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Australian model sentenced for airline flight disturbance

LOS ANGELES - An Australian model has been sentenced in Los Angeles to community service and probation but no prison time for slapping a flight attendant and going on an obscene tirade during a flight...

Jul 15, 2019

Diddy's 'Making the Band' officially coming back to TV

NEW YORK - Diddy's "Making the Band" is officially coming back to TV. The music mogul announced Monday that the hit series, where he discovered groups including platinum-sellers Danity Kane, would ret...

Jul 15, 2019

Barbie goes glam rock to honour David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust

NEW YORK - Barbie has been many things over the years. Now, she's dressed as Ziggy Stardust. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the release of David Bowie's iconic "Space Oddity," Barbie overse...

Jul 15, 2019

Weakened Barry unleashes a final blast of torrential rains

NEW ORLEANS - Though Tropical Depression Barry failed to unleash catastrophic flooding in New Orleans, it still swamped parts of Louisiana with up to 17 inches (43 centimetres) of rain and transformed...

Jul 15, 2019

China's economy growth cools further amid US tariff war

BEIJING - China's economic growth sank to its lowest level in at least 26 years in the quarter ending in June, adding to pressure on Chinese leaders as they fight a tariff war with Washington. The wor...

Jul 15, 2019

Jeffrey Epstein will remain jailed as judge mulls bail

NEW YORK - Financier Jeffrey Epstein will remain behind bars for now as a federal judge mulls whether to grant bail on charges he sexually abused underage girls. The judge said he needed more time to ...

Jul 15, 2019

Trump digs in amid censure of racist tweets about lawmakers

WASHINGTON - Injecting race into his criticism of liberal Democrats, President Donald Trump said four congresswomen of colour should go back to the "broken and crime infested" countries they came from...

Jul 15, 2019

Boxing champ Pernell Whitaker dies; hit by car in Virginia

Former boxing champion Pernell Whitaker has died after he was hit by a car in Virginia. He was 55. Police in Virginia Beach on Monday say Whitaker was a pedestrian when struck by the car Sunday night....

Jul 15, 2019

Ugandan singer Bobi Wine plans to run for president in 2021

KAMPALA, Uganda - Ugandan pop star and opposition figure Bobi Wine said Monday he will challenge longtime President Yoweri Museveni in a 2021 election "on behalf of the people." But Wine, whose real n...

Jul 15, 2019

Codebreaker Alan Turing to be face of new British banknote

LONDON - Codebreaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing has been chosen as the face of Britain's new 50 pound note, the Bank of England announced Monday. Governor Mark Carney said Turing, who did groun...

Jul 15, 2019