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Serbia and Kosovo seem to be turning to Washington rather than Europe to win international support for a final peace deal that may include a much-rumoured swap of land. Recent statements from Washington that the US...

Mourners laid flowers, said prayers and observed a minute’s silence on Tuesday at the site of the Markale market massacre in Sarajevo on August 28, 1995, when 43 people including three children were killed and 84...

It’s Friday night in rural Alexandra and a dozen high school students are dancing down a makeshift catwalk in woollen underwear, as Ria Mae’s Clothes Off blares from the speakers. Despite New Zealand’s reputation as a...

Emmanuel Macron’s climate commitment to “make this planet great again”has come under attack after his environment minister dramatically quit, saying the French president was not doing enough to meet environmental goals. Nicolas Hulot, a celebrity environmentalist and...

China is mulling scrapping its controversial birth restrictions, reversing nearly four decades of family planning policies as birth rates fall. Chinese couples are limited to two children at present, after rules were relaxed from the infamous one-child...

Individuals at the highest level from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the government of Yemen and Houthi rebels have committed violations of international law in Yemen that may amount to war crimes, UN experts have...

What did actress Nia Vardalos, former children’s laureate Malorie Blackman, author Joanne Harris and director Edgar Wright discover that they had in common recently? They have all been rejected multiple times – and, what’s more, they’re...

Fifteen foreign nationals have been detained and authorities are searching for others who abandoned a boat that ran aground in crocodile country north of Cairns. Locals raised the alarm when they spotted the boat and saw those...

Theresa May and the government would face a race against time to pass a slew of new laws, or risk creating an “unsustainable legal vacuum”, if Britain plunged out of the EU without a deal, Labour’s Keir...

Bulgaria’s higher educational institutions have announced hundreds of vacant places on courses in the 2018-2019 academic year – as European universities continue to lure away the country’s best students. Top universities in Bulgaria have announced hundreds...