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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Police in Sri Lanka on Thursday arrested the reigning Mrs. World for pulling the crown off the head of the winner of a Mrs. Sri Lanka beauty pageant and allegedly causing injuries. She was later released on bail.

NEW YORK — A Chicago-based writer and activist has received the First Book Award from the Academy of American Poets. Kemi Alabi's “Against Heaven” is scheduled for publication in Spring 2022.

JERUSALEM — Like so many mothers, Raul Artal’s insisted that her son was going to be a doctor. But there was a history — and heroism — behind her ambitions for him.

WASHINGTON — The U.S.

Americans are travelling in the greatest numbers in more than a year, and soon they will have two new leisure-oriented airlines to consider for those trips.

NEW YORK — Former Vice-President Mike Pence has a book deal. His autobiography, currently untitled, is scheduled to come out in 2023.

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has acknowledged his country was facing the “worst-ever situation” as he addressed thousands of grassroots members of his ruling party during a major political conference in Pyongyang.

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan’s foreign minister on Wednesday said the island will defend itself “to the very last day” if attacked by China.

YANGON, Myanmar — Security forces on Wednesday stormed a town in northwestern Myanmar where some residents had used homemade hunting rifles to resist the military's February seizure of power, killing at least 11 civilians and injuring many others, lo

JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday urged the world not to revive the troubled international nuclear deal with Iran as he opened Israel's annual memorial day for the 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.