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Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai denied bail on fraud charge

HONG KONG - Outspoken Hong Kong pro-democracy advocate and media tycoon Jimmy Lai was refused bail on Thursday on a fraud charge amid a growing crackdown on dissent in the semi-autonomous city. Jimmy ...

Dec 2, 2020

Ex-French leader Valery Giscard d'Estaing dies at age 94

PARIS - Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the president of France from 1974 to 1981 who became a champion of European integration, died on Wednesday. He was 94. Giscard d'Estaing's office said he passed away ...

Dec 2, 2020

Waiting for passengers, American puts Boeing Max in the air

DALLAS - American Airlines is taking its long-grounded Boeing 737 Max jets out of storage, updating key flight-control software, and flying the planes in preparation for the first flights with paying ...

Dec 2, 2020

NASA: Mystery object is 54-year-old rocket, not asteroid

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A mysterious object temporarily orbiting Earth is a 54-year-old rocket, not an asteroid after all, astronomers confirmed Wednesday. Observations by a telescope in Hawaii clinche...

Dec 2, 2020

Ex-NFL player Carlos Rogers pleads guilty in fraud scheme

LEXINGTON, Ky. - A 12th former NFL player has admitted to participating in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud the league's health care benefit program. Former Washington Football Team and San Fra...

Dec 2, 2020

German city grieves after 5 killed in pedestrian zone attack

BERLIN - Residents of Trier placed flowers and lit candles at the base of the southwestern German city's landmark Roman gate Wednesday in tribute to the five people who were killed and more than a doz...

Dec 2, 2020

China's space ambitions: Robot on Mars, a human on the moon

BEIJING - China's landing of its third probe on the moon is part of an increasingly ambitious space program that has a robot rover en route to Mars, is developing a reusable space plane and is plannin...

Dec 2, 2020

Huge Puerto Rico radio telescope, already damaged, collapses

ARECIBO, Puerto Rico - A huge, already damaged radio telescope in Puerto Rico that has played a key role in astronomical discoveries for more than half a century has now completely collapsed. The tele...

Dec 2, 2020

Rage and hope fuel women's revolt over abortion in Poland

WARSAW, Poland - Karolina Micula had used her bare chest in political protest once before. When Poland's right-wing government first tried to restrict abortion rights, the actress and singer delivered...

Dec 2, 2020

US envoy: Afghan, Taliban team ready to set talks agenda

ISLAMABAD - The U.S. envoy who brokered the ongoing peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban said Wednesday the two sides have overcome a three-month impasse and agreed on rules and p...

Dec 2, 2020