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Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets during clashes with demonstrators on Monday (July 22) near the Rio de Janeiro state governor's mansion shortly after Pope Francis spoke there after meeting with President Dilma Rousseff.

Papal visit to Brazil marked by affection and protests.

Filmmakers are first foreigners held under Russia's new anti-gay law.

Device found inside lavatory in Aparecida sanctuary where Francis will visit later.

Raid on prison outside Baghdad also kills scores of security personnel.

UDI party officials call for ousting of Gilles Bourdouleix, Cholet mayor and National Assembly member, over pro-Nazi comment.

Cantrell, 28, was arrested for allegedly stealing a box of human ashes from a neighbor thinking it was cocaine.

A bomb exploded metres away from Buddhist monk Wirathu, the self-styled Burmese bin Laden who has called for the boycott of Muslim businesses across the country.

Rights group slam Canberra Department of Immigration and Citizenship over photos of crying migrants deported to Papua New Guinea

African deforestation falls by a third compared to previous decade.

Lebanese Shiite militant group to be starved of funding from EU sympathisers.

Royal expert Marcia Moody says countryside will be huge part of Prince William and Kate Middleton's baby's life.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio heads to Roman Catholic World Youth Day (WYD) festival in Brazil

Another Bastille Day (14 July) over and this year's pride of place in the military march past went to detachments of the French, Malian and other West African Army forces which had saved Mali from imploding and falling into the hands of Islamic extremists in January 2013. Troops from 13 African nations that had supported France's Opération Serval in Mali, participated in the parade. The United Nations soldiers in their blue berets were led by Mali's Colonel Elisée Jean Dao. The countr...

Boy was shot dead at his home in Sedro-Woolley, Washington state.

Powerful quake of 5.9 magnitude strikes northwestern Gansu province in China damaging thousands of houses.

The Duchess of Cambridge was dubbed 'Waity Katie' before Prince William finally proposed to her. The nickname has come back to haunt her, as Kate Middleton continues her preparations for her first child.

Prime Minister pledges to press ahead with economic reform, as Liberal Democrats and allies claim 73 seats in Upper House.

A video showing women in burqas at a weapons training camp in Pakistan is believed to be part of a recruitment drive to attract women to 'global jihad'.

Halalgoogling blocks pornography, nudity and homosexuality, all of which are considered un-Islamic.

Explorers have uncovered silver ingots worth £20m in a British merchant ship sunk by a Nazi U-boat in 1941.

Unidentified suspect arrested for murder of three black women, whose bodies were found trussed up in plastic.

Fisherman dragged underwater by giant Ahi tuna that caused his boat to capsize.

New York woman allegedly faked traumatic brain injury, and was not even in Boston at the time of the tragedy.

Feroz-ud-Din Mir says he married his first wife in 1890, and has a birth certificate issued by the government on 10 March 1872.

Islamic clerics in Pakistan ban women from shopping unless accompanied by a close male relative.

LDP likely to take control of upper house, allowing PM Shinzo Abe to implement political and economic reforms.

Four men found in 'deplorable' conditions in house in Houston, Texas.

Movie stuntmen saved the life of a woman who was threatening to leap from the 14th floor of a San Diego building.