The Duke of Sussex is taking a break from daddy duty for the night to throw out the first pitch at the opening game of the Major League Baseball London Series at the city's former Olympic stadium on June 29.

A famished polar bear picked up this week after it wandered lost into a northern Russian city hundreds of kilometres from its Arctic habitat was taken on Friday to a zoo in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk for treatment.

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Indonesia's Constitutional court is expected to announce on Thursday that it will not over turn the result of April's presidential election in favour of Prabowo Subianto - and that ruling is likely to trigger more protests.

From a young age, Michael Platt loved two things: Martin Luther King jnr and cupcakes. Now he's combined his two passions into a good cause.

The father put his two-year-old daughter safely on the US side of the Rio Grande river and went back for his wife. The girl tried to follow him.

The company withheld WhatsApp messages from a drug-trafficking investigation in Brazil on privacy grounds.

Denmark's new coalition has agreed to soften some tough measures on immigration, including abandoning a plan by the previous government to hold foreign criminals on a tiny island.

Special counsel Robert Mueller will testify publicly before House panels July 17 after being subpoenaed.

Commissioner John Sanders' departure deepens the sense of crisis and adds to the rapid turnover inside the agencies enforcing Trump's hardline immigration.

Hot air from the Sahara will send temperatures above 40C in several locations on the continent tomorrow and Friday.

Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, appealed for the Palestinians to consider an economic support plan they have already rejected.

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.

The activists have seized on the G20 summit of world leaders in Japan this week to appeal for the former British colony's plight to be put on the agenda.

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.