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Authorities have forcibly transferred activist Sonam Wangchuk to a hospital in New Delhi after his health deteriorated during a 20-day hunger strike ...

Mount Olympus, the mythological home of ancient Greece's 12 Olympian gods, may soon join UNESCO's World Heritage List ...

A strong earthquake struck the southern Mexican Pacific coast on Friday, right on the border with Guatemala, and was felt from Mexico City to El Salvador ...

Danish police say that a police officer and two other people have been shot including the suspected perpetrator ...

Scientists have discovered that a cove in Brazil's Ilha Grande bay is a nursery for pregnant blacktip sharks ...

Andy Burnham has been officially declared leader of Britain's governing Labour Party, clearing his final hurdle to taking office as prime minister next week ...

Heat that hit Europe exceptionally early and hard this year appears to have led to a spike in deaths, with well over 10,000 more people dying at the height of the heat wave than would normally have been expected, according to figures that are still . ...

An independent committee investigating the cause of Hong Kong's deadliest fire in decades on Friday heard arguments on how malpractices that had evaded regulatory oversight turned a small fire into a tragedy ...

At least 20 children and one adult were killed when an elementary school bus crashed in the East African country of Uganda ...

Australia's government and the families of two teenagers who died from methanol poisoning in Laos are criticizing the charges expected against those accused of being responsible ...