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Puerto Rico failed to make a $58 million payment on its Public Finance Corporation (PFC) bonds, the first-ever default on Puerto Rico debt. "Due to the lack of appropriated funds for this fiscal year the entirety of the PFC payment was not made today," said Melba Acosta, the president of the island's Government Development Bank, in a statement. This is the first time the U.S. territory has missed a payment on its $72 billion in bonds outstanding. Further defaults could hit investors widely, as... Читать дальше...

Last week, Sergey Meniaylo, the governor of the city of Sevastopol, in Crimea, introduced the staff of the Chersonesus Archaeological Museum to the new director, Archpriest Sergey Khalyuta.  The museum, which contains artifacts from the ancient Greek colony of Tauric Chersonesus and the Byzantine city that succeeded it, is an important academic center, with a staff that includes historians, archeologists, and numismatists. Among its holdings are the ruins of Tauric Chersonesus, now a national preserve... Читать дальше...

Apple Inc.'s stock dropped 2.4% on Monday, to officially enter correction territory for the first time in 7 1/2 months. The blue-chip technology company's stock closed 10.9% below the Feb. 23 record close of $133, and at the lowest since Jan. 30. Many view declines of up to 10% from a significant peak a pullback, and declines of at least 10% to up to 20% a correction. A bear market is a drop of 20% or more. The last time the stock closed at least 10% below a significant peak was Jan. 16, 2015. Читать дальше...

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WASHINGTON — Facing increased competition from within her own party, Hillary Rodham Clinton is spending $2 million airing the first television ads of her presidential race in the early-voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire. The ads, which start Tuesday and run statewide, focus on Clinton’s work on behalf of families and her relationship with her late mother — central themes of her early campaign. The spots are part of an effort to reintroduce one of the country’s biggest political... Читать дальше...

The story became big news in Colombia when ex-Newcastle striker recovered £44k show horse that he lent to a friend who gave it away while drunk at a local fair

J. C. Penney Co. Inc. on Monday said it appointed former Home Depot Inc. and Target Corp. executives as senior executives at the Plano, Texas, department store to improve its bricks-and-mortar as well as e-commerce businesses. Michael Amend will join from Home Depot as executive vice president for omnichannel on Tuesday. Mike Robbins will join from Target as senior vice president of supply chain on Aug. 10. Executive vice president Mike Rodgers has left "to pursue other interests," J. C. Penney said in a statement. Читать дальше...

A Kansas City police officer adopted a dog he rescued from a hot car.

Interview: Veteran defender is back on the south coast for the most intriguing challenge of his career, writes Jim White

Childhood friend Terry McCann said Cilla Black told him she knew she was going to die and her beloved late husband Bobby Willis was "waiting for her".

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LeAnn Rimes looks boho chic as she heads to dinner with her husband Eddie Cibrian on Friday evening (July 31) in Beverly Glen, Calif. That evening, the 32-year-old singer also celebrated the rare blue moon occurrence with her friend Kiki Caldas. PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of LeAnn Rimes It looks like celebration included [...]

It looks like the dinosaurs may be growing out of their island habitat.

U.S.-led airstrikes targeting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria have likely killed at least 459 civilians during the past year, a report by an independent monitoring group says.

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The Uttar Pradesh government on Monday set up a one-man inquiry commission against the beleaguered civil servant Surya Pratap Singh. The inquiry, headed by Anil Kumar Gupta, Board of Revenue chairman will probe whether Singh’s conduct over the past few months has violated the All India Services Conduct Rules.

Channing Tatum’s other half, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, disclosed the couple’s plans to have more children. The “Step Up” actress spoke to E!News Saturday, August 1, while attending the 5th annual Celebration of Dance Gala with her husband at the Club Nokia in Los Angeles. When asked about having more children, Dewan-Tatum replied, "Yeah, yeah!  I don't know when, but we definitely want to."

Lilly Baumann, who vanished in 2014, was found near Gainesville just hours after a woman recognized her on CNN's 'The Hunt with John Walsh.'

Development fund to the tune of Rs 10 lakh has allegedly been siphoned off in Benti -- the village adopted by Union home minister Rajnath Singh. Located around 20km from Lucknow in Sarojininagar block, the village was adopted by Rajnath under the Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana.

Ankara considers Crimea's reunification with Russia, as deplorable as repression against the Crimean Tatars in the last century and will not recognize it, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, as quoted in a foreign ministry statement emailed to Sputnik Turkey on Monday.

Big game hunters who fly Delta are going to have to find another way of getting their gory trophies home.

In a bid to protect the low lying areas of city’s new real estate hub, the state government will construct an embankment road along the Gomti river connecting Shaheed Path and the outer ring road in the city. While reviewing the ongoing work on the Gomti riverfront development project, chief minister Akhilesh Yadav announced the construction of the proposed embankment which will prove a boon to various government and private housing and commercial projects being planned in Gomtinagar Extension and beyond along Shaheed Path.

Sheriff: Woman charged with killing father, 6-year-old daughter; hid bodies in landlord's shed

Amid the scandal over a dentist from Minnesota who killed the world famous Cecil the lion during an illegal hunt in Zimbabwe, authorities there are now alleging that a doctor from Pennsylvania also illegally killed an African lion.