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Qatar Finance Minister Ali Sherif alEmadi was arrested over embezzlement allegations and stripped of his duties, officials said on Thursday.

A grand jury on Thursday indicted Puerto Rican boxer Flix Verdejo in the killing of his pregnant lover, a case potentially eligible for the death penalty.

Most of Google’s 135,000 employees can continue to work from home through September of this year.

A review of the investigation that brought down former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens three years ago uncovered evidence that the prosecutor in charge concealed evidence that could have helped Greitens, the head of the office that oversees lawyers' professio...

Beijing, May 5 (AP) The largest section of the rocket that launched the main module of China's first permanent space station into orbit is expected to plunge back to Earth as early as Saturday at an unknown location. Usually, discarded rocket stages are...

A selfdescribed member of an antigovernment extremist group accused of taking advantage of the unrest after George Floyd's killing to raise money for the movement pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court.

The United Nations human rights office said it was deeply alarmed over violence against protesters in the Colombian city of Cali, where police opened fire on demonstrators and allegedly killed and injured several people Monday night.

Michail Antonio returned from injury to revive West Hams push for European qualification with both of the team's goals in a 21 win at Burnley in the English Premier League on Monday.

Hundreds of mourners paid their respects to a North Carolina man whose shooting at the hands of sheriff's deputies has triggered a wave of protests.

Spokeswoman Bobbi Webster said Saturday evening that she didn't have information on how many were shot or their conditions

Gov. Greg Gianforte signed a bill Friday requiring a person to have gender reassignment surgery before changing the sex marker on their birth certificate, despite outcry from opponents who say it targets already marginalized transgender people in Montana.

U.S. regulators on Friday approved the first high-dose nasal spray for reversing opioid overdoses.

Mississippi is increasing the nation's lowest welfare payments three months earlier than expected, the state Department of Human Services said Friday.

Pope Francis ruled on Friday that bishops and cardinals who work in the Vatican will be judged by the same lay tribunal that hears other criminal cases and no longer by an elite panel of prelates.

Kansas' highest court on Friday upheld a law barring socalled wrongful birth lawsuits against doctors, in a case in which a couple sued because they weren't told of serious fetal defects until after an abortion could have been obtained.

The organisation has also ramped up its social media fundraising goal from the earlier USD5 million to USD10 million now.