Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was remanded into custody on Thursday after being charged with fraud, the latest in a string of prosecutions brought against high-profile Beijing critics and democracy campaigners.

Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon remanded into custody on fraud charge

A new mystery metal monolith has appeared on the top of a mountain in California -- a week after a similar structure was pictured in the deserts of Utah. A local newspaper in a town in the central California coast reported that the silvery column had been found atop Pine mountain.

New mystery metal monolith appears atop a mountain in California

Not long after Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday that the Justice Department had found no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the election last month, the pro-Trump media world began circulating a falsehood about him.

Barr is not part of a secret anti-Trump plot

China wants to boost its ability to modify the weather and will extend an artificial rain and snow programme to cover at least 5.5 million square kilometres of land by 2025, the country’s cabinet said late on Wednesday.

China vows to beef up 'weather modification' capabilities

The United States has banned cotton imports from a powerful Chinese quasi-military organisation that it says uses the forced labour of detained Uighur Muslims. The move is among several the Trump administration has been working on in its final weeks to harden the US position against China, making it more difficult for President-elect Joe Biden to ease US-China tensions.

US bans cotton imports from Chinese producer, citing Xinjiang slave labour

Over 1,000 Chinese researchers have left the United States amid a US crackdown on alleged technology theft, top US security officials have said. The US-China relations have deteriorated to their worst in decades during outgoing American President Donald Trump's tenure with disputes simmering over issues from trade and technology to Hong Kong and the coronavirus.

Chinese researchers leave US; agents target Biden team

Former President Valery Giscard d`Estaing, who championed European integration and helped modernise French society in the 1970s, has died at the age of 94 after contracting COVID-19.

Former French president Giscard d'Estaing dies of Covid complications

The Pentagon has approved drawdown plans in Afghanistan that will still keep two larger bases in the country as officials carry out President Donald Trump`s orders to slash troop levels to 2,500 by Jan.

US military to keep two larger Afghan bases after drawdown to 2,500

The US House of Representatives has passed a bill that could close US stock and money markets to Chinese firms. The bill passed Wednesday by Congress is part of a commercial and political duel between Washington and Beijing, and takes aim at opaque accounting practices used by Chinese firms listing shares for trade on US exchanges.

Chinese firms may lose access to US stock markets, courtesy new bill

Twitter Inc has expanded its policy barring hateful speech to include "language that dehumanises people on the basis of race, ethnicity and national origin." The company had planned to add new categories to the policy over time after testing to ensure it can consistently enforce updated rules.

Twitter expands hate speech rules covering race, ethnicity and nationality

The special session of the United Nations General Assembly in response to COVID-19 will take place on December 3 and 4 at the UN Headquarters. Nearly 100 world leaders and several dozen ministers are slated to speak at the special session on coronavirus and the best path to recovery from the pandemic which has claimed 1.

World leaders to address special session of UN General Assembly on COVID-19

Ivanka, the daughter and advisor of outgoing US president Donald Trump, was questioned under oath as part of a civil lawsuit alleging misuse of nonprofit funds for the latter's inauguration four years ago.

Ivanka Trump questioned in lawsuit over use of inauguration funds

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