While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, July 30 edition

Paris attacks 'accomplices' charged in France

French authorities filed terror charges against two suspected members of the same Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) cell that massacred 130 people in Paris last November, a judicial source said.

The 29-year-old Algerian Adel Haddadi and the 35-year-old Pakistani Mohamad Usman were charged with "criminal conspiracy with terrorists", the source said of the men turned over earlier on Friday by Austrian authorities.

Investigators believe they travelled to the Greek island of Leros on Oct 3 on the same boat full of refugees as two men who took part in the Nov 13 attacks.

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Afghan cleric arrested for marrying six-year-old girl

An elderly Afghan cleric has been arrested after he married a six-year-old girl, officials said, in the latest case highlighting the scourge of child marriages in the war-battered country.

Mohammad Karim, said to be aged around 60, was held in central Ghor province as he claimed her parents gave him the girl as a "religious offering", officials said.

But they cited the family of the girl, believed to be in shock, as saying that she was abducted from western Herat province, bordering Iran.

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Judge rejects claims by 29 people to late singer Prince's $400 million fortune

A judge has rejected claims by 29 people that they are heirs to pop legend Prince's vast fortune but ordered genetic testing that could confirm two more descendants, court documents showed.

Among the claimants were five people who said they were children of Prince and, because the rocker had no recognised offspring, could potentially have gained his entire estate estimated to be worth more than US$300 million (S$400 million).

One said his mother had a brief sexual relationship with Prince but the judge said that any right of inheritance was voided as the alleged son was legally adopted by another family.

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Football: Manchester United target Pogba not a done deal - agent

No deal has been reached between Juventus and Manchester United concerning the touted transfer of French international Paul Pogba, the player's agent Mino Raiola insisted.

"Journalist = parrots. No deal done between clubs," Raiola wrote on Twitter.

"It's a game between Italy press and UK press who announce it first and who is worse."

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Indian star Priyanka Chopra won't compromise: She wants lots of babies

Indian superstar Priyanka Chopra is not making any compromises in swopping Bollywood for Hollywood.

The former Miss World, who has won an army of fans in the US since taking the lead in the American spy thriller television series Quantico last year, refuses to be stereotyped by her beauty or her origins.

"I didn't want to do a show that would stereotype me or put Indian people into a box. I'm a leading actress in India and I wanted to make sure I was a leading actress in whatever I did," she told AFP in Paris on a visit to promote the show, in which she plays an FBI agent suspected of committing a terrorist attack.

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