Our Blood Gold year-long investigation has prompted the Ghanaian Minerals Commission to investigate corruption and murder allegations against a Chinese state-linked company.

The Argentinian vice president has survived an assassination attempt outside her home.

The president said the gun had been loaded with five bullets, adding it was the most “serious event” in Argentina since it returned to being a democracy.

A man was filmed pointing a handgun at Argentina’s vice president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

The artist, a Hitler sympathiser, also wanted to introduce a “more brutal” hierarchy and even “human sacrifices”, according to a letter he wrote in 1935.

Since the U.S.S.R. sent the first spacecraft to the Moon in 1959, the world has forged a fascination with our nearest neighbour -- in small steps and giant leaps.

None of us on that train in the winter of 1988 could have imagined it, but we were travelling, inspired by Gorbachev, towards an end to the 20th century as we had known it.

Swarms of seagoing bugs are attacking beachgoers in southern California.

In a striking and strongly worded primetime address, Joe Biden has slammed Donald Trump for his "extreme ideology".

While Joe Biden is not on the ballot until the presidential election in 2024, the midterm elections generally represent the first electoral chance Americans have to express their approval or displeasure with the president of the day.

Sony stopped making the disks in 2011. Many young people would struggle to describe how to use one. Yet, they’re still used by Japan’s government.

In his final days as prime minister, the British leader might need to be convinced of the meaning of ‘final’.

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The FBI created a file on the band and its members, portions of which were released in 2011, but now Micky Dolenz wants to see the entire records.

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The incident was the first since a United Nations-brokered export deal that allows Ukraine to export its grain was agreed to in July.

If Trump hadn’t requested an independent Special Master to review the classified documents the Justice Department would have not been required to pre-empt a response by eviscerating his claims.

At least six other Russian businessmen, most with ties to the energy industry, have died suddenly in unclear circumstances in the past few months.

When police raided the residences they found boxes of luxurious Hermes Birkin handbags, 423 watches, 14 tiaras and other jewellery and cash.

Residents have been ordered to stay home, and about 70 per cent of the flights have been suspended to and from the governmental and economic centre.