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Customers who are already on their holiday may be asked to pay for their hotels again.

Camp Wekeela for Boys and Girls is about to battle it out.

Nicolas Pepe turned down Liverpool to join Arsenal from Lille this summer, according to a report.

A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these is legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the real facts:

Those 'who support the #MeToo movement should not support this movie'

Citizens may submit suggestions within a fortnight to the Superintendent of Gardens

Cboe Global Markets plans to sell its headquarters on LaSalle Street. | Cboe

A spokeswoman refused to discuss reports the options exchange is eyeing space in the Old Main Post Office.

Seven encounters in last five days

Agency to seek police protection for 38 sensitive witnesses

This past Monday, Uber shocked the industry with the news it was cutting about 400 marketing employees—a third of its global marketing department. Now the marketing community is rallying together to help those individuals land on their feet. 

Court also extends protection from arrest to M.P. CM’s nephew

Filed under: Lifestyle, Living, Living

We all know kids who started reading (as in full books) at 18 months. Others had the gross motor skills to ditch their training wheels at four. One friend’s son plays Mozart on the piano and devours Harry Potter books. (He’s six.) And while all of these achievements are amazing—and debatably innate as opposed to parent-directed—they’re not necessarily concrete predictors of academic success. Want to know what is? Curiosity.

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CLEVELAND (AP) - Cleveland Indians pitcher Danny Salazar returned to the injured list with a strained right groin, one day after appearing in his first game in two years.

What is amazing is that well-educated people often swallow nonsense without any application of thought or judgement

CDC: Overdose deaths now higher in cities than rural areas | TheHill  The Hill

Drug overdose deaths in the U.S. are now higher in cities after years of being more common in rural areas, according to data from the Centers for Disease ...

Cindy Barshop said her 9-year-old, Jesse, had a "poignant" response to comments about trans kids made by Lopez, who has since apologized.

A teacher on a family vacation at a state park in Arkansas unearthed the largest diamond found at the popular diamond-bearing siteso far this year

A seriously ill patient faces an average $88,000 in medical bills in a year--$34,100 of it for medicine, new data show

Residents’ association says units are adding to pollution

(Fox News) A small North Carolina gun shop has drawn criticism from gun control advocates and progressives for a billboard calling four Democratic minority congresswomen “idiots.” The sign advertising Cherokee Guns in Murphy, 240 miles west of Charlotte, features photos of Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts […]

Government is seeking an amount of 1.5 billion dollars for the purchase of cocoa beans for the 2019/2020 crop season. According to a motion tabled in Parliament, COCOBOD wants a receivables-backed Trade Finance facility from a consortium of banks and financial institutions. The motion is expected to be approved today, Friday, bef ...

The death of 22-year-old Saoirse Kennedy Hill from a suspected drug overdose has fueled speculation of the alleged "Kennedy Curse."

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has sued Justice, Food and Agriculture as well as the Registrar General rsquo;s Department for contracting the services of unauthorized waste management companies. Miss Linda Kumbuno, Prosecuting on behalf of the AMA told the Adjabeng District Court presided over by Mr Isaac Addo, that the institutions failed to comply with notices served on them and had also refused to sign unto the polluter pays principle to help eradicate filth in the metro ...

Famed Nigerian academic, Akin Oyebode, says President Akufo-Addo must apologize to Nigerians over the treatment meted to Prof. Augustine Nwagbara, a Nigerian lecturer in Ghana who reportedly spoke ill about Ghana in a viral video in Ghana. Oyebode, who is an international law and jurisprudence professor in an interview with Punch Nigeria rsquo;s Tunde Ajaja said an apology was necessary because ldquo;if we were to kick Ghanaians out of Nigeria, how would they feel? rdquo; Alt ...