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Entertainment One owns popular cartoon series 'Peppa Pig', about a swine with a British accent who loves jumping in muddy puddles

The U.S. military reiterated its commitment to a "free and open Indo-Pacific" as its ship sailed through the strait, a move that is set to increase tensions between Washington and Beijing.

Higher open likely for Wall Street Friday after the important U.S. stock index futures looked up Friday morning.

On a sweltering day in eastern China a squad of footballers wearing blindfolds hurtles after a ringing ball, occasionally clattering painfully into each other.But Jiangsu province's blind football team hardly care -- even when they break the odd bone -- because the sport is a rewarding break from the massage parlours, where many of China's visually impaired population are employed.Chen Shanyong, the star player and almost completely blind since birth, co-owns a massage business adorned on the outside with a picture of him wearing a gold medal.

Activists in Hong Kong have been rallying in support of British consulate employee Simon Cheng, who has been detained by mainland authorities

Wine trade between the United States and the major wine-producing countries of the European Union

As a tattooist's black ink fills the petals of Hong Kong's Bauhinia flower on her upper thigh, 'C' says the indelible act of rebellion will forever serve as a reminder of the city's summer of defiance."No matter how many years pass, I'll remember this year; I decided to stand up to fight for my freedom and to fight for what I really care about," said the finance worker who asked to be identified only by an initial.

The consulate employee was missing since Aug. 8 after he was detained on his way back to Hong Kong from a business trip in China.

Patriotic Indian actress Priyanka Chopra-Jonas has been dragged into the political mess that is India's annexartion of Jammu and Kashmir.

Pro-China activists march on the streets of Sydney to rally against ongoing protests in Hong Kong

Google on Thursday said it disabled a series of YouTube channels that appeared to be part of a coordinated influence campaign against pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.The announcement by YouTube's parent company came after Twitter and Facebook accused the Chinese government of backing a social media campaign to discredit Hong Kong's protest movement and sow political discord in the city.Google disabled 210 YouTube channels that it found behaved in a coordinated manner while uploading videos related to the Hong Kong protests, according to Shane Huntley of the company's security threat analysis group.

Serena Williams, right, and Maria Sharapova will meet in a first-round match next week at the US Open

US State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus called the deployment of the survey vessel "an escalation by Beijing"

Duterte may be concerned that the Chinese president will not take him seriously and will try to prevent him from expressing his opinions on the matter.

Ford has named Steven Harris president of Changan Ford, succeeding Nigel Harris, who is retiring at the end of the year.

Interest rates for US Federal Reserve and European Central Bank, 2005-2019.

The July 21 incident at the station had marked a turning point for the now three-month protest that began for real on June 9 when hundreds of thousands of people marched to protest a controversial extradition bill.

An analyst believes Apple will continue to suffer from weaker sales even if the prices of the iPhones don’t go up, a report says.

New Delhi-based ONGC Videsh shares interests in the oil block at the center of the new standoff, along with Russia's Rosneft, a Moscow-based petroleum refining company.

The moves to silence Chinese-run accounts on Twitter and Facebook were greeted with protests and claims of hypocrisy in the mainland

CCTV footage of the incident showed the boy sitting in the restaurant along with his friend, holding the phone which was plugged to a wall socket. Suddenly, the victim’s body jolts up after he receives a shock from the phone.