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VENEZUELA is due to begin installing about 20,000 fingerprint scanners at supermarkets across the country. President Nicolas Maduro said the rationing system would reduce food hoarding and panic buying. Over the last

A FURTHER 500 free schools would be opened in England in the next five years under a Conservative government, David Cameron is to pledge. In a speech, he will commit to creating

A RECORD-breaking attempt to fly around the world in a solar-powered plane has got under way from Abu Dhabi. The aircraft – called Solar Impulse-2 – took off from the Emirate, heading

A PEACEKEEPER and two children died Sunday as militants shelled a UN base in northern Mali, heightening security fears as police hunted jihadists who launched a deadly Bamako nightclub assault. The UN’s

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon voiced outrage Sunday over the destruction by the Islamic State group of Iraqi cultural sites, and urged the world to stop it. “The secretary-general urgently calls on the

THE families of two Australian drug smugglers facing imminent execution in Indonesia visited them Monday on the prison island where they will be put to death. Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, the

THE UN Security Council strongly condemned the “heinous” attack on a UN peacekeeping base in northern Mali on Sunday and warned that those responsible will be held accountable. A Chadian peacekeeper and

A WESTERNER pictured alongside Islamic State group fighters and dubbed by media as “Britain’s white jihadi” is in fact a teenager from Australia who converted to Islam, a report said Monday. A

JORDAN’S King Abdullah II and his wife Queen Rania will begin a two-day visit to Morocco on Tuesday at the invitation of King Mohammed VI, the Moroccan royal palace announced. The two

THE Church of England’s first female bishop was to preach her maiden sermon in the role Sunday as she is installed in her home diocese. Libby Lane, born in 1966, is saxophone