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Youth unemployment in Sweden hit its highest level this century in July due to the widespread economic disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic and measures to halt its spread, figures from the Statistics Office showed on Thursday.

Hafsa was married off at 13 by her father to a man who paid $100. She and her mother say she was beaten and raped for two years before they convinced him to divorce her.

Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker Nio Inc has launched a battery leasing service that will allow drivers to buy an EV without owning the battery pack one of the most expensive EV components thereby lowering the starting price of its cars.

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan took to his official blog to inform fans that he was getting ready to shoot Kaun Banega Crorepati 12 under "maximum precautions."

Young activists, including Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg, are meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel to press their demands for tougher action to curb climate change.

Party members of both houses of the legislature staged a protest in front of the statue of former prime minister Chaudhary Charan Singh, holding banners against the state government.

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was in a coma in a Siberian hospital on Thursday after drinking a cup of tea that his spokeswoman said she believed was laced with poison.

Premier Oil on Thursday agreed to terms for a longterm refinancing of its debt facilities, including $300 million of new equity and an extension to its credit maturities, after swinging to a loss in the first half due to weak crude prices.

From his home on a former East German army base, Jens Raeder can power up a carefully restored Soviet shortwave transmitter and communicate with military radio enthusiasts around the world.

Gold rose on Thursday, regaining some lost ground from last session's selloff, after the U.S. Federal Reserve raised concerns that a recovery from the coronavirusinduced economic slump faced a highly uncertain path, weighing on risk sentiment.

A group led by North Asiafocused private equity firm MBK Partners is in talks to take Car Inc private, according to four people with knowledge of plans to buy the no. 1. China auto rental firm, worth $700 million by market value.

The nomination is the latest in a series of firsts for 55-year-old Harris, who is the daughter of a Jamaican father and Indian mother who were immigrants to the United States.

What's Suresh Raina's secret behind performing in hot and humid Chennai for Chennai Super Kings in IPL? Rasam and curd rice!

On Joe Bidens big day, President Donald Trump is planning to show up in his rival's old backyard.

For five decades, Yassin Abdel-Wareth was one of a handful of epidemiologists in Yemen, traveling across the impoverished country to hunt for disease outbreaks that are as endemic as armed conflicts in the Middle Easts poorest nation.

Residents of this small town in the farming country of northern Jamaica watched elated Wednesday night as Kamala Harris, daughter of one of the many Orange Hill residents who emigrated to the U.S., accepted the Democratic nomination for vice president.