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Time Magazine has named U.S. President-elect Donald Trump person of the year, the magazine said on Wednesday.

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Leomie Anderson may have been selected to star in one of the world’s biggest fashion shows - but the Victoria’s Secret Angel doesn’t consider herself a supermodel.

(AP) — University of Massachusetts School of Law officials say the state's first public law school has reached a major milestone with full accreditation by the American Bar Association. UMass system president Marty Meehan says the announcement means the school can better focus on its mission of social justice, public service and helping society's most vulnerable.

NEW DELHI (AP) — India has registered a nearly 800 percent spike in the number of so-called honor killings reported last year, leading state officials and women's rights groups to demand investigations into how such crimes persist.

NEW DELHI (AP) — India has registered a nearly 800 percent spike in the number of so-called honor killings reported last year, leading state officials and women's rights groups to demand investigations into how such crimes persist.

NEW DELHI (AP) — India has registered a nearly 800 percent spike in the number of so-called honor killings reported last year, leading state officials and women's rights groups to demand investigations into how such crimes persist.

A man is arrested over alleged online threats against Gina Miller, the woman behind the Brexit legal challenge.

Nu Skin Enterprises Inc. said Wednesday Chief Executive Truman Hunt will leave the company in mid 2017, after about 17-years in the role, to take a three-year leadership assignment with the Mormon church. The company said current Chief Financial Officer Ritch Wood will become CEO when Hunt leaves. A new CFO will be named before Wood takes the CEO role. Separately, the beauty and wellness products company said it now expects fourth-quarter earnings per share to be "near the high end" of the guidance... Читать дальше...

Turkish companies will use only Turkish liras in the gas tenders, Turkey's Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EMRA) said Wednesday.

Nu Skin Enterprises Inc. said Wednesday Chief Executive Truman Hunt will leave the company in mid 2017, after about 17-years in the role, to take a three-year leadership assignment with the Mormon church.

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Sydney (AFP) - The official search for MH370 in the Indian Ocean has been reduced to one ship, Australian authorities said Wednesday, as relatives of the missing passengers launch their own hunt for crash debris in Madagascar.

The Fugro Equator, one of four vessels involved in the search, remains in the 120,000 square-kilometre (46,000-square-mile) zone where investigators believe the Malaysian Airlines jet went down. 

The ships, three of which were contracted from Dutch firm Fugro... Читать дальше...

Absent the diplomatic reality and risks to stability in Asia, Donald Trump's brazen break with protocol reveals some home truths about Beijing.

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis is insisting that his opening to letting civilly remarried Catholics receive Communion has the backing of the majority of the world’s bishops.

By Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamic State militants attacked Iraqi soldiers near a hospital in southeast Mosul on Wednesday, an army officer and the jihadist group's new agency said, trying to repel the army's deepest advances of the seven-week Mosul campaign. The fighting came a day after the army's operations commander for Mosul said soldiers surged into the city and took over the Salam hospital, less than a mile (1.5 km) from the Tigris river which divides eastern and western Mosul. Читать дальше...

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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Netflix has released a second trailer for their upcoming release of "Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events."

Fishers in Mozambique won't benefit from southern Africa's latest deal with the EU. Grant Neuenburg/Reuters

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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is insisting that his opening to letting civilly remarried Catholics receive Communion has the backing of the majority of the world's bishops.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is insisting that his opening to letting civilly remarried Catholics receive Communion has the backing of the majority of the world's bishops.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is insisting that his opening to letting civilly remarried Catholics receive Communion has the backing of the majority of the world's bishops.