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Reigning Mrs. World arrested over onstage melee in Sri Lanka

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Police in Sri Lanka on Thursday arrested the reigning Mrs. World for pulling the crown off the head of the winner of a Mrs. Sri Lanka beauty pageant and allegedly causing injuries...

Apr 08, 2021

Kemi Alabi wins First Book Award from poets academy

NEW YORK - A Chicago-based writer and activist has received the First Book Award from the Academy of American Poets. Kemi Alabi's "Against Heaven" is scheduled for publication in Spring 2022. Alabi, c...

Apr 08, 2021

Fight over Ghislaine Maxwell's jail conditions heats up

NEW YORK - The rancorous fight over jail conditions for Ghislaine Maxwell is reaching new lows, with prosecutors blaming the British socialite and Jeffrey Epstein's ex-girlfriend for creating a stink ...

Apr 08, 2021

7th man arrested in sex abuse case at youth detention centre

CONCORD, N.H. - New Hampshire police arrested a seventh former youth detention centre worker Thursday, a supervisor who is accused of responding to a bruised and crying teenager's rape allegations by ...

Apr 08, 2021

2 new airlines await Americans looking to fly somewhere

Americans are travelling in the greatest numbers in more than a year, and soon they will have two new leisure-oriented airlines to consider for those trips. Both hope to draw passengers by filling in ...

Apr 08, 2021

Number of kids alone at border hits all-time high in March

WASHINGTON - The U.S. government picked up nearly 19,000 children travelling alone across the Mexican border in March, authorities said Thursday, the largest monthly number ever recorded and a major t...

Apr 08, 2021

Lawyer: Russian opposition leader Navalny has spinal hernias

MOSCOW - A lawyer for imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has complained of serious back and leg pain in custody, said Wednesday that doctors have found him to be suffering from t...

Apr 08, 2021

Myanmar security forces attack town that resisted with arms

YANGON, Myanmar - Security forces on Wednesday stormed a town in northwestern Myanmar where some residents had used homemade hunting rifles to resist the military's February seizure of power, killing ...

Apr 08, 2021

On Holocaust Day, Netanyahu issues warning about Iran

JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday urged the world not to revive the troubled international nuclear deal with Iran as he opened Israel's annual memorial day for the 6 million J...

Apr 08, 2021

Kim says North Korea facing its 'worst-ever situation'

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has acknowledged his country was facing the "worst-ever situation" as he addressed thousands of grassroots members of his ruling party durin...

Apr 08, 2021