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JOE BIDEN has called a reporter a "stupid son of a b***h" after he was asked whether inflation could cause electoral problems for the Democrats in November's midterms.... Read more »

Iconic French fashion designer Thierry Mugler, whose designs were warn by entertainment royalty from Kim Kardashian to Lady Gaga to Beyonce, is dead at the age of 73.... Read more »

THE WORLD Health Organisation's director is hopeful the emergency phase of the coronavirus pandemic will be over in Europe in 2022.... Read more »

PORTUGAL has entered the final stretch of its 2022 election cycle, with hundreds of thousands of early voters now taking to the polls.... Read more »

MORE THAN 8,000 US troops have been placed on high alert to deploy to Europe at short notice to bolster NATO efforts amid tensions between Russia and Ukraine.... Read more »

BORIS JOHNSON, Joe Biden and EU leaders have agreed to slap Russia with an "unprecedented package of sanctions" in the event of a Russian incursion in Ukraine.... Read more »

Video emerged on Sunday of security staff ordering spectators at the Austalian Open to remove their 'Where is Peng Shuai' t-shirts as well as a banner in support of the Chinese tennis player.... Read more »

Young Ukrainian men and women, some as young as 21, have been taking part in Kyiv Territorial Defence unit training over the weekend, as they prepare for a possible conflict with Moscow.... Read more »

The 18-year-old gunman was a biology student at Heidelberg university, said the regional chief of police. Before the shooting, the gunman told his father 'people will be punished', the police chief said.... Read more »

THE EU is facing years of stagflation as economies across the bloc will "hardly grow anymore", a leading economist has warned.... Read more »

Drinking has long been interwoven with U.K. culture. But it has been declining amid the pandemic, as many Britons rethink their alcohol consumption.... Read more »

A TOP EU chief admitted he was unsure of the reason the UK and US had evacuated embassy staff from Ukraine.... Read more »

WARNING UPSETTING CONTENT: Mother-of-two Anna Uskova, 40, (pictured) videoed plunging feet-first into the Oredezh River in Russia before vanishing in front of her screaming children.... Read more »

SARAH PALIN, the former Republican vice-presidential candidate, has tested positive for COVID-19 after claiming she will only get a vaccine "over my dead body".... Read more »

Tensions at the Ukraine-Russia border are rising as diplomacy talks in recent days have failed. Amid fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, EU member nations are uniting under the NATO banner to prevent military action... Read more »

The man, named as Luigi Cossellu by local media and who was admitted on January 16, reportedly denied the existence of Covid-19 and had refused to get the vaccine.... Read more »

In a perfectly timed photograph in Kenya's Maasai Mara, a cheetah seemed to have three heads all looking in different directions.... Read more »

On Monday, rebel soldiers in Burkina Faso claimed to have taken President Roch Marc Christian Kabore captive. Islamic militant violence is on the rise in the nation and the mutinous soldiers say Mr. Kabore isn’t doing... Read more »

Declan Haughney, 40, (pictured) claimed he was not trying to rob Peadar Doyle, 66, after he and his friend dragged his uncle's corpse to a post office in Carlow, Ireland, to collect his pension.... Read more »

New Zealand will face toilet paper shortages 'within a week' and supply chains for products will be impacted by the new strict self-isolation rules, experts warned today.... Read more »

The Pentagon announced Monday it has put up to 8,500 U.S. troops on heightened alert to deploy to Eastern Europe as tensions escalated over Russia's build-up of troops on its border with Ukraine.... Read more »

Troops have detained Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Christian Kabore and his whereabouts were not known on Monday after gunfire was heard in military camps in the West African country the day before.... Read more »

His comments were captured on video and by the microphone in front of him. Doocy laughed it off in a subsequent appearance on his network, joking, "Nobody has fact-checked him yet and said it's not true."... Read more »

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At least six people died and dozens more were injured Monday during a stampede outside of a stadium in Cameroon during the Africa Cup of Nation, state television reported.... Read more »

A stowaway from South Africa spent 11 hours in the nose wheel of a cargo plane that landed in Amsterdam.... Read more »

A top political affairs official with the United Nations told the Security Council on Monday that the path to stability in Libya "is through the ballot box, not the gun" after elections were postponed in December.... Read more »

Eleven of the 23 people rescued were children, according to Project Dynamo.... Read more »

A man believed to have killed a woman by stabbing her to death on a road in west London also died after he was run over by a car on Monday, police said.... Read more »

Pope emeritus Benedict XVI on Monday admitted that he attended a key 1980 meeting on the Catholic Church's handling of child sex abuse cases in the Archdiocese of Munich, following an earlier denial.... Read more »

Out of public view, the state-owned broadcaster has been altering old episodes of its shows to make them ‘suitable’ for modern listeners.... Read more »

Saad Hariri, former prime minister of Lebanon, announced Monday that he would withdraw from politics.... Read more »

Italy's parliament will choose a new president Monday in a secret ballot.... Read more »

France started enforcing its vaccine pass Monday, requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination to enter many venues, restaurants, and transportation facilities.... Read more »

​​Russia remains worried about the spread of radicals in Eurasia from Afghanistan besides possible civil war type situation in Afghanistan & its impact into Central Asia.... Read more »

In the U.S., omicron is ebbing, as cases have crested and are dropping rapidly, following a pattern seen in Britain and South Africa.... Read more »

A lone gunman opened fire during a lecture at Heidelberg University in southwestern Germany on Monday and wounded four people, before killing himself.... Read more »

New French law says people who don't have COVID-19 vaccinations are no longer allowed in restaurants, bars, tourist sites, and sports venues.... Read more »

Retired Pope Benedict XVI has acknowledged that he did attend a 1980 meeting at which the transfer of a pedophile priest to his then-diocese was discussed, saying an editorial error was responsible for his previous assertion... Read more »

Russia’s plans to hold war games off Ireland’s coast in international waters are “not welcome,” Ireland’s foreign minister warned Monday as the situation in Ukraine remains unstable.... Read more »

UAE officials said they intercepted two ballistic missiles fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels over the skies of Abu Dhabi early Monday.... Read more »

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday won the first stage of his effort to overturn a U.K. ruling that opened the door for his extradition to the U.S. to stand trial on espionage charges.... Read more »

U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces are deploying within the prison facility where dozens of IS militants have been holed up... Read more »

Gunshots were heard late Sunday night near President Kabore's residence, and a battle took place at the presidential palace while a helicopter flew overhead... Read more »

The Forum of Religious for Justice and Peace, a group of Catholic clergy and laity in India, wrote a letter to Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai urging him to attend to the increasing attacks on Christians... Read more »

The Taliban and Western diplomats have began their first official talks in Europe since they took over control of Afghanistan in August.... Read more »

The European Union will not be following the United States’ lead in ordering the families of embassy personnel in Ukraine to evacuate the country over concerns about a potential Russian invasion, an official announced Monday.... Read more »

NATO announced Monday that it will send fighter jets and ships to eastern Europe as tension with the alliance and Russia hit a fever pitch due to the possibility of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.... Read more »

The U.S. State Department has ordered the evacuation of American citizens in Ukraine amid the threat of Russian military action.... Read more »

One national security expert said that President Biden is giving Russian President Vladimir Putin a “green light” to enter Ukraine.... Read more »

China launched 39 aircraft, mostly fighter jets, near Taiwan Sunday — the largest show of force in months.... Read more »

The head of the German Navy is stepping down over controversial comments favorable to Russian President Vladimir Putin.... Read more »

President Biden met with his national security team Saturday amid reports that Russia was planning to install a pro-Kremlin leader in Ukraine.... Read more »

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, fighting for his political life over revelations about his role in parties during strict lockdown, faces one of the most crucial weeks of his time in office -- and one that... Read more »

The U.S. sanctioned five individuals in connection with the development of hypersonic weapons that North Korea tested over the past month.... Read more »