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Neither the Revel Casino's ownership nor its "escalator of death" looks to be making any good moves soon in hard-luck Atlantic City.

Marina Silva appears poised to be her party's presidential candidate, replacing Eduardo Campos, who was killed in a plane clash last week.

Almost six-and-a-half years after it ceased such efforts, following a U.S. government bailout, the insurer returns to lobbying lawmakers.

Islamic State insurgents "massacred" some 80 members of Iraq's Yazidi minority in a village in the country's north, a Yazidi lawmaker and two Kurdish officials said on Friday.

The Spanish star edged Djokovic in straight sets, in his first win against the world No. 1 in six meetings.

Coca-Cola Co (KO.N) said Thursday it is making a cash payment of $2.15 billion for a 16.7 percent stake in Monster Beverage Corp (MNST.O) as the world's largest soda maker seeks to expand into faster-growing categories such as energy drinks.

President Obama told reporters he didn't expect the U.S. to have to stage an evacuation of the mountain, where thousands of members of the Yazidi religious minority had been trapped by militants, or to continue humanitarian airdrops.

Lawyers for former Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger on Thursday filed a formal appeal of the sweeping 2013 racketeering conviction on charges of committing or ordering 11 murders in the 1970s and 1980s.

A man was killed and two policemen were wounded in an attack on Quetta airport in western Pakistan on Thursday night, officials said

Lenovo's core PC business, which still accounts for roughly 82 percent of sales, continued to tighten its grip on the market.

NewLink Genetics Corp, which licensed an Ebola vaccine developed by Canadian government scientists, has enough doses on hand to launch the first human safety trial of an Ebola vaccine this summer, its chief executive said on Wednesday.

After seizing five oil fields and Iraq's biggest dam, Sunni militants bent on creating an Islamic empire in the Middle East now control yet another powerful economic weapon, wheat supplies, Reuters said in an exclusive report.

The exercises on the disputed islands are a blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's efforts to court resource-rich Russia.

The separatists opened fire on a bus taking the men to fight just outside the rebel-held city of Donetsk.

Data show that more money left Russian stocks and bonds in mid-July than at any other time in the last six months.

The decision to donate the vaccine came after the WHO said on Tuesday that it was ethical to offer untested drugs to people infected by the virus, Reuters wrote in an exclusive report.

An upstate New York man was accused on Tuesday of threatening to kill President Barack Obama and other political leaders just days after he was arraigned on charges that he had made previous online death threats against them, authorities said.

The Vatican called on Muslim religious leaders on Tuesday to condemn "unspeakable criminal acts" by Islamic State militants who have taken a series of cities in northern Iraq, forcing tens of thousands of Christians and Yazidis to flee their homes.

The United States will provide approximately $180 million on Tuesday to help feed the people of South Sudan, the White House said, citing a risk of famine there.

Some 1,150 Marines are stationed in Darwin in Australia's tropical north under a 2011 agreement that launched Obama's "pivot" to Asia.

The outcome of this review could affect any penalties regulators impose on the bank for anti-money laundering lapses.

Late last month, India torpedoed a deal to simplify, standardize and streamline the rules for shipping goods across borders.

Millions of gallons of gray sludge containing metals and minerals spilled into waterways last week from Imperial Metals Corp's Mount Polley gold and copper mine in British Columbia.

Mass production of the iPad with a 9.7-inch (24.6-cm) screen has already started, and it is likely to be unveiled by the end of current quarter or early next quarter, Bloomberg said, citing two people familiar with the matter.

The U.S. Postal Service continued to bleed money during its second quarter, despite an increase in package revenues and an emergency price hike that took effect in January.

Jobs growth in the U.S. since the 2008 recession has been undermined by lower wages, with workers earning an average 23 percent less than earnings from jobs which were lost, a report by an organization representing U.S. cities said on Monday.

President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that Russia is sending an aid convoy to eastern Ukraine despite urgent Western warnings against using humanitarian help as a pretext for an invasion.

A spokesman claimed Kiev's forces had now cut Donetsk off from the other main rebel-held city of Luhansk on the border with Russia.

A month of war has killed 1,910 Palestinians and 67 Israelis while devastating wide tracts of densely populated Gaza.