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Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto's alma mater has said he had plagiarized parts of his law school thesis, confirming an investigative news site's report last week.

White nationalist and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke is urging voters in a robocall to vote for him for Senate and Donald Trump in the presidential election.

After two years of silence,NASA has announced that it has re-established contact with long lost spacecraft, Stereo-B. Communications were lost with Stereo-B in October 2014 during a test of one of its timers. The spacecraft was recovered using NASA's deep...

The US blocked $ 300 million military aid to Islamabad as it failed to get a Congressional certification for "satisfactory" action against the dreaded Haqqani network, the Pentagon has said as it warned that it was in Pakistan's interest to take action ag...

Twice a year, a normally deserted border checkpoint high on the Tibetan plateau throngs with activity as traders from Nepal flock to do business with their giant northern neighbour China.

Three people were killed when two vehicles fell into a river after a bridge collapsed in east China's Jiangxi Province.

US Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in Kenya where he is expected to hold talks with leaders of the East African nation focusing on regional security and extremism.

A powerful typhoon was on course for a direct hit on Tokyo on Monday, with nearly 400 flights grounded due to heavy rain and strong winds.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group was the "likely perpetrator" of a bomb attack on a wedding in the southeastern city of Gaziantep that left at least 30 dead.

At least nine people were killed and 11 others injured in a road accident in southwest China's Guizhou Province.

A former Navy SEAL, who wrote the best-selling book detailing the secretive raid that killed Osama bin Laden, has agreed to forfeit over USD 7 million, including all sale proceeds from the work to avoid prosecution.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has sought an apology from his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for the death and destruction she caused in the Middle East as the US secretary of state.

Prime Minister Manuel Valls also weighed in on the debate, lashing the wearing of the burkini as "not compatible with the values of France and the Republic" and saying he supported mayors who ban it if they acted in the public good.

North Korea labelled South Korean President Park Geun-Hye a "psychopath" after she made a speech slamming Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions and defending the deployment of a US anti-missile system.

A court in China upheld heavy prison terms up to 12 years for seven people convicted of poisoning endangered birds at Dongting Lake and selling them for meat.

An Australian government agency in charge of the ongoing search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 ruled out that the aircraft crashed into the sea after a "death dive".