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North Carolina lawmakers leave LGBT law largely intact

The law also excludes gender identity and sexual orientation from statewide antidiscrimination protections.

2 July 2016 7:46 AM GMT

We can prevent Brexit by refusing to accept the referendum as the final say and take our finger off the self-destruct button

Brexit protesters take to streets of London

Demonstrators plan to make their way towards the Houses of Parliament over the shock results of the referendum.

2 July 2016 7:35 AM GMT

Efforts are underway to rescue people who are missing after massive landslide in China . (Photo: AP)

19 killed, 12 missing in landslides and heavy rains in China

At least eleven people were killed and a dozen remain missing after a massive landslide swept through a village in...

2 July 2016 7:28 AM GMT

Pope Benedict (Photo: AP)

Vatican gay lobby tried to influence church affairs: Pope Benedict

Pope Benedict resigned following a turbulent papacy that included the so-call “Vatileaks” case.

2 July 2016 7:27 AM GMT

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced last year to death by lethal injection for the 2013 Boston attack. (Photo: Screen grab)

Al-Qaeda warns of 'consequences' if Boston bomber executed

Zawahri, the new al Qaeda leader,urged Muslims to take captive as many Westerners as possible

2 July 2016 5:56 AM GMT

Bangladeshi security personnel cordon off the area after a group of gunmen attacked a restaurant in Dhaka. (Photo: PTI)

Hostage crisis in Dhaka diplomatic area restaurant

A group of eight to ten gunmen attacked a restaurant popular with foreigners in the diplomatic zone of Dhaka on Friday...

2 July 2016 2:01 AM GMT

UN appoints LGBT expert, India abstains

India abstained at the UN Human Rights Council voting in Geneva to appoint an independent expert with a three-year term...

2 July 2016 1:56 AM GMT

Chinese soldiers during the Communist Party’s 95th anniversary celebrations in Mohe, China. (Photo: AFP)

China’s Communist Party turns 95

Chinese President Xi Jinping warned on Friday that the biggest threat to the ruling Communist Party is corruption, as he...

2 July 2016 1:14 AM GMT

Istanbul terror attack: Bombers ‘planned hostage-taking’

In this grab from CCTV footage made available on Friday, three people (in foreground) believed to be the attackers are...

2 July 2016 1:07 AM GMT

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Ayman al-Zawahiri warns US not to execute Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has warned the United States of the “gravest consequences” if Boston...

2 July 2016 12:56 AM GMT

100 Nobel laureates to Greenpeace: Don’t oppose GMOs

More than 100 Nobel laureates called on the international environmental group Greenpeace on Thursday to end its...

2 July 2016 12:54 AM GMT

Pope Benedict reveals how he stopped Vatican ‘gay lobby’

Former Pope Benedict says in his memoirs that no one pressured him to resign but alleges that a “gay lobby”...

1 July 2016 8:00 PM GMT