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On Thursday, the weekly report on initial jobless claims showed claims totaled 274,000 last week, right in-line with expectations for 270,000. Firm retail sales data also released Thursday added to a sense of economic strength.

A man buys cherries in Monastiraki in downtown Athens on July 14, 2015.

A Cheong Wa Dae spokesman said Obama re-invited Park to Washington.

A spokesman for Brown, a Jacksonville Democrat, said she would file a lawsuit urging the court “to keep Congressional District 5’s boundaries as they are now”.

He also threatened on August 13 that Ukrainian products would be added to the Russian blacklist if Kyiv implemented the economic parts of its Association Agreement with the European Union.

A friendship between a fawn and a rabbit seemed like something that could only happen in a Disney movie, but now the fantasy has come to life.

Convicted national security leaker Chelsea Manning has reportedly been threatened with indefinite solitary confinement for violating prison rules.

“It’s a great day for the Indianapolis Colts, T.Y. Hilton and his family”, General Manager Ryan Grigson said, per the team’s official web site.

Twitter, on the other hand, has preferred to keep its direct messaging (DM) system within its main interface, while also imposing the same 140-character limit to DMs to maintain one of the website’s most popular identifying features.

While in China the fall in jewellery demand was 5 per cent at 174 tonnes due to slow economic growth and a turbulent stock market, in India it dropped 23 per cent to 118 tonnes following heavy unseasonal rains in Q1 and drought in Q2 that impacted rural incomes and affected gold...

Iran’s crude oil production will not rise until global sanctions against it have been lifted, a senior Iranian oil official was cited as saying on Tuesday.

The most recent fallout between the often-controversial presidential candidate and the network occurred when Trump lashed out at Fox News host Megyn Kelly after her question during the GOP debate about his disparaging comments on women.

Ashwin fell in the bowler’s next over when a good length ball sneaked through the bat-pad gap and crashed into the offstump.

One of Stewart’s amusing foes, Arby’s, also marked the occasion this week by buying two ads on Wednesday’s show. I spent three decades-plus doing network news, but if you ask me today, what do I pay more attention to, John Oliver and Jon Stewart or the evening...

Pakistan, which is believed to have strong influence over the Taliban, had been mediating peace talks launched last month, but postponed them indefinitely after the announcement of Mullah Omar’s death.