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Three hikers, including a 19-year-old who fell approximately 500 feet (150m), have been found dead on Mt Baldy, a looming...

Osmond Chia,Business reporterandYan Chen,BBC News ChineseGetty ImagesChinese people will pay a 13% sales tax on contraceptives from 1 January, while...

Bulgaria - the poorest country in the European Union - has become the 21st member of the eurozone - leapfrogging...

Ben MilneandJames Percy,BBC NewsBBCThe first non-European Pope in more than 1,000 years, the Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall and The...

Getty ImagesTatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of former US President John F Kennedy, has died aged 35.Her family announced her death...

From meteor showers to supermoons, many stunning celestial events have been captured on camera over the past year. Here are...

Crowds around the world have gathered to welcome the new year. New Zealand and Australia were among the first places...

Matthew Tucker,BBC NewsandLucy Talavera,BBC NewsAFP via Getty ImagesFireworks lit up the midnight sky over Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera...

Finnish police have detained a vessel suspected of damaging an undersea telecoms cable running from Helsinki to Estonia across the...

ReutersA passenger has described "chaos" after two trains collided head-on near Peru's most popular tourist attraction, Machu Picchu.Niels Honkoop, 33,...