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Pakistan's election commission on Tuesday rejected the nomination papers of former Prime Minister and PML-N leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan for the NA-53 constituency of Islamabad.

A match between an Israeli college debate champion and a loquacious IBM computer programme demonstrated on Monday new gains in the quest for computers that can hold conversations with humans.

A 19-year-old woman, working as a hostess in a private bus company, was shot dead in Pakistan's Punjab province allegedly by a man after she refused his marriage proposal, police said on Tuesday.

Apple's chief executive, Timothy D. Cook, may be the leader of the world's most valuable public company, but lately he has had to act a lot like the tech industry's top diplomat.

Troubled rapper-singer XXXTentacion was shot and killed Monday in Florida in what police called an apparent robbery attempt. Investigators don't have a motive, and no arrests have been made.

President Donald Trump directed the US Trade Representative to prepare new tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese imports on Monday as the two nations moved closer to a potential trade war.

Leading figures of both parties demanded on Sunday that President Trump halt his administration's practice of separating children from their parents when apprehended at the border, as the issue further polarised the already divisive immigration debate in Washington.

President Donald Trump said on Monday he would not allow the US to become a "migrant camp" as his administration faced a barrage of criticism for separating immigrant children from their parents at the US-Mexico border.

Martin Bregman, the outspoken, notoriously tenacious film producer behind Scarface, Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico and other late-20th-century crime dramas, died on Saturday. He was 92.

Following on from Paul Dacre's impending departure after 26 years as editor of the Daily Mail comes another equally momentous change in British journalism - David Dimbleby is to stand down after 25 years as presenter of Question Time.