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Hong Kong has shut all essential services including banks, schools, stock market, transportation and courts.

Nato is aiming to train 100 air controllers by March 2017, as the Taliban intensifies attacks during summer.

The Chinese navy's visit comes after a US vessel made its first port call to Cam Ranh in September.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says the process of gathering information is difficult as there is no Australian embassy in Yemen.

The GOP nominee had suggested he may not accept the result of November's election.

District Judge John McKeon defends his action and says a longer sentence would not help defendant.

The doctor did not obey a 'stay put' order by policemen, says police chief Khalid Abu Bakar.

The Democrat suggested the drug company was being greedy.

Curtis Connick stole the mobile from a 17-year-old boy who had been shot in the back in Liverpool.

West Yorkshire Police issue urgent appeal for information after 'suspicious' blaze in Wakefield.

In accepting the verdict, Dodi Suridi, 23, said that it was 'the risk of being a terrorist'.

Although drug paraphernalia was found, the couple showed no signs of trauma and apartment was undisturbed.

The whale species is endangered and not usually spotted in the North Sea.

Jeffrey Scott Jones took a razor blade to his neck inside the Orange County courtroom.

Veronica Panarello, 28, jailed for 30 years for strangling son Loris Stival with electrical cables.

Iraqi PM said operations going quickly as Kurdish troops and the Iraqi army advance into Mosul.

The GOP nominee was criticised for suggesting he wouldn't take the votes seriously.

Ankara views Kurdish YPG as an extension of PKK which has committed terrorist acts in Turkey.

The 30-year-old had been sentenced to life in prison after admitting to planning at act of terrorism.

Cardiff Crown Court hears 'jealous and controlling' Almahri threatened to post topless pictures of victim.

Tube station evacuated and shut following discovery of suspicious item

Secretary of Defence Michael Fallon said the military was launching the online attacks against IS.

Russia accused of intimidation for sailing carrier and accompanying ships through UK waters on way to Aleppo.

Fighting is concentrated on a cluster of uninhabited towns and villages littered with roadside bombs planted by Daesh.

Haima is the strongest cyclone to hit the Southeast Asian region in three years.

Man from St Louis talks of how he survived late night robbery with armed suspect.

The death of the eccentric leader was the defining moment of the country's 2011 revolutionary war.

Land Registry figures show sharp fall between 2014 and 2016 in transactions of homes worth more than £1m.

Police launch investigation into item.