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UK's Johnson loses parliamentary majority as MP joins Lib Dems
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson lost his working parliamentary majority ahead of a crucial Brexit vote on Tuesday after Conservative MP Phillip Lee defected to the pro-EU Liberal Democrats.
Coast Guard: 25 bodies found after California boat fire
A middle-of-the-night fire swept a boat carrying recreational scuba divers anchored near an island off the Southern California coast early Monday, leaving at least 25 dead and nine others missing.
India's Chandrayaan-2 completes first de-orbit manoeuvre
The first de-orbiting manoeuvre for India's second moon mission Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft was performed successfully on Tuesday, according to the Indian Space Research Organisation.
Brazil president to skip Amazon summit on doctor's orders
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro will skip a regional summit on fires that have devastated swaths of the Amazon because doctors want him to get ready for surgery scheduled for next week, a spokesman said Monday.
French ducks in the dock for quacking
Less than two months after the owner of a French rooster was hauled before a court over his rowdy crowing, the owner of a gaggle of geese and ducks is in the dock over their boisterous quacking.
Dorian triggers massive flooding in Bahamas; at least 5 dead
Hurricane Dorian unleashed massive flooding across the Bahamas on Monday, causing five deaths after landing on the islands.
UK PM to call election if Brexit strategy defeated: top official
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will call an election for October 14 if MPs vote against his Brexit strategy.
Eight dead, 26 missing as dive boat sinks in flames off California
Some people have died and rescuers were searching for 34 more Monday morning after a fire broke out aboard a dive boat off the Southern California Coast.
African countries banned from selling baby elephants
Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered (CITE) Species met in Geneva where they decided to tighten the rules on taking elephants from the wild and selling them.
Queen of Denmark unveiled statue of WWII Danish hero
The Queen of Denmark Margrethe II unveiled a three-meter tall bronze statue of the Danish WWII hero Bernhard Arp Sindberg in Aarhus on Saturday.
First two Chinese panda babies born in German zoo
First two Chinese panda babies were born in German zoo in Berlin on Monday morning, according to the official twitter of the zoo Tierpark Berlin.
"Catastrophic" Hurricane Dorian makes landfall in Bahamas
The "catastrophic" Hurricane Dorian, now reaching the highest Category 5, made a landfall on Elbow Cay in Abaco Islands in the Bahamas, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in its latest update Sunday.
Netanyahu says Israel might launch another strike in Lebanon
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that his country is ready to launch another attack at Hezbollah in Lebanon after fire exchanges broke out along the Lebanese border.
ICRC says 130 presumed dead in Saudi-led airstrike on Yemen prison
At least 130 prisoners were presumed dead when a Saudi-led airstrike hit a detention facility in Yemen's central province of Dhamar, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said in a statement on Sunday.
9 dead in plane crash in Philippines
All seven passengers and two pilots onboard an 11-seater private plane were killed in a fiery crash on Sunday afternoon in Laguna province south of Manila in the Philippines, an updated police report said.
German president apologises at World War II commemoration
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier made an emotional speech Sunday during an event marking the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War Two.
50 rebels killed by U.S.-led airstrike in Syria's Idlib
At least 50 rebels, mainly commanders, were killed on Saturday by U.S.-led airstrikes that targeted a meeting of rebel commanders in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib, a war monitor reported.
Dior stokes outrage with new ad for its Sauvage fragrance
Dior has produced a fragrance called Sauvage since the mid-1960s and used Johnny Depp in recent years to promote it. But a new advertising campaign that paired them with Native American imagery deepened wounds among a population whose ancestors were called savages and systematically killed.
Operation indiscriminately infects iPhones with spyware
Researchers say suspected nation-state hackers infected Apple iPhones with spyware over two years in what security experts on Friday called an alarming security failure for a company whose calling card is privacy.
One dead, eight injured in French knife rampage
A man wielding a skewer and knife went on the rampage in the French city of Lyon on Saturday, leaving a 19-year-old man dead and eight others injured, including three critically.