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A Vietnamese mother had the shock of her life when her newborn son weighed in at a whopping 7.1 kg, one of the heaviest births ever reported in the Southeast Asian nation.

Air Asia has meanwhile clarified that the plane suffered a "technical issue". The aircraft dropped from an altitude of 32,000 feet to 10,000 feet within a few minutes.

"Julian Assange has become a kind of nihilistic opportunist who does the bidding of a dictator," Hillary Clinton said in an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, referring to Russian president Vladimir Putin.

Part of Xi Jinping's fight against deep-seated graft has been to ensure officials are not seen abusing their positions and wasting public money after a series of scandals involving high-living bureaucrats ignited public anger.

The SA Airlink plane conducted 13 flight trials at the St. Helena airport in August, according to a statement by island authorities. Some charter and medical evacuation flights have used the airport in the past year.

The White House on Friday announced President Trump's new Iran strategy which focuses on neutralising Tehran's alleged destabilising influence in the region.

Talha Haroon, 19, was arrested in Pakistan in 2016 after US authorities identified him as one of three men, along with a Canadian citizen and a man from the Philippines, planning attacks on Manhattan's Times Square and the city's subway.

US B-1B bombers flew this week over South Korea with fighter jet escorts from the allied nation, in what's become an increasingly familiar show of force to Pyongyang.

The official cause of the disaster was under investigation, but officials said power lines toppled by gale-force winds on Sunday night may have sparked the conflagration.

NBC News has reported on tensions between Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and has said Trump sought a dramatic increase in the US nuclear arsenal during a meeting with national security advisers in July. NBC reported Tillerson made his "moron"...

"We are concerned by .... (Russia's) lack of transparency when it comes to military exercises," Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.

San Francisco safety Eric Reid, one of the first players to embrace the anthem protest after it was initiated by former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick last year, said Mike Pence's walk-out looked like a publicity stunt.

The Oscar-winning movie producer said he was taking a leave of absence from his company and seeking therapy after the New York Times reported he had reached eight previously undisclosed settlements with women who made allegations of sexual harassment and...

Criticism of House Republican Tim Murphy surged when the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette broke a story about the lurid sex scandal just as the House of Representatives voted on the Congressman’s bill banning nearly all abortions beyond 20 weeks of pregnancy.

May had wanted to use the Conservative Party's annual conference to bring her divided party together and pitch herself as the only person able to deliver Brexit and keep opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn out of power.

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson lauded Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday for taking on the duty of making a success of Brexit, adding that her top ministers were united behind every syllable of her EU exit plans.