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Oscar-winner Leonardo DiCaprio’s charitable foundation would return gifts or donations made to him or his ventures if they were found to have come from Malaysian wealth fund 1MDB, which is being investigated on money laundering allegations, his representatives said on Tuesday. In his first comment on the multinational probe into the fund, DiCaprio said he was cooperating with U.S. authorities ...

Triple Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton has been called upon by his Mercedes team to appear at Thursday’s official press conference for this weekend’s U.S. Grand Prix, two weeks after refusing to take questions from the media in Japan. Hamilton triggered a media spat at the Japanese Grand Prix when he was criticized for playing on his phone during a ...

Rock ‘n’ roll legend Chuck Berry celebrated his 90th birthday on Tuesday by announcing that his first album of new music in 38 years would be released next year. Called simply “Chuck,” the album will consist mostly of new, original material recorded and produced by Berry, his record company said.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Tuesday that it felt costs for the 2020 Tokyo Games looked “very high” and would work with organizers to cut them, but that athletes must come first when considering how to rein in spending. The comments came at a meeting between Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike and IOC President Thomas Bach, who proposed forming ...

Ecuador’s government acknowledged on Tuesday it had partly restricted internet access for Julian Assange, the founder of anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks who has lived in the South American country’s London embassy since mid-2012. WikiLeaks said Assange lost connectivity on Sunday, sparking speculation Ecuador might have been pressured by the United States due to the group’s publication of hacked material linked to ...

China’s Shenzhou 11 manned spacecraft has successfully docked with China’s Tiangong 2 space lab, and two astronauts have entered the lab, China’s official news agency Xinhua said Wednesday. China is the third country after the United States and Russia to complete space rendezvous and docking procedures, Xinhua said. According to the mission schedule, the astronauts will remain in the space ...

We live in a time when the enemies of Islam are attempting to destroy it from within. The incident of 9/11 changed the perception of world towards the entire Islamic world. Muslims being labeled as terrorists and Islam is blamed to be a religion of violence and terrorism. It is true that extremist groups within Muslim states exploited religion for ...

A Conservative aide has been arrested for allegedly raping a woman in Parliament. Sam Armstrong, chief of staff to Craig MacKinlay MP, attacked a woman in an office building just yards from the Commons after a drinking session on the House of Lords’ terrace, it is alleged. The Metropolitan Police confirmed a 23-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of ...

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif says today’s Pakistan is far better than in 2013 as a result of prudent policies adopted by the PML(N) Government. He was addressing the PML(N) General Council in Islamabad today after his unopposed election as Party President. The Prime Minister thanked the party leaders and members for reposing confidence in his leadership.  He said he will ...

  LONDON – OPEC should be able to reach a deal next month to limit oil production without too many exemptions for individual countries and without too much disagreement about output levels, the producer group’s secretary general said on Tuesday. Mohammed Barkindo also told a news conference on the sidelines of the Oil & Money conference that Russia, which is ...