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A new species of water beetle found clinging to a sandstone rock in a fast-flowing stream that leads to a waterfall in Malaysian Borneo has been named after the actor Leonardo DiCaprio. The tiny black insect, which...

The US government has paid out more than $60m in legal settlements where border agents were involved in deaths, driving injuries, alleged assaults and wrongful detention, an analysis of more than a decade of official data...

Isolated in the barren sands of central Syria and measuring five miles across in some areas is the country’s largest airbase. A fortress surrounded by hundreds of miles of desert, T-4 consists of dozens of hardened aircraft shelters,...

Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new Facebook privacy control called “clear history” at the social media company’s annual developer conference, and admitted that he “didn’t have clear enough answers” about data control when he recently testified before Congress....

Britain’s overseas territories will be forced to adopt public registers of company ownership at the end of the decade after the government conceded it would have to support a backbench amendment designed to stem the global...

After the historic summit of the two Korean heads of state, South Korea’s nationalists are mobilizing to oppose closer ties. But, the majority of the population remains optimistic. Alexander Freund reports from Seoul. There are only...

State media has reported a series of strikes on government targets in northern Syria but has not said who was responsible. The report comes weeks after the US, UK and France launched strikes against military bases....

In an interview with DW, London-based scholar Dr. Farid Panjwani talks about the reasons behind the growing radicalization of South Asian Muslim youths in the UK, and what needs to be done to counter extremist threat....

A new study has found that 54,000 high school students in Germany receive Islam religion lessons – but ten times as many would be interested. Experts say religion classes encourage integration and counter extremism. Not enough...

Bosniaks held protests in several towns across the country to support Atif Dudakovic, former commander of the Bosnian Army’s Fifth Corps, who was arrested last week on suspicion of war crimes. Several thousand Bosniaks gathered in...