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Trump heads to Paris post-midterm referendum

President Donald Trump is heading to Paris on a post-midterms trip to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day. Trump departed Washington on Friday morning for the weekend jaunt to Europe, which comes just days after elections that delivered a split referendum on his presidency. He said of the trip: "I think it's going to be something very special." Trump will be joining fellow world leaders at a Sunday ceremony commemorating the 100th anniversary of the agreement that ended World War I. And he'll be meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron. He's also planning to visit several memorial sites dedicated to American service members in honor of Veterans Day. But he'll be skipping the inaugural Paris Peace Forum that's set to kick off Sunday.

TMC MP demands Bharat Ratna for 'Didi'

Idris Ali, a Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP on Friday said that West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee should be awarded Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour, as she is a symbol of national integration.Ali told ANI, "Mamata Banerjee is a symbol of national integration, a symbol of harmony and development. She is an unparalleled lady. I think she should be awarded the Bharat Ratna."Some Trinamool Congress workers and supporters had reportedly compared the party supremo with Goddess Saraswati' and 'Mother Teresa.

Michelle Obama had miscarriage, used IVF to conceive girls

Michelle Obama says she felt "lost and alone" after suffering a miscarriage 20 years ago and underwent in vitro fertilization to conceive her two daughters. "I felt like I failed because I didn't know how common miscarriages were because we don't talk about them," the former first lady said in an interview broadcast Friday on ABC's "Good Morning America." ''We sit in our own pain, thinking that somehow we're broken." Obama, 54, said she and Barack Obama underwent fertilisation treatments to conceive daughters Sasha and Malia, now 17 and 20. "I realised that as I was 34 and 35," the famously fit Obama said in excerpts from an ABC special set to air Sunday. "We had to do IVF." The revelations come ahead of Tuesday's release of Mrs Obama's memoir "Becoming," in which she writes openly about everything from growing up in Chicago to confronting racism in public life and becoming the country's first black first lady. The Associated Press purchased an early copy of "Becoming," one of the ...

10 years after estranged husband's death, HC allows woman's appeal against divorce

Ten years after her estranged husband passed away, a woman's plea challenging their divorce by mutual consent was allowed by the Delhi High Court which set it aside by saying that she had not consented to the trial court's decision. Justice Anu Malhotra said that under the Hindu Marriage Act, divorce by mutual consent can be granted only if there was continued consent of both parties up to the date of decision. The high court noted that in the instant case the woman was absent when the lower court had passed the order. "In the absence of the continued mutual consent a decree of divorce under Section 13 B(2) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 as amended cannot be granted. From the absence of one of the parties before the trial court, the presumption of consent for divorce cannot be attributed to that party as consent needs to continue till the date of the decree of divorce...," the high court said. It further said that trial court was under the law obligated to hear the parties to ...

Katie Price blasts police for leaving her 'shaken and scared'

Singer Katie Price has blasted North Kent police after she claims she was left feeling "shaken and scared" following a stalking incident.

Army's 'record setting' cycling expedition reaches Lucknow

A team of eight cyclists from the electrical and mechanical engineering corps of the Indian Army which is on a 25,000 km expedition, arrived here on Friday, officials of the Central Command said.

Deadly Melbourne knife attack 'act of terror': Police

A man set a car on fire and stabbed three people, killing one of them, before being fatally shot in central Melbourne, in an attack described by the Australian police as an "act of terror." Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton said the man who stabbed three members of the public and attacked police officers has died in a hospital. "We are now treating this as a terrorism event," said Ashton, adding that the suspect is "someone that is known to us". ''I'm not at liberty at this point to disclose the identity of that person. But we are, as I say, having counter-terrorism investigations under way. The person is known to police. He's known to police mainly in respect to relatives that he has that are certainly persons of interest to us. He is someone that, accordingly, is known to both Victoria Police and federal intelligence,'' Ashton said. The man was shot after confronting police officers on a busy city street, authorities said. He was taken into custody in a critical ...

Maha: Couple, 2 kids killed after truck topples in Beed

A couple and their two children travelling on a motorcycle were killed after a speeding sugar-laden truck toppled on them in Maharashtra's Beed district, police said Friday. The mishap took place on Majalgaon- Parbhani highway Thursday afternoon, an official said. "The truck was trying to overtake other vehicles at high speed and lost balance and toppled, resulting in the four persons getting crushed by the falling sugar sacks," the official explained. He identified the four as Dayanand Solnakhe (42), his wife Sangita (35), their children Prithviraj (12) and Rajnandini (10). One more person, on another motorcycle, was injured in the mishap, police said, adding that truck driver Rupesh Yadav (30) was arrested under relevant sections of the IPC.

Couple killed over suspicion of black magic, two held

A woman and her husband were allegedly hacked to death at a village in Pune district of Maharashtra on the suspicion that she was practising black magic, police said on Friday. The incident took place on Thursday at Aundhe village, around 50 kms from here and the victims were identified as Lilabai Mukane (47) and her husband Navasu Mukane (55), police said. Two persons, identified as Jaitu Borkar and Baban Mukane, were arrested by Khed police in this connection, they said. According to a police officer, the deceased woman was a quack, but some people in the village, located in Khed tehsil, suspected that she was practising black magic. "A few days ago, Borkar's daughter had developed cyst in her abdomen. Borkar suspected that it due to the black magic done by Lilabai," a senior officer at Khed police station said. "Baban's wife had also developed some rashes on her body and even he suspected that it was due to Lilabai's black magic," he added. According to the officer, .

Number of captive pandas in China reach 548: official

The number of the endangered giant pandas living in captivity globally has reached a record high number of 548, Chinese officials said. The number of pandas living in the wild was fewer than 2,000, according to official data in 2013. After decades of caring for giant pandas, China's panda experts have created sound conditions to raise and breed giant pandas, whose numbers have reached 548, state run Global Times on Friday reported. Citing quoting a press release of State Forestry and Grassland Administrations (SFGA), it said that 45 of 48 panda cubs born in captivity this year survived. In the 1990s, the survival rate of captive-born cubs was only 30 per cent. Forty-three of this year's surviving newborn giant pandas were born in China; one was born in Japan and the other in Malaysia. Li Chunliang, vice administrator of the SFGA, said on Thursday that scientists are looking to expand the genetic diversity in their breeding pairs of pandas by avoiding mating pandas that share blood ...

Trump leaves for Paris to attend war commemoration ceremony

US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have left for Paris to attend a ceremony commemorating 100 years since the end of the World War I.

One killed, several injured in stabbing attack in Melbourne: Police

A stabbing attack which took place on Friday in Melbourne claimed one life and left several injured. The attacker was arrested later.Earlier in the day, media reported that a man stopped his car on Melbourne's Bourke Street and set it on fire. The man then reportedly attacked people with a knife."Police are currently at an incident on Bourke St in the CBD. Police initially responded to a report of a car on fire near the corner of Swanston Street about 4.20pm. A man was arrested at the scene and has been taken to hospital under police guard in a critical condition . A small number of people are being treated for stab wounds," the police wrote on Twitter.

Gabrielle Union, Dwyane Wade welcome baby girl

Hollywood actress Gabrielle Union and her husband American basketball player, Dwyane Wade became parents as they welcomed a baby girl via surrogate.

Priyanka, Nick get marriage license

Ahead of their wedding, it was reported that Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra and American singer Nick Jonas have obtained a marriage license in the US.

I'd never forgive' Trump for 'birther' conspiracy: Michelle Obama

In her memoir, former US First Lady Michelle Obama has ripped President Trump's spreading of the "birther" conspiracy theory against her husband Barack Obama.

Conjoined Bhutanese twins undergo separation surgery

Surgeons in Australia on Friday began a complex operation to separate 15-month-old Bhutanese conjoined twins Nima and Dawa Pelden.

I won't be a meddling king: Prince Charles

The heir to the British throne, Prince Charles, has said in a birthday interview he will not be a meddling king when he replaces his mom, Queen Elizabeth II.

Stephen Hawking's wheelchair sells for USD 393,000 at auction

A wheelchair used by Stephen Hawking has sold at auction for almost 300,000 pounds (USD 393,000), while a copy of the scientist's doctoral thesis fetched almost 585,000 pounds (USD 767,000.) The motorised chair, used by the physicist after he was paralysed with motor neuron disease, sold for 296,750 pounds in a Christie's online auction. It had been expected to fetch 10,000 pounds to 15,000 pounds. Proceeds from the chair's sale will go to the Stephen Hawking Foundation and the Motor Neurone Disease Association. Hawking's 1965 thesis on the origins of the universe sold for 584,750 pounds, more than three times its pre-sale estimate, in the auction that ended Thursday. Diagnosed with motor neuron disease at 22 and given just a few years to live, Hawking died in March at 76.

Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner finalise divorce

Hollywood stars Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner have officially finalised their divorce.The two will share custody of their three children including Violet (12), Seraphina (9), and Samuel (6), reported TMZ.The famous pair announced that they were separating in June 2015, however, it took them nearly two years to file all the documents with the court. They had specified their desire for joint legal and physical custody of their children.In the following months, the two took the divorce proceedings slowly since they "are in a good place with the family and are taking careful steps to make sure everything is in order," an insider had told E! News previously.However, their divorce eventually came under the threat of dismissal after the courts found that there was a lack of paperwork in the system.In the documents obtained by E! News back in August, it states that the divorce cannot be finalised until the judgement is filed and entered. It means two forms must be completed: Garner must ...

Jawahar Lal Sarin to be conferred with France's highest civilian honour

Jawahar Lal Sarin, president of the governing body of Alliance Franaise here, will be conferred with France's highest civilian honour by French Ambassador to India Alexandre Ziegler at an event on Friday. France's highest civilian honour 'Knight of the Legion of Honour' will be bestowed on Sarin in recognition of his outstanding contribution to enhancing Indo-French cultural cooperation and promoting the French language, a French Embassy statement said. The investiture ceremony will be held at the Residence of France and will be attended, among others, by eminent painter Anjolie Ela Menon and renowned art historian and curator Alka Pande. On behalf of the French President, Ziegler will confer the award on Sarin.