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US Olympic swimmer Conor Dwyer has received a 20-month ban for doping after abitrators found he had testosterone pellets inserted in his body in 2018

Messaging app Telegram has 300 million monthly users worldwide and raised more than $1.7 billion in funds in the US and overseas through a cryptocurrency issue

Indian police detain Tibetan students protesting in Chennai the visit of China's President Xi Jinping -- Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is an aggravation for China and based in northern India

Chinese Vice Premier Liu He is leading Beijing's delegatin to the talks

The pound took off as traders got excited about Brexit progress

Facebook has lost several powerful financial partners which have dropped out of the alliance on the Libra digital currency planned by the huge social network

French sources said Dupont de Ligonnes, accused of murdering his wife and children before going on the run, was arrested at Glasgow airport following a fingerprint check

The UN annonunced a $1.4 billion shortfall on its operating budget this year, blaming the funding gap on around 60 states that had been late paying their dues

Demonstrators in Ecuador clash with riot police during a protest over a fuel price hike ordered by the government to secure an IMF loan

More than 300 people were killed in two 737 MAX crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia

Amazon, whose founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is seen here, set out a series of principles on corporate responsibility, including calling for regulation of facial recogition technology

Oil prices surged more than two percent on news that Iranian tanker the Sabiti has been hit by a suspected missile strike off the Saudi coast

Germany's federal transport authority KBA has ordered Daimler to recall hundreds of thousands of diesel vehicles for breaking emissions rules, the auto giant says

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan rejected U.S. pressure to end the offensive, pledging, "We will not step back."

General Motors went public with highlights of its latest contract proposal as a grinding strike moved towards a fifth week

Former US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch (C) arrives for a closed-doors deposition before House committees leading the impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump, on October 11, 2019

The agreement is not yet in writing, a process that will take about five weeks. Trump and Xi could sign the deal at next month's APEC summit.

Austrian writer Peter Handke's Nobel literature prize win has irked the Balkans, while voices beyond the region spoke out against honouring an admirer of late Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic; Handke is pictured October 10, 2019

Marie Yovanovitch says her dismissal was based on unfounded allegations by Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani.

The ratings also highlighted the growing age gap in each show's viewership.

Former US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch (C) arrives for a closed-doors deposition before House committees leading the impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump, on October 11, 2019