Sept 22 (Reuters) - Nine people were injured and 44 were arrested by police during a second night of violent protests overnight in Charlotte, North Carolina, the police chief said on Thursday.

LONDON (Reuters) - Thomson Reuters has agreed to acquire trading technology firm REDI Holdings, it said in a statement on Thursday.

WASHINGTON, Sept 22 (Reuters) - The United States' top general told Congress on Thursday that he did not believe it would be wise to share intelligence with Russia and said that would not be one of the military's missions if Washington and Moscow were to work together in Syria.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - One of Vladimir Putin's closest friends said on Thursday he believed Donald Trump would be the next president of the United States and that Western leaders were no match for the Russian president.

SARAJEVO/BANJA LUKA, Bosnia, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Bosnia's autonomous Serb region is set to defy its highest court with a referendum on a national holiday on Sunday that may stoke separatist sentiment lingering since the 1990s war.

GENEVA, Sept 22 (Reuters) - The United Nations said it was possible that countries backing the Syria peace process would agree on Thursday to salvage a collapsed ceasefire, and that it was still working to restart peace talks within weeks.

HANOI (Reuters) - A well-known Vietnamese political blogger and his assistant lost their appeal on Thursday when a higher court upheld their jail terms and reaffirmed they had abused their freedom and hurt the state's interests.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Within one week in July the Sydney suburb of Rhodes was transformed from a quiet neighborhood to what resident Joyce Wong described as a "place of carnage" with hundreds of people wandering around like "zombies".

(Reuters) - Facebook Inc's Instagram said on Thursday its advertising base more than doubled to exceed 500,000 in the last six months.