AS 2016 draws to a close, revellers around the world are bidding a weary adieu to a year filled with political surprises, prolonged conflicts and deaths of legendary celebrities.

WHEN IT comes to the United States’ new crackdown on illegal immigrants, the sheriffs of southern Arizona face a difficult task.

THIS is the haunting picture of a starved French nanny taken just two days before she was murdered and burned by an evil London couple.

THE Cassini / Huygens mission is coming to a fiery end. But it wasn’t always going to be this way.

US President Donald Trump has hit out at key allies over trade policy as leaders hold talks at the G7 summit in Canada. He is standing firmly on his newly imposed steel and aluminium tariffs with tensions threatening to overshadow the meeting. Mr Trump has also called for Russia to be reinstated to ...

PRESIDENT Donald Trump has threatened retaliatory measures against US trade partners overnight, accusing them of “getting away with murder.”

A MIDWIFE has told how she sliced open her boyfriend’s throat with a knife to save his life after he started choking on his food and almost died.

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Officials in Gaza say at least nine Palestinians have been killed, and more than 500 injured in clashes with Israeli forces. It comes just a week after similar unrest left 16 people dead. Warning: This report contains graphic content.

A MAN known as Daniel Marcos Philips lay in a Brazilian hospital bed attached to tubes that were keeping him alive.

THE Korean Air exec who delayed a flight in an incident dubbed “nut rage” bowed in apology in her first appearance since the controversy began.

DAWOOD Ibrahim’s brother tells how a near miss saved his sibling from the deadly Taliban massacre. Now he is unable to speak and ‘just attends funerals’

A GIRL, 12, who was allegedly shot in the head by her dad after he killed the rest of his family, managed to call police after the ex pro-basketballer fled.

A TINY island in the Pacific Ocean is the site of a huge discovery that has been described as a “game changer”.

POPE Francis has given all priests discretion to forgive women who have had abortions but there are a few catches and it is for a limited time only.