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Fellow Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has defended his use of saying “anchor babies”, mocked Bush on Twitter and said the former Florida governor was trying to pander to Latinos.

The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 was last down 5 percent at 1,355 points, wiping around 400 billion euros ($460.16 billion) off the index and taking its losses for the month to more than 1 trillion euros. The Nasdaq composite declined 19.76 points, or 0.4 percent, to 4,506.49....

The daily said that market capitalisation fell by Rs. “This is the biggest one-day slump in China since 2007”.

Fears that Chinese growth is weakening dragging down the global economy with it are already hammering commodities and world stock markets. For years, investors have been fretting that the market could drop sharply when the central bank starts raising rates.

“The initial reaction in the equity market was aggressive as many expected that this news would be out at the weekend”, Guardian Stockbrokers’ director of trading, Atif Latif, said.

The benchmark S&P index has accumulated 9.95 percent of losses in just five sessions.

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The S&P 500 slid 77.68 points, or 3.9 percent, to 1,893.21. Investors access the group via the Powershares DWA Momentum Portfolio, an exchange-traded fund that saw assets balloon to more than US$2 billion in August.

World markets had already been on edge after China’s surprise devaluation of the yuan last week and a 33 percent fall in its stock markets since mid-year.

Behind that were signs Beijing is struggling to prevent a stall in the world’s second largest economy, and that its actions, like the devaluation of the Yuan last week, was having a negative impact throughout emerging markets and would drag in developed economies as well.

Women had less than a third of speaking parts in the most popular films from 2007 to 2014, according to a new study that gives further evidence of persistent inequality in Hollywood, on-screen and off. Across all three positions, men outnumber women behind the camera at a rate of...

Egyptian authorities have detected the first case of a unsafe SARS-like virus in the country, the state news agency said Saturday.