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As rebels encroached on the city, anxious residents met to discuss escape plans ...

A sophisticated, predatory, multi-billion dollar industry is emerging from the shadows.

They have seized about 140 children from Lev Tahor, a fringe, ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect that has long faced charges of child ...

Matteo Bruno and his colleagues at the Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Rome calculated the walkability of more than ...

Intermittent fasting is popular. And as a weight-loss strategy, it has several things going for it. One is that it is ...

The Trump administration reportedly told workers at USAID to expect their numbers to drop from 10,000 to fewer than 300.

The rise of digital payments, the anonymity afforded by the internet and lax enforcement in certain jurisdictions have ...

Ms Sheinbaum (pictured) won praise at home and abroad for her handling of her mercurial American counterpart. Throughout the ...

T he ink had barely dried on Donald Trump’s order to impose a 10% tariff on imports from China before its leader, Xi Jinping, ...

Mr Trump’s new trade barriers will be a blow not only to American consumers, but also to the e-commerce companies that have ...

The front lines in the war between Russia and Ukraine are now saturated with surveillance drones livestreaming video footage ...