London's mayor Boris Johnson threw his weight behind the campaign for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union on Sunday, in a blow for his old friend and rival Prime Minister David Cameron who had appealed for his backing.
Bolivian President Evo Morales looked headed for defeat in a referendum on whether the leader can seek a fourth term in office, according to exit polls and early results on Sunday.
In New York City, there's no escaping the pressure to be taller and thinner - not even for the skyscrapers.
Authorities trying to piece together an hourslong weekend rampage that left six people dead in western Michigan said they are looking into a report that the suspect picked up at least one fare for a ride-hailing service between shootings.
Iran negotiated with Russia at the weekend over buying an upgraded version of the S-300 surface-to-air missile defense system, which it requires to meet its military needs, a foreign ministry spokesman in Teheran said.
Five years after an earthquake in Christchurch killed 185 people and destroyed hundreds of buildings, some residents have taken to calling it the "Donut City". The ravaged city center is still largely an empty core, and it's unclear how long it will remain that way.
Chalit Pongpitakwiset has always felt like a man. Now the 25-year-old wants everyone else to see it too.
About 10,000 protesters, many of them Chinese-American, rallied in New York on Saturday in support of a former police officer convicted of fatally shooting an unarmed man in a darkened stairwell in a public housing building.
Gianfranco Rosi's documentary film Fire at Sea, about the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean off the Italian island of Lampedusa, won the Golden Bear prize for best film at the Berlin International Film Festival on Saturday. The cinematography award went to Mark Lee Ping-Bing for his camera work for the Chinese film Crosscurrent, directed by Yang Chao.
Donald Trump widened his lead over the Republican party's presidential field claiming a big victory on Saturday as the contest moved into the South. Out West, Hillary Clinton beat Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders for a crucial win in Nevada's Democratic caucuses.
With Brussels' endorsement of "special status" in hand, British Prime Minister David Cameron announced on Saturday that his country would hold a referendum on June 23 to decide whether to stay in or leave the European Union.
India deployed thousands of troops in a northern state on Sunday to quell protests that have severely hit water supplies to Delhi, a city of more than 20 million people, forced factories to close and killed 10 people.
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