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The UK government was due to face questions over revelations that asylum seekers were forced to wear wristbands for food.

The mosquito-borne Zika virus is expected to spread to all countries in the Americas except for Canada and Chile, the WHO said.

Four suicide bombers killed about 25 people in a village in Cameroon's Far North region on Monday, a local official said, the most deadly in a string of recent attacks in an area beset by violence connected to Islamist militant group Boko Haram.

According to Polish Defense Minister, a joint brigade of units from the Lithuanian, Polish and Ukrainian armies will become fully operational next year.

Twitter says that four executives are leaving the company. Its stock fell more than 4 percent in premarket trading. CEO Jack Dorsey posted a...

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Take a look at the acts that have made it through the blind auditions stage so far

The Tokyo metropolitan government has formed a plan to use the National Strategic Special Zone system to designate certain mountain areas and islands as "special drone zones" for conducting verification tests.

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Samsung reportedly plans to open a “dedicated virtual reality studio in New York,” according to CNET.

The news was announced at the Sundance film festival last week in Park City, Utah.

Samsung didn’t mention many more details about its VR studio, besides the fact it would be located next to a Samsung marketing team office in New York. That way, as Samsung creates new VR experiences, the company’s marketing team can try them, understand them, and publicize them.

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Fund managers in Iran are poised for what they hope will be a wellspring of interest from international investors following the lifting of sanctions.

Russians may be enduring an economic crisis that has no end in sight, thanks to Western sanctions and dropping oil prices that have helped the ruble recently plunge to new lows, but at least they'll have Happy Meals and Big Macs in abundance. McDonald's announced Monday that it would open more than 60 restaurants in Russia in 2016, amid a broader shift to local suppliers in the country.

A metal panel that washed up on the Thai coast is “likely” to be from a rocket, an expert said.

The Naveen Patnaik government move is being seen as an attempt to meet expectations of lawmakers, who own multiple elections but could not become ministers.

Is controversial hooker Dylan Hartley the right man to lead Eddie Jones' England revolution at the Six Nations?

Green car sales more than quadrupled in 2015 with the market finally taking off after years of subsidies and preferential government policies

Watch two key moments that cost the New England Patriots a place at Super Bowl 50 at the expense of the Denver Broncos.

Controversial hooker Dylan Hartley, with bans totalling 54 weeks, succeeds Chris Robshaw as England rugby union captain.

Traffic moving slowly on Martintown Rd. at Partridge Lane.

A roundup of what The Globe and Mail’s market strategist Scott Barlow is reading this morning on the Web

Russian Deputy Transport Minister Valery Okulov said that the commission returned from Cairo will determine the scope of additional measures needed to resume the air travel between Russia and Egypt.

Qadri Jamil, one of the leaders of the Syrian Popular Front for Change and Liberation said that 15 people were chosen to represent the whole spectrum of the Syrian opposition at the Intra-Syrian talks.

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Opponents of a law requiring North Carolina voters to show certain forms of photo identification at the polls will ask a federal judge on Monday to strike it down on the grounds that it makes casting a ballot harder for minorities.

The trial is the first of several voting rights battles that will play out across the country ahead of the November presidential election.

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Embattled economy expected to remain in recession for a second straight year

The German Aeronautics Center lands a drone on a speeding Audi, but analysts aren't sure why.

The majority of car-buying decisions are now being led by women, a trend that played out on the floor of the just-wrapped North American International Auto Show in Detroit.