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TORONTO, (Reuters) – Love lives and reputations may be at risk after the release of customer data from infidelity website Ashley Madison, an unprecedented breach of privacy likely to rattle users’ attitudes towards the Internet.

OSLO, (Reuters) – Many of the world’s plants are turning “alien”, spread by people into new areas where they choke out native vegetation in a worsening trend that causes billions of dollars in damage, scientists said on Wednesday.

Although she was allegedly found with some of the over $1 million in items stolen from the pushcart of a street vendor, one of the three accused denied committing the crime yesterday.

The Government Analyst – Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) seized a quantity of unregistered, improperly labelled and expired drugs during a recent enforcement exercise conducted in Region Four.

ORLANDO, Fla., (Reuters) – Florida treasure hunters found a trove of $4.5 million worth of Spanish gold coins 300 years to the day after a fleet of ships sunk in a hurricane while en route from Havana to Spain, the salvage owner said Wednesday.

Four months after Teleperformance anticipated its grand opening to the Guyanese public, the company is not saying when the local branch of the international call centre will actually be fully up and running.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s government yesterday slammed U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s proposals to deport undocumented immigrants en masse and make Mexicans pay for a wall separating the two countries as absurd, racist and ignorant.

LONDON, (Reuters) – After 63 years on the throne, Queen Elizabeth next month becomes Britain’s longest-ruling monarch but there is little prospect of her stepping aside, as other ageing European crowned heads have done, in favour of her son, Charles.

(Trinidad Guardian) Some 200 workers were left on the breadline yesterday after a fire destroyed the popular Hearty Foods Supermarket at the corner of Sorzano and Pro Queen Streets, Arima.

JAISALMER, India, (Reuters) – Two-and-a-half years after the completion of a new $17 million terminal building, the airport in Jaisalmer, a small and remote desert city in India’s western Rajasthan state, stands empty.

Minister of Public, David Patterson has announced that within the next two and a half hours heavy rain fall is expected in the city extending to the coastal lands.

Finance Minister Winston Jordan today announced in Parliament that gasoline prices at GUYOIL stations will drop to $168 per litre from $174 and diesel will be $199 per litre from $210.

(Trinidad Guardian) Caricom leaders are failing their people by excluding the lower section of society from working and travelling freely among Caricom nations.

Asserting that the hinterland faces a “huge human development crisis,” President David Granger yesterday unveiled a 10-point plan for the development of hinterland and indigenous communities which focuses on education, poverty reduction, jobs and a new Lands Commission to deal with long festering indigenous land issues.

Attorney General (AG) Basil Williams yesterday defended the appointment of attorney Rosalie Robertson as Registrar of Lands saying that government does not believe the appointment is illegal as argued by several lawyers including Guyana Bar Association (GBA) head Christopher Ram.

Only three of the Guyana Sugar Corporation’s eight estates met their production target for the week ending August 15th.

Before the end of the year, a bill to tighten the current regulatory framework for civil aviation will be tabled in the National Assembly, junior Ministry of Public Infrastructure Annette Ferguson says.

The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) last evening accused government of attempting to muzzle its parliamentarians by limiting the time they have to speak and ignoring convention by placing Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo to wrap up the opposition side of the debate before four government ministers.

Sections of Alexander Village and Riverview, Ruimveldt were flooded yesterday after the Ruimveldt sluice door was not properly closed.

A greens vendor of Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara is counting her losses after a canter truck, GTT 5035 crashed into her stall around 2:45 pm yesterday and ended up in a ditch.