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Since blowing a late lead to the Steelers during their first-round playoff loss in the 2015 season, the Bengals have been known for coming up short at the end of close games. A young defense with a knack for turnovers is changing Cincinnati's style

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (AP) — A commercial pilot from Oregon raised a giant pumpkin weighing 2,170 pounds (984 kilograms) to win a pumpkin-weighing contest in Northern California. Steve Daletas, of Pleasant Hill, Oregon, on Monday credited a good seed and lots of sunny days since he planted it April 15 hoping to win the […]

DEVELOPMENT Secretary Penny Mordaunt will today reveal a ground-breaking plan to slash billions in taxpayers’ contributions from the bloated aid budget. In a radical shake up of DFID spending, the new Cabinet minister wants private investors such as pension funds to prop up Britain’s generous overseas programmes instead. The nation will still meet the controversial […]

DEVELOPMENT Secretary Penny Mordaunt will today reveal a ground-breaking plan to slash billions in taxpayers’ contributions from the bloated aid budget. In a radical shake up of DFID spending, the new Cabinet minister wants private investors such as pension funds to prop up Britain’s generous overseas programmes instead. The nation will still meet the controversial […]

Experts led by the University of Edinburgh looked at more than 250 separate studies.

Historic US ally poised to launch $1bn rebuild of town decimated by Islamist fight

Historic US ally turns to Beijing for $1bn rebuild of town decimated by Islamist fight

Historical ally of US opts for Beijing’s help in $1bn revitalisation of town devastated by militants

RUSSIA is moving troops and missiles into Libya in a bid to enforce a new stranglehold on the West, Theresa May has been warned. Intelligence chiefs have told the PM that Vladimir Putin wants to make the wartorn North African country “his new Syria”. And seizing control of the biggest illegal immigration route to Europe […]

The New Orleans Saints welcome the Washington Redskins to the Mercedes-Benz Superdome for a “Monday Night Football” matchup to close... Read More »

Retirement’s big three—pensions, savings, Social Security—are under stress

Incoming Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh will participate in a ceremonial swearing-in with President Donald Trump at the White House Monday evening.

As Stacey Dooley walks across a dried up desert that was formerly an inland sea in Kazakhstan, you see a look of complete despair cross her face. The disappearance of the Aral sea is one of the biggest environmental disasters linked to the garment industry. What was once home to thousands of fish and wildlife is now a vast desert sparsely populated by the odd shrub or camel.

Mankind is doomed! That is one way to interpret a report that the IPCC issued on 07 October 2018. Here is a headline from the CNN website: Now, here is a statement that the IPCC made at an earlier time: “In climate research and modelling, we should recognise that we are dealing with a coupled […]

UFC light heavyweight Dominick Reyes spoke about his win over Ovince Saint Preux and the wild brawl that came later at UFC 229.

Can the Saints improve to 4-1 before their Week 6 bye? They’ll play host to Washington on “Monday Night Football.”

The app is impersonal enough that many riders don’t feel compelled to tip.

Martin Nydegger, 47, has this year been appointed chief executive officer of tourism for the National Tourism Office of Switzerland. He was recently in Bangkok to promote Swiss tourism at the "In Love With Switzerland" fair at Siam Paragon.

Memory and fact, fiction and documentary, characters and lives -- perhaps they're not all that distinguishable, and that's why they all mingle freely in the Thai film that just had a world premiere at the 23rd Busan International Film Festival this past weekend. Nakorn-Sawan (literally, "paradise city", and also a name of a province) is the feature debut by Puangsoi Aksornsawang, a young filmmaker...

Besides the world premiere of Nakorn-Sawan (see main story), Thailand -- and Thai actors -- are well-represented at the ongoing Busan International Film Festival. While Thai films are slotted into various sections of the programme -- Girls Don't Cry, Manta Ray, Ten Years Thailand, as well as the restored version of The Scar in the classic section -- a Cambodian film with a strong Thai presence is...