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The destruction of the UNESCO World Heritage site of Palmyra would be an "enormous loss to humanity", the head of…

Testament to the regeneration of New York, 15 years after the 9/11 attacks, is the new observation deck at the…

Australia is a land of immigrants, which goes some way to explaining why people across the vast continent will dress…

Luz, one of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists to survive January's Islamist attack on the French satirical magazine, on Thursday published…

From actress Charlize Theron to French fashion icon Jean-Paul Gaultier, the Life Ball, one of the world's biggest AIDS charity…

Norway ranks as the world's best place to be a mother, well ahead of the United States, which dropped to…

Indonesia has sunk 41 foreign boats across the archipelago, reports said Thursday, as part of an ongoing push to stop…

Egyptian authorities have unleashed a "reign of terror" against opponents of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a prominent academic who was…

The world's most famous kitsch pop competition -- the Eurovision Song Contest -- will be held in Vienna on Saturday…

North Korea said Wednesday it has succeeded in miniaturizing its nuclear weapons, a development that could allow them to be…