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We're telling them: "we've seen your games, and we are challenging you". President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday named members of ruling Justice and Deve...

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Melanie Felgate, senior consumer insights analyst at data and analytics company GlobalData says: "SodaStream allows consumers to customize their own beverages t...

Gatwick resorts to whiteboards for flight information after IT crash

The problem was caused by an "ongoing issue" with the airport's IT provider, Vodafone , a spokesman for the airport told Business Insider. Gatwick Airport ...

Shots fired at U.S. embassy in Turkish capital, no casualties

The incident comes as tension between Turkey and the United States continues to boil. Gunshots were fired early Monday at the U.S. embassy in Ankara but c...

High growth under UPA government led to dramatic economic collapse: NITI Aayog

At a press conference today, former finance minister P. Chidambaram said that the data established that both terms of the UPA delivered the highest decadal gr...

Inflation report helps boost Canadian dollar

At 9:35 a.m. EDT (1335 GMT), the Canadian dollar was trading 0.56 per cent higher at $1.3078 to the greenback, or 76.44 USA cents. The country's Consumer Pric...

Secy Pompeo Meets With Mexico's Foreign Secretary Over NAFTA

The progress comes as the two countries race to finish working out changes to the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement , which has been under neg...

Markets Right Now: Walmart leads gains for US stock indexes

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (. DJI ) rose 426.73 points, or 1.7 percent, to 25,589.14, the S&P 500 (. SPX ) gained 26.85 points, or 0.95 percent, to 2,845....

Mailman finds python near mailbox in Overland Park

Once discovered, the carrier called for help from animal control, police said. The poor resident did not receive their mail today (obviously). "It was too big...

Twitter bans Alex Jones, Infowars from tweeting for seven days

After facing protests on its platform, Twitter has temporarily banned the account of USA conspiracy theorist and radio host Alex Jones .Twitter confirmed to N...

Nvidia sinks after cutting its guidance (NVDA)

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Trump says in 'no rush' to get NAFTA deal

Trump shoots back "OK if there is no breakthrough". In recent comments, Trump administration officials have said NAFTA could remain a trilateral deal with an...

Coles stores closed due to nationwide register outage

While the outage had affected stores across Australia, not every supermarket had been hit by the glitch. Coles supermarket stores were shut on Sunday mornin...

No Canadians: Air France unions want French CEO

The thrust of global media coverage at the time this report went to press focused on the unions" frosty reception to the Group's appointment of its " first' for...

Tesla sues Ontario government over auto rebate program

Since 2010, the Ontario government had offered incentives to individuals purchasing or leasing hybrid-electric or electric vehicles. In an application for jud...

Next Story Chipotle to retrain workers after OH illnesses

Health officials say they have identified the cause of a foodborne-illness outbreak stemming from a Chipotle restaurant in Powell, Ohio , that sickened at le...

House of Fraser website offline amid reported delivery 'wrangle'

A dispute with third-party distributor XPO Logistics over non-payment has led to the closure of House of Fraser's warehouse and the cancelling of online order...

Elon Musk: This Has Been The Most Painful Year Of My Career

Is there someone who can do the job better? Musk told the interviewer that he occasionally takes the prescription sleep aid Ambien to help him sleep when ...

Answers sought on FCC cyberattack claim

The letter was also signed by Democratic Reps. Pai and other members of the Federal Communications Commission went before a congressional committee for th...

Elon Musk’s "taking Tesla private" tweets attract official SEC subpoena

Tesla's share price fell down 2.6 percent to $338.69 on August 15, following news of the subpoena, lower than the share price the day prior to Musk's tweet ....

Trump asks SEC to study ending quarterly earnings for public companies

Abolishing the rule would "allow greater flexibility & save money" for businesses, Mr. Trump tweeted . "I'd like to see twice (a year ), but we're going to ...

Australia's unemployment falls to lowest in nearly six years

The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased to 5.3 percent and the labour force participation rate decreased to 65.5 percent, according to the latest fi...

Turkish lira weakens to 5.86, USA warns of more sanctions

On Friday, the Turkish lira TRY= snapped a three-day rebound, sliding more than 5 percent against the dollar on worries about the threat of more American ec...

Swiss Re reveals ties to Genoa bridge collapse tragedy

Autostrade, controlled by the Benetton family, which also own the United Colours of Benetton fashion label, insists that the bridge was under constant surveilla...

Nvidia Clears Its Crypto Cloud

Nvidia's gaming division, which makes up almost 60 per cent of total group sales, saw revenue rise 52 per cent from a year ago, while the company's fastest pace...

Turkish lira volatile as USA warns of further sanctions

Dashing hopes for a quick solution to the dispute, a Turkish court on Friday rejected an appeal for the evangelical pastor's release from house detention. Turke...

Turkey promises U.S. tit-for-tat response

Turkey's Finance Minister Berat Albayrak promised on Thursday the country will emerge "stronger" from the currency crisis sparked by a diplomatic spat with t...

Google not close to launching censored search engine in China

In the letter, which was obtained by The New York Times , employees wrote that the project and Google's apparent willingness to abide by China's censorship req...

Elon Musk says 'the worst is over' for Tesla

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