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Italian authorities say they have rescued more than 2,000 illegal migrants, many from North Africa, off Sicily's coast in the past 48 hours. The announcement came a day after some 500 people...

At least three people have been killed and 18 are missing in a huge landslide in the north-western US state of Washington, officials say. The landslide injured seven people, destroyed 30 houses and...

A 100-year-old woman who spent decades begging in the streets of Jeddah has died, leaving behind a secret fortune of gold coins, jewels and a real estate portfolio, it appears. The woman, known as...

A commuter train at Chicago O'Hare International Airport has derailed, injuring 32 people, officials say. The train came off the tracks, crossed a platform and travelled part way up an...

A Chinese plane on Monday spotted two white, square-shaped objects in an area identified by satellite imagery as containing possible debris from the missing Malaysian airliner, while the United States...

New data from a French satellite shows potential debris from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean, France's foreign ministry says. Radar echoes had picked up several...

Violence has broken out at the end of an anti-austerity protest attended by tens of thousands of people in the Spanish capital Madrid. Dozens of youths threw projectiles at police, who responded by...

Tens of thousands of Chileans have marched through Santiago to urge new President Michelle Bachelet to carry out her left-leaning reform programme. The key demand of the activists was that the...

Iran is building a crude mock-up of an American aircraft carrier at a ship yard on its Gulf coast and US officials said Friday the goal of the project remains a mystery. Iran has made no attempt to...

Three Palestinians, including a Hamas operative, were killed and seven were injured during a confrontation with Israeli military forces in a Jenin refugee camp early Saturday, Palestinian security...