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Florida residents return to scenes of devastation after Irma   Residents of the Florida Keys return to a completely different landscape. More than 25 percent of the homes are destroyed while 65 percent suffered major damage. Evacuees...

Puerto Rican Newspaper Cans Popular Comic Strip, Raising Concerns Over Censorship Ángel Carrión   For Puerto Rican Congresswoman María Milagros “Tata” Charbonier, comic strips are no laughing matter. On July 11, the celebrated local comic strip Pepito made light...

German bus stabbing in Lübeck leaves 14 wounded, reports say   A bus sits at the side of the road in Lübeck after a knife attack A man armed with a knife has attacked passengers on...

Six candidates approved to contest Turkey's presidential election   Ankara has confirmed six candidates who will stand in the presidential election on June 24, as the nation heads to the polls to elect both their new...

Mammoth task: billionaire Peter Thiel funded effort to resurrect woolly beast Olivia Solon   The Silicon Valley titan, who has openly challenged death as an inevitability, invested $100,000 in a project to bring the extinct mammoth...

Facebook's Zuckerberg refuses to appear before UK parliament   UK lawmaker Damian Collins has urged Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to reconsider his refusal to appear before the British parliament about data leaks and the rise of...

US chefs put northern snakehead on the menu Authorities say the best way to control the invasive species of fish, is to eat them. The northern snakehead, or Channa argus, has joined a tankful of invasive...

Mounir Mahjoub​i​, the 'geek' who saved Macron's campaign: 'We knew we were going to be attacked' Angelique Chrisafis   The youngest member of France’s new government is a self-taught digital guru from a poor immigrant family. He...

Europe rights court backs employee fired over private messages European Court of Human Rights rules companies need to ensure employees are aware that management is monitoring their work email. Companies need to make sure that employees are aware in...

Hurricane Irma churns through Caribbean, possibly en route to Florida   Considered Atlantic's most powerful storm in a century, Irma churns across the northern islands, packing winds of 295 kph toward St Martin. Hurricane Irma, the most...