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The island was only officially surveyed and registered by Japan's coastguard in 1987, who couldn't even say exactly how big it was. Until recently, it rose 1.4-metres above sea level, and was visible from the very northern tip of Japan's northern Hokkaido...

JAL executives told reporters in Japan that the co-pilot cleared an in-house breath test but aroused the suspicion of a bus driver taking him to the plane at Heathrow Airport on Sunday.

The troop numbers have been changing at a dizzying pace, with Trump drawing a hard line on immigration in the lead-up to the mid-term elections.

Nasheed was sentenced to 13 years in jail in 2015 after being convicted of terrorism for ordering the arrest of a top judge in 2012 while he was president.

Several thousand protesters held an anti-Trump rally about a block away from the synagogue just as his visit began.

Two passengers on Sunday's flight posted on Instagram, reporting that they had been concerned about problems with the air conditioning system and cabin lighting before the plane departed nearly three hours late.

UK finance minister Philip Hammond said the tax would apply only to profitable businesses that generate at least 500 million pounds a year in global revenues.

Measured by weight, or biomass, wild animals today only account for four per cent of mammals on Earth, with humans (36 per cent) and livestock (60 per cent) making up the rest.

Princess Ayako had to renounce her imperial status because she married a commoner, as is the practice for women under Japan's succession law. She will become Ayako Moriya after signing marriage papers later on Monday.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the tremor occurred 24 kilometers (about 15 miles) under the surface. Its epicenter was 93.4 kilometers (60 miles) southwest of the Salvadoran coastal town of Acajutla.

Officials from the club and Vichai's company, duty-free giant King Power International, declined to comment on whether he was in the helicopter when it spiralled out of control and crashed around an hour after the game.

Gab was launched in 2016 as a "free-speech" alternative to Twitter.

The sitcom recently addressed the criticism over Apu's characterisation in the episode ‘No Good Read Goes Unpunished’ but it failed to pacify the viewers.

Eight others have been sent to jail by the military courts, the Pakistani Army's media wing Inter-Services Public Relations said in a statement on Friday.

The main harbor for the island of Zakynthos in the Ionian Sea was damaged though it was still functional, civil protection agency press spokesman Spyros Georgiou said. Power was lost in the island capital and main town, also called Zakynthos, but no major...

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mark Windham said there was sufficient evidence to try the 75-year-old multimillionaire, whose life inspired an HBO documentary series.