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The first vaccine against malaria could be rolled out to billions of people after key advisers to the World Health Organisation (WHO) gave it...

Taiwan’s defence minister has warned that China will be capable of mounting a “full-scale” invasion of the island by 2025. Chiu Kuo-cheng said on...

The Catholic Church in France showed complete and sometimes cruel indifference to people who suffered sexual abuse at the hands of clergy for decades,...

Heading north along Ethiopia’s A2 highway, we quickly noticed that the road had turned into an elongated car park for the country’s military –...

Two more earthquakes have rattled the Spanish island of La Palma amid a fresh surge of lava from an erupting volcano. Part of the...

North and South Korea have reopened their hotlines, around two months after they were cut by the North. At least 49 hotlines have been...

An erupting volcano in the Canary Islands has turned “much more aggressive”, officials have warned, after two further cracks blew open, spewing lava. Amid...

A huge blaze has torn through a Caribbean island resort, ravaging more than 200 homes and businesses and forcing hundreds of residents to flee....

A serial killer who carried out a spate of murders and rapes in and around Paris in the 1980s and 1990s has been revealed...

An erupting volcano in the Canary Islands has blown open a third fissure – sending a fresh river of lava down the mountainside. It...

Australia will start to reopen its international border from November, allowing fully vaccinated travellers into the country. Only Australian citizens and permanent residents will...

On a recent Sunday evening in Beijing, a few minutes before 8pm, Huang Chong opened a Harry Potter video game on her smartphone and...

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to a year of house arrest after illegally financing his campaign for re-election in 2012. A...

At least 116 people have been killed and 80 injured during a battle between gangs in a jail in what has been described as...

People on the Spanish island of La Palma have been urged to stay indoors due to toxic gas fears after lava from an erupting...

North Korea has claimed it has developed a new hypersonic missile following a test flight on Tuesday. If true it would represent a significant...

Twenty-one World Health Organisation (WHO) staff members were allegedly involved in sexual abuse during the agency’s response to the Ebola crisis in central Africa,...

Le Palma’s donation centre is a place for evacuated residents to find clothes and food, and also a place for them to console each...

Germany’s Social Democrats (SDP) will seek to start the process of trying to form a three-way alliance and lead the government for the first...