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Silver futures trade sharply higher Monday, suggesting growing demand for gold’s sister metal, which is in position to score its best settlement in two years.

Silver futures trade sharply higher Monday, suggesting growing demand for gold’s sister metal, which is in position to score its best settlement in two years.

India and China on Monday agreed to maintain peace on the border as ceremonial Border Personnel Meetings (BPM) on the occasion of People`s Liberation Army (PLA) Day were held on Monday in Jammu and Kashmir`s Ladakh region, an Indian Army official said.

“I am much weaker than she is, in such matters,” Khizr Khan said of his wife, Ghazala, in an interview on MSNBC with Lawrence O’Donnell on Friday, the day after he had addressed the Democratic National Convention. Ghazala was sitting beside him then, and she had been standing beside him the night before, as he told the story of their son, Captain Humayun Khan, an American soldier who died in Iraq. Watching them, it would seem difficult to doubt the strength of either the husband or the wife, or... Читать дальше...

NAIROBI, Kenya — Nearly 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of cocaine have been seized at the country’s main seaport by U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials and police, Kenyan police officials said Monday. The cocaine was seized from a container delivered by ship from Brazil, said a senior police official who insisted on anonymity because he is

Buffalo Sabres forward Evander Kane pleaded not guilty Monday to charges alleging he grabbed three women during an altercation at a downtown bar in June.

On July 29, as the Olympic torch was being carried through the streets of Angta dos Reis, a city near Rio de Janeiro, a group of protesters stole the flaming torch and extinguishing it. The following is a list of similar mishaps that have happened to the Olympic symbol during the run-up to the Games of the past few decades.

More than 6 inches of rain in less than three hours created a torrent that swept through downtown Ellicott City, Md., over the weekend. At least two people were killed.

LONDON (AP) — The renowned Battersea Dogs and Cats Home is offering Britain's government a bit of know-how to discourage cat fights on the doorstep of the national seat of power. The animal rescue center said Monday a feline welfare specialist has been in contact with Downing Street and the Foreign Office after No. 10's resident mouser, Larry, was reportedly in a scrap with Palmerston, the Foreign Office cat.

There is no doubt children bring warmness and light to weddings. Weddings are not just the same when there are little children in the train to cheer the newly wedded couples up. Having those little ones in pretty dresses and tiny tuxedos add more colour to the event. Many dating couples try screening out the […]

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Higher BMI was shown in a study of twins to increase risk for diabetes, but did not appear to affect risk for heart attack or death, according to researchers.

“Guy Novel” (Permanent Press), by Michael Ryan Michael Ryan is primarily known as a Guggenheim-winning poet, although he has also written a critically acclaimed memoir and a book of essays. But his first novel, “Guy Novel,” is part wildly improbable spy thriller and part goofy love story in the vein of “The Hangover” movie trilogy.

Jamaican sprinter Elaine Thompson and 400m hurdler Janieve Russell have been given until Aug. 8 to prove their fitness for the Olympics.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The cost of Oregon's public pension system will increase about $885 million over the next two years, a higher increase than was previously expected.

Brazilian soldiers guarded the Olympic beach volleyball arena in Rio de Janeiro last week.

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HAMILTON, Mont., Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Five hundred families in Montana have been urged to evacuate due to a fast-moving wildfire that has now spread to 3,505 acres.

The Saints struck quickly in free agency to make a deal with Coby Fleener in hopes of continuing a trend of strong performances by tight ends on the receiving end of passes from quarterback Drew Brees. Brees liked what he saw from Fleener on tape, where the quarterback picked up “an uncanny ability to separate”…

Police just after 2 a.m. took a call reporting a disturbance and shots fired. Just after 2 a.m. Saturday, police learned 18-year-old Elijah Zeller had been dropped off at a hospital with a gunshot wound.

In a sign of increasing lack of trust in the EU, a new Eurobarometer survey shows a huge rise in people's fear of terrorism and immigration, following the massive influx of migrants into the EU in 2015 and the spate of terror attacks that followed.

Which means September is expected to receive excess rainfall.

Oil is down more than three percent, hovering at $40. The "Fast Money Halftime Report" traders discuss their views.