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Comic-Con killed us last weekend, so we couldn’t get to the box office, but in case you somehow missed it, there two big takeaways were a massive hit and a big flop. “Minions” crushed the box-office with a $115 million haul — making for the first summer ever to feature four films that opened with $100 million plus (“Minions,” ‘Age of Ultron,’ “Jurassic World,"and “Furious 7”). The flop was Focus Features and Ryan Reynolds. Ironically, the actor was killing it in Hall H with the presentation of his upcoming irreverent superhero movie. Читать дальше...

CHICAGO - An attorney says Sandra Bland's family has ordered an independent autopsy to determine how the Chicago-area woman died in a Texas jail cell.

Once a pioneer in the sector of renewable energy, West Bengal now does not even figure among the top ten states in the country in terms of developing renewable energy, say latest figures available with the ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE).

The seafood you eat could have toxic elements like mercury, arsenic, lead and cadmium, a study has found.

Yep, this actually happened.

As if life at the border enclaves was not difficult enough, Hasanur Rahaman has an even tougher time as the Karala fragment enclave resident lives on a 150-yard strip between the fencing and the border.

Thousands are expected to attend a special Mass on Sunday afternoon at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angeles in downtown Los Angeles to celebrate the "immigrant spirit" and to call for comprehensive immigration reform.

CHICAGO (AP) — An attorney says Sandra Bland's family has ordered an independent autopsy to determine how the Chicago-area woman died in a Texas jail cell.

With the closure of over a dozen hotels and resorts for alleged violation of Coastal Zone Regulations, thousands of Sunderbans residents have lost their jobs.

Deputies are investigating an assault on an Augusta man outside of his house.

Tension gripped Bamuha village on Saturday after a Class-VIII girl disappeared from a paddy field. On Sunday, her body was fished out from Kulik river at Raiganj.

Police arrested a suspect in the murder of five people whose bodies have been found in California earlier.

An Egyptian Armed Forces spokesperson Mohamed Samir said that Egyptian armed forces had killed some 60 militants in North Sinai in Saturday's military operation.

With chief minister Mamata Banerjee being invited to Asia House in London for a round-table meeting on July 29, top state officials are working overtime to prepare for the 90-minute power-packed event, which is likely to pave the way for investment propositions in Bengal.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A retired Arizona State University professor is taking his pursuit of a death certificate for Billy the Kid to New Mexico's highest court.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A retired Arizona State University professor is taking his pursuit of a death certificate for Billy the Kid to New Mexico's highest court.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A retired Arizona State University professor is taking his pursuit of a death certificate for Billy the Kid to New Mexico's highest court. Historian Robert J. Stahl filed a petition Friday with the New Mexico Supreme Court to order the state's medical examiner to create the document for the legendary outlaw, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported (http://bit.ly/1CIJ73M). According to most accounts, the Kid was fatally shot by Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner in 1881. Читать дальше...

Sourav Das, an undergraduate student at Ranaghat College in Nadia, was found hanging from the ceiling of his home at Taherpur Ghoshpara early on Saturday.

SIOUX CITY -- People participate in RAGBRAI in order to bicycle through Iowa towns, sample great homemade food and meet new people.

‘Baba bole gechen party jodi kortei hoye Congress korbi’. For Bikash Bhunia, the words of his father, late Pulin Behari Bhunia, define his political ideology.

ATHENS — On a January evening four days before he became the first radical leftist to lead a country in the European Union, Alexis Tsipras bounded to the stage at an outdoor rally in a grubby corner of Athens and proclaimed the imminent end to “our national humiliation.” Read full article >>

Paul Dunne enjoys the "surreal" feeling of leading The Open as the Irish amateur pursues golfing history.

For the average Trinamool flag-bearers reaching Sealdah and Kolkata railway stations and heading for their makeshift accommodation at Salt Lake stadium, the symbolism is unmistakable. Mukul Roy, always the go-to man for the July 21 Martyrs’ Day rally, isn’t there this time.

In the wake of NASA naming a mountain in Pluto after Tenzing Norgay, the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) decided to urge the Centre to install his statue in the Parliament premises and name Bagdogra airport after the legendary mountaineer.