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Thursday's rally in Hong Kong was held in a downtown garden, home to a cricket club in colonial days, one of the few to have obtained a permit from authorities in recent weeks. The organisers said 3,000 protesters took part. Police put the number at 550.

Rescue workers have carried out nearly 1,800 operations since Sunday, after eight departments were placed on high alert for flash floods.

President Sirisena suspended police chief Pujith Jayasundara as well as the defence secretary as part of the revamping of the security establishment following the Easter suicide attacks.

During a video call to US astronauts Jessica Meir and her colleague Christina Koch who were on the International Space Station, Trump congratulated them for being the first two female astronauts to walk in space.

The Malaria Department has launched a detailed investigation and officials will visit Pals' residence at New Ulidih and meet the deceased's family members to inquire into her death.

If Johnson is defeated in the UK parliament on Tuesday, much will depend on how the EU plays yet another Brexit quandary.

The market for adult diapers, disposable underwear, and absorbent pads is growing fast, up 9% last year to $9 billion, having doubled in the last decade.

A British Airways insider said that some of the crew got plastered, allegedly using drinks smuggled off in the in-flight trolley.

While henna has been used widely in the country for decades, it has reached new heights of popularity. It is now virtually impossible to walk down a street in a Bangladesh city without seeing a coloured beard.

Boris Johnson had hoped that Saturday would see recalcitrant lawmakers support the divorce deal he agreed with EU leaders this week and finally end three years of political deadlock since the 2016 referendum vote to leave the bloc.

Carrie Lam is to attend Emperor Naruhito's enthronement ceremony in Tokyo's imperial palace on Tuesday and return home that evening.

Boris Johnson has been promising that he will take the country out of the bloc on October 31, come what may, and after the amendment passed, he struck a defiant tone.

Trump is demanding an intrusive verification mechanism to supervise Beijing's promise to protect intellectual property rights (IPR) technology transfer and more access to American goods to Chinese markets.

US President Donald Trump said Erdogan told him there had been 'minor sniper and mortar fire' in the region 'that was quickly eliminated' and the Turkish leader assured him in a call that 'he very much wants the ceasefire, or pause, to work.'

Pakistani journalists have come under increasing censorship in the past year. Leading newspapers, including the well-respected English-language Dawn Newspaper, have come under pressure, its distributers harassed and prevented from delivering the newspaper...

The knife and hammer attack on Jimmy Sham, which left him bloodied and lying in the street on Wednesday night, was designed to intimidate protesters and incite violence ahead of Sunday's march, pro-democracy lawmaker Claudia Mo said.