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Stu MacDonald has defied many odds. After beating cancer not once, but twice, the Oregon resident received the ultimate congratulatory gift: a winning lottery ticket valued at US$4.6 million. “I’m a very lucky guy,” he told the Oregon Lottery. “I have survived cancer twice and here I am. This is …

Britain’s greenhouse gas emissions from road transport have continued to grow since 1990 despite more efficient cars because traffic has increased by almost a third, according to government figures. Cutting emissions on Britain’s roads remains a significant challenge, according to the report from the Office for National Statistics, citing a …

A 10-year-old Texas girl has died after she contracted a brain-eating amoeba, her family said. Lily Mae Avant “has gone to be with Jesus,” her aunt, Loni Yadon, said in a statement Monday morning. “She fought the good fight and built an ARMY of prayer warriors around the world doing …

The former CIA contractor turned whistle-blower, Edward Snowden, says France and Germany are considering granting him asylum although he hopes to return to the United States. Mr Snowden has lived in exile in Moscow since 2013, after he leaked details of extensive internet and phone surveillance by US intelligence agencies. …

Oil prices surged Monday in the aftermath of an attack on one of the world’s biggest crude oil processing plants, but analysts don’t anticipate a significant jump at Canadian pumps just yet. “We’re going to dodge a bullet because of timing,” according to gas analyst Dan McTeague. READ MORE: Crude …

The attack on Saudi oil facilities is the latest, most violent, example of an escalating series of gambits rival powers in the Gulf aimed at achieving their objectives by all measures short of all-out war. But the chances of avoiding such a devastating conflict diminish each time the stakes are …

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — He preached in living rooms, in the woods and in a cotton gin. When he returned from the Azusa Street Revival speaking in unknown tongues, Bishop Charles Harrison Mason was followed by just 10 churches out of more than 100 in the split over the theological disagreement. …

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The march was the second consecutive day of protest action organised by the doctors Hundreds of doctors have marched through the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, to condemn the alleged abduction of their union leader. Peter Magombeyi had organised a series of strikes over poor pay …

One woman’s hair dryer is another woman’s speed meter (apparently). A worried grandmother took matters into her own hands after becoming fed up with people speeding through her neighbourhood in Polson, Mont. Instead of sitting back and waiting for state troopers to catch them, Patti Baumgartner decided to take a …

Friends and colleagues of Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert – the Australian woman sentenced to a decade in prison in Iran on suspected espionage charges – have praised her as a “thoughtful and passionate academic”, and rejected outright suggestions she was a spy. The British-Australian academic was arrested by the Iranian regime …