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AN ONLINE troll has renamed Donald Trump’s mid-town Manhattan building on Google Maps, and the new moniker isn’t very flattering.

The President-elect’s transition team headquarters were attacked by online trolls.

SYDNEY — The Australian dollar is higher against its US counterpart as investor are prompted to sell the greenback as US bond yields stabilise. At 0635 AEDT on Monday, the local unit was trading at 74.47 US cents, up from 74.32 cents on Friday.

SYDNEY — Australian shares have opened slightly lower despite a positive lead from international markets. At 1010 AEDT on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 6.2 points, or 0.11 per cent, at 5,501.6, while the broader All Ordinaries index was down 3.9 points, or 0.07 per cent, at 5,566.6.

NEW YORK — Someone renamed Donald Trump’s mid-town Manhattan building on Google Maps, and the new moniker isn’t very flattering.

Instead of Trump Tower, it was briefly renamed “Dump Tower” until Google intervened and changed the name back to its original.

LONDON — Britain’s economy grew 0.5 per cent in the third quarter, the Office for National Statistics says, adding the number shows a “limited effect so far” from the vote to leave the European Union.

LONDON — Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair says the UK’s exit from the European Union can be stopped if voters decide the pain of leaving the world’s biggest trading bloc outweighs the benefits of leaving.

WASHINGTON — US President-elect Donald Trump has filled two more top administration posts.

BERLIN — A four-day pilots’ strike at German carrier Lufthansa ended on Sunday, but the previous days’ labour action is still causing cancellations.

AMSTERDAM — Some 190,000 ducks have been destroyed at six farms in the Netherlands following an avian flu outbreak, the country’s first cull of an epidemic sweeping northern Europe.