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Closer magazine, a weekly round-up of gossip about the rich and famous, was ordered to pay 100,000 euros in damages to Prince William, second-in-line to the British throne, and his wife Kate Middleton.

The ministry said that the jet had gone off the radar around 11pm Monday (2000 GMT) during an attack by four Israeli F-16 jets over Syrian infrastructure in the province of Latakia.

Maezawa, 42, will be the first lunar traveller since the last US Apollo mission in 1972. He paid an unspecified amount of money for the privilege.

The film star hasn't been seen in public since early June, when, according to a post on her verified social-media account, she went to visit a children's hospital in Tibet.

Vasco midfielder Bruno Silva crumpled to the ground near the end of Saturday's game in Brasilia after a clash of heads with a team-mate, and briefly lost consciousness.

May's leadership of the Conservative party has been precarious since the resignation of Boris Johnson from the Cabinet over her Brexit blueprint in July and has been seen as fragile ever since her 2017 snap general election gamble when the party lost its...

Sahebzada Ahmed Khan, the Pakistani High Commissioner to the UK, was purportedly drunk when he joined the Pakistani celebrities onstage during International Pakistan Prestige Awards (IPPA) at London's 2 arena on September 9.

Many holdouts said they were wary of leaving their houses to the mercy of the storm and then finding themselves unable to return for days, or even weeks, if flooding washes out local roads.

China, the world's most populous nation, may be preparing to end its decades-long policy of determining the number of children that couples can have.

The Supreme Court had last week initiated proceedings for extradition of 68-year-old Dar, who left the country soon after a court began hearings against him in a graft case filed in line with the apex court's July 2017 Panama Papers verdict.

In an interview with AFP, the now-disgraced Strauss-Kahn -- who ran the fund at the height of the 2008 financial meltdown -- also said rising populism across the world is a direct result of the crisis.

President Donald Trump's administration warned the Indian ocean archipelago of possible sanctions if it doesn't reverse democratic backsliding and ensure free presidential elections on September 23

As customers sip on their lattes and hang out with the reptiles, "they will love them like I do," the 32-year-old told AFP while stroking the scaly neck wattle of an iguana.

Typhoon Jebi, packing winds of up to 216 kilometres (135 miles) per hour, made landfall around midday in western Japan near areas still recovering from deadly record rains earlier this summer.

It was the first time that women in Malaysia have been caned for violating a sharia regulation which forbids same-sex relations.

The Pentagon has announced that the US will cancel $300 million in military aid to Pakistan over its failure to take "decisive actions" to support President Donald Trump's new South Asia policy.