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The British pound jumped 0.8 percent to $1.2210 in early Asian trading on Wednesday, bouncing back from a low below $1.21 touched in late U.S. trade the previous day. Some market players suspect sterling benefited from a report by Bloomberg that British Prime Minister Theresa May has accepted that Parliament should be allowed to vote on her plan for taking ...

Argentina, lacking the inspiration of injured captain Lionel Messi, suffered a humiliating setback in their World Cup qualifying campaign when they lost 1-0 at home to Paraguay on Tuesday. Paraguay stunned the twice world champions with a fast break from deep in their own half, Angel Romero playing the ball into the path of Derlis Gonzalez who beat Sergio Romero ...

Working parents who send their children to daycare no longer need to worry about whether this puts their kids at increased risk for obesity, a U.S. study suggests. While several previous observational studies have suggested children in daycare may be more likely to gain too much weight than similar kids cared for by parents at home, the current study looked ...

Kim Kardashian on Tuesday sued a website for claiming she had staged an armed robbery in Paris that her sister said had left her terrorized and traumatized.   The reality TV star filed a defamation lawsuit in federal court in New York against the U.S. celebrity gossip site MediaTakeOut.com for reporting that she had faked the robbery, and then filed ...

Donald Trump has fallen further behind Hillary Clinton and now trails her by 8 points among likely voters, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll, with 1 in 5 Republicans saying his vulgar comments about groping women disqualify him from the presidency. The national tracking poll was launched after Sunday night’s second presidential debate, where Trump was pressed to explain ...

The chairman of Democrat Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, John Podesta, said the FBI is investigating the hack of his emails as published on WikiLeaks. Speaking to reporters aboard the campaign plane, Podesta said the FBI probe is part of a broader investigation into the hacking of Democratic computers. He said Russia is behind the hack and may be colluding with ...

Legendary Batsman Javed Miandad has announced to forgive former Pakistan Captain Shahid Afridi after an ugly war of words between the star cricketers. Both players were involved in a Spat after Afridi said in an interview that money had always been an issue with Miandad. Afridi had said that Miandad used to say petty things despite being a huge star ...

Actress Shailene Woodley was arrested in North Dakota on Monday while protesting a planned pipeline that Native Americans say will desecrate sacred land and damage the environment, an incident that was live streamed on Facebook. The 24-year-old actress was taken into custody shortly after noon local time with 27 other people on misdemeanor charges of criminal trespass and engaging in ...

Top military officials from Russia and China blasted Washington on Tuesday over the missile systems during the 7th annual Xiangshan regional defense forum in Beijing. The officials said the move by Washington and Seoul represented a threat to regional stability and was a step towards a new global arms race. Washington was using Pyongyang’s nuclear tests as a pretext to ...

“There were contacts between the Kremlin and the Elysee this morning to offer to Putin a working visit on Syria, but excluding all other events that President Hollande could have taken part in,” President Francois Hollande’s office said Tuesday. “In response to this proposal, Russia has just indicated that it wants to postpone the visit planned on October 19,” a source at the ...