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NEW YORK (AP)  R&B singer R. Kelly is due in a New York City court Friday for an arraignment on charges he sexually abused women and girls.The jailed Kelly was scheduled to appear at back-to-back hearings in federal court in Brooklyn, where

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP)  Forensic experts in the Brazilian city of Altamira where 58 inmates were killed in a bloody prison riot this week said they had identified only 17 bodies so far.Sixteen prisoners were decapitated in Monday's riot

InterContinental Hotels has become the first global hotel company to join the war on plastic.The CEO for the Holiday Inn in the UK Keith Barr says this will mean the end for mini bottles of shampoo and other toiletries that hotel guests love to

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — At least 57 prisoners were killed by other inmates during clashes between organized crime groups in the Altamira prison in northern Brazil Monday with 16 of the victims being decapitated, according to prison officials

The world's self-proclaimed first supermodel Janice Dickinson and her lawyer Lisa Bloom have scheduled a press conference near Los Angeles on Thursday.This after an insurance company for disgraced comedian Bill Cosby settled a defamation suit

MOSCOW, July 24 (Sputnik) - Boris Johnson, a flamboyant Brexiteer and former UK foreign secretary, is expected to take over as prime minister on Wednesday after winning the Conservative leadership contest.He defeated the incumbent foreign minister

The Ugandan government has announced plans to register all farmers and their cattle, including issuing "birth certificates" for the animals, so it can trace their products.The East African reported that Vincent Ssempijja, the minister for

Ten Turkish sailors have been taken hostage by pirates after their cargo ship was stormed off the coast of Nigeria.The vessel’s owner Ahmet Paksoy told CNN on Wednesday that the pirates had disrupted the ship’s electric system before

San Francisco, July 17 (IANS) In a bid to bring more diversity to its keyboards, Apple is rolling out 59 new emojis to its keyboard for iPhones, iPads, Macs and Apple Watches.In a major update to the "couples holding hands" emoji, users