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China on Sunday reappointed Yi Gang as head of the central bank in an effort to reassure entrepreneurs and financial markets.

The U.S.-Russian-Japanese crew returned to Earth late Saturday after spending five months at the International Space Station, arriving last October.

The BBC was forced to scrap much of its weekend sports programming as it scrambled to stem a crisis over its suspension of Lineker for comments criticizing the British government's asylum policy.

Li Qiang, a close confidant of top leader Xi Jinping, will nominally be in charge of the world's second-largest economy now facing some of its worst prospects in years.

Smart, 19, disappeared from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo in 1996. Prosecutors maintained that Paul Flores, now 46, killed Smart during an attempted rape.

The University of Rhode Island removed the inscription from the facade of its library 30 years after Black students protested because they said it misrepresented the fuller meaning his message.

Iran and Saudi Arabia on Friday agreed to reestablish diplomatic relations and reopen embassies after years of tensions, including a devastating attack on the heart of the kingdom's oil production.

The Emmy award-winning performer who went from acclaim for his acting to notoriety when he was tried and acquitted in the killing of his wife, died Thursday at age 89.

Police in Hamburg, Germany, said the shooting killed eight people, apparently including the perpetrator, while an unspecified number of other people were wounded, some of them seriously.

The cooling in the Pacific Ocean has gone on for three years. Its end is usually good news for the U.S. and other parts of the world, including drought-stricken northeast Africa, scientists said.

The school said head coach Mark Adams had encouraged a player "to be more receptive to coaching and referenced Bible verses about workers, teachers, parents, and slaves serving their masters."

Chaim Topol, who has died at 87, was beloved for his portrayal of Tevye, Fiddler's long-suffering and charismatic milkman. Topol long has ranked among Israel's most decorated actors.

Russia unleashed deadly rocket attacks that hit critical infrastructure and residential buildings in 10 regions of Ukraine, the country's president said Thursday.

An empty coal train hit a rockslide along tracks in West Virginia on Wednesday morning, causing a fiery derailment that injured three crewmembers, CSX Transportation said in a statement.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell tripped and fell Wednesday at a hotel and was hospitalized for treatment, a spokesman said. McConnell had been attending a private dinner.

An airport shootout in Chile's capital killed a security officer and an alleged robber. The cash, aboard a plane from Miami, was being transferred to an armored truck.

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan announced that their daughter had been christened in a private ceremony in California, publicly calling her Princess Lilibet Diana.

In October, Adidas cut ties with Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, over the rapper's antisemitic remarks. The company's inability to sell his popular Yeezy line of shoes helped batter earnings.

The FDA posted recall notices for certain eyedrops distributed by Pharmedica and Apotex, including an over-the-counter product, Purely Soothing 15% MSM Drops, "that could result in blindness."

The billionaire owner of Twitter apologized after publicly questioning a Twitter employee's query about whether he had been laid off and speaking dismissively of that employee's disability.