June 17 (UPI) -- Nearly a dozen people died and more than 100 more were injured in an earthquake in China on Monday night.

June 17 (UPI) -- International auction house Sotheby's accepted a $3.7 billion merger with French-Israeli billionaire Patrick Drai on Monday.

June 17 (UPI) -- A shooting during the Toronto Raptors' championship parade Monday left four people injured, police said.

June 17 (UPI) -- The government of the Canadian province of Quebec passed legislation banning certain public employees, including teachers and judges, from wearing any religious symbolism.

June 17 (UPI) -- A survivor of the mass shooting at a Parkland, Fla., high school last year said Monday that Harvard rescinded his acceptance to the university due to "offensive statements" he made in high school.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reinforcing its recommendation to travelers to be up-to-date on measles vaccination before heading to Europe, where an outbreak of the disease is reported.

June 17 (UPI) -- Comcast on Monday launched a new feature to allow customers with physical disabilities the ability to control their television using only their eyes.

June 17 (UPI) -- Menthol cigarettes have been disproportionated marketed to black communities for decades, and the effects of that promotion had a lingering effect, new findings show.

June 17 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a case brought by a lesbian couple who sued after an Oregon bakery refused to bake a wedding cake for them citing religious convictions.

June 17 (UPI) -- The world population is expected to climb to just under 10 billion over the next three decades -- a rise of nearly 20 percent over the current population, a United Nations report said Monday.