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The Ethiopian military has regained control of the historic town of Lalibela from Tigrayan rebels. The move came amid an...

Christmas travel will increase the spread of the Omicron Covid-19 variant, even among the fully vaccinated, the top US infectious...

Cardinal Peter Turkson, seen by some as a candidate to become the first African pope in about 1,500 years, has...

Suspected Islamist militants have decapitated a church pastor in the Macomia district of the gas-rich northern Mozambican province of Cabo...

At least 27 people are feared dead after a fire broke out in a building in downtown Osaka, Japan. Police...

The Queen has cancelled her traditional pre-Christmas lunch for extended family as a precautionary measure following the UK's surge in...

Four children have died and five others are injured after falling from a bouncy castle that was blown into the...

New York City's police force will be led by a woman for the first time in its 176-year history, Mayor-elect...

More than 100 people have been trapped on the roof of Hong Kong's World Trade Centre awaiting rescue after a...

More than 50 people have been killed after a fuel tanker exploded in northern Haiti, officials say. Reports say the...