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Trump is expected to name former Marine General John Kelly, 66, as head of the Department of Homeland Security

Murdoch's previous attempt to buy Sky through his News Corp business provoked uproar among some UK politicians

We look at 13 pictur­es from events around the world

CO2 emissions are expected to remain flat for the third year in a row in 2016

Trump's comments came after he prompted protest from China over accepting a telephone call from Taiwan President

An offshoot of the PKK militant group claimed responsibility for the bombings outside a soccer stadium

Muslims have a role to play in explaining the history of veiling in Islam

The girls were "seven or eight", a local militia member in Maiduguri, Abdulkarim Jabo, told AFP

Muslims around the world celebrate Eid Miladun Nabi around the world

The airline will use a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner for the 17-hour journey

The IHRA definition adopted by the group's 31 member countries, including Britain

Myth: The Koh-i-Noor is a flawless diamond

The Ministry of Agriculture said in a statement that the movement control order will be effective for 48 hours

The new airport is the centrepiece of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's A$30 billion national public works drive

Over the past 16 years, the weight of adult reindeer in Svalbard in the Norwegian Arctic has dropped by 12 per cent

PKK militants have fought a three-decade insurgency in Turkey's largely Kurdish south-east

Prime Minister Theresa May has promised to begin formal exit talks by the end of March

Criminals, and millions of Mexicans, worship a skeletal death saint known as Santa Muerte

In November more than 100,000 Muslims swarmed Jakarta in one of the largest mass demonstrations seen in the capital

Abe and Putin will meet in Japan on December 15-16

Rajnath Singh once again accuses Pakistan of ‘cross-border terrorism’

China not cooperating with America on its handling of its currency, says US president-elect

The President-elect blamed Democrats for putting out the media reports and said he did believe they came from the CIA

Boris Johnson had accused Saudi Arabia and its rival Iran of engaging in "puppeteering" and "playing proxy wars"

Gentiloni will form a new government that will guide Italy to elections due by February 2018

The president-elect's daughter has auctioned a meet and greet

Friendship between UK and Saudi Arabia is something that is developing and expanding, says British foreign secretary

The Portuguese international earned 203.7 million euros outside of Spain and 23.5 million inside the country

He graduated from RMAS in 2007

It is the the biggest US-Iran deal since the 1979

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A rescue operation is underway

The blast at the Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in the Abbasiya neighbourhood also wounded 10 people

The birds spend almost 90 percent of their lives flying, traveling thousands of miles every year looking for food

Regime troops and allied militia now control at least 85 percent of the one-time rebel stronghold

The al Shabaab militant group has been carrying out a series of deadly attacks in Somalia

ISIS murdered a 15-year-old accused of being gay but spared the life of his ‘rapist,’ a senior jihadi commander

Parnell sees the sport as a form of meditation

The drills in the town of Marinka are held every month since the conflict broke out with pro-Russian insurgents

It is hard to imagine that the desolate, rock-strewn landscape outside the town of Khomein conceals any treasures

Donald Trump victory has bolstered the chances for pro-growth measures, tax cuts and loosening of regulations

Members of the Federal Open Market Committee have cautioned low rates could harm the central bank's credibility

The military exercise was aimed at 'destroying specified targets of the enemy,' including the South's Blue House

Rex Tillerson has extensive experience in international negotiations

The reports follow President Obama's order for a review of all cyberattacks that took place during the 2016 election

Coalition warplanes targeted and killed Tunisian Boubaker al-Hakim in Raqa

Russia and 10 other non-OPEC states will reduce their production by more than half a million barrels per day

Susan Rice says Washington wants countries of the region to cooperate

Police cordoned off the area immediately, which occurred near Prime Minister Binali Yildirim's office

Akundzada in May replaced former Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Akhtar Mansour who was killed by a US drone strike