Ben Hooper
SWANSEA, Wales, July 28 (UPI) -- A convicted drug dealer from England refused to travel to Wales for his sentencing because he can't understand the local accent.
Shares of Gilead Sciences Inc. rallied in Tuesday's extended trade after the biotechnology giant turned in quarterly results that far exceeded expectations. Gilead reported its second-quarter earnings rose to $4.49 billion, or $2.92 a share, from $3.66 billion, or $2.20 a share, a year earlier. On an adjusted basis, Gilead earned $3.15 a share, ahead of analysts' estimate of $2.71 a share. Revenue grew to $8.24 billion from $6.54 billion. Analysts surveyed by FactSet had expected revenue of $7.6... Читать дальше...
Greece's supreme court lodges legal case to parliament as Varoufakis "treason" charges escalate
He's been sober four years, which is most important.
Vince Vaughn flaunts his shirtless body while going for a swim at the beach on Sunday afternoon (July 26) in Los Angeles. The 45-year-old True Detective star was accompanied by his family as they took advantage of the warm weather by soaking up the sun and lounging in the sand. PHOTOS: Check out the latest [...]
Stephen Feller
WASHINGTON, July 28 (UPI) -- Large swings in blood pressure may be indicative of damage to the arteries, heart disease or heart failure, according a large study.
Investigators of the ‘Q’ branch police on Tuesday interrogated LTTE operative A Kumaraguru, who police arrested at Trichy airport on July 25 when he attempted to flee to Switzerland with a fake passport.
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A 15-year-old girl suffering from several heart defects underwent a surgery that doctors said was a rare procedure.
The NFL has decided to uphold Tom Brady’s four-game suspension for his role in "Deflategate," quickly becoming the top sports story on Tuesday. Even though there won’t be meaningful NFL games for another six weeks, news of Brady’s suspension has dominated the headlines.
The New York Times on Tuesday published a lengthy and pointed rebuttal to ex-reporter and present-day spa-owner Richard Bernstein, who questioned the details of the Times’ bombshell investigation into the working conditions of nail salon employees. Signed by Executive Editor Dean Baquet, the paper’s response hits hard, saying that “the New York Review of Books chose to publish what is essentially an example of industry advocacy, not unbiased journalism.”
The best way to learn robotics, they say, is to start making robots. And a group of IIT-Madras graduates are taking this motto to other college campuses with their start-up Lema Labs.
OKLAHOMA CITY - The Oklahoma Corporation Commission says two oil and gas wastewater injection wells are shutting down and one is reducing operations in the Crescent area following several earthquakes.
A top suspect in the 2006 murder of Alexander Litvinenko, a former member of a Russian intelligence agency who was poisoned with polonium while living in exile in London, claimed on Tuesday that the frequent critic of Putin and the Kremlin had been poisoned the day before they met. As the U.K. inquiry into Litvinenko's death and its surrounding circumstances begins special closed sessions, few gains have been made to confirm who killed him.
Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Cécile Pouilly says that almost 7,000 people have been killed and over 17,000 have been injured since the start of the Ukrainian conflict in April 2014.
The U.S. government expects to spend $191 million to pay chicken and turkey farmers for birds lost to avian flu, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Tuesday as he called for Congress to con…
In less than a month the nation will have a new, stringent motor vehicles legislation that envisages truly deterrent penalty and imprisonment for violators of road rules, including drunk drivers, the Centre told the Madras high court on Tuesday.
How to keep tabs on your loved ones—for better or for worse.
How to keep tabs on your loved ones—for better or for worse.
South Corporation’s promise to operationalize three multilevel parking facilities in south Delhi by July-end falls flat. When TOI visited the sites in Hauz Khas, Munirka and Kalkaji, it found that the underground parking lots are nowhere near completion.
On Monday, we shared a couple of tweets that Jets wide receiver Brandon Marshall sent from Jamaica over the weekend making reference to the amount of marijuana smoke in the air around the island. One of them was directed to the NFL’s Twitter account with Marshall writing that he’s an occasional wine drinker and asking…
The delay in constituting an ombudsman for local bodies in Tamil Nadu appears to have starved them of funds from the Centre. Minister of state for urban development Babul Supriyo had recently told the Rajya Sabha that only nine states had been found eligible for 457.91 crore in performance grant for urban local bodies in 2014-15.
Yelp shares drop 14% after outlook disappoints
Entry-level homes accounted 10% of sales at the country’s largest home builder, compared with 3% a year ago, even as homeownership hit the lowest rate in almost five decades.