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Bjork, Jamieson Lead As Aiken Steals Show With 62
Swede Alexander Bjork and Scot Scott Jamieson shared the Tshwane Open second-round lead Friday, but South African...
US Services Sector Speeds Up In February
The US services sector, the main driver of the economy, saw growth hit its fastest pace 15 months in February,...
Veteran Fernando Verdasco Reaches Dubai Final
Fernando Verdasco broke three times in the deciding set as the unseeded Spaniard defeated Robin Haase 7-6 (7/5), 5-7,...
Third Jewish Cemetery Damaged In Surge of US Anti-Semitic Acts
Vandals tumbled and defaced headstones at a Jewish cemetery in Rochester, New York, local officials confirmed Friday,...
Comcast’s NBCU Discloses $500 Mn Stake In Snap
Comcast Corp's NBCUniversal on Friday disclosed it has taken a $500 million stake in Snap, the messaging service which...
FBI Arrests Man In Bomb Threats To Jewish Centers
The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested a man in St Louis, Missouri on Friday suspected of phoning in bomb threats...
Chemical Weapons Injure Seven In Mosul Area
Seven people, among them five children, have been hospitalised over the past two days near Iraq's Mosul with injuries...
For Migrants, Canada Is Haven, Not Trump’s America
A taxi stops in the small town of Champlain. Loaded down with belongings, a family with two children gets out and...
Jane Fonda Reveals She Was Raped and Abused As A Child
American actress Jane Fonda revealed she has been raped and was sexually abused as a child, in an interview with...
Zimbabwe Journalists Arrested Over Mugabe Health Report
Two Zimbabwean journalists were arrested Friday over a newspaper report that described President Robert Mugabe as "in...
Merkel ‘plans US Meeting With Trump Mid-March’
Chancellor Angela Merkel is planning to hold her first meeting with US President Donald Trump in Washington on March...
Tunisia Zoo To Close After Crocodile Stoned To Death
A zoo in the Tunisian capital where visitors stoned a crocodile to death is to close temporarily, the local affairs and...
China Counts Over 100 Billionaires Among Top Communist Legislators
China counts more than 100 billionaires among its top legislators, with 209 of the richest holding wealth nearly...
McDonald’s Serves ‘McLizard’ To Pregnant Indian Woman
Would you like some fries with that lizard? A pregnant woman in Kolkata in eastern India has complained of finding a...
Sri Lanka Pile On Runs In Bangladesh Warm-Up
Dinesh Chandimal scored an entertaining 190 for a Sri Lankan Board President's XI Friday as Bangladesh's bowlers took a...
Four S.Sudan Soldiers Arrested Over Village Rape Spree
Four South Sudanese soldiers have been arrested over the mass rape of about a dozen women and girls in one village last...
Trapped Syrians Tell of Misery In No Man’s Land
A Jordanian army ambulance pulled up at a makeshift clinic a few hundred metres from a desert border camp where tens of...
Syria Peace Talks Inch Forward Under Diplomatic Pressure
UN-sponsored Syria peace talks limped towards a close on Friday after more than a week in Geneva with little sign of...
UN Concerned At ‘serious’ Abuses, Torture In Sri Lanka
The UN on Friday warned that a range of serious abuses, including torture, appear to remain widespread in Sri Lanka and...