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CHAMPAIGN – legendary coach Illini Lou Henson passed away at 88 on Saturday, according to a report by Loren Tate of The News Gazette. Henson and his signature orange blazer ignited a successful special run for Illini basketball in the 1980s. He is the all-time winning coach of Illinois basketball …

(Bloomberg) – China has purchased more than $ 1 billion in US cotton in the past three months. And you don’t even need it. The purchases, made as part of the phase one trade agreement between Washington and Beijing, are hitting just as the pandemic closes clothing stores, decimating demand. …

(CNN) – Two cheeky emu brothers named Kevin and Carol were kicked out of a hotel in Australia’s Outback for bad behavior. Located in a small, isolated township of the same name in west central Queensland, the small Yaraka Hotel has just four rooms, as well as camps and a …

Zimbabwe agreed on Wednesday to pay $ 3.5 billion in compensation to white farmers whose land was expropriated by the government to resettle black families, taking another step further to resolve one of the most divisive policies of the Robert Mugabe era. But the southern African nation does not have …

Carl Court | AFP | fake pictures Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell reported a sharp net loss year-on-year on Thursday after an unprecedented period of turmoil in the energy market and significantly weaker oil and gas prices. The Anglo-Dutch company reported that net income attributable to shareholders based on current …