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Fed Chair Janet Yellen twice this week expressed confidence that the USA economy is growing strongly enough to justify raising the federal funds rate, which has been stuck at 0-0.25 per cent since December 2008 to support a rebound from the Great Recession. It would be the first...

Republican presidential candidate, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, addresses the Sunshine Summit in Orlando, Fla., Friday Nov. 13, 2015.

But a new poll focusing on Iowa, where the first caucus takes place in February, gives Mr Cruz 31% support, a commanding lead over Mr Trump on 21%.

On Monday, Chelsea play top team Leicester City who claimed their ninth league victory in their last outing and are two points clear of second-placed Arsenal.

The West Indies head into this Test after being pummelled by a Cricket Australia XI with limited first-class experience.

Three Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank and Gaza on the 11th Friday of the third Palestinian “intifada” (uprising), according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

In announcing the new build last week, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of engineering systems Gabriel Aul implied that more frequent updates were in the works. Generally, the bigger phone, the Lumia 950 XL beats the smaller Lumia 950 in performance.

“The diplomats have done their job: the Paris Agreement points the world in the right direction, and with sophistication and clarity”, said Jeffrey Sachs, director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University in NY.

This week, President Barack Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act — a rewrite of No Child Left Behind.

The young man who just won an award that will be mentioned in the first paragraph of his obituary is a small-town guy from Yulee, Fla., pretty much where Florida, Georgia and the Atlantic Ocean meet.

McGregor, who unified his interim title with Aldo’s gold-plated strap to become the official UFC featherweight champion, admitted that he did not expect a short night as he was willing to go the full 5 rounds with his arch-nemesis.

The Cleveland Circle Chipotle was voluntarily closed down after an inspection revealed cooked chicken was being kept at too low of a temperature. The health department said in a statement that initial testing conducted by the State Public Health had shown the presence of norovirus.

At the start of this year’s X Factor I’m sure even they, in their hearts of hearts, never imagined they’d be in the final two but now Reggie n Bollie are in with a great shot at victory. After some special performances, hosts Olly Murs and Caroline Flack...

“Maybe when they know there is another party, they will reform the country”.

He predicted he would not fare well in the poll, lamenting that “every time the Des Moines Register does a poll, I always do badly”.