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A combination of factors is making this heatwave more uncomfortable than some we have had in the past, as Simon King explains. 

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is retreating from a plan to use warehouses to hold up to 10,000 people on a single …

The legislation represents one of the most sweeping efforts in decades to increase the supply of housing and bring down prices. 

Germany’s railway network operator says a late-night communication system outage left trains and travelers stranded around Germany was caused by workers swapping …

China has detained two Japanese citizens suspected of smuggling prohibited items, reportedly linked to rare earths 

Andy Burnham is closer to becoming Britain’s next prime minister without a contest 

Paramilitary attacks on a city of a half-million people in Sudan have raised international alarm that mass violence against civilians might follow 

JOHANNESBURG — When most people think of prison, they picture steel bars, locked gates and lost freedom. But at a correctional facility …

Archaeologists say they have discovered a huge Viking Age textile production site in Denmark that dates back more than 1,000 years and …

North Korea has commissioned a 5,000-ton destroyer that leader Kim Jong Un touts as a symbol of the country’s growing naval and …