Valley man’s bathtub.…

A third teenage girl has been raped and burned alive in a week in India, the latest brutal sexual assault to shock the country. The 16-year-old died from the burns after being set alight by a 26-year-old man who acted after the young…

A 51-year-old man from Iowa was shot by his own dog while playing with the pet in his home, local media reported Friday. Richard Remme of Fort Dodge was encouraging his dog Balew, a cross between a pit bull and a labrador, to jump on…

Gambia is selling several planes and a fleet of luxury cars bought by former President Yahya Jammeh as it seeks to reduce debt contracted during the former leader’s decades-long rule. Jammeh, who seized power in a 1994 coup, fled…

A gynaecologist caused an unborn baby to be accidentally decapitated inside his mother’s womb as she carried out a bungled delivery on an NHS maternity unit. A tribunal in Manchester heard Dr Vaishnavy Laxman, 41, should have given…

A Bangladeshi security guard was handed a jail sentence on Thursday for burying alive two dogs and their 14 puppies, in what activists hailed as the country’s first ever animal cruelty conviction. Mohammad Siddique, who buried…

An Uber driver found guilty of raping a passenger has been jailed for 12 years. Muhammad Khurram Durrani, 38 (20.02.80) of Oakdale Road, Streatham SW16 was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on Thursday, 10 May to 12 years in prison…

Mahathir Mohamad, 92, has been sworn in as Malaysia’s new Prime Minister, making him the oldest elected leader in the world. Mohamad had ruled the South Asian country for 22 years, between 1981 and 2003. His alliance of four…

President Donald Trump will meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on June 12 in Singapore, the US president announced Thursday on Twitter. "The highly anticipated meeting between Kim Jong Un and myself will take place in…

Somalia’s al-Shabaab insurgents stoned to death on Wednesday a woman it accused of having 11 husbands, residents of a town in the south of the country said. Residents of Sablale town in Lower Shabelle region gathered to witness the…

Dozens of Bangladeshis were killed in lightning strikes as pre-monsoon thunderstorms wreaked havoc across the South Asian country, an official said Thursday. Farmers harvesting rice in open fields made up the majority of victims,…

Israel’s strikes on Syria saw 28 planes take part in raids with a total of around 70 missiles fired, Russia’s defence ministry said on Thursday. “28 Israeli F-15 and F-16 aircraft were used in the attack, which released around 60…

President Donald Trump welcomed three former U.S. prisoners at a military base near Washington on Thursday, thanking North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for their release and sounding upbeat on a planned summit between the two sides.…

Iranian forces in Syria shelled Israeli army outposts across the Syrian frontier overnight, Israel said, prompting one of the heaviest Israeli strikes in Syria since its civil war began in 2011. The attack into the Israeli-occupied Golan…

U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement that he is withdrawing from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal was “silly and superficial”, Iran’s supreme leader said on Wednesday, according to his official website. “You heard last night that the…

North Korea has freed three US citizens from prison, according to a tweet from US President Donald Trump. The move is viewed as goodwill gesture ahead of a historic meeting between Mr Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong-un. Mr Trump said…

The leaders of France, Germany and the United Kingdom have expressed regret and concern over President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. In a joint statement from Prime Minister…

US President Donald Trump says he will withdraw the US from an Obama-era nuclear agreement with Iran. Calling it "decaying and rotten", he said the deal was "an embarrassment" to him "as a citizen". Going against advice from European…

Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, the Icelandic athlete and actor who plays Ser Gregor Clegane, aka The Mountain, in Game of Thrones, is now officially the World’s Strongest Man. The 29-year-old, who has placed in the top three every year…