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A park has been cordoned off after a man was seriously sexually assaulted.

A helicopter pilot who died with a friend after his aircraft plunged into a cliff face was not in any way at fault, an inquest jury has concluded.

OAKLAND, Calif. — There was a mortuary worker who dreamed of being a painter or photographer. A poet who texted her father Kurt Vonnegut lines. A music manager known for her love for nail art.

Deputy Communications Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams appeared to take a swipe at her superior on Wednesday ahead of the resumption of the ad hoc committee on the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) board inquiry on Wednesday.

Russian Colonel Ruslan Galitsky has died of wounds in Syria when "opposition" militants shelled a residential area in Aleppo’s western part, the Russian Defence Ministry reported on Wednesday.

Poet, nail art lover among warehouse fire victims [...] despite the age difference, the two shared a passion for cars, urban art and electronic music. Gregory was studying child development at San Francisco State University and was committed to her studies, said education lecturer Rama Kased, who leads the Metro College Success Program. Draven McGill, the 17-year-old son of a sheriff's deputy, was a member of Oakland's Pacific Boychoir Academy who had musical tastes ranging from classical to hip-hop to electronic dance music. Читать дальше...

Information alleging that the Russian Progress MS-04 cargo spacecraft crashed after an emergency stop of an engine of the third stage of the Soyuz-U carrier rocket is based on outdated and incorrect cyclogram data, the Russian Mission Control Center said Wednesday.

SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Yonhap) -- Park Tae-hwan has grabbed his first gold medal at the world's top short course competition. The South Korean star won the men's 400-meter freestyle at the FINA World Short Course Swimming Championships in Windsor, Canada,

He had been celebrating his birthday.

CHARLESTON, S.C. — The white man who authorities said wanted to start a race war by killing nine black people in a South Carolina church is getting ready to stand trial in a city already bruised by a former police officer’s racially charged murder trial that ended in a hung jury.

The world is ignoring the worsening humanitarian crisis in war-torn Yemen, the senior UN...

LONDEN (ANP) - Supermarktketen Ahold Delhaize wil de komende jaren fors meer verkopen via het internet. Het fusiebedrijf verwacht in de komende jaren een verdubbeling van de onlineomzet tot circa 5 miljard in 2020. Dat meldde topman Dick Boer woensdag voorafgaand aan een beleggersdag in Londen.

AMSTERDAM (ANP) - FNV staat achter het besluit van PostNL om het finale bod van Bpost af te wijzen. Dat liet de vakbond woensdag weten.

Australia's Golden Globes - the annual AACTAs - pulled a star studded crowd including Isla Fisher and Mel Gibson in attendance. However the highlight of the night was some novelty sized sausages.

A magnitude 6.4 undersea earthquake struck Indonesia’s Aceh province, killing dozens of people and flattening buildings. Photo: EPA

Pakistan blamed India for closing door on any bilateral engagement and told top United Nations officials that the world has a 'moral responsibility' to settle apprehension with India.

MOSUL, Iraq — Iraq special forces captured a new neighborhood Wednesday from the Islamic State group in eastern Mosul, according to a senior commander — the latest gain in a massive military operation now its seventh week.

The friends of the Perth teen arrested in Bali for possessing what was found to be paracetamol have started a crowdfunding campaign to help his family with their legal fees.

A spate of car fires involving Vauxhall models leads to calls for a national database.

The home where he kept his own daughter captive for 24 years and fathered seven of her children has been sold.

In a shocking incident, a woman's body has been found in Sector 18 area (Atta Market region) near DLF Mall of India in Noida.

The Dubai Ladies Masters is suspended following the death of a caddie during play.