Yearender: Twitter records 2017

15:58, December 31, 2017

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  Number of births in Japan to hit record low in 2017

  A Japanese baby wearing a costume featuring giant panda waits for starting the public debut of female baby panda Xiang Xiang on June 12, 2017. Photo: REUTERS/Issei KatoThe number of births in Japan this year has fallen to its lowest since records began more than a century ago with about 941,000 new babies, the health ministry said on Friday, proof

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  Number of homicide in Chicago drops in 2017

  Some 644 people were killed in Chicago by Tuesday in 2017, down about 15 percent from 754 reported in the same period last year, the largest single-year drop in homicides since 2004.According to the Chicago Tribune's statistics by Wednesday, the number of people wounded and killed by gunfire dropped by about 18 percent to 3,543 from 4,327, averaging about 10

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  Wall Street set to end the year on dour note

  Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, December 13, 2017. Photo: REUTERS/Brendan McDermidLosses in technology and financial stocks weighed on Wall Street on the last trading day of 2017, in what has been a banner year for US shares.Major indexes hit a series of record highs in 2017, riding on strong