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By Rory Carroll PARIS (Reuters) -Japan's Ami Yuasa won a battle with Lithuania's Dominika Banevic to dance her way to the first Olympic gold medal ever awarded for breaking on Friday. Yuasa, known as ...

By Amy Tennery PARIS (Reuters) - Germany's Yemisi Ogunleye won the gold medal with her final throw of 20.00 metres in the Olympic women's shot put on Friday. New Zealand's Maddison-Lee Wesche took sil...

OTTAWA (Reuters) -The Canadian Teamsters union, which is negotiating a contract with the country's two largest rail companies, said on Friday a work stoppage could start on Aug. 22 if a deal is not re...

MADRID (Reuters) - Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont said on Friday that he was in Belgium and never had the intention of surrendering himself nor facilitating his arrest. "I'm in Waterloo a...

DUBAI (Reuters) -Abu Dhabi wealth fund ADQ and Sotheby's majority owner Patrick Drahi will invest $1 billion in the auction house in a deal that will see ADQ acquire a minority stake in the company, t...

By Krystal Hu PARIS (Reuters) - Ma Long stood on top of the podium, the gold medal shining around his neck as the crowd erupted in applause. No stranger to the gold, he still paused to take a hard loo...

By Juliette Jabkhiro and Julien Pretot PARIS (Reuters) - The alleys and stairways of Roland Garros, that most genteel of stadiums, were flooded with Algerian flags and roars on Friday as fans of Imane...

By Carolina Mandl NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hedge funds added bearish bets in Japanese stocks at the fastest pace in over five years for a week between Aug. 2 and Aug. 8, as the Nikkei on Aug. 5 faced the ...

By Aadi Nair PARIS (Reuters) -After three Olympics without any gold medals in women's boxing, China won their second in as many days when Wu Yu beat Turkey's Buse Naz Cakiroglu in the flyweight final ...

By James Oliphant (Reuters) -Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump appeared to confuse former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown with former California Governor Jerry Brown during a press confe...