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Kohli, Rohit end 2019 at top of ICC ODI batsmen rankings

Indian skipper Virat Kohli surprised kids at a shelter home in Kolkata by turning Santa Claus for them and presenting them with gifts. India superstar MS ...

Ghani wins Afghan Presidential vote for second time

According to the country's election commission, the incumbent won 50.6% of the 1.82 million votes cast in the September 2019 election, while his main oppone...

Impasse Over Trump Trial Witnesses Reveals Senate Leader Reversals

Trump is accused of withholding 400 million USA dollars in assistance to Ukraine to push Kiev to investigate his political rival Joe Biden. Democrats have ...

Algeria's powerful army chief Ahmed Gaid Salah has died

A veteran of Algeria's war for independence , General Ahmed Gaid Salah , 80, headed Algeria's military for a record 15 years. Gaid Salah was seen as the mai...

Cooler weather helps Australian firefighters; PM returns from holiday

Meantime, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has returned from vacation after a whack of criticism for his absence during the wildfire crisis. "While th...

Tesco's Chinese Christmas card maker denies using forced prison labour

Writing in the Sunday Times , Mr Humphrey said he did not know the identities or the nationalities of the prisoners, but he "had no doubt they are Qingpu prison...

35 injured in 69-vehicle chain reaction auto accident in Virginia

Heavy fog and icy roads were likely the main factors leading to the huge incident on Queen's Creek bridge. Detours are in place due to the crash. The crashe...

White Island eruption: Death toll rises to 17

The news comes as search crews were looking for the bodies of two missing victims - 17-year-old Australian Winona Langford and 40-year-old New Zealander Hayden ...

Trump invites Boris Johnson to White House as Brexit looms

Technically, it is also improper for Britain to try to enter into a deal with the US until such time as it is no longer a member of the European Union, although...

Mystery surrounds Prince Philip's hospital stay

While making a visit on Monday to South Yorkshire - which was affected by heavy flooding earlier this year - Prince Charles , 71, offered a brief health update...

Sen. McConnell signals further delay of impeachment trial

Republicans have suggested Democrats want witnesses because the case they have assembled is so weak, while Democrats portray Republicans as scared about what ne...

Christmas Weather Outlook and Weekend Travel Hassles

Minimum temperatures on Wednesday night of +1 to +2 degrees, and this could be cold enough for the rain to fall as sleet over high ground. A white Christma...

Tesco's Chinese Christmas card maker denies using forced prison labor

The front of the card was decorated with a kitten in a Santa hat, but the message was a disturbing message from someone who claims that they were a foreign pris...

Manuel Marrero, Cuba's First Prime Minister In Over 40 Years

Cuban Tourism Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz has been named by President Miguel Diaz-Canel as the country's first prime minister since 1976. His appointment i...

Julian Assange questioned about alleged spying at Ecuadorian embassy

Spain's prime felony courtroom is investigating whether or not Undercover World Ltd, which was liable for safety on the embassy, spied on Assange and handed on ...

USA military: American service member killed in Afghanistan

U.S. soldiers in Nerkh district of Wardak province.This year has been the deadliest for United States forces in Afghanistan since 2015. More than 2,400 Am...

United Airlines scrubs Boeing 737 Max from schedule until June

The economic impact of Boeing Co's planned halt of 737 MAX production will not be considered by US regulators in their ongoing review of when to end the groun...

China to cut tariffs on goods including pork, tech items

In 2018 imports of the listed items totalled some US$389 billion, or about 18 per cent, of China's total imports of US$2.14 trillion, according to Bloomberg c...

Major 69 Car Virginia Interstate Pileup Leads to More Than 50 Injuries

In this photo provided by the Virginia State Police , emergency personnel work the scene of a multi-vehicle pileup on Interstate 64 in York County . "It was...

Texas barber shot over teenager’s haircut, sheriff’s office says

KPRC-TV reports that the barbershop employee was shot three times. "[The suspect] went home, came back", Wyatt said. Investigators told the barber then set ...

Notre Dame Fire Wakes World up to Dangers of Lead Dust

Tents now shelter much of the debris in front of the cathedral - tens of thousands of pieces of stone and some metal that archeologists are in the process of re...

Las Vegas apartment complex fire kills at least 6, injures 13

Residents of the building were seen jumping from second-floor windows to escape the inferno, Las Vegas Fire & Rescue told the station. LVFR says another 30 to...

West African countries to stop using CFA franc

Macron stressed the need for France to respond to African youth, a common theme of his administration, and establish a new relationship between his country and ...

Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg steps down, chairman David Calhoun named chief

Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg has been fired, the company announced Monday morning. He previously held the chairman role as well but relinquished that seat i...

Croats pick president in tight test for ruling conservatives

Analysts believe that Grabar-Kitarovic and Milanovic - who represent two main political options - will face each other in the January 5 runoff, but they haven't...

Putin hints he could change the constitution to stay in power

Former special counsel Robert Mueller concluded earlier this year that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 United States presidential election in a "s...

Turkey, Russia to discuss Syrian refugees, Libya conflict

Louay Fallouh, the acting head of Syria's mission to the UN, accused some members of the UN Security Council of enormous "political and moral hypocrisy" on ...

Moon to Visit China for Summit Talks with Xi, Abe

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday met with President of the Republic of Korea (ROK) Moon Jae-in at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. "The Japan-So...

Mild today, even warmer Monday, quiet & sunny Christmas week

Additionally, gusty winds over 40 miles per hour will be possible through parts of OR today . Clouds will increase overnight with a low temperature around 32 d...

Police clash with Uighur supporters during Hong Kong rally

The initially peaceful rally descended into chaos when a small group of protesters removed a Chinese flag from a nearby government building and tried to burn it...

Tesco 'prison labour' Christmas card company also supplies Australia's Cotton On Group

The card with the message on it had been made at Zheijiang Yunguang Printing, and a Tesco spokeswoman told the PA news agency that the company was "shocked" a...

Meadows Explains Why Democrats Really Wore All Black to the Impeachment Vote

Her action came after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said he was working with Trump's legal team and the president will be acquitted. Cory Boo...

BJP trying to suppress dissent with brute force, says Sonia Gandhi

She said that several educational institutions and Universities had turned into a sea of protests against the "divisive agenda" of the BJP government. "This h...

MPs Vote for Boris Johnson’s EU Withdrawal Agreement

The House of Commons, with its Conservative ranks swollen after Johnson's election victory last week, voted 358-234 for the Withdrawal Agreement Bill, clearing ...

JUST IN: Five sentenced to death over murder of Jamal Khashoggi

He was allegedly killed and dismembered on October 2, 2018, in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul by men with close ties to the highest levels of the Saudi governm...