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The gunman who killed four people in Vienna on Monday night visited his ancestral home, the tiny mountainous village of Cellopek in the western part of North Macedonia, every year, his grandfather told a local television channel.

Americans by the millions waited patiently to cast their ballots at libraries, schools and arenas across the United States on Tuesday, in an orderly show of civic duty that belied the deep tensions of one of the most polarizing presidential campaigns in t...

As the country mourned the victims of the Monday night assault, security forces swooped on 15 different addresses looking for possible accomplices and seeking to determine if one or several shooters had been involved.

Among the cabinet posts that are most likely to have an effect on stock prices are secretary of the Treasury, which could oversee a $2.2 trillion stimulus bill backed by House Democrats, and Transportation, which will likely oversee a broad infrastructure...

The West Indies cricket team eagerly shook off a long flight, jet lag, three days of isolation and having to undergo COVID19 tests as they had their first day of training on Tuesday ahead of their tour of New Zealand.

The tempestuous election of 2020 has been rife with predictions of confusion and cataclysm, with warnings that a contested battle could last well into December.

Oil prices gained nearly 3% on Monday, rebounding from several day of losses built on concerns of rising coronavirus cases, one day before the end of U.S. presidential election voting.

In a time of so much loss, it is rare for an individual death to stir a country. And it is extraordinary for national grief to be triggered by the passing of a puppet.

Donald Trump's campaign slogan in 2016 could have been 'build the Wall Street’, but a scan across global markets throws up plenty of surprises, especially in the emerging economies that have been in Trump's crosshairs.

U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden and his wife are applying for Russian citizenship in order not to be separated from their future son in an era of pandemics and closed borders, he said on Monday.

In two days, Americans will take their shot, making a choice between two presidential candidates who resemble vastly different case studies in what a man, even in 2020, should do or be.

This Tuesday, four years after Trump's shock victory over Hillary Clinton, Americans vote in what amounts to a referendum on the 74-year-old's brazen claim.

Tropical Storm Eta neared hurricane strength as it rumbled west through the Caribbean on Sunday en route to Nicaragua and Honduras, which it is expected to pound with potentially deadly wind and rain, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.

The diminutive figure of a skeleton in a face mask and medical cap has a hand on a bedridden patient. At its side is the sort of skull made of sugar common on Day of the Dead altars. And behind is the photo of a whitehaired 64yearold man in glasses smilin...

Antigovernment protests triggered by the tightening of Poland's strict abortion law took place for an 11th day in the predominantly Catholic nation.

Early figures in a referendum in Algeria on Sunday appeared to show lacklustre participation despite government efforts to mobilise voters to back proposed changes to the constitution.