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The leaders at one of the biggest megachurches in the US have quit over a sexual misconduct scandal that has already claimed its founder. A...

More women candidates than ever will contest US governorships and House seats in November's mid-term elections. After yesterday's primaries across four states, there are now...

China's commerce ministry has announced that it will start imposing 25% import duties targeting $16 billion worth of US goods. The Chinese counter-move will take...

Twin wildfires in California, known as the Mendocino Complex Fire, have grown to become the largest active wildfire in state history, officials said yesterday. The...

At least 12 people have been killed and dozens of others injured in a spate of shootings in the US city of Chicago over...

Tourists fled the Indonesian island of Lombok today after a magnitude-6.9 earthquake killed at least 98 people - a death toll expected to rise. More...

Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has warned that the country has become a "land of drought" as he announced further measures to help stricken...

Russian police are holding three teenage sisters accused of having stabbed their father to death in a Moscow apartment block. The Khachaturyan sisters, aged 17,...

North Korea says a heatwave is threatening a "natural disaster" and has called on its citizens to help protect crops from drought. The Korean peninsula...

Pope Francis has changed the teachings of the Catholic faith to oppose the death penalty in all circumstances, the Vatican has said. The Catechism of...