A senior Justice Department lawyer says a former British spy told him at a breakfast meeting two years ago that Russian intelligence believed it had Donald Trump “over a barrel,” according to multiple people familiar with the encounter.

The lawyer, Bruce Ohr, also says he learned that a Trump campaign aide had met with higher-level Russian officials than the aide had acknowledged, the people said.

Read more at Associated Press News.

The Latest on memorial services for the late Sen. John McCain (all times local):

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The hearse carrying the casket of John McCain has arrived at the Capitol as a memorial begins for the Republican senator.

McCain’s wife, Cindy McCain, and other members of his family watched from the steps of the East Plaza as his casket was carried into the Capitol.

Read more at Associated Press News.

An Australian visitor who waited three hours for his bag at Manchester Airport has shared footage of baggage handlers launching his luggage on to the carousel.

The rugby league player was caught up in the baggage delays at Manchester Airport over the weekend and shared this footage from the reclaim area.

Read more at Manchester Evening News.

Every day, the Earth spins once around its axis, making sunrises and sunsets a daily feature of life on the planet. It has done so since it formed 4.6 billion years ago, and it will continue to do so until the world ends — likely when the sun swells into a red giant star and swallows the planet. But why does it rotate at all?

The Earth formed out of a disk of gas and dust that swirled around the newborn sun. In this spinning disk, bits of dust and rock stuck together to form the Earth, according to Space.com, a sister site of Live Science. As it grew, space rocks continued colliding with the nascent planet, exerting forces that sent it spinning, explained Smadar Naoz, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Los Angeles. Because all the debris in the early solar system was rotating around the sun in roughly the same direction, the collisions also spun the Earth — and most everything else in the solar system — in that direction.

Read more at Live Science.

Dogs, often hailed as humans' best friends, have been the topic of many scientific studies looking into how they might boost our well-being. In this Spotlight, we'll explain how your friendly pup can benefit your health across the board.

Read more at Medical News Today.

What’s the most dangerous creature in the world? Some might say it’s lion or tiger. But if you ask Hongkongers now, they may probably pick mosquitoes, given the dengue fever outbreak in the city.

Yellow Fever, malaria, dengue and Zika Virus are all transmitted by mosquitoes.

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When my wife told me she was pregnant with our now 14-year-old son, I knew I had to change careers. At the time I was working as a daily newspaper editor. My work day started around 9 a.m. -- earlier if news broke -- and ended when we went to press at midnight.

I wasn't in the office for all of those hours, but I was mentally engaged the entire time. It wasn't a situation that left room for parenting, so I gave notice and spent six years working non-media jobs. When my son got older I made the move back to media, eventually finding my niche as a work-from-home writer for The Motley Fool.

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President Xi Jinping’s push to spur lending in his economy stands to benefit Postal Savings Bank of China Ltd., whose ubiquitous green-fronted outlets have been luring deposits across the nation.

This branch network, the widest in the world, has become a source of cheap funds for the lender, ensuring it’s better placed than rivals amid the government’s crackdown on riskier financing. Postal Bank is China’s best-performing financial stock this year, and analysts surveyed by Bloomberg say its shares could rise an average 26 percent from the current HK$4.55.

Read more at Bloomberg.

There is no one better to help you budget your wages than money saving expert Martin Lewis, with 2018 proving once again to be a successful year for him and his team.

So far this year, they've managed to help thousands of people across the UK save money on fast food, petrol, shopping and to even get a better interest rate on their credit cards.

Read more at Echo.

Four years ago, after enduring its second full-year earnings-per-share loss in the last three years despite 20% top-line growth, Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) bears questioned whether the e-commerce company could become a reliably profitable entity. Amazon underperformed the S&P 500 by 36 percentage points that year, falling 22% versus the 14% total return from the greater market.

Undeterred, CEO Jeff Bezos had other plans to grow the company's bottom line -- and those plans didn't involve e-commerce. In his 2014 shareholder letter, Bezos wrote that "Amazon Web Services (AWS) is growing big and fast," later adding: "Finally, I'm optimistic that AWS will have strong returns on capital." AWS has since provided the bulk of profits.

Read more at The Motley Fool.