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Britain said on Friday it had received White House assurances that claims it had snooped on Donald Trump would not be repeated, after spy agency GCHQ dismissed them as "utterly ridiculous" in a rare public denial.

An English hospital on became the nation's first to win authorisation to use the three-person fertility technique in an effort to prevent inherited disease.

Finance ministers from the world's top economies are gathering in Germany from tomorrow as fears grow that US President Donald Trump could upend the global economic order with his "America First" policy.

The Dutch authorities had at the weekend prevented the plane of Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu from landing and blocked Family Minister Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya from holding a rally in Rotterdam.

A suicide bomber on Wednesday attacked a courthouse in the centre of the Syrian capital, killing atleast 25 people and wounding others, state media reported.

A meeting between US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping was being planned, the White House has said, while emphasising that its purpose would be to defuse tensions over the Korean Peninsula.

An explosion in Kabul on Monday killed one person and wounded at least eight people, an Afghan official said.

The parade is organised by Joint Staff Headquarters which oversees the three armed forces of Pakistan and soldiers from the army, navy and air force take part in it.

UNICEF said at least 255 children were killed in or near schools last year and 1.7 million youngsters are out of school. One of every three schools in Syria is unusable, some because armed groups occupy them. An additional 2.3 million Syrian children are...

Twin blasts Saturday near holy shrines frequented by Shiites in the Syrian capital Damascus killed at least 40 people, most of them Iraqis, according to Syrian and Iraqi officials.

South Korea must now hold an election within two months to choose Park's successor. Liberal Moon Jae-in, who lost to Park in the 2012 election, currently enjoys a comfortable lead in opinion surveys. Whoever becomes the next leader will take over a countr...

Indian-American Seema Verma moved a step closer to being confirmed as the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, as a bitterly divided US Senate voted 54-44, mostly on party lines, to end a debate on her nomination.

A significant conventional conflict between Pakistan and India could escalate into a nuclear exchange, a top American General warned on Thursday.

A Pakistani 'jirga' or tribal court has punished a man for 'love marriage' and ordered him to pay a hefty Rs 1.7 million fine to his wife's family for bringing a "bad name" to them.

Two senior senators asked the FBI and Justice Department on Wednesday for any information they have on President Donald Trump's unsubstantiated claim that his predecessor Barack Obama wiretapped him during the 2016 US presidential campaign.

Donald Trump, whose presidential campaign was nearly derailed by sexual harassment charges and his boasts about groping women, tweeted Wednesday -- International Women's Day -- that he had "tremendous respect" for women.