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The Canadian literary giant became one of the world’s most esteemed contemporary authors, often ranked with Anton Chekhov and John Cheever as one of great short story writers.

The portrait was painted by British artist Jonathan Yeo and will eventually be exhibited in Draper’s Hall in London, the royal family announced.

Nemo's winning song, "The Code," describes the artist's journey of self-discovery as a nonbinary person.

Roughly 36% of respondents reported feeling discriminated against in at least one area of their lives in the year before the latest survey.

Hundreds of police officers are searching for a group of armed attackers who ambushed a toll booth to break a prisoner out of a van.

With hundreds of thousands of families fleeing the floods, the disaster — which has killed at least 147 people could touch off one of Brazil’s biggest cases of climate migration.

The opposition denounces the bill as “the Russian law,” because Moscow uses similar legislation to crack down on independent news media, nonprofits and activists critical of the Kremlin.

Fritzl raped his daughter whom he held captive for 24 years in a dungeon he built under his home, fathering seven children over the period.

The arrest of Yuri Kuznetsov signals a widening of the biggest government corruption scandal in years, two days after President Vladimir Putin unexpectedly removed Sergei Shoigu from the post of defense minister.

The visit will be Vladimir Putin’s first foreign trip since he was sworn in as president and began his fifth term in office.

Rights advocates argue that David McBride’s conviction and sentencing before any alleged war criminal he helped expose reflect a lack of whistleblower protections in Australia.