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Market liquidity tends to spike when options and futures on indexes and stocks expire, spurring trading volume as large derivative positions roll over.

The hosts overcame a nervous start to run out winners

A rally in Germany as part of the Fridays For Future movement ahead of the September 20 global day of action

Liam Hemsworth learned about his separation from Miley Cyrus through social media.

Colt will no longer produce the AR-15, the weapon of choice for U.S. mass shooters.

Amazon recently showed a drone design for its "Prime Air" fleet and expects to begin large-scale deliveries by drone in the coming months

One cage diver had a near-death experience when a shark suddenly attacked his cage while observing it in its natural habitat in Guadalupe Island in Mexico.

The Indonesian fires are an annual problem during the dry season, but this year's are the worst since 2015 and have added to concerns about wildfire outbreaks worldwide exacerbating global warming

Australia has downgraded the reef's long-term outlook to 'very poor'

Presentation of the Rugby World Cup 2019 in Japan from September 20 to November 2

An unprecedented water shortage in drought-stricken eastern Australia is driving home the brutal realities of climate change and threatening the much-mythologised Outback way of life.From sunny Queensland all the way to Sydney, more than a dozen small towns are facing their own "Day Zero" within months, a water crisis reminiscent of the taps being turned off in Cape Town and Chennai.It's getting hotter, it's getting drier, and adding to the misery, precious water supplies are being tasked to fight hundreds of bushfires ripping through the Australian countryside.

A tiny penguin that made the mammoth journey from New Zealand to Australia has been nursed back to health and released into the wild -- in the hope it will find its own way home.The emaciated Fiordland penguin was found struggling on rocks near Lorne, south of Melbourne, about 2,500km (1,500 miles) from its native habitat of New Zealand.Melbourne Zoo head of veterinary services Michael Lynch said the bird was so underweight it had to be gradually reintroduced to food and the water over several weeks.

The United States saw a drop of five percent in new permanent residents, with 1.1 million in 2017

A Facebook Portal TV remote control is seen on display during a media event held in San Francisco

Prayut was the five-year junta regime chief before a disputed March election tilted to the military formally ushered him in as a civillian prime minister

Diamond pythons "kill their prey by constricting them until the suffocate — but they can bite if they feel threatened. Usually they just try to get away."

Miley Cyrus is excited about her new song topping the charts.

Kate Middleton has worn several items from the Royal Collection that Meghan Markle has not.

Budweiser-maker InBev had planned to list in Hong Kong earlier this year but pulled out citing a lack of support

London's Metropolitan Police said the initiative will see it provide Facebook footage of training by its forearms command unit

Foreign organizations may have been exposed to the theft of secrets from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police National Intelligence Coordination Centre