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Singer Britney Spears.(Photo by Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage) Britney Spears has helped to make a young teen’s dreams come true by sending a message of encouragement after learning her hit song “Toxic” helped the child recover from a stroke. Maegan Johnson, from Arizona, recently took to Facebook.com to share her story after surviving a brain aneurysm and a stroke when she was 7. She revealed she fell into a deep depression as she struggled to regain her speech and movement, but when she heard the pop superstar’s 2003 chart smash... Читать дальше...

The term has become obsolete, say critics, as developing markets overtake developed ones in some areas

It groups economies as diverse as China and the Czech Republic but what does it really mean?

'Cause there are a lot of bad people in the world, but there are also a lot of good ones ...

The 32nd annual Lincoln lantern float, “70 Years After: The Hiroshima/Nagasaki Effect? What are we doing?” is Saturday, 7:30-9 p.m., on the northeast shore of Holmes Lake.

CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis explains global factors pressuring the price of oil.

He may fashion himself conservative, but there's nothing traditional about the way Ted Cruz eats his bacon.

Fans of Benedict Cumberbatch are swotting up on theatre etiquette, Shakespeare and TfL ahead of the Barbican's Hamlet

As yet unscreened for critics, saddled with bad buzz, and certainly not supported by fanboys, 20th Century Fox will be holding its breath when "Fantastic Four" opens this week. Will a mass audience see the Marvel branding and show up? Or  has the lack of enthusiasm all around dampened the film's chances? Producer Simon Kinberg isn't going down without a fight. “I am proud of it. It’s not a disaster. It’s a good movie," he told EW. "....I’m happy with the way that it turned out." Director Josh Trank... Читать дальше...

Don’t blame Fox for the debate rules.

The Sports Xchange
Carolina Panthers defensive tackle Star Lotulelei was carted off the training camp practice field Monday with an apparent foot injury.

I interviewed Robert Mugabe the day after he was elected Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister, in 1980, in the country’s only democratic poll. The election marked the end of a fifteen-year civil war and ninety years of British colonial rule. Mugabe made no pretense of sustaining democracy. “As you saw from the decision of the people, it is virtually only one party, the Patriotic Front, that is in power,” he told me. In a nine-way contest, his party had taken sixty-three per cent of the vote. “The rest of the parties have been rejected... Читать дальше...

Restricted free agent Alex Galchenyuk is back with the Montreal Canadiens after signing a two-year contract worth $2.8 million, a report said. The team announced the deal but did not disclose the terms of the agreement and ESPN reported the amount of the contract for the 21-year-old center from Milwaukee.

‘Brics to Blocs’ captures influence of two economic tides that order the EM universe

Goodwin built lender’s global empire, Hester began turnround and McEwan leads it into privatisation

No visitor to Nairobi’s State House, a sprawling Palladian mansion designed by the Kent-born architect Herbert Baker more than a century ago, could be in any doubt about the symbolic power of ivory in this, the powerhouse of East Africa.

A second U.S. doctor is accused by Zimbabwe officials of illegally killing a lion.

There is a war going on in Africa. It is not a war that always reaches the headlines, but it is a brutal and bloody one nevertheless. It is a struggle that is being fought across numerous African countries, from Gabon to Kenya, Tanzania to Botswana. The battle is on to save the continent’s rapidly diminishing elephant population from extinction in the wild.

The proliferation of high-profile hacks has led investors rushing to find start-ups building next-generation security software.

The dog days of summer may already be upon gold prices. Gold futures for December delivery, the most actively traded contract finished down $5.70, or 0.5%, to $1,089.40 an ounce, continuing a drop in the precious metal from July. Gold succumbed to the pressure of a stronger U.S. dollar , which was weighing on the dollar-denominated yellow metal even as U.S. stocks , with the Dow down as much as 180 points, or 1%, in afternoon trade. Falling stock prices should elicit haven buying in gold but moves in the dollar... Читать дальше...

Other member states face far greater pressures from asylum seeker numbers

Apple shares moved into correction territory, but BTIG analyst Walter Piecyk says it can shake off the dip.

Industry dismayed as White House favours bigger role for renewables

"Protocol Zero" (Berkley), by James Abel

"Protocol Zero" (Berkley), by James Abel