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Everton midfielder John Lundstram has joined Blackpool on a season-long loan. The 20-year-old has featured in Everton's pre-season friendlies against Tranmere Rovers and Leicester City but joins Blackpool ahead of the opening game of the Championship against Nottingham Forest on...

Lionel Messi returned to Barcelona training after his post-World Cup holiday sporting a new 'German hairstyle'. Messi led Argentina to the final last month in Brazil but was unable to triumph over Germany at the final hurdle. He has re-joined his...

A Gaza truce was holding on Wednesday as Egyptian mediators pursued talks with Israeli and Palestinian representatives on an enduring end to a war that has devastated the Hamas Islamist- dominated enclave. Egyptian intelligence officials met in Cairo with a...

A city in China's restive western region of Xinjiang has banned people with head scarves, veils and long beards from boarding buses, as the government battles unrest with a policy that critics said discriminates against Muslims. Xinjiang, home to the...

China has shut 214 factories for safety risks in a city where an explosion at an auto parts factory last week killed 75 people, state media said on Wednesday. Investigators' preliminary findings show that Kunshan Zhongrong Metal Products Co Ltd,...

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Wednesday the threat of a direct intervention by Russia's military in Ukraine has risen over the last couple of days. "We have reasons to suspect - we have been receiving such information in...

Sprint Corp (S.N) has dropped its bid to acquire No. 4 U.S. carrier T-Mobile U.S. Inc (TMUS.N) after regulatory resistance showed no signs of softening despite months of lobbying, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The move is a...

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) and Apple Inc (AAPL.O) said they had agreed to drop all patent litigation outside the United States, scaling down a protracted legal battle between the smartphone rivals. The iPhone and Galaxy handset makers issued nearly...

A Chinese anti-trust regulator conducted new raids on Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) and partner in China Accenture PLC (ACN.N), the agency said on its website on Wednesday, after saying last week Microsoft is under investigation for anti-trust violations. The State Administration...

Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox (FOXA.O) decided to pull its $80 billion offer to buy Time Warner Inc (TWX.N) on Tuesday, abandoning plans to create one of the world's largest media conglomerates. The surprise announcement appeared to cut short what...