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China has ordered the closure of a sixth of the country's golf courses since 2011, its top economic planner said, in an ongoing crackdown on a sport controversial for its links with wealthy elites.

Powerful weekend storms roared through the southeastern United States, killing 16 people as violent weather left behind a trail of destruction, authorities said.

Four others died and 20 were injured on Saturday morning by a tornado that swept through southern Mississippi, according to that state's emergency services agency.

Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Paris today against abortion and a bill to ban pro-life websites from spreading "false information" on ending pregnancies.

A robot journalist made its debut in a Chinese daily newspaper on Wednesday with a 300 characters long article written in just a second, scientists say.

An eight-year-old son of The Gambia's president-elect Adama Barrow has died after being bitten by dogs, a family source has said, days before his contested inauguration.

Egypt has witnessed many violent attacks by militants in the last few years and since the January 2011 revolution that toppled the ex-president Hosni Mubarak.

The aim of the special cells is to isolate hard-core criminals from influencing and radicalising other inmates, 'The Sunday Times' reported.

Kellyanne Conway, who will be a senior adviser in Donald Trump's White House, had a heated discussion with CNN's Anderson Cooper this week over the veracity of a story produced by the network. During the discussion, Conway disputed the accuracy of CNN's r...

During his eight years in power, US President Barack Obama charted a course with India which he believed would benefit people of both countries, his spokesman has said.

Blocking Chinese access to islands in the South China Sea would require the U.S. to "wage war", an influential Chinese state-run tabloid said on Friday, after U.S. Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson suggested the strategy on Wednesday.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said today he was "perplexed" by Donald Trump comparing the leak of a dossier of unsubstantiated allegations against him to something that could have happened in Nazi Germany.

Five Malian soldiers were killed when their vehicle hit a landmine in the centre of the country.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Wednesday he is separating himself from his global business empire by transferring his assets into a trust and putting his two oldest sons in charge, an arrangement that watchdogs said was inadequate to prevent po...

Kushner, an Orthodox Jewish real estate businessman, would have to divest himself from his business activities to take on the government post.

Outgoing US President Barack Obama will make a final ride on Air Force One to his hometown of Chicago to deliver a major speech at the end of his successful eight years of presidency, a top American official has said.