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The 6-2 6-4 second-round loss to Belinda Bencic at the National Bank Open followed her first singles win in more than a year.
Swiss lender Credit Suisse Group AG sought permission from an English court last week to initiate formal legal proceedings against Japan's SoftBank Group Corp over a $440 million dispute, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. The claims relate to Credit Suisse client funds that the now-defunct Greensill Capital had lent to Katerra, a U.S. construction group backed by Softbank's Vision Fund, FT said. Katerra subsequently filed for bankruptcy with more than $1 billion in liabilities.
LONDON (Reuters) -M&G posted a 44% fall in operating profit to 182 million pounds in the first half due to market conditions, the British life insurer and asset manager said on Thursday, though the profit numbers beat expectations. Insurers and asset managers have faced hits to their investment income and assets under management as a result of market shocks this year, while high inflation is encouraging potential customers to economise. M&G's assets under management and administration dropped 6% in the first half to 349 billion pounds, but again this was above forecasts of 340 billion pounds.
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Politicians, local councillors and members of the Highlands community have shared their devastation over the firearm incidents on Skye and in Dornie.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand house prices fell year-on-year for the first time in more than a decade, a report showed Thursday, as rising interest rates finally halted a dizzying boom that had only gained momentum after the coronavirus pandemic first hit. The Real Estate Institute of New Zealand reported median prices fell 1.8% in July when compared with the same month last year. The decline was more pronounced in the biggest city of Auckland, where prices fell 5.6%, and in the cap
Who knew exploring domains and solving puzzles would be such a great way to bring depth to characters we thought we already knew? HoYoverse, apparently.
(ANNews) – Joshua Morin is part of a new generation of Indigenous Advocates who did not see the value in attending the Pope’s Visit to Canada but instead focused on rebuilding their Indigenous ideology, belief systems, language, and community. He is also an example of why several advocates chose to give surviving Indigenous elders respect and waited until the Pope left Canada to express their thoughts on why they don’t accept the pope’s apology. The Pope’s apology came too late for many Indigeno
An air and sea rescue operation was underway Wednesday after around 50 people went missing when a migrant boat sank in the Aegean Sea.
BA will link London Gatwick with the capital, Georgetown, twice a week
The Garden of Eden is a labour camp ruled over by angels in this fable about freedom
The final races of Season 8 will close the chapter of Gen2 cars ahead of next year’s huge upgrade
De Jong’s summer saga is ongoing.
SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China's auto sales surged 29.7% in July from a year earlier to 2.42 million units, extending a recovery that began in June with the help of eased COVID curbs and government incentives. But sales for the first seven months were still 2% lower than the corresponding 2021 period, data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) showed on Thursday. Sales of new energy vehicles, which include pure electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids and hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles, increased 120% in July from the previous year.
The supermodel described Tom Kaulitz as ‘the one’
BANGKOK (AP) — Shares advanced Thursday in Asia after benchmarks closed at three-month highs on Wall Street as investors cheered a report showing inflation cooled more than expected in July. Hong Kong, Shanghai and Seoul saw gains of more than 1%. Tokyo was closed for a holiday. U.S. futures edged higher, while oil prices slipped. The government said Wednesday that consumer inflation jumped 8.5% in July from a year earlier. But that was down from June’s four-decade high of 9.1%. The S&P 500 surg
The prisoners at the penal colony in St. Petersburg were expecting a visit by officials, thinking it would be some sort of inspection. Instead, men in uniform arrived and offered them amnesty — if they agreed to fight alongside the Russian army in Ukraine. Over the following days, about a dozen or so left the prison, according to a woman whose boyfriend is serving a sentence there. Speaking on condition of anonymity because she feared reprisals, she said her boyfriend wasn't among the volunteers
Qatar will host the 2022 Fifa World Cup later this year; the first to be hosted by an Arab country and the second held entirely in Asia. It is the 22nd edition of the quadrennial tournament, which began way back in 1930.