Members of a remote Amazon rainforest indigenous tribe have shot dead six illegal gold miners with arrows, Brazilian officials said Friday.
US President-elect Donald Trump and France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen are part of "identical phenomena" that have swept the two countries, the mayor of...
QUITO (Reuters) - An Ecuadorean court gave a 10-year jail sentence to former national soccer federation president Luis Chiriboga for corruption on Friday in...
Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish are setting the pace in the Ghent Six Day event in Belgium.
Members of the public found a woman near the side of the road only to discover one of her fingers had been severed and two people are facing torture charges.
Kurtis Patterson has scored 55 but fellow Test aspirant Nic Maddinson has been dismissed cheaply during the Sheffield Shield cricket match at the SCG.
Acting Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce says a city like Darwin, which was bombed in World War II, can't afford Labor's "naive" attempts to shake up foreign policy.
Injured South African paceman Dale Steyn has fired up on social media over the "mintgate" controversy that has engulfed his skipper Faf du Plessis.

US drought kills 100 million trees

An aerial survey shows there are 36 million more dead trees since May in California and a 100 per cent increase since 2015 due to drought.
South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill says he's talked to his water minister over a reported incident with Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce.
Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke is joining the Star Wars Han Solo spin-off.
Award-winning US songwriter Mentor Williams has died, his brother says.

Deputy US marshal killed in shootout

A deputy US marshal has been shot dead while trying to arrest a man already wanted for attempting to murder police in Georgia.
One Nation appears to be gaining ground in Queensland, with a poll showing 45 per cent of voters feel Pauline Hanson responds better to concerns.
A neurosurgeon planning to carry out the first human head transplant hopes to perform the operation in the UK.
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