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They were accused of abusing authority in a car manufacturing embezzlement scandal.

Six people are reported dead after a man opened fire at a hospital in the city of Ostrava.

The Chilean Hercules transport aircraft disappeared en route to an air force base.

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi is defending her country in the International Court of Justice.

The Democrat candidate and former vice-president has been travelling across Iowa to rally support.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says rescue efforts are now "very sadly a recovery operation".

The Russian and Ukrainian leaders go into face-to-face talks to end the eastern Ukraine conflict.

Mohammed Alshamrani alleged a naval instructor mocked his moustache in front of other students.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon was filmed berating and pushing an official as his HQ was being searched.

Russia is handed a four-year ban from all major sporting events - including the Tokyo 2020 Olympics - by the World Anti-Doping Agency.

Sanna Marin, of the Social Democrats, will head a female-led governing coalition in the Nordic nation.

About 50 visitors were near White Island volcano, with some walking inside the rim, when it erupted.

World anti-doping body will decide punishment after Russia accused of falsifying test result database.

The defence secretary's comments come after a Saudi student killed three sailors in Florida.

Tens of thousands rally in the Chinese territory in the sixth month of anti-government protests.

More than 30 people killed in fire at factory in Indian capital Delhi

Olga Neuwirth has written a new opera based on Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando.

Democrats lay out their constitutional grounds for impeachment as the process gathers pace.

He was best-known in Africa and claimed to have converted tens of millions to Christianity.

Russia faces another sport ban over a doping scandal, but one man has spoken out to demand change.

Aimable Bayingana denies wrongdoing as police investigate alleged corruption and abuse at federation.

Authorities have not specified a connection with the dead gunman, who was also a Saudi national.

Boys who survived an earthquake meet football stars Cristiano Ronaldo and Gianluigi Buffon.

Xiyue Wang was jailed in Iran in 2016 while Massoud Soleimani was arrested at a US airport last year.

A warmer world means oceans are able to hold less dissolved oxygen, which is bad news for many fish.