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Former Brazilian president Lula celebrating his 70th birthday with grandson, wife Marisa Leticia, Brazilian President Rousseff and Sao Paulo's mayor Haddad in Sao...

Men rake up debris in the sand on a beach in Grand-Bassam on March 15, 2016, a day after a jihadist attack killed...

Yannis Mouzalas inadvertently referred to the country as Macedonia during a late-night interview on Tuesday. He quickly apologised, but faced calls for his...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a speech at the German Bundestag parliament in Berlin, Germany, 16 March 2016. In a government declaration, Merkel...

  Washington: President Barack Obama will travel to Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom in April, a visit set to be dominated by Britain's...

Mohamed Merah Paris: A special court will try the brother of Mohamed Merah, who killed seven people in a murderous spree in the...

Crowds of people outside Cologne Main Station in Cologne on New Year's Eve EPA Berlin: The German government on Wednesday approved a tightening...

Reporters stand in front of an apartment (C) in the Brussels district of Forest where a gunman was shot dead by Belgian police...

Broken windows at the back of an apartment are pictured in the Brussels district of Forest where a gunman was shot dead by...

A rider walks down into the Metro subway system during the evening rush hour in Washington March 15, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst   By Eric...

By Julia Edwards WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama will announce his nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court at 11 am Eastern Time (1500 GMT)...

A boy makes his way next to tents at a makeshift camp for refugees at the Greek-Macedonian border, near the village of Idomeni, ...

Mass killer Anders Behring Breivik (L) seated next to his lawyer Oystein Storrvik (R) inside the court room in Skien prison, in Skien,...

Maiduguri: At least 22 people were killed on Wednesday when two women blew themselves up during morning prayers at a mosque in the...

    A picture taken on March 16, 2016, shows The Aldi and Oxfam shops, a day after a shooting took place during an anti-terror...

London: A British World War II veteran living in Italy launched a legal challenge on Wednesday against a rule barring long-term expatriates from...

An Ukrainian serviceman plays with dogs as he guards a checkpoint on February 29, 2016 near Sartana village, a suburb of the Sea...

BRUSSELS: Belgian private broadcaster VTM said on Wednesday that two suspects have been detained after a shooting during a house raid in Brussels...