Gil Hill, a former Detroit City Council president whose role as a frustrated police inspector to Eddie Murphy’s street-smart character in “Beverly Hills Cop” films made him a movie star, has died. “Gil Hill spent more than 40 years serving our city in the Detroit Police Department and as a member of the Detroit City Council,” Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said. “He never stopped believing in our city, and dedicated his life to making our city a better place for all. Our condolences go out to his family.”

India deployed thousands of troops in Haryana on Sunday to quell protests that have severely hit water supplies to Delhi, a metropolis of more than 20 million, forced factories to close and killed 10 people.

Kansas City’s convention center filled with 750 retirees and workers fighting to stop proposed cuts to their pensions, in many cases by half or more. The Central States Pension Fund said it must cut benefits now to avoid collapse. The proposal is the first test of a controversial 2014 pension law that also is under attack.

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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says that any ground operation by foreign troops in Syria will lead to "a full-fledged, long war."

Authorities ordered more than 250 shopping centers to find other sources of power from 1:00 to 3:00 pm and again from 7:00 to 9:00 pm, for the next three months.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday blasted as “laughable” Russia’s accusation that Turkey was actively preparing to invade Syria.

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"Do they really think they would win such a war very quickly? That's impossible, especially in the Arabic world. There everyone is fighting against everyone... everything is far more complicated. It could take years or decades."

For the first time, scientists have detected tiny, rhythmic distortions in space and time - gravitational waves - predicted by Einstein 100 years ago.

There could come a point at which Turkey says "goodbye" to migrants,
Recep Tayyip Erdogan warns EU

Wolfgang Schaeuble gave no details on how high the extra levy on petrol should
be, but said it would pay for costs such as securing Schengen's external
borders

Renault SA shares plunged the most in 17 years after a union said French fraud investigators seized computers from the automaker, apparently as part of a probe into emissions testing." data-ephemeral="true

Up to 2,000 refugees living at the Jungle camp in Calais are to be evicted this week ahead of large sections of the site being bulldozed, aid workers in the area have claimed. More than 300 women and 60 children are understood to be among those facing eviction from the site amid claims the French government wants to dismantle up to a third of the camp.

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A German police officer told media that law enforcement cannot efficiently tackle crime among refugees without being accused of excessive violence or racism, while many dangerous incidents are played down or kept secret to maintain desirable statistics.

Two U.S. Navy boats were taken into Iranian custody on Tuesday but Iran has told the United States that the crews will be returned "promptly," U.S. officials said.

When survey respondents were offered a small cash reward — a dollar or two — for producing a correct answer about the unemployment rate and other economic conditions, they were more likely to be accurate and less likely to produce an answer that fit their partisan biases.
In other words, when money was added to the equation, questions about the economy became less like asking people which football team they thought was best, and more like asking them to place a wager.

While officers raced to a recent 911 call about a man threatening his ex-girlfriend, a police operator in headquarters consulted software that scored the suspect’s potential for violence the way a bank might run a credit report.

Marius Youbi, described as ‘the best we have’ by Aarhus University, exceeded limit for hours and had to return to Cameroon

Stockholm's largest swimming centre, Eriksdalsbadet is making waves after deciding to introduce segregated jacuzzis, following reports of groping beneath the bubbles.

In the wake of a spate of New Year's Eve assaults in European cities, some leaders have reiterated their tough stance on stopping the flow of migrants into the continent.

The German city of Cologne, still shaken by a spate of sexual assaults in a crowd of migrants on New Year's Eve, was braced Saturday for a rally of the xenophobic PEGIDA movement.

Hungarian prime minister calls for fences to be built on Greece's northern
border to stem flow of refugees

Reports flood in of sexual assaults against women across Germany as leaked
police report states Cologne suspects 'claimed to be Syrian refugees'

Photographer Raphael Olivier has captured Ordos, a Chinese ghost town in Inner Mongolia that was built for a million people, in stunning pictures.

Venezuela's new economy czar Luis Salas is tasked with controlling what is believed to be the world's highest rate of inflation, but comes to the job with an unusual perspective: that inflation does not really exist.

Slovakia will fight against immigration from Muslim countries to prevent attacks like the shootings in Paris and assaults of women in Germany, Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Thursday, declaring that multi-culturalism was "a fiction".

Bill Gross says the US will face slow growth as the Baby Boom generation ages, a trend likely to reward investors in emerging markets over the long term.

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The British government said it was seeking to hold talks with doctors in its state-funded health service in a last-ditch bid to avert a series of mass walkouts, potentially the first such strikes for four decades.

Nicholas Casey, a New York Times correspondent, is sharing moments from his first 30 days living in Caracas, a city in the midst of great tumult and change.

The company's streaming-video service goes live in 130 new countries, tripling its list of territories. But, China still isn't one of them.

Cologne's mayor calls crisis talks with police after about 80 women reported sexual assaults and mugging by men on New Year's Eve.

Angry Iranian protesters stormed Saudi Arabia's embassy in Tehran in the early hours of Sunday, smashing furniture and starting fires before being removed by the police.

Judges granted government request to suspend three parliamentarians due to
take office next week - taking opposition below two-thirds majority needed
to unpick Nicolas Maduro's grip on power

A Pew research report shows that with current growth trends, Islam will be the world dominant religion by 2050.

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China Shanshui Cement Group Ltd. said on Tuesday that it has informed the Hong Kong police that data, documents and the company chop—a stamp used to sign all legal documents—may have been stolen from its offices.

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Iran condemned on Thursday as arbitrary and illegal reported U.S. plans for new sanctions on international companies and individuals over Tehran's ballistic missile program.

The Philippines, involved in a territorial dispute with Beijing in the South China Sea, is set to join the China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, describing it as a "promising institution" that could help accelerate economic growth.

Hundreds of people gathered to cheer as a woman was publicly caned in Indonesia for having affectionate contact with a man who was not her husband. University student Nur Elita was rushed to hospital after receiving five lashes in front of a jubilant crowd. The 20-year-old was forced to kneel as a

Last week, it was reported that Yahoo had become the latest company that promised to alert users who it suspected were being spied on by state-sponsored actors. Twitter, Facebook and Google had previously assured their users that they would also…

Under the new law, senior figures in public radio and television will in future be appointed -- and sacked -- by the treasury minister, and no longer through contests by the National Broadcasting Council

Novo Banco, the 'good bank'carved out of the failed Banco Espirito Santo (BES), now meetsthe capital requirements of the European Central Bank aftertransferring a series of outstanding bonds back to BES, it saidon Wednesday.

On Tuesday, the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) burned twenty media activists to death in Iraq’s northwestern city of Mosul.

China's central bank has suspended at least three foreign banks from conducting some foreign exchange business until the end of March, three sources who had seen the suspension notices told Reuters on Wednesday.

The National Security Agency’s targeting of Israeli leaders also swept up the content of private conversations with U.S. lawmakers.

All Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to do is make the world a better place for his new daughter. While he's technically on paternity leave, he couldn't sit idly by as India attempts to halt Internet.org, Facebook's initiative to provide free but limited internet to the developing world. Last week, the Times of India reported...