Parents could face tax charges, big fines in admissions scam

A wide-ranging college admissions cheating scheme allowed wealthy parents not only to get their kids into sought-after schools but to write off the bribes on their taxes, federal

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BELT & ROAD Panama sees a “big opportunity” in China’s massive “Belt and Road” infrastructure initiative, President Juan Carlos Varela (pictured) said yesterday during a visit to Hong

Elections | Ukrainian comedian sure of victory in presidential runoff

Volodymyr Zelenskiy has no political experience, but that’s no problem for the people of Ukraine who have already seen that working for him. In a striking

Aviation tragedy | 3 bodies found in plane crash that killed Russian tycoon

German authorities yesterday recovered the bodies of three people, including one of Russia’s richest women, who were killed in a small plane crash near Frankfurt a day

UK | Parliament gets new chance to offer options on Brexit

Britain’s Parliament gets another chance to offer a way forward on Britain’s stalled divorce from the European Union, holding a series of votes on Brexit alternatives in

This Day in History | 1982 – Argentina invades Falklands

Argentina has invaded the British territory of the Falkland Islands in the south Atlantic. The islands, off the coast of Argentina, have been a cause of friction

Offbeat | Mexican police nab man who tried to rob bank with loader

Prosecutors in the central state of Morelos say the loader had a front bucket as well as a jackhammer the thieves used to destroy the wall

The Buzz | Facebook shuts down accounts linked to Pakistan’s military

Facebook said yesterday it has shut down more than 100 misleading pages, groups and accounts linked to the Pakistani military. It said the accounts were eliminated because they engaged

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CHINA A fire high in the mountains of Sichuan province has killed 30 firefighters and others, the government said yesterday. The deaths occurred after a change of wind

Mozambique races to contain 1,000 cases of cholera

Mozambican and international health workers raced yesterday to contain the outbreak of cholera in the cyclone-hit city of Beira and surrounding areas, where cases of the

Coming Home | Cold welcome for Afghans paid by Iran to fight in Syria

Too poor to even buy pens and notebooks for school, Mehdi left his home in Afghanistan soon after his 17th birthday and headed to Iran, hoping to

AP Investigation | Florida gets tougher on massage-parlor sex

When Florida authorities shut down 10 massage spas last month and charged hundreds of men with buying sex, they broke a longstanding pattern of meting out

This Day in History | 2000 – Wartime coding machine stolen

A coding machine used by the Germans to encode messages during World War II has been stolen from the Bletchley Park Museum in Buckinghamshire, south-east England. Police

Offbeat | Three Sumatran tiger cubs explore jungle habitat in Sydney zoo

Three boisterous 10-week-old rare Sumatran tiger cubs have play-wrestled and explored their jungle habitat in their first public appearance at a Sydney zoo. Taronga Zoo

The Buzz | US man charged with trying to steal item from Auschwitz

An American visitor to the former Auschwitz- Birkenau death camp attempted to steal a metal part of the historic rail tracks where prisoners were unloaded, officials said. The

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CHINA A gauge of Chinese manufacturing improved in March in a possible sign government efforts to reverse an economic slowdown amid a tariff war with Washington might be

Rich & Famous troubles | Wealthy parents appear in court in college admissions scam

From a Napa Valley vintner to a Hot Pockets heiress, a procession of wealthy parents made their first appearances in federal court on charges they paid bribes

Brexit | May offers to step down once EU divorce finalized

British Prime Minister Theresa May was making a final push yesterday to save her European Union withdrawal deal after her promise to step down gained the

Trump Tower meeting figure: Russia probe ‘not a witch hunt’

The music publicist who brokered a meeting between the Trump campaign and a Russian lawyer says Robert Mueller’s Russia probe wasn’t a “witch hunt.” Rob Goldstone

This Day in History | 1971 Manson sent to gas chamber

Charles Manson and three members of his hippy cult have been sentenced to death in Los Angeles. They were found guilty of the August 1969 murders of

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