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A woman accused of killing her three children with the help of her 16-year-old son has admitted to committing the crime, according to Los Angeles police investigators.

A woman in El Salvador has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for aggravated homicide after she suffered an obstetric emergency and lost her unborn baby.

People who do not repay student loan or take on new ones between young adulthood and early middle age are at a higher risk of developing cardiovascular illnesses, according to a study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Amazon Inc. will now be reimbursing its US staff if they have to travel for non-life-threatening medical treatments, including abortions. The company in a message to its employees said that it will be pay up to $4,000 (£3,201) for such travel expenses annually.

Japan's Princess Mako who gave up her royal status to marry her commoner boyfriend Kei Komuro, is now reportedly working at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York as a volunteer.

The US State Department has asked non-emergency US government workers to leave the consulate in Shanghai as the city continues to see a surge in Covid-19 cases.

A US-based wind energy firm has been slapped with $8m fine after at least 150 eagles were killed at its wind farms in eight states over the last 10 years.

Former US President Donald Trump's social media app Truth Social which was launched in February, has been termed a "disaster," by experts.

Evan Neumann, a suspect in last year's US Capitol riots has been granted asylum in Belarus. He had sought asylum in the country alleging "political persecution" in the US.

Scientists have developed a new drug called Lynparza which can reduce the risk of women dying from breast cancer by 32%. The trials also showed tghat the drug reduced the chance of recurrence by 42%.

The trade sanctions imposed by western nations along with the European Union on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine have meant that one of the biggest oil and gas exporters is now left with additional stocks of the two resources with nowhere to send them to.

The scientists in France have detected a strain of the coronavirus that appears to have combined mutations from the Omicron and Delta variants of Covid-19. They believe that the mutation may have been circulating since early January in several regions of the country.

The first person in the world to receive a heart transplant from a genetically modified pig passed away two months after the surgery. US-based David Bennett had undergone the surgery on January 7 earlier this year.

A US woman failed to save her father's life despite alerting the police on time of her 74-year-old father's suicide attempt. The man, a resident of Mumbai's Matunga area, had consumed 30 sleeping pills in an attempt to end his life.

A study led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in the US, has found that turtles experience a temporary hearing loss due to underwater noise pollution caused by activities such as shipping.

Several people have come forward to help Ukrainians fleeing their war-torn country, one such person is 36-year-old Avi Rosner who has decided to open the doors of his hotel in Florida, US to Ukrainian refugees.

Police have been taking the help of sniffer dogs in solving a crime and catching suspects, but this time it was a goat that helped the police catch a man trying to flee the crime scene on February 13 in the Fieldale area of Georgia.

A US woman not only discovered a secret door in her 70-year-old house but also two boxes full of lover letters kept in the secret attic so no one sees it ever. Anna Prillaman was doing some cleaning work in her house when she made the beautiful discovery.

A Las Vegas police officer went beyond his call of duty and decided to take home five kids who had been left without their parents after the mother shot dead her ex-husband last month on Osaka Pearl Street.

The United States remained convinced that Putin was poised to use force against Ukraine by mid-February.

The Republican Party quickly accused Democratic President Joe Biden and his Vice President Kamala Harris of having created a "historic humanitarian crisis."

The FAA said Wednesday that it has now approved 62 percent of the US commercial fleet to perform low-visibility landings at airports with 5G

Despite hinting at conflict, Putin insisted Russia wanted to avoid "bloodshed"

Court documents state that 5,500 children were separated from their migrant parents.

Australian barley, coal, copper ores, cotton, hay, logs, rock lobsters, sugar, wine, beef, citrus fruit, grains, table grapes, dairy products and infant formula have all been subject to Chinese sanctions.

The crowd-funding endeavor used the digital money ether, which extracts a charge for each transaction

Biden on Monday called Republican opponents "reckless and dangerous" for refusing to join Democrats in raising the debt limit.

Claims are a closely-watched metric of labor market health, and shot into the millions when the pandemic broke out in the United States in March 2020.

After shutting down during the most severe stretch of the pandemic, Las Vegas casinos reopened in June 2020 with face-mask requirements and other strict protocols.

Across the United States, more than 173 million people -- over 50 percent of the population -- have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine so far.