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Mumbai featured in the Forbes list with 48 dollar billionaires as it added 10 billionaires last year.

Four years ago, the closest Australian Olympic sailing medalists Lisa Darmanin and Nina Curtis could get to the Americas Cup was by taking jobs in a hospitality lounge on site in Bermuda.

Highly competitive colleges including Yale, Brown and Penn are sending out acceptance notices this week to a much smaller percentage of admission seekers than usual after sorting through record-breaking numbers of applications.

The North Dakota House agreed Wednesday to fund a rail spur to help a troubled shipping center in Minot, but balked at giving more than $8 million in taxpayer money to bail out a trio of banks including one owned by Republican U.S. Sen. John Hoeven that...

Lighter winds have helped firefighters contain a blaze in North Dakota's Theodore Roosevelt National Park to an 8squaremile area, officials said Wednesday.

A U.S. envoy arrived in El Salvador on Wednesday for talks on immigration amid a surge of child migrants on the U.S. border.

Public universities in Florida would have to survey, protect and promote political views on their campuses, according to a bill that the state Senate sent to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday.

The German government said last month that it would be open to using Sputnik V if it is greenlit by the EMA.

One issue that has come up in the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd has been the discussion among the officers involved on whether to use a type of restraint called a hobble.

Defense lawyers for a white former police officer on trial for murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd want to call an acquaintance of Floyds as a witness.

Conservation groups sued on Tuesday to reverse changes made under former President Donald Trump to rules protecting sea turtles, even though federal regulators said a week ago that they were reconsidering some of those changes.

A Philadelphia City Council member and Italian American groups are suing the mayor's administration in federal court over the decision to change the name of city's Columbus Day holiday to Indigenous Peoples' Day.

The Director-General of Customs has also been informed of this decision and advised to refrain from clearing palm oil cargos at the Department of Customs.

A fierce attack on a U.N. peacekeeping base in northern Mali last week killed four peacekeepers and at least 23 attackers, and injured another 34 peacekeepers, the United Nations said Monday in an updated report.

The shooting also seriously injured two of Judge Aftab Ahmed Afridis's bodyguards.

In mid-March Germany's medicines regulator, the Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI), was the first national health authority to flag what they described as an aberrantly high number of cases involving these rare cerebral blood clots, mostly in younger and middle...