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French police have warned people to avoid Marseille's main train station amid reports of a knife attack.

Police broke down doors to force entry into voting stations as defiant Catalans shouted 'Out with the occupying forces!" and sang the anthem of the wealthy northeastern region. In one incident in Barcelona, police fired rubber bullets.

Wedding bells were to ring out in Berlin, Hamburg, Hanover and other German cities where local authorities have exceptionally opened their doors on a Sunday, allowing weddings on the day the law comes into effect.

Boris Johnson, who helped lead the Leave campaign in the 2016 Brexit referendum, is caught on camera starting to recite Rudyard Kipling's poem, Mandalay, after striking a bell at the Shwedagon pagoda in Yangon.

The 2 Sisters group was founded in 1993 by Ranjit Singh Boparan, who is also known as 'Chicken King' and now employs 23,000 staff.

Maryam, Hussain, Hassan and Safdar are currently in London with Kulsoom Nawaz, Sharif's wife, who is undergoing treatment for throat cancer.

Sharif, 67, had to step down as the chief of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) after he was disqualified as premier by the Supreme Court on July 28 in the Panama Papers scandal.

With a lack of clean water and toilets, aid workers say a major health disaster is imminent. Heavy monsoon rain is compounding the risk of disease outbreak, with field doctors reporting a huge spike in cases of severe diarrhoea.

The three internet and online social media giants are expected to appear on November 1 in an open hearing on the rising evidence that they were covertly manipulated in a campaign to help Donald Trump win the presidency.

According to Afghanistan's interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish, the volley of missiles struck near the military section of the airport but there were no casualties or immediate claim of responsibility.

Satellite images confirm the continent's sea ice fell to its lowest maximum and minimum levels this year since satellite observations began in 1979

Rejecting accusations that Puerto Rico has not received the same level of assistance as storm-hit US states Florida and Texas, US President Donald Trump said a "massive relief effort is underway."

While women in other Muslim countries drove freely, the kingdom's blanket ban attracted negative publicity for years. Neither Islamic law nor Saudi traffic law explicitly prohibited women from driving, but they were not issued licenses and were detained i...

Iran, Iraq and Turkey - countries with Kurdish minorities - have all denounced the referendum as a threat to the stability of a region already beset by conflict, while the United States has expressed similar disquiet.

The Sunday Times quoted sources close to London's transport body as saying the move was encouraging and suggested the possibility of talks.

Former president and army chief Gen Musharraf, who was last month declared a fugitive by an anti-terrorism court which ordered seizure of his property in the Bhutto murder case, accused PPP co-chairman Zardari of "having the most to gain from Benazir Bhut...