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Cesar Sayoc: US mail bombs suspect pleads guilty

Cesar Sayoc, the Florida man suspected of a mail-bombing campaign targeting critics of President Donald Trump has pleaded guilty in federal court.Mr Sayoc, 56, could be jailed for life for his criminal charges, which include using weapons of mass destruction and...

Trump: Time to recognise Golan Heights as Israeli territory

President Donald Trump has overturned decades of US policy by saying it is time to recognise Israel's sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights, which it captured from Syria in 1967.In a tweet, Mr Trump declared that the plateau was of "critical strategic and...

Coming soon… The Mueller Report

Any day now, former FBI Director Robert Mueller is expected to release the long-awaited results of his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US election. As the 22-month US political thriller nears its dramatic finale, here's a reminder of the main...

Harvard sued by ‘descendant of slave for profiting from photos’

The descendant of a black American slave has sued Harvard University, claiming the college profits from images of her alleged ancestor.The pictures, commissioned in 1850 by a professor seeking to prove that blacks were an inferior species, is believed to among the...

Millions of Facebook passwords exposed internally

The passwords of millions of Facebook users were accessible by up to 20,000 employees of the social network, it has been reported.Security researcher Brian Krebs broke the news about data protection failures, which saw up to 600 million passwords stored in plain...

Uber 'picks New York Stock Exchange' for stock listing

Ride-hailing firm Uber will list on the New York Stock Exchange, according to reports, in one of the most anticipated stock debuts of the year.The decision to opt for the Wall Street exchange over the tech-heavy Nasdaq was first reported by Bloomberg, citing sources....

'Pink tax': Should personal care products for women cost more?

Should skincare products and toiletries marketed to women cost more than those for men? And is there actually any difference between them?MPs are debating a bill on Friday that aims to scrap the "gender price gap”, often known as the “pink tax”, on items such as...

KFC's UK and Ireland boss talks about the day the chicken chain ran out of chicken

Trump: I didn’t get a thank you for McCain funeral

US President Donald Trump has attacked the late Senator John McCain, complaining that he "didn't get a thank you" for his state funeral."We sent him on the way, but I wasn't a fan of John McCain," the president said during a visit to an Ohio tank factory.Mr Trump has...

US mum ‘abused kids who performed on family YouTube channel’

A US mother whose seven adopted children regularly performed as superheroes on her family's YouTube channel has been charged with child abuse.Machelle Hackney, from Arizona, and her two adult sons were arrested on Friday by local police.Ms Hackney has denied abusing...