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As It Happens6:59'Motorcycle' Mary McGee, pioneering racer, dies at 87Mary McGee's motto in life was: Always say yes. That's how she ended up driving race cars in the '50s when women…

Syrian rebels pressed their lightning advance on Saturday, saying they had seized most of the south, as government forces dug in to defend the key central city of Homs to…

Protesters tear down a statue of President Bashar al- Assad's father, the former president Hafez al-Assad, in a suburb of Damascus.

Getty ImagesLawmakers in South Korea have narrowly failed to impeach the nation's president over his short-lived attempt to declare martial law.A bill to censure Yoon Suk Yeol fell three votes…

A South Korean legislative push to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived imposition of martial law fell through on Saturday after most lawmakers from his conservative governing party…

Day 65:57How Victor Hugo helped save Notre Dame, nearly 300 years agoThis weekend's reopening of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris is the culmination of a repair and restoration effort more…

More than 150 illegal miners have been rescued from an abandoned mine in South Africa's eastern Mpumalanga province. Police say three bodies were recovered earlier this week on the first…

An explosion has hit a three-storey block of flats in The Hague, police say.Firefighters have rushed to the scene to put out a fire that caused the collapse of several…

Authorities in the Dominican Republican say cocaine discovered in the country's largest-ever seizure was headed to Europe.Hidden in a banana shipment, officials found 9,500kg of the drug at a port…

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol apologized for his attempt to impose martial law this week but did not resign, defying intense pressure to step down even from some in his…