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At least 15 people were killed as a magnitude-8.1 earthquake rocked Mexico late Thursday night, leveling buildings in southern Mexico, triggering tsunami warning in several countries and causing people to flee into the street, buildings to sway and lights to go out in Mexico City, some 650 miles from the quake's epicenter. President Peña Nieto said about 50 million Mexicans would have felt the tremor and that the death toll might rise. Watch Video Here Watch Video Here

The desperate parents of conjoined ten-year-old twins attached at the head are appealing for help to raise £75,000 to separate them. Joy and Joyce Magsino were born with angular frontal partial craniopagus - they are attached at the forehead. A touching video released by their father devoted Patrick Magsino, 30, shows them taking selfies and playing video games, just like any other ten-year-old girls. Doctors in Albay in the Philippines said it was possible to separate them with a risky...

The leader of Australia’s rightwing One Nation party, Pauline Hanson, has been rebuked for arriving at a Senate session dressed in a black burqa. A form of dress usually worn by some Muslim women. Hanson caused a huge commotion as she walked into the chamber, during daily question time, dressed in the full body wear. She wore a burqa to highlight security conners of people wearing the dress and she hopes to get them banned. The leader of the opposition...

Peter Tefft travelled across the US to attend the protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, with hundreds of white supremacists. His father, Pearce Tefft wrote a letter about his son and his presence at the right-wing gathering, that ended in rioting and the death of a woman due to a hit and run, by a right wing fanatic. Father Peter Tefft My name is Pearce Tefft, and I am writing to all, with regards to my youngest son, Peter Tefft, an avowed...

A bishop is 'waging holy war' against Muslims and lefties who want to wrest control of a cathedral away from the Catholic Church - who stole it from the Moors 800 years ago. The bitter row has broken out over the Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba in Andalusia, southern Spain. The consecrated site is believed to have originally been a Christian church dedicated to Saint Vincent the third. The city was seized in 711 by a Moorish army, and it became a...

In a week of incredible soap opera antics at the White House, you may have missed the barely reported testimony of a businessman named William Browder to the US Senate Judiciary Hearing on Russian meddling in the US election. Whether Donald Trump’s weird tweets, weirder attack on transexuals in the armed forces and Anthony Scaramucci’s spectacularly bizarre ill-fated eight days as White House Communications Director can be put down to stupidity or conspiracy to deflect from some of the most...

The early Greeks - creators of Europe's first advanced civilisations - descended from migrants from modern day Turkey, reveals new research. An analysis of ancient DNA has revealed that Ancient Minoans and Mycenaens were genetically similar - with both peoples descending from early Neolithic farmers. Researchers say they likely migrated from Anatolia to Greece and Crete thousands of years before the Bronze Age. Modern Greeks, in turn, are largely descendants of the Mycenaeans, the study found. The researchers analysed tooth...

After years of campaigning by women’s rights activists,  on 1 August, the lower house of Jordan’s parliament voted for the full repeal of Article 308 without exception, meaning that there should no longer be a way for a rapist to escape punishment by marrying his victim. Women’s and human rights organizations have worked alongside Jordanian Parliamentarians for years to bring about change to the law, and are hailing the repeal of Article 308 as an important step forward in the global...

A toddler has died after doctors discovered she had been pierced with seven PINS - as part of a sick ‘black magic’ ritual. The unnamed three-year-old was taken to hospital after her distraught mother discovered she had been allegedly sexually abused. Medics in Kolkata, West Bengal, in India, removed seven two-inch-long pins from her body - some of which had punctured her organs. Horrifying X-ray pictures show at least seven two-inch long pins stuck inside a three-year-old girl by a...