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A 3-year-old child, Sholom Tauber, died after being accidentally left inside a car unattended for hours in the parking lot of a South Florida preschool.

Nick Kyrgios was fined several times at Wimbledon due to his behaviour on-court during the tournament.

Major stablecoins must comply with the same safeguards as traditional forms of payments, global regulators said on Wednesday, tightening controls over a battered crypto sector.

The European Union's body for dismantling failed banks said on Wednesday it would ratchet up pressure on lenders over the coming months to bolster their defences so that none remain "too big to fail" by January 2024.

U.S. President Joe Biden arrives in Israel on Wednesday to kick off a high-stakes trip to the Middle East dominated by efforts to persuade Gulf allies to pump more oil and bring Israel and Saudi Arabia closer together.

Japan's Fast Retailing, home of Uniqlo, is expected to report quarterly profit grew 11% overall on Thursday, but investors' focus will be on whether China is recovering and how domestic consumers are faring with inflation and the weak yen.

Panama protests continue despite fuel and food price cuts

Finding fame... and family? AleXa's Korean-American K-pop dream

G20 finance leaders will meet in Bali this week for talks that are due to include issues like global food security and soaring inflation, as host Indonesia tries to ensure frictions over the war in Ukraine do not blow discussions off course.

The Bank of Canada on Wednesday is expected to make its largest interest-rate increase since the late 1990s as the central bank hastens tightening to tackle an overheating economy and runaway inflation.

Anxiety levels rose along with temperatures in Shanghai on Wednesday, as medical workers sweated beneath their hazmat suits while administering compulsory mass testing for COVID-19 in a city that recently emerged from a painful two-month lockdown.

South Korea vows probe of 2019 North Korean repatriations

China's economic growth likely slowed sharply in the second quarter as COVID-19 lockdowns hit factories and consumer spending, a Reuters poll showed, suggesting policymakers may have to do more to spur a faster recovery.

The wealth management arm of Swiss bank Pictet Group is buying Chinese equities again more than 18 months after it shunned the asset class, joining other foreign investors dipping back in as they bet on improving economic prospects and less regulatory intervention.

Conservative lawmakers will vote on Wednesday to narrow the field of eight candidates hoping to succeed Boris Johnson as party leader and prime minister, as rival camps trade barbs in an increasingly fractious contest for the leadership.

Britain's economy grew unexpectedly in May, driven by a rise in doctor appointments but also broader demand for things such as holidays, according to data that could reassure the Bank of England about its plans to keep on raising interest rates.

End of the line for Sri Lanka's 'Terminator' president

Spain's Cellnex said on Wednesday it was withdrawing its offer for a stake in Deutsche Telekom's towers business, paving the way for a competing bid from a consortium led by KKR to secure the estimated 18 billion euro ($18.02 billion) deal.

When farmer Rita Tolu saw "a big black wave storming across the horizon and taking over the fields" in April, she knew that little of her dried fodder and alfalfa crops would be left in the following days.

The Ousmane Dembele transfer saga has been dragging on since the end of last year.

David Emanuel said the Duchess of Sussex tried to channel Wallis Simpson with her dress to the Thanksgiving Service.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were spotted driving into the talk show host's Montecito mansion a few weeks ago.

An insider claimed that the Duchess of Sussex makes weekly trips to L.A. and dines in fancy places.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex live in their Montecito mansion in Santa Barbara, California with their two children Archie and Lilibet.

Owen Jones said the Duke of Sussex's upcoming book will provide "transparency" on how the monarchy works.

Turkey says it has 20 merchant ships waiting in the region that could be quickly loaded and sent to world markets.

The head of a body representing global airlines hit out at new restrictions at London's Heathrow on Tuesday, saying the airport had under-estimated the speed of the recovery and was focused on profits at the expense of airlines that must now foot the bill.

Last week an avalanche triggered by the collapse of the largest glacier in the Italian Alps amid unusually warm temperatures killed 11 people.

Johnson is staying on in Downing Street as prime minister until the internal party contest finds his successor. The result is due on September 5.