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Jian Ghomeshi, 47, a former Canadian Broadcasting Corp. radio host, was charged in Toronto with four counts of sexual assault and one count of choking after several women came forward with evidence of attacks, police said.

Joice Mujuru, 59, Zimbabwe's vice president and once seen as a top contender to succeed President Robert Mugabe, was barred from running for a seat on a top committee of the ruling party over accusations she plotted to assassinate Mugabe, 90.

Valerie Amos, the top relief official at the United Nations, who has grappled with some of the most intractable humanitarian disasters in her four years on the job, is resigning, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced.

Cameron Shenk, 26, a Boston man who police say fell naked through the ceiling of a women's bathroom at Boston's airport and later assaulted an elderly man, was ordered held without bail.

Clodagh Hartley, a journalist with Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid The Sun, was cleared in London of bribing a press officer for stories about government spending plans.

Hamza Nawaz, 23, and his brother Mohommod Nawaz, 31, were sent to prison for conspiring to attend a terrorist training camp in Syria, becoming the first Britons jailed after returning from the war-torn country.

Taya Kyle, the widow of former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, considered the deadliest sniper in U.S. military history, failed to persuade a judge to order a new trial or rule against a jury's verdict in favor of former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, who won a defamation suit over claims in Chris Kyle's book American Sniper.

Kathy Rowe, 53, of San Diego pleaded guilty to a felony charge of stalking in connection with a rape-solicitation scheme carried out against a couple who outbid her for a house.

Bernie Tiede, the mortician whose conviction for killing his longtime companion, 81-year-old Marjorie Nugent, and storing her body in a freezer inspired the dark-comedy movie Bernie, was granted a new sentencing hearing by Texas' highest court.

A Section on 11/28/2014

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