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Matt Damon delivers moving speech in protest against standardized testing.

Escaping the heat wave as high temperatures continue through August.

Market cheers job cuts, streamlining.

Trinidadian Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar told the Trinidad Express that she was advised that the crash happened because of low visibility because of the rainfall. She also said decisions were made that if the airplane couldn't safely land then it would return to Trinidad.

Foxconn has announced that it would be replacing its workers with 1 million robots in the coming three years.

Isolated North Korea said on Monday it had agreed to further dialogue with the United States, and repeated it was willing to resume regional nuclear disarmament talks at an early date, without preconditions.

The manager refused to say anything on the Fabregas issue.

China said on Monday that Islamic militants had mounted an attack that left 11 people dead in the restive western region of Xinjiang, which announced a crackdown on "illegal" religious activities at the start of the Muslim fasting month.

Arsenal had the misfortune of being booed by their own supporters even before the beginning of the season, as an own goal cost them a win against New York Red Bulls in the Emirates Cup.

Global financial markets reflected relief over the resolution of debt limit ceiling impasse in the U.S.

President Barack Obama said on Sunday that Democrat and Republican leaders had reached an agreement to reduce the U.S. deficit and avoid default, but it was not clear if the spending cuts were deep enough to stave off a credit rating downgrade. The White House said the compromise would cut about $2.5 trillion from the deficit over the next 10 years but the reductions would not happen so quickly that they would drag on the fragile U.S. economy.

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES meets with fashion designer and rising star Amy Matto

Controversial wide receiver Plaxico Burress signed with the New York Jets, the National Football League team said on Sunday.

Sticky heat was expected to smother much of the country's midsection in the coming days as hotter-than-usual temperatures continued to roast parts of the Midwest and South, forecasters said on Sunday.

Lawmakers were close to a last-ditch $3 trillion deal on Sunday to raise the U.S. borrowing limit and assure jittery financial markets that the United States will avoid a potentially catastrophic default.

The 21-year-old daughter of actor Al Pacino was arrested in Manhattan for driving while intoxicated, police said on Sunday.

On Saturday 1:30 a.m. local time, an airplane landed on a runway in a Guyana airport, slid off the path, and broke into two parts in a bizarre accident that left 30 people injured, reported ABC News.

Basketball's international federation (FIBA) has given its approval for locked-out National Basketball Association (NBA) players to compete overseas during the work stoppage, it said on Friday.

The new Google+ games are expected to arrive with major technical differences.

Wenger said that his soon-to-depart captain loves both Arsenal and Barcelona at the same time which proves his honesty.

Henry also said that he wants to return to Arsenal in the future in an off-field duty.