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Experts reportedly claim that Beijing's mid-course anti-missile system can shoot down missiles from North Korea and India.

Senior Oxfam staff paid Haiti quake survivors to take part in sex orgies, with some feared to be underage, the Times has reported.

Former Trump administration staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman opened up about her time in the White House during an episode of Celebrity Big Brother. She said: 'It's so bad.'

A 32-year-old British tourist is being held in the UAE after 'brushing past woman' in a hotel lift who later died.

Two Isis fighters who were dubbed part of the Beatles have reportedly been captured in Syria. Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh were detained by Kurdish forces.

Belen Aldecosea said she had previously checked twice with Spirit Airlines that she could board the plane with Pebbles – a dwarf hamster medically acknowledged as an emotional support animal.

He made his fortune in strawberry farming and the millionaire's populist style has been compared to that of Donald Trump.

Northern League party leader Matteo Salvini declares Islam to be "incompatible" with Italian values and says Islam is a "law, not a religion".

Female inmates in Arizona only receive 12 sanitary pads a month, which is not enough to cover their periods. A bill wants the state to give them unlimited access to pads and tampons.

Maclean's publishes two identical issues with different cover prices for men and women to highlight pay inequality in Canada.

Solo sex games carry high risk of accidental death, warns German forensic examiner. Many families of the dead try to hide the evidence of autoeroticism.

A professor at Northeastern University garnered strong reactions when he said during a lecture that he "wouldn't mind seeing [Trump] dead".

Over 19,000 children are thought to have been recruited, often by force, by armed groups on all sides of South Sudan's brutal civil war.

America's long-serving B-52 set a record for the number of guided bombs dropped from the plane in a series of strikes against the Taliban in Afghanistan

Donald Trump has overseen dozens of exits from his White House, but one group has gone viral on Twitter.

Tumblr user true-blue-brit's post has male and female feminists challenging coward troll to put up or shut up.

Skaters Kam Alex Kang Chan and Kim Ju-sik make light work of easing decades of rising diplomatic tensions on Korean peninsula.

A city council in Manchester is forbidding pupils to high-five their favourite lollipop man on their way to school because it causes "disruption".

New York Ithaca High School production canned in backlash over "racist casting" of Romany gipsy character.

Environmental watchdog boss Scott Pruitt overturns conventional wisdom to ask if global warming might be beneficial to humans.

Bermuda becomes first country to introduce and repeal a gay marriage law as it struggles to balance public attitudes with civil rights.

Echoes of similar Nazi policies before World War II highlighted by critics.

The spectacular costumes – covered in feathers, sequins and jewels – can be more than 5m high and weigh over 80kg.

Kim Jong-un's sister will head North Korean delegation to Pyeongchang ahead of games but will snub US vice-president.

"I am sad because I think it is not fair, because they just keep on bullying me and the way it makes me feel," reads the handwritten letter.

London-based designer Debbie Wingham constructed a 120kg bridal cake for display at the Bride Dubai wedding show. It features five $200,000 white diamonds.

Flight forced to return to Anchorage after passenger locked himself in the bathroom and took off all his clothes.

"His confidence was disturbing," says the mother-of-four Aneta Baker.

Social media erupted with praise for the rescue team that made the daring attempt to bring the dog back to safety.