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FRANKFURT, Aug 27 (Reuters) – Deutsche Bank said on Thursday that it has made progress in simplifying legacy technology at its retail division. • Specifically, the bank has chosen a new so-called core banking system as it seeks to reduce 15 systems to two. • The bank said it is “an important milestone in the multi-year transformation of its technology infrastructure.” • It follows past stumbles that included a botched […]

By Field Level Media Aug 27 (Field Level Media) – Denmark’s Clara Tauson beat top-seeded Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia 7-6 (6), 4-6, 6-3 on Wednesday in second-round action at the Abierto GNP Seguros in Monterrey, Mexico. Alexandrova had two set points in the first set, one on Tauson’s serve at 6-5, the other late in the tiebreaker, before Tauson prevailed. Tauson got her only service break of the match — […]

OSLO, Aug 27 (Reuters) – The health of Norway’s King Harald, 89, has deteriorated while in hospital and his condition is now “very serious”, the royal court said on Thursday. Europe’s oldest living monarch and Norway’s ceremonial head of state since 1991, Harald was taken to hospital on August 17. The palace said he was being treated for a bacterial infection in his blood. Crown Prince Haakon and Harald’s wife, […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In her 1994 memoir, Dolly Parton recounts in vivid detail the place where she found God. It was an abandoned church, in rural Tennessee where she grew up, that had become known as a haven for sex, drugs and violence. Rather than see the used condoms on the floor, the out-of-tune piano left behind or the explicit drawings on the walls as a hindrance to her […]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Investigators appointed by Pakistan’s prime minister were making a visit Thursday to the hospital nursery where a fast-moving fire killed 14 newborns, as grieving families and the public sought answers about the cause of the blaze and the safety measures at the major government facility. The fire early Wednesday was confined to the third-floor nursery and did not affect the rest of the facility. Hospital officials said […]

BANGKOK (AP) — China’s foreign minister said his country and the United States should overcome obstacles between the nations ahead of an expected summit next month between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Wang Yi met with U.S. ambassador to China David Perdue on Wednesday and called on both sides to “focus on the positive agenda, properly manage differences, remove interference and overcome obstacles to high-level exchanges […]

A small plane carrying four people crashed into shallow waters next to a remote coastal town in Alaska on Wednesday, killing everyone on board, according to officials. The Piper PA-24 was heading for the airport in the small town of Seldovia after taking off from Anchorage, according to a statement from the Alaska Department of Public Safety. Seldovia’s airport is about 136 miles (219 kilometers) southwest of Anchorage. After it […]

(SRN NEWS) – A new study released by the Center for Scholars & Storytellers at UCLA finds that most religious youths consume faith-based content in line, using it to learn more about spiritual matters and to encourage them. They also use the digital space to have conversations about religion with their peers. However, the report also indicates that most of these young people still look to their parents or pastor […]

(SRN NEWS) – The state says it will abide by a court order that bars it from forcing Catholic hospitals and other religious medical practitioners from carrying out or being involved in assisted suicide. Illinois recently legalized the practice, putting some doctors, nurses and institutions in a position of having to choose between their faith and the law. Peter Breen of The Thomas More Society says “We will not rest […]