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Residents of Ecuador's capital have ventured out into the streets despite a 24-hour military curfew.

On a glorious warm and sunny Rome morning, Pope Francis today canonised Cardinal John Henry Newman, the Englishman who founded the Catholic University in Dublin in 1851, the precursor of...

A rival petition to keep Piers Morgan on Good Morning Britain has been signed by almost 5,000 people, after thousands backed another calling for the presenter to be sacked.

Turkish forces have approached a key Kurdish-held town in northern Syria, setting off clashes that allowed hundreds of so-called Islamic State supporters to escape from a camp for displaced people.

Up to 950 members of Islamic State fighters' (IS, formerly ISIS) families have escaped the Ain Issa displacement camp previously controlled by Syrian Kurdish militia, Kurdistan 24 reports. They attacked...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has worn an armoured vest and appeared with a heavy security detail at an election rally.

Syrian Kurdish officials say more than 700 supporters of so-called Islamic State have escaped from a camp for displaced people in north-eastern Syria as Turkish forces advance on the area.

Defence Secretary Mark Esper says President Donald Trump has ordered all US troops in northern Syria to move south, but not leave the country.

Canada rugby players have helped with recovery efforts after landslides and flooding cancelled their match against Namibia.

Poles are voting in a parliamentary election that the ruling nationalist Law and Justice party is tipped to win.

Syrian Kurdish officials say more than 700 supporters of so-called Islamic State have escaped from a camp for displaced people in north-eastern Syria as Turkish forces advance on the area.

Competition for skilled staff is forcing companies' hands to make more acquisitions, outweighing a backdrop of global uncertainty which is pushing down on deals, experts have said.

Kyodo News service reports that 19 people are dead and 16 are missing after Typhoon Hagibis caused massive flooding in Japan.

Black-clad protesters calling for political reforms have started gathering in several Hong Kong districts.

For single mother Katarzyna Staszewska, the change of government in Poland four years ago meant her family got to visit the seaside for the first time.

Donald Trump yesterday tweeted "now they are going after" Rudy Giuliani after it was revealed that the US president's personal lawyer is being investigated by federal prosecutors in New York...

William Blake did it dreamily, Sigmund Freud languidly, and Albert Einstein did it almost religiously. Of all human activities, few are so readily credited with enhancing the power of the...

When the bombing started, Azad Murad was away from his family. He learned that his home town of Qamishli was being shelled when he received a panicked phone call from...

The wildfire in the San Fernando Valley on the edge of Los Angeles is now 33% contained, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.

Two people are dead and one is missing after a hotel collapsed in New Orleans.

Helicopters, boats and thousands of troops were deployed across Japan to rescue people stranded in flooded homes as the death toll from a ferocious typhoon climbed to at least 33...

Nineteen people are dead and 16 are missing after Typhoon Hagibis caused massive flooding in Japan, Kyodo News service has reported.

At least seven people are dead and 15 missing after a powerful typhoon unleashed heavy rainfall on Tokyo and surrounding areas.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has worn an armoured vest and appeared with a heavy security detail at an election rally.

The proportion of “accidental” landlords has fallen annually for the first time in five years, according to analysis.

Ecuador's president has ordered the army on to the streets of the capital after a week-and-a-half of protests over fuel prices descended into violence.

US presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has paid for a series of Facebook adverts with false claims about chief executive Mark Zuckerberg – shining a light on the platform's decision to...

One person has died and three people are missing after a Hard Rock Hotel under construction at the edge of New Orleans' historic French Quarter collapsed Saturday, authorities said.

One person has died and two people are missing after a Hard Rock Hotel under construction at the edge of New Orleans' historic French Quarter collapsed.

The skies above Japan turned purple before the country's worst storm in 60 years hit.

Germany has banned arms exports to Turkey as a reaction to the country's assault on the Kurdish YPG militia in northeast Syria, a foreign ministry spokeswoman said on Saturday.

A family in Hawaii has won a Guinness World Record for the world's heaviest avocado.

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has been picking up rubbish from a beach in the southern temple town where he hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping, as part of his cleanliness...

French police say a man was mistakenly arrested in Scotland on suspicion that he was a French fugitive accused of killing his wife and four children eight years ago.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan was stepping down and a new acting chief of the agency would be named next week.

A former Paralympic cyclist accused of climbing onto a British Airways plane and gluing himself to it has denied causing a public nuisance.

Eliud Kipchoge has become the first marathon runner to break the two-hour barrier, recording a time of 1 hour 59 minutes 40 seconds in Vienna.

Heavy rain and strong winds have pounded Tokyo as a powerful typhoon forecast as the worst in six decades approached landfall.

One person has died and heavy rain and strong winds have pounded Tokyo as a powerful typhoon forecast as the worst in six decades approached landfall.

Protesters are marching again in Hong Kong, but in numbers that so far appear significantly reduced from rallies that drew many thousands as recently as last weekend.