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The Pennsylvania-based World Peace and Unification Sanctuary is not your everyday kind of church.

Austrian Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache claimed he had been slandered by followers of leftist group Linkswende after they made the offensive gesture at him.

Was he targeting Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida?

Ultra-nationalist candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky called Ksenia Sobchak a "whore" during bad-tempered TV debate.

Fifty-seven percent of all adults, including more than 8 in 10 blacks, three-quarters of Hispanics and nearly half of whites, said they think Trump is racist. Eighty-five percent of Democrats consider Trump racist, but just 21 percent of Republicans agree.

The horrific accident took place in the city of Hankou in China.

A Vatican magazine has denounced how nuns are often treated like indentured servants in the Roman Catholic Church.

Russia has tested an "invincible" nuclear cruise missile that cannot be intercepted by enemy measures, claimed the country's president Vladimir Putin.

A pro-North Korea paper says the US must "give up its reckless hostile policy".

The three boys park their vehicle to give a local homeless man some money from their wallets.

Jewish groups, gun control advocates and social media users erupted with outrage over Young's "disgusting and reprehensible" remarks.

"The issue of a crime against humanity committed in time of war cannot be closed with just a word," said Moon Jae-in.

Donald Trump is trying to stop transgender people signing up and serving in the US military. But they're fighting back with ads on Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC.

The controversial law will put those who accuse Poland of carrying out crimes related to the Holocaust in prison.

The National Park Service (NPS) has been trying to protect the slopes of Denali – formerly known as Mount McKinley – in Alaska.

Lebanon's Hezbollah produced a video game simulating the battlefields of Syria and allowing users to launch attacks on the Islamic State.

In the last few days, a few prisoners at Auckland Region Women's Corrections Facility have used violence to try and get their way.

Sally Jones, a former punk rocker, from Kent, who married fellow jihadist Junaid Hussain, was thought to have died in a drone strike in Syria, along with her son JoJo, 12.

One of Donald Trump's longest serving advisers, Hope Hicks, is quitting. Trump is now looking for his 5th communications head.

Russia says that military engineers have reportedly developed a plane-mounted laser that could be used in the event of a space war, which is feared by one US air force general.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students go back to school after the shooting which killed 17 people.

Speaking about a possible run, she said that she "went into prayer," to help her decide for the 2020 election.

Ceremonial firing illegal in India but remains rife across South Asia.

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri is in Saudi Arabia for the first time since his dramatic resignation from Riyadh in November last year.

Local prosecutor Carlos Bustamante told newspaper El Comercio the incident occurred around 9:20 am on Monday (26 February) when airport workers spotted three objects falling from a commercial flight.

Defending NBA champions, the Golden State Warriors, plan to tour an African-American museum in Washington instead of making the traditional visit to the White House.

Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-o-cha has now promised to hold election no later than February 2019.

"Who's gonna tell her?" one Twitter user asked.

Egyptian singer Sherine Abdel Wahab sentenced to six months in prison after joking about parasites in River Nile.