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Big gains in Latin America covered up U.S. declines at Colgate-Palmolive Co (CL.N) and Avon Products Inc (AVP.N), with the world's largest direct seller of cosmetics seen as having a harder road to recovery.

U.S. hog futures advanced on Thursday on renewed talk China may be seeking more U.S. pork, record high wholesale pork prices and higher live cash hog markets in the U.S. Midwest.

Shares of specialty tea retailer Teavana Holdings Inc surged as much as 73 percent on their trading debut on Thursday, as investors gravitate toward specialty consumer foods.

U.S. Men's National Team soccer coach Bob Bradley has been relieved of his duties on Thursday, after calls for his demise have increased in recent weeks.

Tropical Storm Don, the fourth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, was churning northwestward across the southern Gulf of Mexico toward the Texas coast.

Ryan Lochte became the first swimmer to break a long course world record since controversial polyurethane swimsuits were banned last year while James Magnussen ended a far longer Australian wait at the world championships Thursday.

Scorpex has entered into a deal with IET to install and operate waste gasification equipment in Mexico.

South Texas is the most drought-plagued area in the United States right now and Tropical Storm Don, brewing in the Gulf of Mexico, will likely bring much needed rain to the region when it hits the South Texas coast late Friday or early Saturday morning.

U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill., who has embodied the Tea Party's emphasis on fiscal responsibility by consistently espousing a message of government living within its means, is being sued for owing more than $100,000 in child support.

The Tropical Storm Don in the southern Gulf of Mexico is heading towards the Southeastern Texas coast and is expected to rain in Texas by late Friday, National Weather Service reported.

A new study incorporating interviews with more than 89,000 people in 18 nations revealed that 15 percent of people in high-income countries reported having been depressed, compared with 11 percent of those in low- or middle-income countries.

Fund managers are weighing up their defensive investment options as a litany of poor economic indicators from the UK, Europe and the United States hammers home fears another global recession is on its way.

An American has been sentenced to three years for the murders of four people in Mexico.

A look at where Khan fits with other elite boxers.

A rare infection that can paralyze and sicken, have affected 24 people in an area across the Arizona-Mexico border, said authorities on Tuesday. Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) normally affects only about one in 100,000 people, hence only after 16 cases appeared; it caught the attention of the health officials on both-sides.

Oil prices edged up in choppy trading on Tuesday, lifted by a weak dollar while markets were buffeted by the continued stalemate over the U.S. debt ceiling that hemmed in Wall Street.

California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law on Monday a bill allowing illegal immigrants to receive privately funded scholarships to attend the state's public colleges and universities.

A botched federal program that funneled more than a thousand firearms to Mexican drug lords became the target of bipartisan denunciations at a Congressional hearing on Tuesday.

A new study incorporating interviews with more than 89,000 people in 18 nations revealed that 15 percent of people in high-income countries reported having been depressed, compared with 11 percent of those in low- or middle-income countries.

BP announced second quarter earnings of 5.3 billion on Tuesday, a stark contrast from last year's second quarter loss of $17.15 billion, behind profits from skyrocketing oil prices.

Depression rates are consistently higher in more affluent countries than in low income countries, according to researchers who correlated socioeconomic data with depression levels.