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At least seven people are believed dead and dozens injured after a packed passenger train derailed outside Paris, French authorities said. France's Interior Minister Manuel Valls told reporters that the casualty toll is "in constant evolution",...
An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner caught fire at Heathrow Airport today. A Metropolitan Police spokesman said nobody was on board at the time of the incident and there were no injuries. The airport was closed to all flights as the emergency...
Police have arrested a 12-year-old boy who broke into a suburban Detroit bank after riding his bike there in the middle of the night. The boy broke a window to get inside the bank about 3am, police said. WDIV-TV broadcast video of the child being led...
Edward Snowden plans to seek asylum in Russia, an MP among those meeting the NSA leaker said today. Duma member Vyacheslav Nikonov told reporters of Mr Snowden's intentions after he and a dozen other prominent officials and activists met him in the...
A series of attacks in Iraq has left at least 24 Shiites and five policeman dead. The violence has been blamed on insurgents trying to enflame the country's renewed sectarian tensions. In one of the attacks on Shiites, a suicide bomber rammed his...
Thousands of supporters of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood are demonstrating in a Cairo square, waving pictures of ousted president Mohammed Morsi. They are chanting anti-military slogans, calling the army chief a traitor. He led the military's removal of...
A van carrying British tourists has overturned on a Croatian road, injuring 11 people. Doctors say the injured have been taken to hospital but that the injuries are not life-threatening. They include ten British tourists and the Croat driver. It was...
Four people have been gored during the sixth bull run of Spain's San Fermin festival, causing panic in the packed streets of Pamplona. Tension soared when one bull charged a young man and pushed him around on the ground with its horns for almost 30...
The first victim of a runaway oil train's explosive derailment in a Quebec town has been identified, more than five days since the disaster. The incident left behind a scorched scene so dangerous that it has slowed the search for 50 people presumed...
Supporters of ousted President Mohamed Mursi called for proteststoday, and Egyptians prayed there would be no repeat of clashes that killed more than 90 people in the last week and left the Arab world's biggest nation bitterly divided. Mursi's Muslim...
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Pope Francis, acting to end years of scandals damaging the Catholic Church, overhauled Vatican law yesterday to specify sexual violence against children as a crime and impose tough penalties for staff who leak confidential Vatican information. Issuing...
President rejects a plan to heal a government rift, calls for early elections
‘The country has less than two months’ supply of imported wheat left’
An exiled opposition group said yesterday it had obtained information about a secret underground nuclear site under construction in Iran, without specifying what kind of atomic activity it believed would be carried out there. The dissident National...
Students are set to pay more to go to university in Britain next year, with the average fee rising to around £8,600 (€9,972). More than a quarter (27 per cent) of institutions will charge the maximum £9,000 as standard in 2014/15, according to official...
An unmanned US jet carried out a manoeuvre on Wednesday long considered the most challenging in naval aviation – landing aboard an aircraft carrier – in a milestone that lifted expectations about basing drones with reconnaissance and strike...
Inscriptions found on more than 200 pieces dug out from Neolithic-era site
Jewish gravestones unearthed at a small cemetery in Vienna were hailed as historically important cultural treasures that could rival the famed Jewish cemetery in Prague. Restoration work at the 16th-century Seegasse cemetery has discovered 20...
Scientists working on constructing yeast genome
Three Porsche cars are displayed at the Goodwood Festival of Speed at Goodwood near Chichester in southern England, yesterday.
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An Israeli human rights group accused the army today of illegally detaining a 5-year-old Palestinian boy for throwing a stone in a flashpoint city in the occupied West Bank. Video footage taken by the group B'Tselem showed Wadi Maswadeh crying as he...
Six female activists from environmental group Greenpeace scaled London's Shard skyscraper today to protest oil and gas drilling in the Arctic. The six women started their ascent at 4 a.m. local time and reached the top by mid-afternoon. They were...
The Vatican has unveiled changes to its laws to name the sexual abuse of children as a specific crime and aim to implement international anti-money laundering norms as the city state seeks to end years of scandal. Under the changes, child prostitution,...
China will invest 260 billion yuan, or about $42 billion, to revive a long-stalled plan to build the world's longest undersea tunnel across the Bohai Strait linking the country's eastern and northeastern regions, state media said. The 123-km...
Passengers aboard the Asiana Airlines plane that crashed in San Francisco were initially told not to evacuate the aircraft after it skidded to a halt on the runway, a federal safety official said on Wednesday. But a flight attendant saw fire outside...
Dozens of people were buried by a landslide caused by heavy rains in China's Sichuan Province yesterday, state television reported. The landslide hit Sanxi village, near Dujiangyan city, burying at least 30 people and 11 homes under about 1.5 million...
Bloodshed has opened deep fissures in the Arab country
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