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San Francisco (AFP) - A transgender high school athlete shrugged off scattered protests and heated criticism from President Donald Trump to reach the finals of multiple events at California's state...

(AFP) - Billionaire Elon Musk bade farewell to Donald Trump in an extraordinary Oval Office appearance Friday, sporting a black eye, brushing aside drug abuse claims and vowing to stay...

Paris (AFP) - French scientist Etienne-Emile Baulieu, the inventor of the abortion pill, died at the age of 98 at his home in Paris on Friday, his wife told AFP....

Washington (AFP) - The US Federal Reserve's preferred inflation measure cooled more than expected last month, according to government data published Friday, as President Donald Trump's "liberation day" tariffs on...

Washington (AFP) - Half the global population endured an additional month of extreme heat over the past year because of manmade climate change, a new study found Friday. The findings...

Zagreb (AFP) - He's the maverick medic who loved to confound the medical establishment with his brilliant, unorthodox diagnoses. But Dr Gregory House, the misanthropic genius who was the star...

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Turkey on Friday proposed hosting a summit with the leaders of Russia, Ukraine and the United States as it strives to broker an elusive deal to...

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Turkey's foreign minister said Friday that both Russia and Ukraine wanted a ceasefire, as he visited Kyiv ahead of a potential second round of direct negotiations...

(AFP) - Bernard "Bernie" Kerik, who rose to national prominence after leading the New York police department through the September 11 terror attacks, died Thursday. He was 69

New York (AFP) - From a delicate 13th-century clay figure to self-portraits by photographer Samuel Fosso, New York's Metropolitan Museum reopens its African art collection on Saturday, exploring the "complexity"...