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Cardinal Pell pleading not guilty after committed to stand trial - 05/01/2018

Melbourne - By Subel Bhandari, - Australian Cardinal George Pell has pleaded not guilty to several historical sexual offence charges involving multiple complainants after a judge in Melbourne Tuesday...

Scientists find healthy Tasmanian Devils, giving hope to save species - 04/29/2018

Sydney - A group of healthy Tasmanian Devils have been found in a remote part of the Australian island-state of Tasmania, reigniting hope to save the endangered species from going extinct. The...

Russians protest after devastating mall fire amid rumoured cover-up - 03/27/2018

Moscow - Hundreds of people in a major Siberian city took to the streets in protest on Tuesday amid rumours that authorities under-reported the death toll from a devastating blaze at a popular...

Probe advances as French cop hailed as hero in supermarket siege dies - 03/26/2018

PARIS, Sebastian Kunigkeit (dpa) - A policeman who volunteered himself as a hostage in exchange for a civilian during the siege of supermarket in southern France died of his injuries, the president...

Families of missing MH370 passengers mark 4 years since disappearance - 03/03/2018

Kuala Lumpur (dpa) - The families of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 passengers and crew held a remembrance event in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, less than a week before the March...

Russians arrested in raid on sex training course in Thailand - 02/26/2018

Bangkok - Ten Russians who were holding so-called sex training courses in Thailand's resort city of Pattaya were arrested on Monday in a police raid, police told dpa. The group was nabbed in a...

Stockholm truck attacker wanted to scare Sweden out of fighting IS - 02/13/2018

Stockholm - Rakhmat Akilov pledged allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State extremist group shortly before he carried out a deadly truck attack in Stockholm last year that claimed five lives,...

German federal police chief warns of IS radicalization of refugees - 02/06/2018

Berlin - The head of Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) on Tuesday warned of the "potential Islamist threat" posed by the Islamic State terrorist group in the country, with refugees...

Remembering the Wall: Berliners impart memories of a divided city - 02/01/2018

For a long time, a bulwark separated Germans, east and west. The Berlin Wall stood for 28 years, two months and 26 days. And on February 5, exactly that same span of time will have elapsed since it...

Haley denies rumour of affair with Trump, calling it 'offensive' - 01/28/2018

Washington - Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, has forcefully denied a rumour that she is having an affair with President Donald Trump. "It is absolutely not true. It is...