(Reuters) - A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck near the Myanmar-India border on Friday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), EMSC said....

(BBC) An appeals court has thrown out a $500m (£372m) penalty that President Donald Trump was ordered to pay in a New York civil fraud trial last year.Judge Arthur Engoron had ordered Trump to pay the fee for massively inflating the value of the Trump Organization's properties in order to secure fav...

(AP) Frank Caprio, a retired municipal judge in Rhode Island who found online fame as a caring jurist and host of ” Caught in Providence,” has died. He was 88.His official social media accounts said Wednesday he “passed away peacefully” after “a long and courageous battle with pancreatic cancer.”Cap...

COLOMBO (News 1st); Thailand’s Cabinet has approved the recruitment of 10,000 Sri Lankan workers to address a growing labour shortage caused by the mass return of Cambodian workers following a deadly border conflict between the two nations.Thailand’s Labour Minister Pongkawin Jungrungruangkit confir...

COLOMBO (News 1st); The Foreign Ministry of China has announced that Wang Yi, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Foreign Minister, will visit Pakistan from August 20 to 22.During the visit, Wang Yi will hold the Sixth Round of the China-Pakistan Foreign Ministers’ Strate...