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Venus Williams reaches second round at Wimbledon

Five-timechampionVenusWilliamsfoughtofftenaciouschallengefromdebutanteEliseMertensofBelgiumtowinthefirstroundmatchatWimbledonhereonMonday.The37-year-oldWilliams

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7 Chinese mainland tech firms included in 50 Smartest Companies list

MITTechnologyReviewonTuesdayreleaseditslistof50SmartestCompanies.SeventechcompaniesfromtheChinesemainlandhavebeenincludedinthe2017list,namelyiFlytek(No.6),Tence

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Top 10 most influential Chinese brands

Tencent tops the most influential Chinese brands ranking, according to a recent report by Lishi Business Review.

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Top 10 most influential Chinese brands

TencenttopsthemostinfluentialChinesebrandsranking,accordingtoarecentreportbyLishiBusinessReview.ThisisthefirstrankingreleasedbyLishiBusinessReviewafterChina'sfi

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World's top 10 biggest public companies

A Chinese banking giant, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, has been crowned the largest public company in the world, according to the 2017 Forbes Global 2000 ranking.

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Murray records milestone win at Roland Garros

Men'sworldNo.1AndyMurrayrecordedthe650thvictoryincareerashebeatKarenKhachanovinthefourthround.Women'sseededplayersalsocamethroughintothelasteightofthe2017French

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China's top 10 global M&A deals in 2016

China'soutboundmergersandacquisitions(MA)reached$111billionin2016,surpassingthe$107billionrecordedin2015,withthenumberofdealsupby79percenttoarecord300,according

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World's top 10 most expensive cities to rent an apartment

San Francisco, with rent of $3,449, was crowned the most expensive city to rent a two-bedroom apartment in the world, followed by China's Hong Kong and the US's New York City, according to a report by Deutsche Bank.

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Italy votes in referendum with PM Renzi's future at stake

Italians vote on Sunday in a referendum on constitutional reform which will decide the political future of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, who has promised to resign if he loses.

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Music News LIVE: Green Day make Trump protest at AMAs

The members of Green Day may be in middle age now, but that hasn't stopped the pop-punk band from calling out things exactly as they see them.

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Magnitude 4.9 quake jolts Japan's Kumamoto Pref., no tsunami warning issued

​An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.9 jolted Kumamoto Prefecture, on Japan's Kyushu island, on Wednesday evening, the weather agency here said.

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Top 5 women billionaires in tech in 2016

Out of 100 billionaires on the 2016 Forbes list of the world's 100 Richest In Tech, five are women, of whom two are from China.

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DPRK plane makes forced landing in northeast China city

An Air Koryo passenger plane, the national carrier of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), was forced to land in Taoxian International Airport in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province on Friday.

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Debris from Mauritius, South Africa "almost certainly" from MH370: Aust'n investigators

​A further two pieces of aircraft debris that washed up on South Africa and Mauritius have been confirmed as "almost certainly" from missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) said on Thursday.

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Eight topics to dominate China's "two sessions"

As the annual sessions of National People’s Congress (NPC) and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), also referred as the “two sessions,” are just around the corner, eight agendas have been laid out which can summarize the country’s policy objectives.

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12 injured in explosion in downtown Cairo

​At least 12 people were injured in an explosion in the downtown of Egypt's capital Cairo late Tuesday, al-Ahram's Arabic website reported on Tuesday.

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Cameron appeals to Scotland to stay as centrifugal tendencies up

British Prime Minister David Cameron is making last-ditch efforts to campaign for a "No" vote in Scotland's independence referendum after the latest polls put the "Yes" and "No" sides neck and neck.