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UEFA has banned Russian football club Rubin Kazan from European competitions for one year. The governing body of European football said in a statement that the suspension of Rubin Kazan came due to the breach of a settlement on financial…

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced a successor to the post as part of a wider government reshuffle, two weeks after the resignation of French interior minister Gerard Collomb. “Collomb’s successor will be the leader of La…

Zika virus outbreak in India is turning out to be worse in 2018, with 72 people being diagnosed with the infection, a senior health official said, on Tuesday. The official said that 12 fresh cases in the past 24 hours, the number of Zika…

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen died of cancer at age 65, his family and Vulcan Inc., which was founded by Allen, said in a statement, on Tuesday. Vulcan Inc said Allen died from complications of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in Seattle,…

Pope Francis has expelled two retired Chilean bishops from the priesthood after the Vatican ruled they had abused children. The Holy See said the actions against Archbishop Emeritus of La Serena, Francisco José Cox, 84, a Schönstatt…

Roelof Frederik “Pik” Botha, South Africa’s apartheid-era ex-Foreign Affairs Minister, has died at the age of 86. Botha was known for trying to get his party to accept broader political rights for black South Africans. His son, Roelof…

Princess Eugenie, the granddaughter of British Queen Elizabeth II, will marry long-term boyfriend, Jack Brooksbank, on Friday, the same royal chapel inside Windsor Castle where Prince Harry and Meghan, the duchess of Sussex, got married in…

Two men from Tennessee, US, accused of raping a 9-month-old girl and filming the attack were indicted Tuesday on multiple charges. Isiah Dequan Hayes, 19, and Daireus Jumare Ice, 22, are both charged with aggravated rape of a child and…

Pope Francis on Wednesday compared having an abortion to hiring a “contract killer”. “Interrupting a pregnancy is like eliminating someone,” Francis said in an address to worshippers in the Vatican. “Getting rid of a human being is…

Disgraced US television icon Bill Cosby was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison by a judge on Tuesday and branded a “sexually violent predator” for assaulting a woman at his Philadelphia mansion 14 years ago. The 81-year-old, once…