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Wind chill values will be hovering around -20°, so please make sure the hats, mittens and gloves are with you and your children before heading out the door Thu...

Two dead after Sydney to Melbourne passenger train derails near Wallan

Emergency services were called about 7.45pm. At least three helicopters have been deployed to a scene the Country Fire Authority described as 'very chaotic a...

Armed Robber Interrupts Police Couple's Date Night

The incident occurred at a Raising Cain's Chicken Fingers franchise in Louisville, Kentucky , at approximately 10 p.m. on February 15 when Elizabethtown polic...

'Cause of death: Elizabeth Warren': Democratic debate's brutality delights viewers

Fierce exchanges throughout the two-hour affair marked the most aggressive sustained period of infighting in the Democrats' yearlong search for a presidential n...

CCTV footage captures teen's last moments before horrific rape and murder

The court heard that at some point during the night, Trevor raped Megan. She had offered to let him sleep there after he told her he had taken drugs and was t...

Row over 'unlawfully removed cultural objects' could feature in Brexit talks

The acquisition of the sculptures has been controversial for more than 200 years and the Acropolis Museum in Athens , which has the remaining sculptures that w...

Boy, 3, found dead in bus outside school

Detectives, forensics and scientific officers surrounded the mini-van parked outside Hambledon State School at Edmonton, south of Cairns . The grim discovery...

Serious injuries after 200 vehicles involved in pileup south of Montreal

The crash happened around lunchtime Wednesday on the southbound side of Autoroute 15 in La Prairie, Quebec, a highway that connects the city of Montreal with th...

S.Korea reports spike in new virus cases linked to church services

Authorities have admitted that they do now know how the virus is being passed on. Health and Welfare Minister Park Neung-hoo told the National Assembly earlie...

Afghan president says US-Taliban deal to come 'within days'

Esper said the prospective peace agreement could reduce USA troop levels to about 8,600 - from around 13,000 now in Afghanistan. After nine rounds of negoti...

Trump expected to name Richard Grenell as acting head of intelligence

He has also vocally criticized Berlin for what he has seen as a lack of support for Washington's tough stand against Iran, made controversial statements on Germ...

China announces biggest drop in new virus cases in nearly a month

More than half of those cases have been on a cruise ship quarantined off Japan. A child wears a face mask near a commercial and residential complex, as the co...

Trump, Bloomberg wage social media war in battle of NY billionaires

Mr Bloomberg, 77, wrote back on Twitter: "We know numerous same people in NY". They know you inherited a fortune & squandered it with stupid deals and incompe...

Trump working on big trade deal with India

But Trump said he expected a " very big " trade deal with India. Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat state for almost 13 years before his Hindu nationalist p...

A pigeon and a puppy become best friends at a rescue shelter

But stick them together, and the two will snuggle up as though they were members of the same litter - or nest. "I took Herman out of his playpen to give him s...

Foreign Office tells Britons not to leave cruise ship struck by coronavirus

The Diamond Princess cruise ship had been quarantined at a dock at Yokohama near Tokyo since February 3, with 3,700 people aboard. But Kato insisted that ...

Arrests reveal 'shocking' plot to attack German mosques

Authorities said investigations into 12 men detained in police raids in Germany on Friday had indicated they planned large attacks, after media reports over...

Lawyer: Assange was offered USA pardon if he cleared Russian Federation

In May, the USA government revealed the expanded indictment, threatening him with 175 years behind bars for " attempted hacking " - but in relation to the 2010 ...

Several people killed in shootings in Hanau, Germany, Europe News & Top Stories

Eight people were killed and five others injured after an unknown attacker opened fire on a shisha bar in the city, according to the reports. Hanau is a city...

South Sudan hit by desert locust swarm as plague spreads

The locust upsurge also comes at a time when the region is battling multiple communicable disease outbreaks. According to the Agriculture CS, the locusts are ...

European Union trade tensions descend into 'slide war'

So the United Kingdom is pushing for something off the shelf, like the EU-Canada trade deal, which abolished most tariffs and made inroads into services, but wh...

Travel advisory in effect

Temperatures on Wednesday will be chilly, beginning in the teens to the north to the low 20s in the south. Snow chances will increase for western Kansas by ...

Brain tumour removed while patient plays violin — Surgical feat

A violinist has given an astonishing performance in an operating theatre while surgeons removed a tumour from her head. The musical interlude wasn't meant t...

A rising Bloomberg qualifies for US Democratic debate

Public opinion polls in Nevada show Sanders as the clear leader, but after that the race is less clear with different polls showing varying levels of support ...

Libya peace talks in limbo after attack on main port

The streets are controlled by armed groups, with rival governments based in Tripoli and the east. "The city does not have operational fuel storage facilities....

Money can't insulate Bloomberg on the debate stage

A poll of Nevada voters released this week by Data for Progress showed Sanders with support from 66 percent of the demographic, with none of the other Democra...

Israeli man killed in mid-air plane collision in Australia

While none of the victims have been identified, police have confirmed that two people in each craft were killed in the accident, which took place near an ammuni...

France's Macron announces 'crack down' on 'Islamist separatism'

The French president spoke of what he described as the fight against "separatism" in a speech given in Mulhouse, eastern France. The aim, Macron said, is to "...

Malaysian leaders suspected pilot in MH370 disappearance, says ex-Australian PM

He did not name officials, who said it. In an interview in the yet to be aired Sky New documentary, Mr Abbott said it was his "very clear understanding" tha...

Coronavirus claims life of hospital director in hard-hit Wuhan

The director, Liu Zhiming, died on Monday , according to local media reports from China. A senior Chinese health official said on Friday that 1,716 hea...