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Billionaire list shows $1T hit from '18 market meltdown
BANGKOK - A rich list by wealth compiler Hurun Report shows the market meltdowns in 2018 obliterated $1 trillion in wealth, with more than 212 of China's richest individuals losing their dollar billio...
Feb 27, 2019
China drafts rules on biotech after gene-editing scandal
BEIJING - China has unveiled draft regulations on gene editing and other potentially risky biomedical technologies after a Chinese scientist's claim of helping to create gene-edited babies roiled the ...
Feb 27, 2019
R. Kelly insiders may have helped R&B star with sexual abuse
CHICAGO - R. Kelly's confidants may have helped the R&B star target underage girls for sexual abuse. That's according to an attorney for two of Kelly's accusers. Chicago prosecutors say the people...
Feb 27, 2019
Australian Cardinal Pell to spend his first night in prison
MELBOURNE, Australia - The most senior Catholic cleric ever convicted of child sex abuse will face his first night in prison Wednesday while he waits two weeks to learn his sentence for molesting two ...
Feb 27, 2019
Vietnam vows 'maximum level' security for Trump-Kim summit
HANOI, Vietnam - With North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on an armoured train barrelling through China toward Vietnam's capital, and U.S. President Donald Trump en route to Hanoi, Vietnamese officials sc...
Feb 27, 2019
Police say Indian mortar shells kills 6 civilians in Kashmir
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan - Pakistani police say mortar shells fired by Indian troops from across the frontier in the Himalayan region of Kashmir have struck homes, killing six civilians and wounding sev...
Feb 27, 2019
Dozens buried by collapse of unlicensed Indonesia gold mine
JAKARTA, Indonesia - The collapse of an unlicensed gold mine in Indonesia's North Sulawesi province has buried dozens of people, a disaster official said Wednesday, as emergency personnel used their b...
Feb 26, 2019
Raptors help defence key to containing Irving in 118-96 win over Celtics
TORONTO - The Toronto Raptors finally figured out how to solve Boston Celtics superstar Kyrie Irving. At least for a night. Irving averaged 30.3 points and 11.7 assists in three games against the Rapt...
Feb 26, 2019
Shaw, Domi lead Canadiens to 8-1 rout of Red Wings
DETROIT - Andrew Shaw recorded his first career hat trick and Max Domi had two goals and three assists for a career-high five points as the Montreal Canadiens routed the Detroit Red Wings 8-1 Tuesday ...
Feb 26, 2019
Austin Czarnik scores late goal to lift Flames over Senators 2-1
OTTAWA - Matthew Tkachuk's Calgary Flames defeated the Ottawa Senators 2-1 Sunday night, but it was younger brother Brady Tkachuk who earned family bragging rights. In the inaugural meeting between th...
Feb 26, 2019
