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Few things were beyond the reach of billionaire Egyptian tycoon Mohamed Al Fayed who has died at the age of 94. Hotels, yachts and a football club were bought with ease but he never acquired the recognition he craved. His

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Roman Polanski and Bradley Cooper headline the Venice Film Festival on Saturday, though controversy and a Hollywood strike mean neither is attending. Still technically a fugitive from US justice over a child sex conviction in the 1970s, the 90-year-old Polanski

Guatemala’s president-elect Bernardo Arevalo on Friday denounced an “ongoing coup” by the country’s institutions to block him from taking power, after his political party was suspended. Arevalo, a 64-year-old sociologist, swept from obscurity to win an August 20 election with

NPR’s Scott Simon speaks to Miami Herald Caribbean Correspondent Jacqueline Charles about the horrific uptick of violence in Haiti, where vigilantes and gangs are engaged in deadly clashes.

Protest leaders cite efforts by education minister to fire Yad Vashem head; announce mass marches in north, south of country

While the Greek government has been quick to blame global warming for the summer’s devastating wildfires, some experts argue that poor planning is at least as much to blame. The European Commission has said that the blaze in the Dadia

Girls with big white hair bows and boys in blazers held hands as they lined up for their first day back to school in Moscow, with parents watching proudly and, for some including Sergei Angelov, anxiously. Like children across Russia,