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The threat from Islamic State and al-Qaida extremists and their affiliates is most intense in parts of Africa, and risks are growing in Syria, which both groups view as a “a strategic base for external operations,” U.N. experts said in a new report

President Donald Trump has downplayed the influence of Laura Loomer, a right-wing provocateur known for her incendiary social media presence, in his administration’s decision-making

North Carolina legislators have approved a stopgap spending measure to boost government spending while a broader budget impasse in the ninth-largest state continues

A dozen members of Congress who have been blocked from making oversight visits at immigration detention centers are suing the Trump administration to ensure they are granted entry into the facilities, even without prior notice

Race against time to study HMS Northumberland as shifting sands expose part of well-preserved wreck off Kent The British warship HMS Northumberland was built in 1679 as part of a wave of naval modernisation overseen by Samuel Pepys, a decade after he had stopped writing his celebrated diary and gone...

Physicist who worked on Nasa Cassini mission ‘absolutely delighted’ after being awarded 350-year-old title A planetary scientist whose research revealed the possibility of extraterrestrial life on one of Saturn’s moons has been made the first female astronomer royal. Prof Michele Dougherty, a leading space physicist who was a researcher for...

First response should be chest compressions rather than preventing ‘tongue swallowing’, researchers suggest It is the simple life-saving sequence taught in many a first aid lesson: when someone collapses, first check their airways, then breathing and finally circulation before starting chest compressions if needed. But experts have warned this approach...

Two weeks after spending the Fourth of July on a popular South Carolina lake, 12-year-old Jaysen Carr died from a brain-eating amoeba that was living in the warm water

U.S. stock indexes are tiptoeing around their record levels as a busy week for Wall Street picks up momentum

Officials in Alaska are warning hikers to steer clear of streams and rivers where salmon are running after bears mauled hikers on two different occasions within a week in Anchorage