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MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian rescue worker presumed dead after descending into a Siberian mine to assist trapped miners was...

ALMATY (Reuters) - Kazakhstan's top Muslim cleric urged local businesses to stop using the Black Friday tag for their end-of-November...

By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) - A small Australian medical consulting firm got caught up in an unexpected publicity storm...

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is on "great form" and a speech to business leaders where he...

ROME (Reuters) - An ethics committee in the central Italian region of Marche has given its green light for what...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Joachim Sauer, Chancellor Angela Merkel's academic husband, has blamed his compatriots' "laziness and complacency" for Germany's comparatively...

By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was briefly left lost for words on Monday when...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong authorities captured and euthanised seven wild boars late on Wednesday as they began a...

LONDON (Reuters) - From a backflipping gymnast to a man pulling a car while walking on his hands, this year's...

HANOI (Reuters) - Police in Vietnam have summoned a beef noodle seller who filmed himself imitating Nusret Gokce, or "Salt...

By Natalia Oriol (Reuters) - A nine-year old Kurdish boy who has had both legs amputated is among the thousands...

By Tassilo Hummel PARIS (Reuters) - Monaco's Princess Charlene will rest for several weeks and avoid public duties, including the...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Locusts were added to the European Union's list of approved food on Friday as part of the...

By Djaffar Al Katanty GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Street gang leader Gloire Balume extends a capoeira kick...

By Loucoumane Coulibaly NANDIBO, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - Award-winning waste converters are helping farmers in Ivory Coast turn mountains of...

(Reuters) - A tiny gatecrasher twice grabbed centre stage from New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as she updated the...

By James Pearson HANOI (Reuters) - Facebook's parent company said on Tuesday it had unblocked the hashtag for celebrity chef...

By Dominique Patton BEIJING (Reuters) - Older residents in Beijing recently stocked up on cabbage, giving a tradition a new...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A Russian state research ship was detained in a Danish port this week at the request of...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Curiosity almost killed the cat in the southern Polish city of Rzeszow, when one spent at least...