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Singapore's senior minister of state for the environment and water resources, Amy Khor, said in March that unlike other countries with mandatory plastic bag charges, Singapore incinerates plastic waste before putting it in landfills.

Australia's government already adheres to the one-China policy, which means it does not recognise Taiwan as a country.

Ben Bowling, valedictorian of his class at Bell County High School in Pineville — a tiny outpost in Kentucky's coal country - mentioned an inspirational quote during graduation ceremonies Saturday.

The Grenfell Tower blaze, Britain's deadliest on domestic premises since World War Two, shocked the nation and raised questions about the state of its social housing, building regulations and fire safety protocols.

When Facebook launched "trending" in 2014 as a list of headlines to the side of the main news feed, it was a straightforward move to steal users from Twitter by giving them a quick look at the most popular news of the moment. It fits nicely into CEO Mark...

Kim Yong Chol, a close aide to the North Korean leader, is the highest level figure from the secretive state to hold talks at the White House since a senior envoy visited former President Bill Clinton in 2000.

Kim's right-hand man, Kim Yong Chol, was due in the US capital a day after talks in New York with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made what the US diplomat called "real progress" towards holding the planned June 12 summit.

The driver suffered minor injuries, Laguna Beach Sergeant Jim Cota said, who posted photos of the crash scene showing extensive damage to the front end of the Tesla and the rear side of the police vehicle.

Arkady Babchenko, 41, died of his wounds in an ambulance after his wife found him covered in his blood in their home, police said.

After stabbing the officers, the man seized one of their handguns and shot both women dead before walking down the street and shooting dead a 22-year-old man who was sitting in the passenger seat of a parked car.

Malaysia said last week the search by Texas-based company Ocean Infinity would end today after two extensions of the original 90-day time limit.

Richmond police Chief Alfred Durham asked the community for patience as the May 14 fatal shooting of Marcus-David Peters, a 24-year-old unarmed black man, along a busy stretch of Interstate 95 remains under investigation.

Turmoil continues to rock Pakistan after former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was ousted by the Supreme Court last July on corruption charges and later barred from politics for life.

Lending to Pakistan by China and its banks is on track to hit $5 billion in the fiscal year ending in June, according to recent disclosures by officials and Pakistan finance ministry data.

Duncan Lewis, head of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), in remarks in parliament late on Thursday, said the "current scale of foreign intelligence activity ... is unprecedented".

Voters in the once deeply Catholic nation will be asked if they wish to scrap a prohibition that was enshrined in the constitution by referendum 35 year ago, and partly lifted in 2013 only for cases where the mother's life is in danger.