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Pneumonia brings 1 million Americans to the hospital each year, as per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and is one of the most difficult diseases to figure out via X-rays.

Impeachment could see Mugabe kicked out by a vote in parliament in under a day and would represent an ignominious end to the career of the "Grand Old Man" of African politics, who was once lauded across the continent as an anti-colonial hero.

Charles Manson, whose name to this day is synonymous with unspeakable violence and madness, died of natural causes at Kern County hospital, according to a California Department of Corrections statement.

Europe's biggest economy now faces weeks, if not months of paralysis with a lame-duck government that is unlikely to take bold policy action.

Bhandari and Britain's Christopher Greenwood are locked in a neck-and-neck fight for re-election to the ICJ.

Song Tao is visiting on behalf of President Xi Jinping, ostensibly to brief the North's officials on the recent Chinese Communist Party Congress and other "issues of mutual interest".

Grace Mugabe -- 41 years younger than her husband -- was once dismissed as a lightweight shopping addict.

The number of visas available through the Tier 1 (Exceptional Talent) route will increase from the current 1,000 to 2,000 a year to attract the "brightest and best" talent from around the world, including in digital technology, the UK government said.

The Protect and Grow American Jobs Act (HR 170) introduced by Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet Subcommittee Chairman Darrell Issa - was passed by the House Judiciary Committee during a markup hearing on Wednesday morning.

Buddhism is accorded the "foremost place" in Sri Lanka’s constitution and about 70 percent of the island’s 21 million people are Buddhist. But there is no law banning Buddha tattoos.

Petitioner Hanif Abbasi of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) alleged that Imran Khan, who is chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), and the party secretary-general Tareen had not disclosed their assets they acquired through illegal...

US President Donald Trump said he backs US intelligence agencies who concluded Russia meddled in the 2016 US presidential election, but repeated his trust in the sincerity of Russian President Vladimir Putin's personal denials.

A crescendo of efforts at the sub-national level to shrink the country's carbon footprint will not fully counteract US President Donald Trump's decision to scrap his predecessor's climate policies and promote the use of fossil fuels, the report found.

The increasing use of the phrase “Indo-Pacific” by Trump and his team during their marathon Asian jaunt this week, instead of the “Asia-Pacific” term that has long been common in business and diplomacy, is being greeted with thinly-veiled sneers in Beijin...

Syrian regime forces and allied militia overran Albu Kamal, which lies on the border with Iraq, on Thursday but have since faced a string of Islamic State counter-attacks.

"The incident was an act of sabotage and a dangerous act of terrorism aimed at harming the higher interests of the nation and the safety of the people," the ministry said on its website