USA

The World No. 1 dominated the early physical exchanges at the Estadio Mineirão in Belo Horizonte and scored at the start of each half through skipper Carli Lloyd and then Alex Morgan to get off to the perfect start to the tournament.

The USA took the lead in the ninth minute when skipper Lloyd headed home on the angle from a delightful cross from Tobin Heath. Lloyd, the most capped player at the Rio Olympics with 225 internationals to her name, scored her seventh goal at the Olympics and her 89th in all internationals.

Kun Shan "Joey" Chun, 46, admitted in federal court in Manhattan on Monday that he violated his security clearance on several occasions between 2011 and 2016 in an effort to pass on secret information to China in exchange for money.

Chun is a 19-year FBI veteran from Brooklyn who was born in China but was employed by the FBI in 1997. His duties with the FBI included "accessing sensitive and, in some instance, classified information."

Since that original Dream Team, five teams have participated on the global stage, with a sixth ready to roll into Rio this summer.

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On all but one occasion, Team USA came home with the gold -- yet you might be surprised to learn that the bronze-medal team, though the result was an unprecedented disaster, isn’t the worst Olympic squad we’ve seen in the past 24 years.

As for the best? Well, you can probably guess that one.

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US Secretary of State John Kerry was speaking after Turkey's labour minister suggested the US was behind the coup.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on the US to extradite US-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen.

Mr Erdogan has accused him of being behind the plot, which Mr Gulen denies.

Mr Gulen told reporters from his home in Pennsylvania that he had been away from Turkey for more than 15 years and "I don't even know who my followers [in the country] are".

MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS rose 0.75 percent, While Australia added 1.3 percent.

Japan's Nikkei .N225 climbed 2.9 percent in the wake of a clear win by the government in upper house elections.

The three-time winners of the U-20 women's FIFA World Cup found the back of the net in the 10th minute after Kelcie Hedge slotted one through.

Two more goals came off the boot of striker Ashley Sanchez scoring in the 12th and 16th minute of the first half.

This is a competition for students all over the world including PNG and is an initiative of the United Nations (UN) and Seton Hall University in the United States.

Finalists with the best ideas will win cash prizes and partial scholarships to attend Seton Hall University, a private Catholic school in South Orange, New Jersey.

The cash prize assists with the launching of the idea or creating awareness about SDGs.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed a patient was infected in Dallas County, health officials in Texas said.

A patient was apparently infected after having sexual contact with someone who returned from a country where the disease is present.

There is not yet evidence of Zika being passed on by mosquitoes in the US.

This would be the first known infection to take place in the mainland US.

The World Health Organization has declared the Zika virus a global public health emergency.

The winger scored three times in 21 second-half minutes to draw level with Lomu's mark of 15 World Cup tries.

The Springboks ran in eight second-half tries in all to earn a bonus-point win at the Olympic Stadium.

South Africa top Pool B and will now play the loser of Saturday's Pool A decider between Australia and Wales.

A tale of two halves

A mixture of South Africa's ill-discipline and poor finishing kept the score down in the first half, while USA only made it into the Boks' 22 in the last minute of the half, despite enjoying plenty of possession.

President Barack Obama has reiterated his call for Congress to lift the embargo on Cuba which he said has failed to bring political change in the country. However, he faces stiff resistance from Republicans, as well as some Democrats, who say he is prematurely rewarding a government that engages in serious human rights abuses.

 And Obama announced Wednesday that the U.S. and Cuba will reopen their embassies in Havana and Washington, heralding a "new chapter" in relations after a half-century of hostility.