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  A Southwest Airlines flight leaving Louisville, Kentucky was evacuated Wednesday after a passenger's Samsung phone began emitting smoke. Flight 994 was evacuated on the runway prior to take-off after a passenger's Samsung Galaxy Note 7 — described as a replacement in Samsung's global recall of...

By Bridie Witton Leading economist says Scandinavian nation's experience shows UK Government should reverse plans to tighten immigration Sweden took in more refugees per capita than any other country in Europe last year Getty Immigration has helped fuel Sweden's biggest economic boom in five years, new figures...

By Marcus Harton, Esha Sarai WASHINGTON — Each visitor has a minute to pick just five items to take on their mock-refugee journey. Choices include cards representing water, shoes, a fishing pole, medicine, blankets and other more sentimental items, like family photos. "Connectivity, identification ..." a...

By Euan Kerr Cedars resident Abdi Mohammed speaks against allowing HBO to do three days of filming for the controversial show "Mogadishu, Minnesota." HBO producer Jonathon Filley and translator Miriam Hussein listen. Euan Kerr | MPR News A resident group in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood in...

butted out, Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki thinks Africa is in trouble. The continent needs progressive leaders and such leaders are simply nowhere to be found, he says. Mbeki made the remarks at a question-and-answer session organized for the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute by the Thabo...

Portugal's former Prime Minister Antonio Guterres is poised to become the next UN secretary general, UN diplomats say. Mr Guterres, 66, was the "clear favourite", Russia's UN ambassador Vitaly Churkin announced on Wednesday. A formal vote will take place in the UN Security Council on Thursday...

One of nine daughters in a Muslim Somali family who came to Britain when she was seven, Fahma, from Barton Hill, has been hailed a hero by many – including the Secretary General of the United Nations - for her tireless work to safeguard...

WATCH LIVE: Mike Pence vs Tim Kaine Vice Presidential Debate at Longwood University (10/4/2016) - Vice Presidential Debate from Longwood University - Mike Pence & Tim Kaine Presidential Debate Longwood University Farmville (9/26/2016) - Pence vs Clinton debate

This debate may end up being inconsequential. It may even be forgotten by Sunday, when Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump again face off in a town hall format. But it was more contentious than perhaps was predicted. Tim Kaine's strategy was transparent from the outset...

Ankara, Turkey (AP) -- Turkish authorities on Tuesday suspended some 12,800 police officers from duty over their suspected links to U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen as Turkey pressed ahead with its vast crackdown on a network it says is behind the country's July 15...