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Top finance executives and political leaders have converged on Saudi capital Riyadh for a Davos-style investment forum, in stark contrast to last year's mass boycott following the murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

The European Union has agreed to grant Britain a new Brexit delay until Jan. 31 next year, EU Council chief Donald Tusk said in a Twitter post on Monday, just three days before the UK was due to exit the bloc.

The US declaration of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's death opens the question of his succession at the helm of the Islamic State jihadist organisation and analysts say the list looks short.

A Ukrainian oligarch with links to President Donald Trump's legal team has blamed former Vice President Joe Biden for the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars from his natural gas fortune.

A whale shark's mouth might not seem like the most hospitable environment for a home, but Japanese researchers have found there's no place like it for a newly-discovered shrimp-like creature.

Unemployment and sluggish economic growth are fuelling social tension and popular protests in several Arab countries, the International Monetary Fund said Monday.

Yale's Singapore college has become embroiled in a row about academic freedom after axing a course on dissent, with the controversy fuelling a wider debate on whether universities are compromising their values to expand abroad.

Iraqi President Barham Salih is concerned that the United States can no longer be relied on.

President Donald Trump announced Sunday that the U.S. military, in conjunction with the CIA and intelligence, located and killed top ISIS commander Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. What has followed, however, has been a desperate need for recognition, according to a former policy adviser for Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT).

Reclusive jihadist supremo Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi oversaw the bloodstained rise and ultimate collapse of his Islamic State group's "caliphate" while keeping such a low profile that he was nicknamed "The Ghost".