The warning from the OECD came as the organisation released predictions that the cost voting Yes in the June referendum would cost each household £2,200 or one month's average wage per year.   The OECD calculated Britain's economic growth would be smaller by 3 per cent if it leaves the European Unio...

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The New York Times and its primary union said on Tuesday that the paper was laying off at least 21 employees because it had not received enough voluntary buyouts to cover newsroom budget cuts.

Police in the Cape Verde islands off West Africa on Tuesday found eight dead soldiers and three dead civilians at a military barracks, local media reported.

After years of debate, University of NSW climate researchers have resolved data issues that not only reveal those "hot spots" to be there – but they are in fact warming some 10 per cent faster than modelling has predicted.

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At least 10 protesters and a policeman have been killed in unrest in Egypt as the country marks the fourth anniversary of its 2011 uprising, officials say.

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Panic erupted in north-eastern Nigeria on Sunday as Boko Haram fighters poured into two strategic towns in pre-dawn strikes that escalated into battles with Nigerian army troops.

Demonstrators calling for a military coup occupied Brazil's lower house of Congress on Wednesday, as anti-austerity protests continue in Rio.

Joey Rovero was just five months from graduation. It was December of 2009 and the healthy, handsome, athletic Arizona State University senior had finished his second-to-last semester. It was time to blow off some steam.

It is not just the clinical detail of the brutality of American agents that makes the US Senate report on the CIA's torture shocking, it is how chaotic and in the end, pointless, the entire program proved to be.

Thousands of protesters gathered in Mexico City on Tuesday, angered by the government's handling of an investigation into 43 students massacre in 2014

Three men carrying Australian passports were arrested at a Bolivian international airport last week waiting to board a flight to Sao Paulo, Brazil, accused of carrying explosives.

The central promise of the Trump administration has failed and the central premise of the administration has been discredited.