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VINA DEL MAR, Chile (Reuters) - An early goal from Gonzalo Higuain was enough to give Argentina a 1-0 victory over Jamaica at the Copa America on Saturday and secure their place in the quarter-finals as winners of Group B.

In South Carolina, shootings reignite debate over Confederate flag. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.

In South Carolina, shootings reignite debate over Confederate flag. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.

In South Carolina, shootings reignite debate over Confederate flag. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.

In South Carolina, shootings reignite debate over Confederate flag. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.

There’s nothing quite like a good night’s sleep. Doctors have always known it – and now big business is waking up to the fact.

Behind the façade of a peaceful Georgian country manor hotel, nestling in 18 acres of rolling Herefordshire grassland, lay a dark secret involving a former medical director of the FBI which last week came to light at a medical board hearing in the US state of Virginia.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Top-ranked Germany hammered Sweden 4-1 to reach the quarter finals of the Women's World Cup on Saturday, overcoming the heat to brush off their European rivals in a second round game in Ottawa.

Aleighsa Welch is in Columbia this summer, working at Dawn Staley’s basketball camps and trying to start up some camps of her own.

ACCRA (Reuters) - Bulldozers razed hundreds of homes and businesses in the poor Sodom and Gomorrah neighbourhood of Ghana's capital on Saturday so the authorities can start widening a lagoon to prevent a repeat of this month's deadly floods.

ACCRA (Reuters) - Bulldozers razed hundreds of homes and businesses in the poor Sodom and Gomorrah neighbourhood of Ghana's capital on Saturday so the authorities can start widening a lagoon to prevent a repeat of this month's deadly floods.

Hundreds of thousands of people have marched through London protesting against the Conservative government’s austerity measures.

Lying in the heart of the Somerset country-side, Pilton is a typical English village. On any given day, locals gossip at the post office, pop into the Crown for an ale, or hold a WI meeting. There are fewer than 1,000 residents – and almost everyone knows each other.

I'm constantly compared to Robert Harris and Nick Hornby [her husband and brother respectively]. But what can you do? There's no way I could ever catch up with them at this point and we're not in competition with one another. I got some stick with my first book [The Hive, published in 2013), one review saying: "She even uses the same name, Hornby, and mentions that she's married to Robert Harris [in the blurb]." As if I was writing under my own name in order to get publicity! But you can't compare us as novelists... Читать дальше...

UNIVERSITY PLACE, Washington (Reuters) - Jordan Spieth and Patrick Reed were preparing for the U.S. Open spotlight on Saturday while Jason Day was back at Chambers Bay, tackling the links-style layout a day after collapsing on his final hole.

UNIVERSITY PLACE, Washington, June 20 (Reuters) - Rory McIlroy carded his best score of the week at the U.S. Open on Saturday, but was disappointed with a level-par 70 that he felt should have been at least five strokes better.

CLEMSON — For starters, Monte Lee plans to bring Clemson back to the Lowcountry.

The Malian rebel alliance, the Coordination of Movements of Azawad, signs peace deal with government. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).

The Malian rebel alliance, the Coordination of Movements of Azawad, signs peace deal with government. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).

The Malian rebel alliance, the Coordination of Movements of Azawad, signs peace deal with government. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).

The Malian rebel alliance, the Coordination of Movements of Azawad, signs peace deal with government. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).

The Malian rebel alliance, the Coordination of Movements of Azawad, signs peace deal with government. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).

Tens of thousands of revelers turned out Saturday for Coney Island's 33rd annual Mermaid Parade despite gray skies and steady drizzle.

Three teenagers have been charged with the murder of a schoolboy who was found dead in a Carlisle cemetery.

Fifteen years ago, I had an epiphany. I'd hit 30, three decades that culminated in my being a teacher and a single mum, living in Bexleyheath, south-east London. Yes, I had the school holidays, but call me flighty, I wanted more. If I could do anything, anything, what would it be? And let's face it, it had to be something outré, otherwise I'd be wearing that single-mum tabard for the rest of my life.