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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Victoria's assisted dying bill has 68 safeguards A landmark assisted dying bill has passed through the lower house of Australia's second-most populous state after a marathon all-night debate.Lawmakers in Victoria discussed the voluntary euthanasia

Photo Credit: Mohamed Benguedda(World Watch Monitor) — Churches in northern Algeria continue to clash with the authorities over permission to hold services in non-religious buildings. Authorities in Tizi Ouzou province—100km east of the capital, Algiers—have said a 2006 law that

Image copyright AFP As President Xi delivered his opening address to the 19th Communist Party Congress in Beijing, 2,280 delegates looked on. But fewer than a quarter of those were women. That's got some people asking whether the party should

Image copyright EPA A Spanish tourist in Italy has been killed by a falling stone fragment in one of Florence's main churches.He was 52 years old and local newspapers said he lived in Barcelona.The stone, said to have supported a

Image copyright Art Institute of Chicago Image caption Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Two Sisters (on a Terrance) A US museum says an Impressionist painting which President Donald Trump reportedly claims to own is a fake.In a recent interview, Trump biographer Tim O'Brien

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Omar Khalid Khorasani, pictured in a photo taken from archive footage The leader of a Pakistani Islamist militant group has been killed by a suspected US drone attack in Afghanistan, its spokesman says. Omar Khalid

Image copyright Emory Image caption The letters are affectionate, but mostly deal with Mr Obama's life as a young graduate Angst-ridden letters from a young Barack Obama to his girlfriend reveal a 20-something plagued by insecurities about race, class and

Image copyright Discovery Education Image caption Gitanjali Rao's device could make testing water for lead contamination quicker and cheaper A schoolgirl aged 11 has been honoured as "America's top young scientist" for inventing a quick, low-cost test to detect lead-contaminated

Image copyright Reuters Image caption UK Prime Minister Theresa May said that "concrete progress" was being made in talks so far European Union leaders are meeting in Brussels and at the top of their agenda is a review of the