Privately, people close to the White House said they viewed Harris as "very dangerous" and the hands-down winner of the debate on Thursday.

The 22-year-old James Fields was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole after ramming his car into a crowd of protesters.

Tania Vanessa Avalos arrived in El Salvador with a family friend who had gone with them on their ill-fated journey to the United States.

US President Donald Trump on Saturday invited North Korea's Kim Jong-un to shake hands during a visit by Trump to the demilitarised zone with South Korea.

Juncker described the pact with the bloc made up of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay as "an historic moment" that came 20 years after talks were launched.

And, for the flamboyant, rumpled, ambitious former London mayor Boris Johnson, there's been some tripping up already.

Carter's comments came during a panel discussion at a retreat for donors to the Carter Centre, an organisation he founded in 1982 that has been at the forefront of election monitoring efforts around the globe for decades.

Australian nurse Kirsty Boden "paid the ultimate price", one of London's top police officers said as the inquest drew to a close.

The mercury reached an all-time high at 45.9 degrees amid a heatwave in Europe that has claimed several lives.

Indonesia's Constitutional Court is poised to block an attempt by defeated presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto to over turn April's election.

Iran is vowing a "stronger reaction" if the US violates its borders again, as the EU makes a last-ditch effort to keep the Iran deal alive.

On Sunday, more than a quarter of a million people demanded that Babis quit at the biggest public protest since the end of communist rule.

Protesters rallied outside the justice secretary's offices, blocking roads and forcing workers to leave.

Temperatures this week were expected to reach a level not seen for June since 1947, and could surpass that.

While Donald Trump was bored by the first Democratic debate, he should also be relieved. Nothing would have shaken his confidence in winning a second term.

Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge are the parents of three children: five-year-old George, four-year-old Charlotte and one-year-old Louis.

He was interviewed by North Korea's official newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, and praised the country, in a report published this week, around the time he is believed to have been detained in Pyongyang.

In his blog Alek Sigley said his father was an "Anglo-Aussie sinologist" and his mother was Chinese - she spent a "tumultuous youth during the Cultural Revolution", he wrote.

Kardashian West's appropriation of the word kimono for a line of products that have nothing to do with kimono is problematic, argues Tracy Brown.

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