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US President Barack Obama’s daughters Sasha and Malia have been accused of showing disrespect and lacking “class” by a Republican official after their appearance at a Thanksgiving ceremony.

The number of people killed by the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has risen to 6,928, the World Health Organisation (WHO) says.

Lego wants to be taken seriously as something more than a toy. The plastic brick made by the Danish toy company wants to construct a more hi-tech identity. It wants to be part of teaching about a space project.

Some myths about the brain, such as the idea we only use 10% of our grey matter, are notorious, especially among neuroscientists. These myths crop up every now and then (look at the premise of the Lucy movie this summer),…

Russia may be testing a satellite capable of chasing down other orbiting spacecraft, observers say.

An Australian estate agent used pictures taken by a drone to market a property without realising they included revealing images of a neighbour.

One of Napoleon Bonaparte’s famous hats is among over 1,000 items relating to the French general that are due to be auctioned near Paris this weekend.

Jean de Loisy, Palais de Tokyo director: ”It is a symbol of the search we are all doing for something”

Archaeologists in northern Greece have found a skeleton inside a tomb from the time of Alexander the Great, during a dig that has enthralled the public.

Most of these technologically enhanced guns are less about creating efficient killing machines and more about improving firearms safety.

Landon Donovan was sensationally left off the United States World Cup roster on Thursday in a dramatic, sudden and unexpected move from head coach Jurgen Klinsmann.

With tension building in Italy ahead of Sunday’s European vote, the leading figures in the campaign have been launching increasingly venomous attacks on one another.

The United States military is set to return to the Philippines 22 years after being evicted.

About 90% of workers at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant fled at the height of the meltdown crisis in 2011, a Japanese newspaper has reported.

Fossilised bones of a dinosaur believed to be the largest creature ever to walk the Earth have been unearthed in Argentina, palaeontologists say. Based on its huge thigh bones, it was 40m (130ft) long and 20m (65ft) tall.

“It’s Modi’s day,” says a front-page headline on The Hindu’swebsite.

Russia is to deny the US use of the International Space Station beyond 2020 and will also bar its rocket engines from launching US military satellites as it hits back at American sanctions imposed over the Ukraine crisis.

David Cameron and Ed Miliband have clashed at Prime Minister’s Questions over the proposed takeover of AstraZeneca by its US rival Pfizer.

North Korea has conducted a live-fire drill near the disputed maritime border, Seoul officials say, but no shells fell in South Korean waters.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — Pablo Larrazabal couldn’t believe what was coming his way. 

India’s decision to abstain at the UNHRC vote on the resolution against Sri Lanka in Geneva on March 27 this year came as a surprise to many who have looked at India’s Sri Lanka policy only through the prism of…

Ismael Jimenez, a teenager who was killed in last week’s bus crash in California, died a hero.

Here’s another reason to be nice to the neighbors: They might just give you a no-money-down, low-cost loan to put solar panels on your roof, and once you pay off that debt you’ll get essentially free electricity as long as…

Western hysteria surrounding Russia’s seizing of Crimea is rooted in a larger problem with U.S. foreign policy—“the Munich 1938 syndrome.”