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Britain testing 'no-deal' scenario as Brexit vote nears

Monday, 7 January 2019, 14:33 Last update: about 9 years ago Associated Press

Britain is testing how its motorway and ferry system would handle a no-deal Brexit by sending a stream of trucks from a regional airport to the port of Dover — even as some legislators try to...

Mamma Mia! 'Rhapsody' upsets 'Star Is Born' at Globes

Monday, 7 January 2019, 07:38 Last update: about 9 years ago Associated Press

Thunder bolt and lighting rocked the 76th Golden Globes where a string of upsets culminated with the Freddie Mercury biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody" winning best picture, drama, over another movie about...

Cardinal's cover-up trial a reckoning for French Catholics

Monday, 7 January 2019, 07:33 Last update: about 9 years ago Associated Press

The Roman Catholic Church faces another public reckoning when a French cardinal goes on trial Monday for his alleged failure to report a pedophile priest who confessed to preying on Boy Scouts and...

Malaysia's king abdicates in unexpected and rare move

Sunday, 6 January 2019, 17:38 Last update: about 9 years ago Associated Press

Malaysian King Sultan Muhammad V abdicated on Sunday in an unexpected move, after just two years on the throne. The palace said in a statement that the 49-year-old ruler had resigned as...

France: Year's 1st yellow vest event brings tear gas, fires

Sunday, 6 January 2019, 07:23 Last update: about 9 years ago Associated Press

French security forces fired tear gas and flash-balls after a march through picturesque central Paris went from peaceful to provocative Saturday as several thousand protesters staged the yellow vest...

Nevada inmate whose execution called off found dead in cell

Sunday, 6 January 2019, 07:21 Last update: about 9 years ago Associated Press

A twice-convicted murderer who declared he wanted to die and who Nevada officials said tried several times to kill himself after two scheduled lethal injections were postponed has been found dead from...

Germany: 1 detained after shots fired in Cologne

Friday, 4 January 2019, 17:44 Last update: about 9 years ago Associated Press

Several shots were fired in an area of Cologne near the German city's main station on Friday and a man was detained, police said. The shots followed an altercation involving several people, who...

7 killed, 8 injured in crash, explosion on Florida highway

Friday, 4 January 2019, 14:16 Last update: about 9 years ago Associated Press

Two big rigs and two passenger vehicles collided and spilled diesel fuel across a Florida highway Thursday, sparking a massive fire that killed seven people and injured at least eight others,...

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