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An Indianapolis youth sports organization will maintain its ban on girls playing football for now, its director said on Wednesday after supporters said a girl should be allowed to keep playing on her school team.

Nearly seven in 10 Americans believe spanking a child is acceptable at home and a majority say corporal punishment is tolerable provided it does not involve implements such as the one a National Football League star used on his son, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.

The rise in rural wages now taking place across Asia could lift hundreds of millions of people out of extreme poverty in the next decade, a new report showed on Thursday.