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In an unusual attempt to avoid jail, a woman kept getting pregnant and had three children with one man in four years in central China’s Shanxi province. However, the woman, …

The Israeli military, which styles itself as the “most moral army in the world”, may be routinely committing war crimes, according to analysts in Israel and doctors who have worked …

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s plans to launch a third political party in the United States might have hit the roadblock as he is quietly putting brakes to start the new …

The US Justice Department has opened an investigation into whether police officials in Washington, DC, falsified crime statistics to make crime rates appear lower, two people familiar with the inquiry …

Scientists in China are developing a humanoid robot designed to mimic pregnancy and give birth to a live baby, according to The Telegraph. Dr Zhang Qifeng, founder of the Guangzhou-based …

Image by Immanuel Giel, via Wiki­me­dia Com­mons It’s an old TV and movie trope: the man of wealth and taste, often but not always a supervil­lain, offers his dis­tin­guished guest …

US President Donald Trump was caught on a hot mic, on Monday (Aug 18), moments before the multilateral meeting, where he was heard telling French President Emmanuel Macron that his …

US President Donald Trump said on Monday that the United States would support Europe in giving Ukraine long-term security guarantees, even as some European leaders insisted that a ceasefire was …

A strong sense of place can deeply influence a story, and in some cases, the setting can even feel like a character itself. This week’s literary geography quiz highlights novels …

New York City’s Times Square was cleared on Monday morning after police found what they described as a suspicious package. The package was discovered outside the New York Police Department’s …