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New York state’s top prosecutor and a public champion of the #MeToo movement resigned on Monday, just hours after being accused by The New Yorker of physically assaulting four women. It was an abrupt fall from power for Eric…

Canada is trying to curb the number of asylum seekers from Nigeria who are flooding into Canada via the United States, officials said Monday. About 2,500 migrants, mostly Nigerian nationals, entered Canada illegally in April,…

West Virginia Republican voters will decide Tuesday if they want an ex-con coal baron as their US senator, even though President Donald Trump himself has warned the candidate is too radical to prevail in November’s mid-term elections.…

United States Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, said Donald Trump’s ‘communication style’ has made her uncomfortable, and has proven to have complicated relationships in the diplomatic sphere. “He has his communication style, but…

The Vietnamese government on Friday said that it had decided to extend visa exemption for citizens of Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Spain till 2020. In the past, people from the five Western European countries were exempted…

A young mother has been jailed for 11 years for stabbing her occasional boyfriend as they had sexual intercourse after texting him to say men should only be used as “human sacrifice”. Zoe Adams, 19, has dressed up as a clown and put…

Personnel on US military bases can no longer buy phones and other gear manufactured by Chinese firms Huawei and ZTE, after the Pentagon said the devices pose an “unacceptable” security risk. Concerns have heightened at the Pentagon…

Former US president George H.W. Bush, hospitalized shortly after the death of wife Barbara, has been released from the hospital after treatment for an infection, a spokesman said. Bush, 93, was admitted to intensive care on April 22, a…

Meghan Markle’s father Thomas will walk her down the aisle when she marries Britain’s Prince Harry, a royal spokesman announced Friday, despite claims from her half-brother that she had snubbed her family. Thomas Markle and the…

The Nobel Prize in Literature will not be awarded this year, revealed the  Swedish Academy on Friday, reports Guardian U.K The cancellation comes as the organisation responsible for selecting and awarding the prize is dealing with the…

A key architect of the push to lift the veil of corporate secrecy in UK overseas territories has vowed to now pursue a similar initiative against Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man. Andrew Mitchell, a Conservative MP and former…

A naked statue of Donald Trump, complete with a distended belly and jowly sneer, is to go on display at a Haunted Museum after a paranormal investigator bought it at auction. Julien’s Auctions announced Wednesday it sold the artwork…

Meghan Markle’s estranged half-brother, Thomas Markle Junior has stirred a major controversy ahead of May 19 royal wedding with Britain’s Prince Harry, demanding that it be canceled.The elder sibling shared a handwritten letter to the…

Donald Trump reimbursed his long-time lawyer Michael Cohen for a $130,000 payment made to porn star Stormy Daniels, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday, appearing to contradict the president’s own statements on the…

Two of Bollywood’s greatest stars, Amitabh Bachchan and Rishi Kapoor, will share a screen together for the first time in almost three decades when comedy “102 Not Out” is released Friday. The movie, directed by Umesh Shukla, sees…

White House lawyer Ty Cobb is leaving his position, and a lawyer who represented former President Bill Clinton during his impeachment process is joining President Donald Trump's legal team as it adopts a more adversarial posture toward…

The military is investigating why an aging cargo plane making its final military flight nosedived into a Georgia highway on Wednesday, killing all nine people on board. The Puerto Rico Air National Guard WC-130 was flying from…

Cambridge Analytica, the political consultancy at the centre of the Facebook data-sharing scandal, is shutting down. The firm was accused of improperly obtaining personal information on behalf of political clients. According to…

The Boys Scout organisation in America has announced it will be changing its name, as girls will soon be allowed to join the organisation. Boys Scout of America on Wednesday announced a new name for its Boy Scouts programme: Scouts…

Rapper Kanye West, on the receiving end in the music world after backing President Donald Trump, sparked fresh outrage Tuesday when he called slavery “a choice.” The rapper, never shy about expressing himself, made the comments in…

US President Donald Trump seemed pleased Tuesday by a suggestion he should get the Nobel Peace Prize for his upcoming summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, promising that a time and place for the historic meeting will soon be…

South Korean President, Moon Jae-in, has said that the American President Donald Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the standoff with North Korea over its nuclear weapons programme, a South Korean official said on…

A Polish man, Mateusz Fijalkowski, is suing the police of Fairfax County in the United States of America and a lifeguard for saving him from drowning. Fijalkowski, who had visited the US in 2016 on a summer programme, worked at a…

Iran’s judicial authorities have ordered a ban on the popular messaging app Telegram, which had played a role in anti-government protests early this year, local media reported on Monday. “The ban comes into force with immediate…