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Consumer products giant Unilever says it has agreed to buy the fast-growing California-based men's grooming business Dollar Shave Club for an undisclosed sum.

Vietnamese Communist Party-dominated National Assembly has opened its first session to elect the country's top leaders following May elections.

The world's largest single-dish radio telescope is nestled deep in the lush green hills of Puerto Rico, where it performs tasks like searching for gravitational waves, listening for extraterrestrial signals and tracking asteroids that might be on a collision course with Earth.

North Korea says it has test-fired ballistic rockets as part of a simulated pre-emptive attack on South Korea.

China's state media is criticizing scattered street protests by young people angry over an international tribunal's ruling last week that denied Beijing's claim to virtually the entire South China Sea.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says Islamic State fighters in Libya are facing the "distinct possibility" of defeat in their last stronghold and are likely to scatter elsewhere in the North African country and the region.

Guatemala's chief prosecutor says she believes a recent threat against her is a reaction by organized crime to her work dismantling corruption networks that has put a former president and vice president behind bars while awaiting trial.

The Japan Meteorological Agency says a moderately strong earthquake has shaken the Japanese capital for the third time in four days.

Authorities in Mexico say they will fire seven or eight investigators and suspend 22 others for misconduct related to the 2014 army slayings of 22 suspected gang members.

Uruguay is home to the world's first government-regulated national marketplace for pot, so it's not surprising that growers have a competition for best marijuana.

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The chief justice of Brazil's Supreme Court quickly struck down a lower court decision that had blocked the WhatsApp messaging service nationwide for several hours Tuesday, affecting almost 100 million users.

Former NBA player Jose Ortiz has been sentenced to 45 days in jail in Puerto Rico for a probation violation involving community service.

The Mexican government has announced plans for an auction of exploration and shared-production rights on 15 blocks of potential oil fields in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

A retired Roman Catholic priest who was sentenced to 11 years in prison for sex offences involving young boys in eastern Canada has been granted full parole after serving a third of his sentence.

The Church of England has apologized after a report was published exposing the physical and sexual abuse of hundreds of girls over a 20-year period at a church-run children's home.

Chinese students attending a Christian house church in the central Guizhou province are being threatened by government authorities who are warning them that if they don't stop going to the church, they will be barred from going to college.

Nice, the city that sits on the Bay of Angels and that for many epitomizes the sun-splashed French Riviera, has a flip side unknown to tourists and invisible to most residents, as a breeding ground for Islamic radicals and jihadis.

For those who love him, a mix of the religiously conservative and the rising middle class, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been the powerhouse who drove economic success, gave Islam a greater role and boosted regional standing.

An axe attack on a German train.