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Lucasfilm announced the new release date for “Star Wars: Episode VIII” Wednesday on the official Star Wars website, but would not say why the film is being pushed back.

American prisoners in Iran have been released through “smart” diplomacy and now America and the entire world is more secure because of the recently-concluded nuclear deal, U.S. President Barack Obama said Sunday.

Later, Palin closed her speech with one of the most bewildering statements of the night.

The prolonged ruble fall has prompted speculation that the Russian Central Bank will step in to help buoy up the currency.

For the remainder of her three-minute video, Hubert insinuated that Pinkett-Smith’s proposed boycott of the Oscars is to spite the Academy because her husband did not get a nomination for his role in the film, “Concussion”.

Indian police on Monday fired water cannons to disperse students protesting the death of a young Dalit scholar who committed suicide after he was suspended from university, a case some have blamed on caste-based discrimination. “She has deliberately avoided saying that it...

Of course, Trump mocked McCain’s war record in Iowa last summer and Palin stepped around that.

For the first time this year, the global average temperature was unequivocally 1ºC warmer than the 19th century average, placing us halfway to the 2ºC global warming target climate scientists say we need to stay below to avoid catastrophic climate change.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued interim travel guidance on Friday for pregnant women and women of childbearing age who are planning to become pregnant, warning against travel to Brazil and 13 other countries in the Americas where the Zika virus has...

Some 44 percent of people polled think Clinton will have the best chance at beating Trump, whereas only 16 percent favor Sanders. Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, said that while those numbers may point to a more hard-fought race,...

Last month, United Nations experts said in a report that the Iranian missile test in October violated sanctions banning Iran from launches capable of delivering nuclear weapons.

Obama also credited the improved relations between the two countries with the release of USA sailors who strayed into Iranian waters in “less than 24 hours”.

An extremely rare January hurricane is brewing above the Atlantic for the first time since 1938.

A record-breaking opening in China last week has made a huge contribution to the global success of Star Wars, which made $53m (£36m) in its debut weekend, described as “spectacular” by Disney’s executive vice-president Dave Hollis.

The first spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) for this year had to be terminated Friday after one of two astronauts on the task reported a small amount of water leakage into his helmet.