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Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens has signalled bank investors may face a future of lower returns.

Oliver Brown: ATP should let Briton miss the World Tour Finals - it's the exceptional treatment that Murray has done more than enough to earn

NEW YORK - A Kardashian-worthy phone case rimmed with tiny lights, a keepsake book of "Letters to My Love" and a banana, peanut butter and chocolate cake called the Elvis are among Oprah's Favorite Things of 2015.

NEW YORK (AP) — A Kardashian-worthy phone case rimmed with tiny lights, a keepsake book of "Letters to My Love" and a banana, peanut butter and chocolate cake called the Elvis are among Oprah's Favorite Things of 2015. While declaring the sugary Elvis namesake from Carousel Cakes "stupid good," she also put the traditional holiday yule log on notice by including a deep-dish cherry pie made by a California bakery, Sweet Lady Jane. [...] lest we forget about Hanukkah, there's a flat challah in the shape of a menorah... Читать дальше...

Up to 20,000 Britons in Sharm El-Sheikh who may have to be evacuated, as airport chief quits following No 10 announcement to cancel all flights

Wounded Taliban fighters were being treated in a Doctors Without Borders hospital in northern Afghanistan that was bombed by U.S. forces last month, but there were no armed men or fighting in the area at the time, the charity said Thursday, as it released ...

The Victoria and Albert Museum in London said it was 'stupefied' by reports that they had turned down the chance to exhibit the former Prime Minister's clothes.

The biggest threats facing Denmark in the coming years include Russia, cyberattacks and the Islamic State militant group, also known as ISIS, according to the country’s national risk assessment released Wednesday evening. The report from the Danish Defense Intelligence Service said the Nordic state faces “serious and ever more complicated” threats, the Local reported.

Recording live-action scenes for virtual-reality devices has been limited by the fact that cameras are stuck in one position and headset wearers can't lean their heads over to get a different view. The spherical head unit includes hundreds of tiny cameras that measure light coming in from every direction, a technique known as light field photography. The camera will allow viewers to do things like lean to their left or right within about a cubic meter of space (1.3 cubic yards) to look around real-life objects rendered in the virtual world. Читать дальше...

Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou said his historic summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping this Saturday is the product of years of diplomacy.

Kraft Heinz reports quarterly results as a combined entity for the first time.

The Columbia County Sheriff’s Office is asking for help in identifying a female involved in a possible animal cruelty case.

NEW YORK - U.S. stocks moved lower for a second-straight day Thursday, following mixed quarterly results from companies like Facebook and Whole Foods Market. Investors are also preparing for the release of the government's monthly jobs report, out Friday.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks moved lower for a second-straight day Thursday, following mixed quarterly results from companies like Facebook and Whole Foods Market. The social network reported an 11 percent gain in quarterly profits, helped by higher advertising revenue. Valeant Pharmaceuticals, the high-flying pharmaceutical stock from earlier this year, was down sharply yet again on Thursday, falling $13.70, or 15 percent, to $78.14 following reports that a major hedge fund had sold their investment... Читать дальше...

Seattlepi.com reports (http://goo.gl/dATddU ) that 37-year-old Michael Bienhoff Sr. and 31-year-old Karl Pierce were found guilty of first-degree murder Wednesday in the 2012 shooting that killed Precious Reed. The preacher had planned to buy marijuana from Bienhoff.

RABAT, Morocco - Morocco's justice minister has defended the country's decision to jail a former Guantanamo inmate for at least two months, dismissing claims that there was an agreement to free him.

Lawyers for Younis Chekkouri say they were given promises from the U.S. State Department that he would not be held for more than 72 hours upon his return to Morocco from the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

LUXOR, Egypt - Egypt opened three tombs in the ancient city of Luxor to the public for the first time on Thursday, hoping to spur interest in tourism despite the shadow of last weekend's airline crash in the Sinai Peninsula.

The opening, planned before the airline disaster, is part of government plans to highlight new archaeological sites to encourage tourism. The cause of Saturday's crash of a Metrojet flight packed with Russian vacationers returning home from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh is under investigation, but the Islamic State extremist group has claimed responsibility and British Prime Minister David Cameron said it was "more likely than not" that a bomb brought down the flight. Tourism, a key foreign currency earner for Egypt's economy... Читать дальше...

A new multi-disciplinary program is hoping to ward off the life-threatening effects of childhood obesity

The Washington Redskins have come under fire for years. Adidas is offering to help high schools nationwide drop Native American mascots. The athletic shoe and apparel maker said Thursday it will provide free design resources to schools looking to shelve Native American mascots, nicknames, imagery or symbolism. Adidas announced the initiative in conjunction with the White House Tribal Nations Conference on Thursday in Washington.

The rifts revealed in the book raise questions that will be difficult for presidential candidate Jeb Bush to ignore.