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We will remember 2017 as the year patriotism started to acquire a new vitality and force among Democrats -- and the year that the GOP lost control of its narrative. We have President Donald Trump to thank for both of these things.

China's President has traditionally visited Hong Kong only once every five years, swearing in the Chief Executive for a new five year term and then hastily making an exit before the traditional July 1 protest march.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was freed from prison Sunday after serving 16 months on corruption charges, authorities said.

US President Donald Trump will make back-to-back phone calls to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday, the White House announced Saturday night.

Thousands of Singaporeans on Saturday rallied for LGBT rights at the annual Pink Dot celebration, despite a new government policy banning foreigners from participating.

Adele may be dropping the mic, literally.

Pope Francis is replacing the Catholic Church's conservative chief of doctrine, Cardinal Gerhard Muller, amid apparent tensions over the Pope's efforts to open up church teaching and tackle a series of sex abuse scandals.

China's President Xi Jinping has warned that efforts "to challenge the power of the central government" in Hong Kong are "absolutely impermissible," as the former British colony marked 20 years of Chinese rule Saturday.

Sanitary pads, an essential need for almost all adult women, have been placed in a non-essential tax bracket by the Indian government.

Malawi has launched Africa's first air corridor to test the use of drones to deliver aid and other services in the region, according to UNICEF officials.

At a time when budget proposals would cut funding to key US anti-trafficking initiatives, the US must lead against human trafficking, argues Maurice Middleberg.

The name Lucas Scaglia may not mean much to most people but without him, Lionel Messi's marriage to childhood sweetheart Antonela Roccuzzo may never have happened.

Some stood crying in the rain while others rejoiced when the British flag was lowered over Hong Kong, 20 years ago on July 1, 1997.

Remember when your anti-Trump friends vowed to pack their bags and flee to Canada after the 2016 US presidential election?

Friday is International Asteroid Day. A 24-hour live broadcast will include everything you've ever wanted to know about these rocky bits of space debris, the threats they may pose to Earth and what we can gain from studying them.

In the Middle East, new lines are being drawn, for now not on maps, but indelibly across the territory, affecting the lives of millions.

Her shoes have dressed royal families, been worn on red carpets by A-list celebrities and have earned cameos on hit TV shows like "Sex and the City," but today Jimmy Choo co-founder Tamara Mellon is most passionate about fighting for equality for women.

Iraq's military has seized the remains of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri -- where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared the ISIS "caliphate" in 2014 -- and is now engaged in fierce street-to-street fighting for the last several hundred meters of Mosul's Old City.

German lawmakers voted by a wide margin to legalize same-sex marriage Friday, a landmark decision which came just days after Chancellor Angela Merkel dropped her longstanding opposition to a free vote on the issue.