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Two inmates took advantage of a lunch event held at the Basilica of San Petronio, Bologna, on 1 October to sneak out of the church and flee.

Tensions are soaring in the country following an independence referendum held by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in September.

Trump and his administration have faced criticism over the past few weeks over the delayed and ineffective response to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico.

Michelle Suarez becomes the first transgender person to sit in the senate and is pushing for sweeping reforms of LGBT rights.

Lincolnshire Police say 150 canisters of potentially lethal mustard gas have been cleared from two locations near Woodhall Spa.

The storm that hit Vietnam caused its worst flooding in years, submerging more than 30,000 houses and damaging infrastructure, crops and livestock.

Millions of Liberians headed to the polls this week to elect a new leader, as incumbent Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is stepping down after two terms in office.

Natalia Borodina was on holiday in the Dominican Republic with her eight-year-old son as well as her friend Ivanna Boirachuk when the incident took place.

Pyongyang warns it will fire 'salvo of missiles' at the US territory of Guam over US' recent military actions near the Korean peninsula.

A 15-year-old girl told a CBS News reporter that her radicalised father forced her into Isis territory five years ago. Both her father and her Isis fighter husband have died.

North Australian police fear that remains found near creek are human and that 79-year-old woman has been killed by crocodiles.

Speculation that North Korea has carried out a nuclear test has followed an earthquake detected in an area where previous tests have taken plac, north-east of Sungjibaegam.

The Safe Cities Index 2017 from The Economist Intelligence Unit ranked Tokyo at the top while UK and US cities stayed out of the top 10.

American woman Caitlan Coleman, 31, and her Canadian husband Joshua Boyle, 34, were abducted while hiking in Afghanistan's Ghazni province in 2012.

Good, decent, egalitarian men need to gather and discuss this kind of animal behaviour. That never happens.

The State Department said the US would withdraw from UNESCO on 31 December 2018 and seek to establish an observer mission instead.

More than 20 separate blazes have engulfed more than 170,000 acres of land destroying around 3,500 homes and businesses.

A court sentenced them for tearing down a poster and banners outside a place of worship near Lahore.

Cannabis sales have already brought in over $70 million in tax revenues for the US state so far this year.

"They're both very well, obviously very relieved, very hungry but otherwise they're quite good," NSW Police Inspector Joanne Schultz said.

The judge said that the convict would hold a placard inscribed with the message: "Be careful! Driving negligently and carelessly can kill" every Friday.

The firebrand Philippines president asks the European ambassadors not to return to his country again.

The hurricane is about 745 miles south-west of the Azores archipelago and could further strengthen in the next 24 hours.

Aerial photos show enormous scale of devastation, with block after block obliterated, leaving smouldering piles of ash dotted by brick chimneys and the skeletons of burnt-out cars.

"Putin actually doesn't need another puppy. He already has a lap dog," one Twitter user wrote.

A recent study by the University of Toronto revealed patients operated on by women surgeons tend to have better outcomes.

Former ambassador warns that Trump is taking the US in a direction not too dissimilar to that of Putin's Russia.

In a photo posted on Reddit post by the offended passenger, the woman's foot can be seen inches away from her neighbour's food tray.

Pinterest is the latest in a slew of technology giants that were unknowingly exploited by Russia's disinformation campaign during the 2016 election.