The United States has refused an extradition request from Britain for an American woman involved in a road accident that killed a U.K. teen.

Britain officially leaves the European Union on Jan. 31 after a debilitating political period that has bitterly divided the nation since the 2016 Brexit referendum.

The leaders of two of the European Union?s main institutions on Friday signed the divorce agreement governing Britain?s departure from the bloc next week, sealing the penultimate step in Brexit at a ceremony held without media access.

Hundreds of cases of a new viral respiratory illness have been confirmed in China and elsewhere since an outbreak began last month in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Scientists have identified the illness as a new kind of coronavirus. Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses, some of which cause the common cold. Others have evolved into more severe illnesses, such as SARS and MERS, although so far the new virus does not appear to be nearly as deadly or contagious.

Coco Gauff plays nothing like what her age ? still just 15 ? or her ranking ? 67th and rapidly rising ? would suggest.

Cairo airport authorities arrested a Dutch passenger of Egyptian decent on Friday, saying he was carrying illegal drugs in his luggage.

In the Indian capital?s Shaheen Bagh neighborhood, beside open sewers and dangerously dangling electricity wires, a group of Muslim women in colorful headscarves sit in resistance to a new citizenship law that has unleashed protests across the country.

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A man is accused of keeping a woman ?in sexual servitude? for five years, authorities in North Carolina said.

Israeli police said Friday they are investigating after a 'room was ignited' in a mosque on the outskirts of Jerusalem and Hebrew graffiti was found on an outside wall.