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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Who is defeated Gambian ruler Yahya Jammeh, and how did he spark a political crisis?

PARIS — Nice striker Mario Balotelli has spoken out against Bastia fans he said made monkey noises during Friday night’s French league match and is disappointed at what he sees as a lack of swift response from the French league. The Italian forward wrote a message on his Instagram and Twitter pages on Saturday describing

With the Election Commission's nod to the Combined Commanders' Conference being held at the IMA here in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Pradesh BJP on Saturday said it was a moral defeat of the Congress which had tried to politicise the event by raising objections to it.

As France’s ruling Socialist Party prepares to vote on a standard-bearer Sunday to run to succeed its unpopular president, a former investment banker is laying claim its voters.

The girlfriend of the accused Bourke Street killer said he vowed to run down people in the Melbourne CBD before she escaped from his car.

In California, agriculture depends on immigrant labor. As Trump takes office, those involved in the state's huge farming industry are wondering how his hard-line stance will affect them.

Space photos of the week, January 15—21, 2017.

At one time, it was reported that San Francisco was home to five octagonal shaped houses, four of which were on Russian Hill. The most famous one, located at 2645 Gough Street, between Green and Union Street, in Cow Hollow, the one on Green Street, in Russian Hill, a tea house on Russian Hill's Fallon Place (was not counted among the 5), once home to a bohemian artist, Styles Dickenson and the one that sits in disrepair at Land's End (also not counted among the 5). That one was used as a look out for ships. Читать дальше...

At 10 A.M. on her last day of work, Vanita Gupta, the head of the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department, opened a door in her office and stepped out into a conference room with cream-colored walls and a fireplace at one end. This room was once the office of the F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoover, but now the Civil Rights Division uses it for meetings. That morning, Gupta and her senior leadership filed in. Before they took their seats, however, somebody noticed that the official portraits... Читать дальше...

More exercise omnivores are opting for expanded online workouts and services like ClassPass.

Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to fill the streets of Washington D.C. on Saturday (Jan. 21) for the Women's March on Washington,...

Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to fill the streets of Washington D.C. on Saturday (Jan. 21) for the Women's March on Washington and...

The purveyor of handmade crafts mounted a comeback last year. What should investors be looking for in 2017 for the trend to continue?

At 8 years old and just shy of 60 pounds, Martez Sheard Jr. is small in size but boasts the power of someone triple his size. Nicknamed “The Phenom,” the tiny powerhouse is the top-ranked elite wrestler in the nation…

With a few home improvement projects, the attic can become a fun place for adults (or kids) to hang out in.

In 2009, Elizabeth Blackbrun — along with Jack. W. Szostak and Carol W. Greider — was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her help in discovering "how chromosomes are protected by telomeres." Telomeres protect our DNA, but over time our telomeres wear down. When this happens, we age — but some of us age faster than others. 

Britain's Paralympic champion Gordon Reid loses his final warm-up match before next week's Australian Open wheelchair events.

Five people have been confirmed dead at the hotel demolished by an avalanche in central Italy this week, and nine survivors have been pulled from the rubble, the national fire service said on Saturday.

About 50 people were also injured when a bomb exploded at a vegetable market in Parachinar, near the Afghanistan border.

A former Nigerian ambassador to Australia, Ambassador Adegboyega Ariyo, has urged Nigerians to expect positive things from Donald Trump’s administration.