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Former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch Mike Jeffries is competent to stand trial on sex trafficking and prostitution charges, a federal court has ruled, reversing an earlier decision. Jeffries was declared “mentally incompetent” by a court last year and said to be suffering with dementia and late onset of Alzheimer’s disease. Based on an examination […]

Priyanka Chopra Jonas talks to the BBC about her new film, The Cycle of Love. Chopra Jonas, who is the executive producer of the film, said she was instantly drawn to the story when she heard it for the first time. The film is based on the true story of Indian artist PK Mahanandia, who […]

The five Musina farm suspects will appear in court on Monday to face charges relating to the manufacture and possession of illicit drugs. “The discovery has exposed an alleged sophisticated, industrial-scale operation believed to have been established for the manufacture of dangerous illicit substances destined for distribution,” the police said in a statement. South Africa […]

The bodies of two Belgian men who went missing in the Swiss Alps in 1992 have been discovered after being exposed by the melting of a glacier, police have said. A hiker discovered the bodies on 26 July on the Trift Glacier, south of the Swiss city of Lucerne, officials said. DNA analysis later confirmed […]

Panama Canal’s operator is to cut the number of vessels passing through the key waterway due to low rainfall caused by El Niño. The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) told shipping firms on Thursday that 32 vessels a day will be able to pass through it from 15 September, compared to 36 currently. El Niño, a […]

Gandhi wrote to Hingorani for around two years after the death of his wife, Vidya, offering him guidance, consolation and encouragement. The messages were later compiled in a book called, A Thought for the Day. Dinesh Vazirani, co-founder of Saffronart, said the collection allowed people to see Gandhi “through the lens of a close, personal […]

Jason Haber, who runs the American Real Estate Association, said the list of names and addresses threatens people’s safety. “Imagine the gift this is to scammers, to fraudsters, to anyone with ill will,” he said. He said a foreign actor could download the list and send an email to residents posing as the city asking […]

The body of missing Australian hiker Lily Hooper has been recovered as officials investigate a “miscommunication” that briefly reported she had been found alive. Within minutes of reports first emerging that she was alive on Thursday, police confirmed that Hooper had been found deceased in the bushland of the Southern Highlands in New South Wales […]

Japan has executed a man who killed five people in a gaming parlour fire in 2009, making this the first time in more than a year that the country has enacted the death sentence. Sunao Takami, 58, had doused the pachinko gaming parlour near his home in Osaka with gasoline and set it alight, killing […]

The US has imposed a new round of sanctions on Cuban officials and companies, Secretary of State Marco Rubio says. Nine state-owned mining, metal and building firms, the Ministry of Construction and officials connected to a Cuban-based international institute have been named in the latest tranche of economic sanctions. In a statement, Rubio accused various […]