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Bomber, riding a motorbike, blows himself up outside bank in busy marketplace.

US State Department says no American personnel was injured in car bomb attack in Iraq's Kurdistan's capital.

The coalition strikes have shifted from the north to the south with presidential palace targeted.

Air base functions as relay between US command centres and attacks in the Middle East

Two conservative judges expressed reluctance at lifting the ban placed by a federal judge in Texas.

Movie bigwigs are often stereotyped as liberals.

Critics accuse prelate of fostering 'division and intolerance'

The AFL-CIO hopes to boost opposition to the White House's fast track authority to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership

Child was discovered unconscious in his room, hanging from his bunk bed by a belt tied around his neck.

The former Arkansas governor has announced the formation of a presidential exploratory committee.

After neighbours challenged studio expansion plans, film-maker returns with new project

Security during the Boston bombing's second anniversary will resemble that of last year's marathon.

Bill and Denise Richard say endless appeals could make them relive 'the most painful day of our lives'.

The luxury five-star Randolph Hotel in Oxford is on fire, with staff and guests forced to flee the building on Beaumont Street.

Ayatollah Javadi Amoli makes his call as hostilities rise over Yemeni crisis.

A teenage boy was given a minimum of 12 years for killing a woman by punching her and then stamping on her face.

Study involved 600 women from Seine-Saint-Denis and Essonne, the outer suburbs of Paris.

The World Meteorological Organisation replaced the name 'Isis' with 'Ivette'.

EXCLUSIVE: As the world gathers for the Bahrain F1 grand prix on Sunday, the Gulf state's human rights abuses are highlighted

A look back at the headlines that dominated the week's global and domestic news agenda.

They said it: life-saving smut and Russia wants respect.

Car bomb detonated on road outside US Consulate

Jamaican sprint gold medalist Usain Bolt visited the Olympic centre in Rio de Janeiro's ahead of the Mano a Mano 100m race

300 troops from US 173rd Airborne will spend six months training Ukrainian national guard units near Lviv.

Humane Society International warns hundreds of baby seals being killed in Canada's ice floes

Reports allege that the Pakistani army has abducted and executed dozens of Baloch people

Officials face race against time to clear bees before they become more active in daylight.

Yemenis claim the conflict is fostered by the West, not by internal religious ideologies

It is estimated that 2 billion people around the world suffer from from soil-transmitted diseases