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Meek Mill's conviction thrown out, granted new trial

A Pennsylvania appeals court on Wednesday overturned rapper Meek Mill's conviction in a drug and gun case that has kept the rapper on probation for a decade and made him a celebrity crusader for crimi...

Jul 26, 2019

Lebanese rock band takes centre stage in freedoms debate

BEIRUT - A popular Mideast rock band known for its rousing music and lyrics challenging norms in the conservative Arab world is once again at the centre of a heated debate about freedom of expression ...

Jul 26, 2019

Gulp! Arkansas photographer snaps images of snake eating bug

OZARK, Ark. - An amateur photographer has snapped some startling gone-in-a-gulp images of a venomous snake devouring an unlucky bug at Ozark National Forest in Arkansas. Charlton McDaniel of Fort Smit...

Jul 26, 2019

Man arrested near Taylor Swift's house held without bail

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. - An Iowa man police say came to Rhode Island with a backpack full of burglary tools to visit Taylor Swift has been held without bail pending a competency hearing. The Sun of Wes...

Jul 26, 2019

Indonesia's Widodo tells AP he'll push economy, labour reform

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia's President Joko Widodo says he is freed from political constraints in his final term and vows to push sweeping economic reforms. Widodo told The Associated Press on Fri...

Jul 26, 2019

Now British PM, brash Boris Johnson faces Brexit conundrum

LONDON - Boris Johnson took over as Britain's prime minister Wednesday, vowing to break the impasse that defeated his predecessor by leading the country out of the European Union and silencing those h...

Jul 26, 2019

Swedish court documents give details on A$AP Rocky case

HELSINKI - Swedish authorities have released court documents in the assault case in which American rapper A$AP Rocky and two other men are charged, with prosecutors saying that the victim was punched ...

Jul 26, 2019

George Takei calls migrant treatment a 'grotesque low'

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - George Takei says U.S. migrant detention policies reached depths beyond what Japanese-Americans faced during their World War II internment. Takei, interned as a child, said his...

Jul 26, 2019

Cardinal Ortega, former archbishop of Havana, dies at 83

HAVANA - Cardinal Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, the former archbishop of Havana who helped organize the first papal visit to the communist country and negotiated modest openings with a government that...

Jul 26, 2019

Cosby appeal to focus on other women's testimony, Quaaludes

NORRISTOWN, Pa. - Prosecutors set to defend Bill Cosby's sexual assault conviction in appeals court next month say the accusations from other women are no coincidence, but "the culmination of a decade...

Jul 26, 2019