The Latest on Mideast developments amid rising tensions in the Persian Gulf region (all times local):

Facebook is opening an engineering center in London that will build tech tools aimed at keeping harmful content off its site.

French software company Dassault Systems says it will buy U.S.-based Medidata Solutions for $5.8 billion in cash.

Authorities say two Canadian women who were abducted earlier this month in Ghana have been rescued.

French President Emmanuel Macron promised to send a new oak to President Donald Trump after the tree he gave him during last year’s state visit to the United States died.

Front-runner Boris Johnson is officially launching his campaign to be Britain’s next prime minister, telling fellow Conservatives they must take the U.K. out of the European Union or see the party wiped out by angry voters.

A Kentucky deputy shot and paralyzed by police during an arrest says he was more concerned about getting shot by the inexperienced officers than the 'actual bad guys.'

A West Virginia, principal accused of plagiarizing Ashton Kutcher in an address to his school’s graduating class has been suspended without pay for five days.

A dozen politicians and activists on trial for their failed bid in 2017 to carve out an independent Catalan republic in northeastern Spain will deliver their final statements Wednesday as four months of hearings draw to an end.

The French justice ministry says two guards have been freed after a hostage-taking by an inmate armed with a hand-made weapon at a top security French prison in Normandy.