US consumption accelerated in June with a brighter outlook toward the end of Q2, whilst disposable incomes stagnated, resulting in a lower savings rates, whilst inflation still underperformed, weighing on growth prospects.
HSBC profits in the first half the year plunge by nearly 30 percent compared to last year. And there are more storm clouds ahead for Europe's biggest bank with potential fallout from the Brexit vote and China's slowing economy. Eve Johnson reports.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Republican presidential campaign of Donald Trump has planned another Iowa event — his third in nine days.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Republican presidential campaign of Donald Trump has planned another Iowa event — his third in nine days.
An Emirates Airline flight from Thiruvananthapuram crashlanded at Dubai Airport and caught fire on Wednesday. All passengers have been evacuated safely.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The European Union needs to come up with an alternative plan for tackling migration after Turkey threatened to back out of an accord to help stem the influx of migrants to Europe, Greece's migration minister told German daily Bild.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said over the weekend that Ankara would back out of the agreement with the EU if the bloc did not deliver the promised visa-free travel for Turks in return.
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Not even "Hamilton" can keep up with these numbers.
NEW YORK — Not even “Hamilton” can keep up with these numbers. The script to the London stage production “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two” sold more than 2 million print copies in North America in its first two days of publication, Scholastic announced Wednesday. That’s well below the 8.3 million
SAN DIEGO — A man opened fire immediately on a San Diego police officer who walked up to him on a dark residential street last week to ask if he lived nearby, prosecutors said, then shot into a patrol car, hitting the officer’s partner with five bullets as he sat wearing a seatbelt. Jesse Gomez
Turkish lawmakers want the U.S. to extradite U.S.-based Fethullah Gulen, who they say backed a failed coup. But the process is far from easy and depends on international politics as much as courts.
Turkish lawmakers want the U.S. to extradite a cleric they accuse of backing a failed coup. But the process is far from easy and depends on international politics as much as courts.
An annual international climate report about 2015, released Tuesday, said that “owing to the combination of El Niño and a long-term upward trend, Earth observed record warmth for the second consecutive year.” According to most estimates, 2014 was the warmest year on record, the report says, and 2015 surpassed that by 0.1 degrees Celsius (Fahrenheit), becoming 1.0 degrees Celsius warmer than preindustrial times.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A man opened fire immediately on a San Diego police officer who walked up to him on a dark residential street last week to ask if he lived nearby, prosecutors said, then shot into a patrol…
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A man opened fire immediately on a San Diego police officer who walked up to him on a dark residential street last week to ask if he lived nearby, prosecutors said, then shot into a patrol…
Global miner says first-half profit fell 47 per cent
The script to the London stage production "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two" sold more than 2 million print copies in North America in its first two days of publication, Scholastic announced Wednesday. Reviews for the "Cursed Child" book have been mixed, but the new Potter has topped the best-seller lists of Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com and brought in readers nationwide over the weekend for midnight parties celebrating the release.
The Mideast's biggest airline, Emirates, is confirming that a flight from India with 275 passengers on board was involved in an accident at Dubai's main airport.
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Officials at a community school in Dubuque, Iowa are challenging faculty members to have more class in the classroom, and to lead by example when it comes to their attire.
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Top Talkers: A growing list of Republicans are either withdrawing their support or wavering on Donald Trump for president. The Morning Joe panel continues its discussion of Trump's campaign and where it has gone this week.
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ASHBURN, Va., Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told a woman with a crying baby to leave his rally, moments after he told her he loved babies.
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Yonhap) -- South Korean boy group MonstaX and Korea-China K-pop girl group Cosmic Girls have teamed up to form the unit "Yteen," their agency said Wednesday. The temporary project brings together the two seven-member acts for joint a
Of course it was mostly about the quarterback. But in explaining how the injury to Andrew Luck torpedoed the Colts’ season last year, owner Jim Irsay also pointed to all the other many things that were screwed up about the 2015 Colts — who were better when Luck wasn’t playing. Irsay pointed to the constant concerns…
SCHIPHOL (ANP) - De aangekondigde staking van grondpersoneel van KLM heeft waarschijnlijk gevolgen voor 12.000 passagiers. Dat denkt de luchtvaartmaatschappij. KLM schat dat aan de actie woensdagavond hooguit 250 leden van vakbond FNV meedoen, maar de impact is wel groot. De verwachte schade bedraagt 3 tot 4 miljoen euro.