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Eight policemen have been shot dead in India after being ambushed as they went to arrest a murder suspect, authorities said Friday. At least seven other people were injured in the nighttime incident in a village in the ...

Chinese pigs are frequently becoming infected with a strain of influenza that has the potential to jump to humans, according to infectious disease researchers. Commenting on the development, Robert Webster, an influenza investigator who recently retired from St. ...

One person was killed and another wounded in a shooting at a Black Lives Matter rally in the US state of Kentucky, police said. The incident Saturday took place at Jefferson Square Park in the center of Louisville ...

A man was forced to keep paying child maintenance even after his ex-partner admitted that he was not the biological father of their 14-year-old daughter. The Hull resident, who wasn’t named in order to protect the privacy of ...

The United Nations (UN) says it has launched an investigation into a viral video showing a couple apparently having sex in one of its official cars in Israel. According to Spokesman of the Secretary-General, Mr Stephane Dujarric, while ...

About 500 employees of Atlanta-based Delta Airlines have tested positive for COVID-19. Ed Bastian, chief executive officer of the airline, confirmed the spread of the disease among its employees during the company’s annual shareholder meeting. Bastian said 10 ...

Saudi Arabia said Tuesday it will allow a drastically scaled-back hajj pilgrimage for around 1,000 pilgrims already present in the kingdom, as it battles a coronavirus surge. The decision to exclude pilgrims arriving from outside Saudi Arabia, a ...

A 26-year-old Chinese man was recently labelled Wuhan’s fattest person after gaining a whopping 100 kilograms during the city’s five-month lockdown. The man, referred to only as Zhou, to protect his privacy, wasn’t exactly slim before the coronavirus ...

A video of a policeman dragging a woman whiled tied to his motorcycle has sparked outrage on social media. The incident reportedly occurred on Saturday, June 6, in Kuresoi, Kenya. Mercy Cherono, 21, could be heard pleading for her life ...

The hashtag #JusticeForTshego has been trending on Twitter in South Africa after the horrific killing of 28-year-old Tshegofatso Pule. Her stabbed body was found hanging from a tree near Johannesburg. She was eight months pregnant, local media are ...