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Home Depot’s sales improved during its second quarter as customers focused on smaller projects during the summer months with the U.S. housing sector still mired in a slump.Revenue increased to $47.86 billion from $45.28 billion, edging out the $47.24 billion...

An 81-year-old man admitted to sexually assaulting and killing an American tourist in Germany more than 30 years ago at the opening of his trial on Tuesday, German news agency dpa reported. The defendant, whose...

The oil discovery was made in the sea about 175km (110 miles) off the Amazon coast but the size of the field is not yet clear.It is also still unknown whether extracting the oil, which is located at a...

Two people were unaccounted for following an explosion at an industrial facility in Toledo, Ohio, on Tuesday morning, authorities said. Source link

Palestinian-American Loui Ridi said he could only watch via security cameras from his home in Ohio as Israeli settlers laid siege to his house in the village of Qusra, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, for...

The death toll from a ferry disaster on Zimbabwe's Lake Kariba has risen to 93, which makes it the country's deadliest transport disaster, according to the state-run Herald newspaper.The ferry had a capacity to carry 90 passengers, but the...

As of 6:45 a.m. Eastern Time today, oil is trading at $92.42 per barrel, based on the Brent benchmark we’ll explain in a bit. That’s 89 cents above yesterday morning’s level and $25.68 higher than where it stood a...

Massive natural gas tanks outside Tulsa, Oklahoma, exploded after the owners of the site say lightning struck one of the tanks. Fire crews are still working to douse the flames. Source link

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Movie and TV star Hayden Panettiere, who died on Sunday at 36, "left this world far too soon," her ex-fiance, Wladimir Klitschko, said on Tuesday, adding that she was "an important part of my life and the mother of our...