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Live: the head of Volkswagen USA addresses Congress panel

Michael Horn, the head of Volkswagen USA, is expected to apologise before members of a US Congress committee in Washington over the scandal of the

USA

NASA lights up US night sky with test launch

Parts of the US east coast were treated to a light show on Wednesday when NASA launched a sounding rocket packed with Barium and Strontium. When

Afghanistan

Obama apologises for ' tragic mistake' in Kunduz

US President Barack Obama has apologised to the head of Medecins San Frontieres for the deadly airstrike on one of the aid agency’s hospital’s in

Switzerland

MSF holds US command in Afghanistan to account over hospital bombing

The medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières is demanding a full independent international investigation into sustained airstrikes on its hospital

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Spain

Why has a former head of the IMF had his passport confiscated?

Former Spanish Economy Minister Rodrigo Rato has had his passport confiscated by a court in Spain. Mr Rato is under investigation for money

Afghanistan

MSF demands independent probe of Kunduz bombing

Four days after the US bombing of its hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, which killed 22 patients and staff, the medical charity Médecins sans

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San Diego: Endangered iguana gets a workout

USA

Former head of the UN General Assembly charged with corruption

U.S. prosecutors accuse John Ashe, former president of the United Nations General Assembly, of taking more than $1.3 million in bribes from Chinese businessmen to support their interests through UN-sp

Europe News

EU's highest court torpedoes US data deal over privacy fears

The EU’s highest court has struck down a data deal agreed with the United States. Judges said the agreement did stop local authorities from checking

Economy

Trans-Pacific Partnership is praised and panned

TPP: the initials may mean little to many outside the Pacific rim. Yet the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreed on Monday will be the world’s biggest

World News

EU top court rules in favour of privacy activist

The EU’s highest court has ruled in favour of an Austrian law student who claims that a trans-Atlantic data protection agreement doesn’t protect

USA

California legalises assisted suicide

Physician-assisted suicide will become legal in California under a bill signed into law on Monday by Democrat Governor Jerry Brown. The law allows

USA

Hillary Clinton promises gun control measures if elected president

The latest mass shooting in the US has had an impact on the 2016 presidential race with Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton vowing to tighten gun

USA

BP finally agrees record breaking Deepwater Horizon settlement

US Attorney General Loretta Lynch has announced BP is to pay over $20 billion arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of

Economy

Historic and controversial, Trans-Pacific free trade deal is struck

The United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries have agreed what is described as a historic but also controversial deal to free up trade and

USA

At least eight dead in floods in South and North Carolina

At least eight people have died after torrential rainfall triggered floods in South and North Carolina. The storm dumped more than 45 centimetres of

Cinema

Spielberg's 'Bridge of Spies' co-written by Coen brothers

Based on the novel of the same name, Steven Spielberg’s latest movie ‘Bridge of Spies’ stars Tom Hanks as an American lawyer recruited by the

USA

US mass shooter had 13 guns

US investigators say Chris Harper Mercer, who shot nine people dead at a community college in Oregon, had access to at least thirteen weapons. The

USA

Top FIFA sponsors demand Sepp Blatter quits immediately

Major football sponsors are demanding the immediate resignation of FIFA president Sepp Blatter. Companies that have long linked their brand names to

Syria

Obama: Russia's strikes in Syria 'strengthening ISIL'

US President Barack Obama says that Russia’s bombing campaign in Syria will only strengthen ISIL militants. He claims Moscow is failing to

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