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Canada captured its first gold of the Pan Am Games in the women's K-4 500 metre kayak Saturday morning. Team members KC Fraser and Hannah Vaughan are expressing their appreciation for the "beautiful" medals.

Finland could be the eurozone country pushing for a Grexit in Saturday's marathon negotiations among eurozone's finance ministers, the Finnish state broadcaster Yle reported on Saturday.

Abbey Lee Kershaw looks chic on the red carpet while attending the Ruben Guthrie Gala Film Screening of The Ritz on Thursday (July 9) in Sydney, Australia. The 28-year-old Max Max: Fury Road actress was showing off her new blue and pink tinted hair while stepping out at the event. PHOTOS: Check out the latest [...]

The "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" trailer revealed Saturday during the Warner Bros. Hall H presentation at Comic-Con is here, and it gives fans an extended look at the repercussions Superman faces after his actions in "Man of Steel."

Onlookers watched in shock as a man died near a busy seafront.

Two weeks ago, I wrote about the figures showing that UK child poverty had failed to increase as expected. Contrary to what is widely assumed, the gap between those on high and low incomes actually narrowed a little under the coalition. I warned against crying “wolf” about rising inequality before there was evidence to back it up. Well... “wolf!”

Sport – even this self-confessed nut concedes – is hardly everything. True, had you been anywhere near the Camden Head in north London around tea-time on Friday, you would have been choking through air turned blue as one of Scotland’s exports vigorously, vainly, exhorted a rather more successful one to stick it to the Swiss master.

On the face of it, nothing could be more absurd, or riper for superannuation, than the Sunday trading laws, those hidebound proscriptions from a vanished age – or so the argument runs – that prevent a shop with more than 3,000 square feet of space from opening its doors for more than six hours on the Sabbath. And nothing, surely, could be more symbolic of the Chancellor’s plans to, as he rather coyly put it, “ensure a truly national recovery”, here in our high-octane consumer-driven, 24/7 society... Читать дальше...

It is time to start thinking about Europe rather than Greece. At some stage the Greek rescue story will be settled – it may be settled quite soon – and more normal life there will resume. But the outcome, whatever it is, cannot be stable. The main reason is that Greece’s debts are too great to be “sustainable”, which is a polite way of saying that they cannot be repaid. They will continue to overhang not just European politics but also the entire eurozone economy. But those debts cannot be written off because that is against eurozone rules. Читать дальше...

In case you hadn’t noticed, he’s back. Vainer, more bombastic and more preposterous than ever, Donald Trump is running for president again. And the Republican Party to which (for now at least) he belongs, is scared out of its wits.

David Cameron is a naturally placid type, not overly keen on picking fights with people. The chillaxing Prime Minister tends to avoid confrontation when he can, often pulling out of policies where he thinks a prolonged fight is on the cards. So, why on earth has he decided to reopen one of the bitterest battles of the last parliament, on planning reform?

In recent days, British holidaymakers have been arriving home on hastily arranged flights from Tunisia. The UK Government suddenly told British tourists to leave last week, claiming that a further terrorist attack is “highly likely” after 38 people died in Sousse at the end of June. Thirty of the victims were British.

Since my decision last week to retire from showbusiness in order to concentrate on my pet pig’s career, the phone has been ringing off the hook. Every call has been for Wilbur’s services in varied areas of the entertainment world.

New research shows that 39 per cent of overweight teens believe they are “the right weight”. Here’s proof that, despite all the belittling and badgering of body-fascist media, some young people have managed to cling on to a sense of self-worth, and isn’t that cause for celebration? Not according to Professor Jane Wardle of University College London and one of the authors of the paper: “We need to find effective ways of helping too-heavy teenagers slim down and maintain a healthier weight,” she cautioned. Читать дальше...

Lip-readers were in great demand during George Osborne’s Summer Budget statement on 8 July as everyone wanted to know whether Iain Duncan Smith said “fan-tas-tic” or “fucking get in” when he double fist-pumped the air with delight at the announcement on the living wage. But I was more interested in what David Cameron said to Osborne as the Chancellor sat down following his one hour, six-minute speech.

The financial life support that has sustained Greece’s membership of the eurozone is now failing. It has transferred not just money. It has transfused political, social and economic poison into the country’s bloodstream. If the crisis is to be resolved – rather than merely postponed – some common sense is badly needed, about both the minimum action required to enable Greece to recover and about who or what injected the poison.

Here we go again. This week our elected representatives will spend valuable legislative time talking about and voting on possible changes to the law on fox hunting. As we report today, it seems likely that the outcome will be to leave the ban on hunting unchanged.

Pope Francis, in a massive ceremony Saturday, praised the women of Paraguay who, as the "lifeblood" and "keepers of the memory," resuscitated a country devastated by war.

Saturday night is of crucial importance for the P5+1 – Tehran talks in Vienna on Iranian nuclear program, a diplomatic source in the Iranian delegation told Sputnik, noting that there are two-three issues tempering the deal.

Lawyer wants charges dismissed against Massachusetts mom who lived in home with dead babies

Waves as high as 10 meters batter a seawall in southern China as Typhoon Chan-hom approaches.

A grease fire did an estimated $35,000 in damage to an apartment building Friday night, according to the Henderson Fire Department. No one was hurt. Also according to ...

Serena Williams beat Spain’s Garbine Muguruza in the women’s singles final of the 2015 Wimbledon Championships in London on Saturday. Photo: Getty

Hundreds of fans showed up to Saturday’s panel for Fox’s post-apocalyptic comedy The Last Man on Earth, with stars Will Forte (Phil), Kristen Schaal (Carol), and January Jones (Melissa) and executive producer Chris Miller looking back at Season 1 and offering teeny, tiny hints about Season 2.