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A man trying to eat a half-pound doughnut in 80 seconds as part of a doughnut shop's eating challenge has choked to death in Denver.

Monday's blast on board a metro train in St Petersburg killed 11 people and wounded 45.

The National Archives is telling the White House to keep each of President Donald Trump's tweets, even those he deletes or corrects.

Germany has no plans to introduce an 'Islam law' codifying the rights and obligations of Muslims, a government spokesman said on Monday, dismissing an idea floated by allies of Chancellor Angela Merkel ahead of federal elections in September.

At least 10 people were killed in explosions in two train carriages at metro stations in St. Petersburg on Monday, Russian authorities said.

Russia and its President Vladimir Putin have paid no price for their "misbehaviour" in countries like Ukraine and Syria and for "interfering" in US elections, a top American Senator has alleged.

A federal judge has rejected President Donald Trump's free speech defence against a lawsuit accusing him of inciting violence against protesters at a campaign rally.

Three teenage girls were arrested in late February on suspicion they had chatted on Telegram, an encrypted instant messaging platform used by French jihadi Rachid Kassim to call for attacks on France.

He traveled from rally to rally with his guitar in tow, crooning pro-Donald Trump tunes and hailing the then Republican candidate as the answer to the US heroin epidemic that took his son's life.

A Sikh doctor in the US has received death threats from an anonymous caller in Indiana, amid a series of hate crime incidents in which Indian- Americans have been targeted.

South African President Jacob Zuma sacked his finance minister and made ten new cabinet appointments late Thursday in a dramatic reshuffle which could split the ruling ANC party.

"It's the amount that we have planned to do the job", Healey said, dismissing worries that it might not be enough but admitting the ministry is "still growing".

But Nasheed, who has pledged to return to the honeymoon islands to contest the 2018 election, said Monday's incident had exposed the government's shaky majority and strengthened his resolve to try again.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday signed the letter that will trigger Britain's exit from the European Union.

In a makeshift camp beside a disused airfield in the breakaway Somali region of Somaliland, 32-year old Nima Mohamed sits next to an open wood fire, boiling a kettle of black tea.

Dozens of aircraft hangars and high-end radar capabilities on China's man-made islands in the South China Sea are almost operational, according to new satellite imagery released by a US-based think tank.