Central bank raises benchmark interest rate in an effort to stabilise the country's financial crisis.
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Florida sheriff backs Uber driver who killed 'goofball'
"This is a justifiable homicide all day long," says a Florida sheriff about the shooting.
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Hayabusa-2: Japan sets date for spacecraft's asteroid touchdown
Japan's space agency sets dates for its plan to explore the surface of an asteroid with robots.
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Macron: French 'Gauls' resistant to change, unlike 'Lutheran' Danes
The French president causes an outcry as he pokes fun at attitudes to his economic reforms.
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Stéphane Pauwels arrest: Football presenter charged over armed robbery
One of Belgium's top football TV presenters is charged with being an accomplice to an armed robbery.
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McCain and Biden's long friendship
The Arizona senator and the former vice-president shared a decades-long friendship.
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The power of 'pink money' in India
Some businesses in India have found that catering to the LGBT community makes financial sense.
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Colorado police tell handcuffed journalist: 'Act like a lady'
Susan Greene was arrested as she used her phone to record police detaining an African American.
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The first cyclist to 'Everest' on Everest
JJ Zhou took on a fiendish cycling challenge on the world's highest mountain.
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Why a plane is dropping trout into a lake from above
A mountain lake is being re-stocked with trout from the air by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.
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Tablet bends 'like ancient scroll'
A Canadian university has developed a tablet with a flexible screen that can rolled up.
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Coffee war brews in the land of tea
Luckin Coffee, a new chain in China where customers must pay by app, is taking on traditional cafes.
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How Eto'o helped homeless ex-Cameroon captain
Cameroon's Norbert Owona, homeless for two years, thanks Samuel Eto'o for promising him a new house.
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Kanye West finally answers Jimmy Kimmel's Donald Trump question
The rap star also apologises for saying slavery "sounds like a choice".
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Uzbekistan tax officials to wear family ID badges
The new identity cards are designed to remind the wearer of their responsibilities.
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Why were there so many serial killers in the 1980s?
One historian suggests in a new book that the ravages of World War Two might have contributed.
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Why Australia is talking about a French au pair
A minister's decision to personally intervene in a visa case is attracting national attention.
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Movie madness: Why Chinese cinemas are empty but full
Chinese government investigators say certain investment companies are faking box office results.
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Iosif Kobzon: Russians mourn 'Soviet Sinatra'
Iosif Kobzon was the soundtrack to the lives of many Russians but had a controversial career.
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Why India activist arrests have kicked up a storm
The issue has heated up online and people are staging protest rallies against the arrests.
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Sen. John McCain: What to know about Washington tributes on Friday and Saturday
John McCain will lie in state at the U.S. Capitol with a ceremony honoring his life and service on Friday, beginning at 11 a.m. EDT.
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Nation's capital prepares a hero's welcome for late Sen. John McCain
For three tribute-filled days beginning Thursday night, Sen. John McCain will get one final hero's welcome in Washington.
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Winners and losers from college football's opening night
Central Florida and Texas A&M are the big winners from college football's opening night. Purdue, meanwhile, suffered a tough loss to Northwestern.
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Four dead, scores injured after Greyhound bus and truck collide in New Mexico
A horrific collision between a Greyhound bus and a semi-truck on an interstate in New Mexico killed several passengers and sent scores of others to area hospitals, authorities reported Thursday.
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Trump volunteer blocks news photographer's camera at Indiana rally
A volunteer stretched out his hand over the lens of a news photographer's camera after a protester disrupted Donald Trump's campaign event.
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Sen. John McCain's 2008 running mate Sarah Palin not invited to his funeral, reports say
Sen. John McCain's 2008 running mate Sarah Palin and other members of the Arizona Republican's failed 2008 presidential campaign were not invited.
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The next iPhones, Apple Watch leak as Apple preps for Sept. 12 event
Ready for new iPhones? A new leak may have revealed Apple's two new iPhone X successors. Meet the iPhone XS.
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