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Australia’s social media ban for under 16s has had little impact on teenagers’ scrolling habits, researchers said Thursday in one of the first evaluations of the world-leading measures.

A powerful earthquake struck off Japan’s northern coast on Thursday, but there was no danger of a tsunami, the country’s meteorological agency said.

The White House has formally requested US$87.6 billion mostly to replenish the Pentagon after the U.S. war against Iran.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte will check in face-to-face with U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday, visiting the volatile U.S. leader two weeks before the annual summit of the military alliance at a time when the Pentagon is reviewing the size of the U.S. military footprint in Europe.

A chief of staff to former New York City mayor Eric Adams has been charged with accepting more than US$100,000 in bribes to steer a lucrative migrant shelter contract to a Queens hotel, according to a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday.

More than 500 mothers and babies suffered potentially avoidable harm or died due to poor care at a U.K. hospital, according to a damning report published Wednesday, in the country’s latest maternity scandal.

Live Nation’s chief executive spoke with Donald Trump less than a month before the ticketing and events giant reached a surprise antitrust settlement with the U.S. DOJ that consumer advocate groups have largely panned.

The tech giant Alibaba has sued the U.S. Department of Defense, demanding that it be removed from the Pentagon’s list of Chinese military companies.

Silvio Berlusconi’s heirs have agreed to sell the former Italian prime minister’s luxury Sardinian retreat, Villa Certosa, to a company linked to Qatar’s ruling family, a source with knowledge of the matter said.

Ukrainian forces struck a major natural gas processing plant and two key satellite communications centres in their latest nighttime attacks on Russia, Ukraine’s General Staff said Wednesday.

Camp Mystic filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization on Wednesday, nearly a year after catastrophic floods killed 25 girls and two teenage counselors at the all-girls Christian camp in Texas.

The Trump administration on Wednesday reached a multi-state settlement with chemical giant Chemours Co. over years-long, illegal discharges of synthetic 'forever chemicals' used to make products resistant to water, grease and stains.

U.S. President Donald Trump arrived at the Capitol to meet with Senate Republicans on Wednesday, hours after he called off a planned signing ceremony for a bipartisan housing bill that GOP lawmakers were touting as an election-year achievement.

The head of the UN’s nuclear agency signalled Wednesday that Iranian nuclear enrichment sites would be visited by his inspectors, a key component in the interim U.S.-Iran deal to reach an end to the war. An Iranian diplomat instead insisted any such visit would only come after a final deal.

A federal judge on Wednesday permanently barred President Donald Trump’s administration from implementing most of his first executive order on elections, part of which sought to require people to show documentary proof of citizenship when they register to vote.