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Madison Darbyshire’s top reads this week: why lawyers love Big Data, the Marie Colvin myth, Ikea for rent

BRUSSELS/BERLIN/PARIS (Reuters) - Germany and France want to overhaul EU mergers rules following the European Commission's veto of efforts by Siemens and Alstom to create a European rail champion to compete with larger foreign rivals.

Super Bowl week often generates more stories than can properly be absorbed. This one is worth revisiting, even though we overlooked it when it was published. Sam Farmer of the Los Angeles Times told the story last Thursday of the late Walter Payton’s Super Bowl ring, how it came to be lost, and how it [more]

Adrianne Haslet was training for the race last month when she was hit by a vehicle

As part of our Spring Training Programme, Head Coach, Hugh Perrette, and his team, have organized two Clinics, both of which will be run over two days. 

UFC middleweight champion Robert Whittaker discusses his preference to focus on developing his skills rather than the trappings of stardom in advance of his UFC 234 title defense against Kelvin Gastelum.

So, apparently Rob Manfred is already considering having shorter commercial breaks, but damnit we talked about that first on the Pinwheels and Ivy Podcast, which goes live on YouTube every Thursday night and released by Friday morning.  Via Forbes. As part of a lengthy interview with Forbes, Commissioner Manfred said that working to make the […]

A fire swept through the training center and lodgings of Rio de Janeiro soccer club Flamengo on Friday.

After leading Haltom to its best season in program history, quarterback Michael Black signed with UT-Permian Basin on Wednesday during National Signing Day. He picked up the offer in October … Click to Continue »

Former employees of state-owned telecom firms BSNL and MTNL Friday staged protest for pension revision, alleging that the telecom department is deliberately stalling the matter. The Committee of BSNL and MTNL Pensioner's Association approached Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha office and handed over the application, seeking his intervention for pension revision. "We represent the erstwhile DoT (Department of Telecom) employees who were absorbed in BSNL and MTNL on their formation and entitled to government pension under pension rule. Читать дальше...

Jurgen Klopp has been boosted by the return of three players ahead of Saturday’s clash with Bournemouth, leaving the Liverpool […]

All you need to know ahead of this Sunday's Chinese New Year festival in Birmingham...From traditional lion dances and performances, authentic Chinese food stalls, Chinese acrobats, circus acts and fire performers - the family-friendly event is one of the highlights in Birmingham's calendar.

Albert Finney, the charismatic Academy Award-nominated British actor who starred in films from "Tom Jones" to "Skyfall," has died. He was 82.

The "Love Guv" wasn't just talking property and payments, he also pondered pants and shirts with fashion writers.

Snow falls on Boulevard Park in Bellingham, Washington on Friday, Feb. 8, 2019. … Click to Continue »

The Chinese businessman barred from Australia on suspicions he is part of a Communist Party influence campaign said he had been treated in a "grotesquely unfair manner" Friday and suggested his political donations could be returned. The long-term Sydney resident had been a prominent donor to Australia's two major parties before being effectively banned from the country Wednesday. In a statement Huang Xiangmo said the decision to cancel his residency visa was "based on unfounded speculations that... Читать дальше...

The Danish Vikings - "Where wolf's ears are, Wolf's teeth are near."

T-shirts and hoodies are not, generally speaking, complex fashion items. The average T-shirt costs about $6 to manufacture (overseas), a high-quality hoodie can run from $11 to $18 to make (also overseas) and T-shirt manufacturers aren’t hard to find. And pretty much everyone wears them regardless of demographic profile. People from the age of 9 days […]

CES is the world’s biggest technology event, and 2019 was no different, with the Las Vegas show being privy to some of the biggest and most exciting gadgets from all your favorite manufacturers.

FAO chief lauds Vietnam's development achievements - Vietnam+ http:-en.vietnamplus.vn- Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations Jose Graziano Da Silva

Nikola Mektic and Jurgen Melzer edged through to their first ATP Tour team final on Friday with a 5-7, 6-4, 10-6 victory over Indians Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Purav Raja in 89 minutes at the Sofia Open.

Back in January, General Motors CEO Mary Barra claimed that her company had sold over 200,000 electric vehicles without having to replace a single battery pack. It turns out not only was that incredibly misleading and false, but one unlucky Chevy Bolt owner even had to replace their battery not once, but twice.

There’s something so wonderfully ironic about a black woman taking over the sequel to a Mel Gibson vehicle. The effervescent Taraji P. Henson stars in "What Men Want," the gender-flipped reboot of "What Women Want," the 2000 Nancy Meyers film starring Gibson as a playboy who can hear the inner monologues of women after a freak accident. But director Adam Shankman is no Nancy Meyers.

(Telecompaper) Facebook's head of communications, Caryn Marooney, has decided to step down after eight years with the company.