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China warned Canada on Saturday that there would be severe consequences if it did not immediately release Huawei Technologies Co Ltd's chief financial officer, calling the case "extremely nasty."

A teenager died early on Sunday after a suspected drug overdose at a Sydney dance festival where more than a dozen people were taken to hospital and another 130 sought medical assistance, the police said.

A man has been charged with the murder of a missing British backpacker in New Zealand, police said as the search continued Sunday for her body.

A surfer was severely mauled by a shark off Australia's east coast, officials said Sunday, the latest in a series of attacks in recent months.

The patient had come in for heart failure, and physicians at the University of California at San Francisco had an aggressive plan to help.

When Chris Cantwell learned that fellow neo-Nazi James Fields Jr. had been convicted of murder, he promised violent retribution - "complete and total destruction" by "an army of fanatics" ready to die for their cause.

Ramsey Bearse, now a middle school science teacher outside Charleston, West Virginia, appeared before an audience of one - a magistrate judge who read four felony counts accusing her of sending nude photos of herself to a 15-year-old former student over Snapchat.

Act Four in the weekly "yellow vest" protests unfolded Saturday in Paris amid a now-familiar backdrop of tear gas and chants, but also brought further clarity on where the rage is headed: directly at President Emmanuel Macron.

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday investigators had found no evidence of collusion with Russia, a day after U.S. prosecutors detailed a previously unknown attempt by a Russian to help his 2016 presidential election campaign.

Niger on Saturday ordered the closure of the offices of the country's biggest telecoms operator Airtel, a subsidiary of the Bharti Airtel group, for unpaid taxes of 107 million dollars.

A Mexican model and volunteer was crowned Miss World at a glitzy event on the tropical Chinese island of Hainan on Saturday.

US President Donald Trump on Saturday announced he was nominating Army chief of staff General Mark Milley as his next top military advisor. Milley, a four-star general who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan, would replace General Joseph Dunford as the military's next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Dunford is scheduled to retire in October 2019 at the end of his second two-year term.

US President Donald Trump on Saturday announced his chief of staff John Kelly would be leaving the administration at the end of the year -- the latest in a series of moves by the Republican leader to change his inner circle of aides.

With Rocket Launched At Moon's Dark Side, China's Huge Leap In Space RaceThe most ambitious robotic moon probe ever by any space-faring country was launched by China on Saturday morning. What makes the endeavor special is that it would be the first time that a rover will attempt to land on the dark side of the moon, that is always tilted away from the Earth.

Chinese police today said that it has closed 1,100 social media accounts, along with 31 websites, this year for unlawful activities such as trolling or blackmailing, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The police found that some social media accounts on Tencent's Wechat and Sina-owned Weibo fabricated accusations against companies and individuals, Xinhua said, citing the Ministry of Public Security.