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New York Grants License To Trade More Virtual Currencies
New York authorities on Wednesday granted a license to Coinbase to trade in two additional virtual currencies,...
Saudi Arabia Loses Fitch Rating Over Budget Concerns
Saudi Arabia on Wednesday lost its high-quality credit rating from the Fitch agency, which lowered the kingdom a notch...
Drug Lord ‘El Chapo’ Healthy and Learning English In Jail
Jailed Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is healthy and even learning English, US prosecutors argued,...
Laptop Ban Sparks Ire Among Mideast Travellers
Travellers across the Middle East expressed frustration Wednesday at a ban on large electronic devices for flights to...
Teach Autistic Children How To SWIM
Swimming lessons may help to save the lives of thousands of autistic children, scientists claim. Young sufferers are...
UN Rights Chief Blasts Sri Lanka Over War Probe
The UN rights chief on Wednesday condemned Sri Lanka's persistent failure to probe war-era atrocities, suggesting the...
Sharp Rise In Israeli Settlement Projects In 2016
Construction on new Israeli settlement homes in the occupied West Bank rose by 40 percent in 2016 compared with the...
BCCI Announces Windfall For Contracted Indian Cricket Players
The Indian cricket board Wednesday doubled the salaries of its contracted players while retaining former skipper...
Trump Says Briefed On Incident In London
US President Donald Trump was briefed on events in London outside the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday, after reports...
NGOs Demand Access As Yemen Suffers ‘open-Air Massacre’
Humanitarian groups on Wednesday demanded access to civilians on the brink of famine in Yemen, describing the two-year...
French Police Detain Six Grenoble Rugby Players Following Rape Claim
Six Grenoble rugby players including two Irishmen, two New Zealanders and an Australian, were detained Wednesday...
Zimbabwe Opposition Call For ‘biased’ Electoral Body To Be Scrapped
A coalition of Zimbabwean opposition parties on Wednesday staged a protest ahead of next year's polls, demanding the...
Beatlemania Blooms Belatedly In Cuba
While their American and European peers twisted and shouted to The Beatles in the 1960s, in Cuba childhood sweethearts...
US Teen’s Gang Rape Streamed Live On Facebook
Chicago police on Wednesday were looking for up to six suspects who allegedly raped a teenage girl and broadcast the...
‘Matter of Time’ Before IS Leader Baghdadi Killed
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson declared Wednesday that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's death is...
US Existing Home Sales Slow In February
Amid rising prices and slim inventory, sales of existing homes slowed in February, cooling from January's record pace...
Trump Wishes Iranians Happy New Year
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday issued belated best wishes to those celebrating the Persian New Year. In a...
Indian ‘murders Daughter In Suspected Honour’ Killing
An Indian father slit his daughter's throat with a meat cleaver and dumped her body on her boyfriend's doorstep in a...
Erdogan Warns Europeans ‘will Not Walk Safely’ On the Streets
Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan has issued a chilling warning that Europeans 'will not walk safely on the streets' as...