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Uruguay will begin selling marijuana for recreational use at pharmacies across the country next week, authorities in the capital Montevideo announced Friday.Uruguay will thereby become the first country in the world to have fully legalised the

A US-based wild cat conservation organisation said Friday it was astonished by photographs showing a wild lioness nursing a baby leopard at a conservation area in Tanzania.The images show the 5-year-old lioness suckling a leopard cub estimated to be

Sydney (dpa) – An Uber driver in Australia has been charged with raping a 16-year-old passenger, the second driver from the ride-sharing service to stand accused of sexually assaulting a passenger in the east coast city of Brisbane in a week

A curious monkey with a toothy grin and a knack for pressing a camera button was back in the spotlight Wednesday as a federal appeals court heard arguments on whether an animal can hold a copyright to selfie photos.A 45-minute hearing before a three

The man who reportedly spent years helping US justice officials find their way through murky FIFA corruption allegations got interested infootball as his son’s coach in the 1970s in the New York City suburbs. His death was reported Wednesday

British police on Wednesday described the painstaking work of recovering remains from a burnt-out London high-rise, as they tried to reassure grieving families that everything possible is being done to identify and retrieve the dead.Police say at

Bremen, Germany (dpa) – A 5,800-square-kilometre ice block has broken off from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf and is now floating northwards, a German polar research centre said Wednesday.Measuring 175 kilometres long and around 50

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Authorities say an officer and a skater were injured in a collision as police broke up an informal skateboarding competition Tuesday in San Francisco.The San Francisco Chronicle reports that hundreds of participants and

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The battle over now-famous selfie photographs taken by a macaque monkey will head back to federal court.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco on Wednesday will hear arguments on whether an animal