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India’s space agency says it has launched an unmanned spacecraft to the far side of the moon, a week after aborting the mission due to a technical problem. Scientists at the mission control centre in Sriharikota, off the Bay of Bengal, burst into applause as the rocket lifted off in clear weather as scheduled at 2.43pm local time (10.13 BST) Monday. Chandrayaan, the Sanskrit word for mooncraft, is designed to land on the lunar south pole in September and send a...

Thousands of people in Brooklyn were left without power amid high temperatures.

The former special counsel is due to testify before Congress this week.

Troops and demolition crews out at dawn in Palestinian controlled Wadi Hummus neighbourhood which could set a worrying precedent for thousands of homes.

The Fianna Fail leader said the situation was a ‘shocking indictment’ of the DUP and Sinn Fein.

The revelations came after federal prosecutors told US District Judge William Pauley they had concluded their investigation into the hush-money payments former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen helped orchestrate to two women — porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy centrefold Karen McDougal — who claimed they had affairs with Mr Trump.

Leading politicians from across the British political spectrum led by Jeremy Corbyn have joined HOPE not hate's message of solidarity to the four Congresswomen of colour.

The site is part of the vast Nevada Test and Training Range and has become the centre of UFO conspiracy theories.

Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been sentenced to life behind bars in a US prison, a humbling end for a crime lord once notorious for his ability to kill, bribe or tunnel his way out of trouble. A federal judge in Brooklyn handed down the sentence on Wednesday, five months after Guzman’s conviction in an epic drug-trafficking case. The 62-year-old, who had been protected in Mexico by an army of gangsters and an elaborate corruption operation, was...