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China's Communist Party opened a twice-a-decade congress on Wednesday expected to enhance President Xi Jinping's already formidable powers over the world's second-largest economy. Xi entered a packed chamber in Beijing's imposing Great Hall of the People, along with his two predecessors

Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced Hollywood mogul accused of decades of sexual abuse and harassment, resigned from the board of his production company on Tuesday, as Reese Witherspoon became the latest star to open up about her own experience of sexual asault. Weinstein was sacked as co-chairman of The

A large, pink diamond once set in the crowns of numerous French kings and emperors will go under the hammer in Geneva next month, the Christie's auction house said Wednesday. "Le Grand Mazarin", a 19.07-carat light pink diamond, was a gift to Louis XIV in 1661 and was set in the crowns

Rio Tinto and two former top executives were charged with fraud by US authorities on Wednesday, accused of inflating the value of the company's Mozambique coal assets and failing to disclose mounting losses. The complaint was filed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission in a Manhattan court

US author George Saunders on Tuesday became only the second American writer to win Britain's renowned Man Booker Prize, which was awarded for his first full-length novel "Lincoln in the Bardo". Judges for the world's most prestigious English-language literary award praised as "