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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell broke with President-elect Donald Trump over Russia on Monday, saying he supports a congressional investigation into findings that Russian hackers attempted to influence the election.

With each passing day, it's harder and harder to take Donald Trump's campaign promise to "drain the swamp" seriously.

There is nothing harder than being a mother in eastern Aleppo, said Fatemah Alabed.

The UK government will adopt an international definition of anti-Semitism in order to tackle rising levels of hatred expressed towards Jewish people.

Oil has soared above $54 a barrel to its highest level in nearly a year and a half.

Eman Ahmed, from Egypt, is believed to be the world's heaviest woman. According to her family, she weighs 1,102 pounds (500 kg).

Donald Trump has unleashed a fierce war against organized labor. Anyone who bought into his populist rhetoric on the campaign trail may be questioning this fallacy now.

Turkish fighter jets have targeted a Kurdish militant group after twin bomb blast that killed dozens in Istanbul over the weekend.

The Earth is on the verge of a mass extinction event.

Throughout 2016, terror attacks have ripped apart small towns and big cities in the Middle East, Africa and Europe. This weekend brought no respite.

A Kurdish militant group has claimed responsibility for twin bombings in Istanbul that killed at least 38 people, mostly police officers, and wounded 155 others.

ISIS forces have retaken the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria, according to Syrian government media, the ISIS media wing and a human rights monitor.

Security fears swept across Cairo on Monday as police probed the deadly bomb blast that ripped through a Coptic church the day before.

Air travelers will be able to fly from Australia to Europe without stopping after Qantas announced the first direct passenger route between the two continents.

It's not every day you get to hold a 700-year-old banknote in your hands.