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The coach, meanwhile, defended his team's ploy of batting first on a damp pitch as the West Indies were bowled out for 196 in their first innings.

Social networking firms have been looking at how to use online advertising to dissuade youths from joining Islamist and other radical groups, with findings due to be published in a Monday report.

As part of a share-swap deal, Uber will become the largest shareholder in Didi Chuxing after combining its UberChina unit with the Chinese ride-hailing company, according to people familiar with the deal.

As part of a share-swap deal, Uber will become the largest shareholder in Didi Chuxing after combining its UberChina unit with the Chinese ride-hailing company, according to people familiar with the deal.

There’s no end in sight to the national strike in the petroleum sector - but oil firms maintain they have contingency plans in place.

The National Union of Mineworkers has vowed to go on strike at Eskom from August 8.

An official says Turkey's Foreign Ministry has summoned a German diplomat in protest at a court decision that prevented President Recep Tayyip Erdogan from addressing a demonstration in Germany.

Australia is on the move. The land down under is currently moving north by about 7 centimeters (2.75 inches) annually due to normal tectonic movements, and, as a result, the nation’s local coordinates are out of sync with those from the global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) by over 1.5 meters (4.9 feet) — which, incidentally, is the average height of a kangaroo.

The dollar has pulled away from lows it hit following disappointing US growth figures late last week.

Asian shares rose on Monday after disappointing US economic growth data reduced expectations that the US Federal Reserve will raise interest rates.

Post the WC meet, the BCCI's SGM has been convened on August 5 in Delhi to discuss the Supreme Court order which has shaken up the Board's mandarins, a lot of whom will be impacted by it.

CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s razor-close election could end up in court, with the re-elected government on Monday holding out hope of extending its single-seat majority. The candidate whom Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s conservative government hoped would deliver it a 77th seat in the 150-seat House of Representatives, Ewen Jones, conceded defeat Monday in his Queensland

California's two-year legislative session will come to a close at the end of August, which means the next few weeks will see a sprint of public policy infused with interest-group politics on as many as 1,500 bills. The August proceedings in the second year of a legislative term, before lawmakers...

Facing well-financed campaigns to legalize recreational pot, a national coalition that includes former Rep. Patrick Kennedy has raised more than $2 million to fight initiatives in five states this year, including a November ballot measure in California.

Goldman Sachs has cut its three-month rating on equities to "underweight", saying its risk appetite indicator has turned neutral.

RIO DE JANEIRO, July 31 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Sunday entered the athletes' village for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in a modest ceremony, with only the country's officials on hand. North Korea and Uganda were welcomed into the athletes' quarter

Companies are struggling to find the right tone to take with their customers, particularly in the travel industry.

In the video, the panicked baby seal was seen running towards the ocean as soon as a man freed him using a knife.

Six more state officials have been charged in connection with the Flint water crisis, taking the total to nine people facing criminal charges – however Governor Rick Snyder and senior staff continue to evade responsibility for the humanitarian disaster. The scandal highlighted the state of America’s infrastructure crisis and worried parents across the nation due to the alarming levels of lead tested in children, while the government cover up prompted outrage. Attorney General Bill Schuette vowed... Читать дальше...

"He is a black soul. And this is totally unfit for the leadership of this beautiful country." — Khizr Khan, father of Humayun Khan, a decorated U.S. Army captain who was killed in Iraq in 2004, to CNN about Donald Trump. The Republican presidential nominee criticized Khan's parents after remarks Khizr Khan made at the Democratic National Convention last week.

"He is a black soul. And this is totally unfit for the leadership of this beautiful country." — Khizr Khan, father of Humayun Khan, a decorated U.S. Army captain who was killed in Iraq in 2004, to CNN about Donald…

The Olympic Games Rio 2016 have yet to commence, but for sports fans the world over, the excitement is already well underway. In the last 12 months, over 23,000 years of content have been watched on YouTube for the four most popular Olympic Games’ sports alone - athletics, gymnastics, diving and swimming, and volleyball. To put this in perspective, that's the equivalent of watching all 17 days of the Olympic Games, 24 hours a day, not once, but over half a million times. Nearly two thirds of that... Читать дальше...

A shooting in a crowded entertainment district in downtown Austin left one woman dead and three others wounded.

De Nationale Loterij in België is op zoek naar de winnaar van de Lotto. De gelukkige heeft 6.176.202 euro gewonnen, maar heeft zijn prijs nog niet opgehaald, laat de Loterij weten.