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Using a TV monitor next to the jury box, the prosecutors displayed photos of "Sopranos" actress Annabella Sciorra and five other accusers who also testified.

The gunmen attacked the village of Ogossagou in the Bankass Circle in the Central Mopti region, the government said.

Egyptian authorities had notified the World Health Organization and the patient been placed in quarantined isolation in hospital.

China's comments came after Larry Kudlow said that the US is little disappointed over not being invited in the medical operations and the lack of transparency coming from the Chinese over coronavirus outbreak.

The rise in number of coronavirus cases was due to change in counting methods, the WHO said.

The video posted on PornHub had been viewed nearly a quarter of a million times by Thursday evening — but had registered twice as many dislikes as likes.

The woman claimed that the man had secretly carried out a second marriage without her consent and later apologised after she objected to it, promising to stay only with her.

It is believed that the woman boarded a train to Birmingham with her seven year-old daughter.

Islamic spiritual leaders have for decades rejected funeral prayers for sex workers as they view prostitution as immoral. On Thursday, Hamida Begum became the first sex worker from Daulatdia to receive a formal Islamic funeral, breaking a taboo in the Mus...

The risks medical staff are facing was highlighted on Friday after Li Wenliang, a whistleblowing doctor in Wuhan, succumbed to the disease more than a month after he first raised alarm about a new SARS-like virus.

As the epidemic squeezed the world's second-biggest economy, Chinese firms struggled to get back to work after the extended Lunar New Year holiday, hundreds of them saying they would need loans running into billions of dollars to stay afloat.

Questions about military security carry a special sting in Thailand because just a few weeks ago the country's tough-talking army commander said in an interview that he had ordered all army units to take care of their weaponry.

President Nayib Bukele called a session of parliament to ask it to approve a $109 million loan to equip the military and police to fight against violent gangs.

The SARS-like pathogen has infected 40,000 people since its emergence in China late last year. The United States has seen 12 confirmed cases of varying severity. At least two patients have been discharged.

Even at one of the best spots for snapping photos of snowy Beijing just outside the Forbidden City, there's barely a crowd, while the usual tour buses and groups of people speaking different dialects are nowhere to be seen.

The sharp increase overlapped the first year in office of President Jair Bolsonaro, a climate change skeptic who has eased restrictions on exploiting the Amazon's vast riches.