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Flash floods sweep away tour group in Kenya's Hell's Gate

Further reports indicate that the survivor who narrowly escaped the ordeal said his wife was among those swept away by the floods. "Two bodies recovered while f...

Texas shooting: What we know about Odessa gun rampage

The death toll from a mass shooting carried out by a gunman in the West Texas cities of Midland and Odessa has risen from five to seven, and 22 others remai...

Texas To Allow Firearms On Schools Ground & In Churches

Despite national calls for added gun control measures in the wake of the country's most recent slew of mass shootings, Texas Republicans went the other directio...

British finance chief affirms 'fantastic' relationship with PM

According to British media, Javid became furious after learning that his press aide, Sonia Khan, had been sacked as part of an internal probe into who'd leaked ...

Hurricane Dorian's 200 miles per hour wind gusts the 'strongest' recorded in northwestern Bahamas

This is a region that prides itself on withstanding powerful storms, but Dorian brings greater dangers than most. The storm's slow pace and the low-lying isla...

Poland marks 80th anniversary of WWII

And we will bear the responsibility that our history imposes upon us". German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (2ndL) and his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda...

Trump Administration to Ease Obama-Era Methane Rules

Some oil and gas operators - especially smaller, independent companies - said the rules cost too to follow. Exxon Mobil and some other oil giants - wary of ...

Lankan asylum seeker family deported to remote island despite court block

The Department of Home Affairs would not comment on the "whereabouts" of the family, reported the ABC. "This is a family that was allowed to stay here for a p...

Gove’s claim fresh food unaffected in no-deal scenario ‘categorically untrue’

But Mr Connolly said Mr Gove's reassurance "bears no relations to what our members are telling us nor to what our suppliers further down the supply chain are te...

Brazil's Bolsonaro to stop using France's Bic pens amid spat

Almost 85,000 fires have been detected in Brazil this year, more than double the number last year, as populist leader Jair Bolsonaro put farming and mining at ...

Germany's far-right AfD party celebrates surge in east German vote

The states of Saxony and Brandenburg -once part of former Eastern Germany or DDR- have always been considered bastions of support for Merkel's Christian Democra...

Pope rescued by firefighters after getting stuck in Vatican lift

Peter's square during the weekly Angelus prayer on September 1, 2019 at the Vatican. They had waited patiently for him to appear at the study window that over...

Yemen's Separatists Vow Revenge for Government Assault on Aden

On Wednesday afternoon, they retook Aden's airport before pushing into the city, according to Mr Eryani and local media. Many predicted the city would soon fall...

Justice Ginsburg reports she’s on way to ‘well’ after cancer

The US Supreme Court announced on August 23 that physicians had discovered a malignancy on Ginsburg's pancreas and that she subsequently had three weeks of ra...

More than 100 believed killed in Yemen air strike

The coalition denied it had struck a lockup, saying it had targeted a military site. The Houthi-run Health Ministry said numerous wounded, over 60, and dead w...

Italian PM Conte handed mandate to form new government

He stressed that a new government would not be "against someone" - a clear reference to Mr. Salvini - but said the government needed to act quickly to name Ital...

Trump says U.S. not involved in Iran satellite explosion

Trump on Friday tweeted a highly-detailed aerial image that appeared to show the charred rocket launch pad and damaged vehicles at the Imam Khomeini Space Cen...

Pope gets stuck in Vatican elevator, firefighters rescue him

But he lost part of a lung in his youth, and the occasional grimace bears witness to the sciatic pain that is a near-constant companion. "We have caused a cli...

Woman sues after giving birth alone in Denver jail

Nearly five hours later, her water broke. Sanchez's lawyer, Mari Newman, called her client's experience "profoundly disturbing". At one point in the video, D...

96-year-old Second World War veteran ‘breaks Scuba diving record’

Woolley, who was joined by 47 other divers, said he's hopeful that he'll be in good health next year for another record bid. Zenobia, a ro-ro ship laden wit...

Hurricane Dorian menaces Bahamas en route to Florida

On Florida's east coast, where Dorian's winds are expected to quickly gather speed on Monday morning, residents snapped up bottled water, plywood and other supp...

UAE air raids raise tensions with Yemen government

The agency reported that women and children were among the dead. Earlier on Wednesday, government troops wrested back control of Zinjibar, the capital of neig...

3.7 million refugee children out of school

Last year, nearly four in every five refugees lived in protracted conflict, up sharply on the previous year, meaning that refugee children are very likely to go...

Jim Leavelle, lawman at Lee Harvey Oswald's side, dies at 99

President John F. Kennedy, reacting as Dallas night club owner Jack Ruby, foreground, shoots at him from point blank range in a corridor of Dallas Police Headq...

Thousands protest PM Johnson’s move to suspend parliament

A small group of counter-protesters, marching in support of the prime minister, also arrived in Westminster. "I'm afraid that the more our friends and partner...

Straight Pride Parade: Dueling protests break out in Boston today

Boston police beefed up security along that route in anticipation of any potential clashes with opposing groups of straight pride demonstrators and those who a...

Northern lights may be visible in B.C., thanks to geomagnetic storm

The organization's Space Weather Prediction Center says storm levels will be light to start, but heading into Sunday, the storm may be upgraded to moderate. L...

Arkansas Woman Drowns in Flood After 911 Dispatcher Scolds Her

The dispatcher , at times, reassured Stevens that she would be fine and sought to calm her down. In a statement , Fort Smith Police Department stated the ...

Dorian’s latest track still showing curve along Southeast coastline

Weather experts say Hurricane Dorian will hit somewhere between Florida and southern Georgia late on Sunday this weekend. Dorian is still a small storm bu...

Trump cancels trip, Florida extends state of emergency as Hurricane Dorian looms

Space Command. The aide, Krzysztof Szczerski, told private broadcaster TVN24 that the two presidents spoke on the phone and discussed Trump visiting in "the c...