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France said on Thursday that the conditions were not yet met to deliver the first of two controversial Mistral warships to Russia, contradicting reports that Russia had received an invitation to take delivery next month.

Brittany Maynard, the terminally ill woman who plans to take her own life, has checked the last item off her bucket list. She visited the Grand Canyon last week.

Heidi Klum and Grammy-winning singer Seal are officially divorced. The former couple, who married in May 2005 and shared four children, broke up in January 2012.

Philip Banks III, New York City’s highest ranking uniformed police officer within the New York Police Department abruptly announced his resignation earlier this week, days before beginning a new high-ranking promotion.

Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey, the 33 per cent proof drink that claims to “burns like hell”, has been pulled from shelves across Europe after it was found to contain too high levels of a chemical also used in anti-freeze.

An unnamed senior Obama administration’s use of a slang term for fowl excrement to describe Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, in a foul mood Wednesday.

A Santa Fe County sheriff’s deputy was fatally shot by his partner at a hotel in Las Cruces, N.M., early Tuesday after delivering an inmate to Graham County, Ariz., on a warrant, authorities said.

Two Malaysian boys sued Malaysia Airlines and the government on Friday over the loss of their father on Flight 370, the first lawsuit filed in the country by relatives of those aboard the jetliner that mysteriously disappeared eight months ago.

Chelsea Handler mocks Vladimir Putin by posting a topless photo of herself on horseback on Instagram, only to have it removed.

Ricki Lake has filed for divorce from her estranged hubby Christian Evans after only two and a half years of marriage.

According to research conducted by Spotify using over 600 000 Halloween playlists, the Michael Jackson classic is the most featured song closely followed by Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett’s Monster Mash.