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Sharif and his family are facing three corruption cases in the Accountability Court after the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) filed cases against them following the Supreme Courts verdict in the Panama Papers case.

The pack contains a marriage order of service booklet, a commemorative chocolate coin, wedding labelled spring water, a royal wedding fridge magnet and a tub of shortbread, made especially for Saturday's wedding day.

To royal watchers, it represented a statement of intent and a clear demonstration of a new, modern path the 1,000-year-old British monarchy will be treading as it seeks to remain relevant in a fast-changing political climate exemplified by Brexit.

Citing the China National Space Administration, Xinhua said the satellite was launched at 5:28 a.m. (2128 GMT Sunday) on a Long March-4C rocket from the Xichang launch centre in the southwest of the country.

Looking out at a Liberty University stadium holding an estimated 20,000 graduates, friends and family members, the 93-year-old Carter said, "It's even bigger -- I hate to say this -- than it was last year," when Trump delivered the school's commencement s...

The meeting was a chance for the envoy to offer help to the Trump presidential campaign, according to The New York Times.

The incident took place at Santa Fe High School in the city of the same name, located about 50 kilometres southeast of Houston in Galveston County. This is the third school shooting in the past seven days, and the 22nd since the beginning of the year in t...

Congo has contained several past Ebola outbreaks but the spread of the hemorrhagic fever to an urban area poses a major challenge.

London has been buzzing for weeks with rumours about who will design Markle's dress, with Burberry, Ralph & Russo, who had made Markle's engagement dress, Stella McCartney, Erdem, Alexander McQueen, Antonio Berardi and Roland Mouret all being mentioned.

Mark Green, administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), visited Rohingya refugee camps on a three-day visit to Bangladesh this week.

"She threatened and she pressured and she used coercion and so on at the UN, particularly by taking down names. I don't think people appointed her the schoolmarm of the world," Hanan Ashrawi, a senior official at the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO...

Meghan Markle will become the royal family's first mixed-race member in modern times when she marries Prince Harry on Saturday. At Brixton market in London, hopes are high that the wedding will mark another step towards a less race-oriented society.

The assault in the city of Pekanbaru on Sumatra island -- also claimed by IS -- saw a group ram their minivan into a gate at the station and then attack officers, police said.

Prosecutors claim Sarkozy spent nearly 43 million euros (USD 51 million) on his lavish re-election bid -- almost double the legal limit of 22.5 million euros -- via fake invoices which a public relations firm charged instead to his UMP party.

The poll, commissioned by anti-monarchist pressure group Republic, found that 66 percent of Britons are not interested in the event, with 60 percent of Britons planning to have a normal weekend.

Mahathir, 92, whose four-party coalition won a shock victory over former leader Najib Razak on May 9, also said reformist politician and coalition partner Anwar Ibrahim would be released from jail on Wednesday.