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A Danish national accused of starting the second-largest wildfire on record in Colorado has been charged with 141 counts of first-degree arson for each building destroyed in the massive blaze.

Images of a Kentucky hunter posing with the body of a black giraffe she killed in South Africa have triggered an online backlash after going viral on social media.

British opponents of Donald Trump inflated a six-metre, snarling orange inflatable baby blimp, complete with tiny hands and a nappy, that they hope to launch over London to mock the US president when he visits.

India is the world's most dangerous country for women due to the high risk of sexual violence and being forced into slave labour, according to a poll of global experts released.

A man has been arrested and charged with murder in connection with the death of up-and-coming US rapper XXXTentacion, who was gunned down in Florida this week.

Former NFL tight end Kellen Winslow Jr. was arrested on Thursday and charged with kidnapping, rape, forcible sodomy and oral copulation, residential burglary and indecent exposure, according to the San Diego County Sheriff's department.

US President Donald Trump said he had instructed his representatives not to endorse a joint communique put out by the G7 leaders after what he called Canadian PM Justin Trudeau's "false statements" at a news conference.

A dozen of the wind-driven blazes that swept northern California's wine country last fall, killing 46 people in the deadliest firestorm in state history, were sparked by PG&E-owned power lines, state officials said .

Harvey Weinstein, who went from one of Hollywood's most powerful film producers to being disgraced by accusations of sexual assault by scores of women, is expected to surrender to police and face charges in New York.