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Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing’s CK Hutchison Holdings sold its Panama ports business to a group of investors led by BlackRock. What does this episode tell us about Hong Kong today?

King Charles III has admitted he is not impervious to a generational earworm like Kylie Minogue’s “Can’t Get You Out of My Head,” after sharing a playlist that represents the soundtrack of his life. (Image credit: Central Press/Getty Images)

Gene Hackman’s wife, Betsy Arakawa, died from hantavirus infection, officials in New Mexico announced Friday. Hantavirus, found throughout the world, is spread by contact with rodents or their urine or feces. It does not spread between people. The virus can

It took about 10 years to kill Osama bin Laden in Pakistan on May 2, 2011—a founder of the extremist group al-Qaeda, responsible for the deadliest terrorist attack in American history on September 11, 2001, which left 2,977 dead and

Doctors not involved in the pope’s care said after three weeks of acute care in the hospital for double pneumonia, they would have hoped to have seen improvement and warned that he was increasingly at risk of secondary infections the longer he

Live updates: Trump threatens to sanction Russia in a bid for a ceasefire in Ukraine; White House hosts Crypto Summit  NBC News

In the late summer of 1969, panic spread throughout Los Angeles. Over two consecutive nights in early August, a strange group of college-aged hippies who were living at an abandoned movie ranch under the magnetic leadership of Charles Manson, brutally

Oklahoma is moving two bills through the state legislature that would restrict students from using cellphones while at schools in hopes that it will improve educational outcomes.

At least 9,000 people have been forcefully evicted from a riverside community in Nigeria’s most populous city, Lagos. Like many waterfront communities across the city, it has faced multiple threats and been targeted by luxury real estate developers. (Image credit:

The Department of Homeland Security said Friday that it is ending the collective bargaining agreement with the tens of thousands of frontline employees at the Transportation Security Administration, marking a major effort to dismantle union protections under the Trump administration.