Pressure from the trade dispute between the U.S. and China is weighing on the retail sector, with shares of many in the industry falling in premarket trading on Thursday. Interested in China? Add China as an interest to stay up to date on the latest China news, video, and analysis from ABC News. Retailers have […]
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionSaybie at Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women and Newborns A baby born weighing just 245g (8.6oz), believed to be the tiniest on record to survive premature birth, has been discharged from hospital in the US. Baby Saybie weighed the same as a large apple when she
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionViewers noticed the journalist’s hand shaking during this report The BBC’s technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones has revealed he has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. TV viewers noticed his hand shaking during a report on 5G technology on BBC Breakfast on Thursday morning. Symptoms of Parkinson’s – a
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Image copyright Getty Images Brazil’s economy shrank in the first three months of the year for the first time since 2016, when the country was in recession. It contracted by 0.2% compared with the last three months of 2018. Compared with a year ago, it grew by 0.5%. The fall comes at time when Brazil’s
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At 8.6 ounces or 245 grams, Saybie weighed little more than an apple at birth and is believed to be the world’s smallest baby to survive according to the Tiniest Babies Registry. Her birth was so premature, doctors considered her a “micro preemie” – a baby born before 28 weeks’ gestation. Saybie was monitored at
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Rescue workers scoured the Danube River in downtown Budapest Thursday for 21 people missing after a sightseeing boat carrying South Korean tourists sank in a matter of seconds after colliding with a larger cruise ship during an evening downpour. Seven people are confirmed dead and seven were rescued, all of them South Koreans, Hungarian officials
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Serena Williams and Roger Federer would love to win the French Open again, of course. They’d also be thrilled to win Roland Garros. And they might not know it, but they are doing their best to triumph at what used to officially be the Championnats Internationaux de France, too. What’s in a name? Things get
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Jeremy Corbyn says Alastair Campbell’s declaration that he voted for the Lib Dems at the European elections was “not acceptable”. The Labour leader added: “We look forward to hearing what Alastair has to say about this and look forward to his support for Labour in the future”. Tony Blair’s ex-communications chief was expelled from the
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Image copyright Mats Augestad/Aria Sandvik Image caption Aria Sandvik, from Bergen, Norway, says that censoring images of people recovering from self-harm can be “a massive slap in the face” Instagram users are debating the social media platform’s censoring of images of healed self-harm scars. Some people who have recovered from self-harm are finding images of
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Image copyright Chevron Image caption Captain is one of the assets being sold Chevron is set to become the second major oil firm in six weeks to pull out of exploration and production in the North Sea after agreeing the sale of its assets for $2bn (£1.58bn). The deal with Israeli-owned oil firm Ithaca Energy
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