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Multiple loud explosions were heard in the Pakistani Kashmir area close to the city of Muzaffarabad in the early hours of Wednesday, 7 May.

With more and more people signing up for weight loss drugs, the potential side effects are starting to attract attention. Helen Coffey speak...

Uturuncu volcano is technically dead but continues to eject plumes of gases

Four frontrunners have emerged as the most likely contenders known as papabile to succeed Pope Francis but at least a dozen others are in st...

Dandyism was at the heart of Monday’s Met Gala, where many of the world’s most famous and influential tastemakers donned their luxury best t...

Two countries exchange attacks on each other's capitals two days before Moscow is due to host world leaders for Putin's Victory Day parade

Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin and Filipino cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle are among the favourites to succeed Pope Francis ahead of the secre...

Police have arrested more than two dozen pro-Palestinian protesters who occupied a University of Washington engineering building and demande...

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for his munitions industry to boost the production of artillery shells, as the country continues...

A 5-year-old bear that was a member of a beloved grizzly family in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park has died

India fired missiles across the border into the Pakistani-controlled territory of Kashmir, and Pakistan says the strikes early Wednesday hav...

A private lunar lander from Japan is now orbiting the moon, with just another month to go before it attempts a touchdown

Shermaine C. Powell and Codarro T. Dorsey told police they paid a mortgage on the home, according to owner Marco Velazquez

Trump says Obama ‘didn't use good, hard, tough, mean construction workers that I love’

Judges will be able punish those who refuse to attend court under ‘long overdue reforms’ following outcry over killers who fail to face vict...

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‘They planned to use Molotov cocktails and explosive backpacks,’ a police complaint read

Doppler radars bounce radio waves off of precipitation to provide scientists with data used in forecasting and predicting storm movements

Low levels of trust in federal scientific agencies have been shaped by politics

White House is reportedly fielded proposals to offer tax cuts or bonus checks to new families to address low U.S. birth rate

Police responded to a gas station after the 26-year-old victim asked a stranger to send his mom a message

The New York City university said cuts were indicative of ‘intense’ pressure for funding it is experiencing following Trump’s federal cuts

Police say Rickey White allegedly had been texting with another murder suspect on the day Adan Manzano died

New leader suffered humiliating loss in the first round, falling six votes short of an absolute majority