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The US college admissions scandal that erupted this week has triggered private litigation accusing rich, well-connected parents of buying spots for their children at prestigious schools, and keeping children of less wealthy parents out. A $500 billion civil lawsuit filed by a parent on Wednesday in San Francisco accused 45 defendants of defrauding and inflicting […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday expressed deep anguish over the loss of lives in the Mumbai foot overbridge collapse. Five people were killed and 29 injured after a major portion of a foot overbridge near a train station in south Mumbai collapsed in the evening. "Deeply anguished by the loss of lives due to the foot overbridge accident in Mumbai. My thoughts are with the bereaved families. Wishing that the injured recover at the earliest," Modi tweeted. He said the Maharashtra government was... Читать дальше...

Climate change is inevitable. Our response to it isn't. Researchers investigate the many ways life on Earth could be different by taking radical action on climate change.

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Budapest (AFP) – A hacker linked to the Football Leaks website that has exposed alleged corruption in the sport will be extradited to Portugal from Hungary, his lawyer said Thursday. A higher court upheld a...

The coal output grew 8 per cent year-on-year to 638.46 million tonne (MT) in the April-February period of the current financial year. The coal production was 591.42 MT during the corresponding period of the previous fiscal, the coal ministry said in a statement. Coal India Ltd (CIL), whose production target was fixed at 610 MT for the current financial year, produced 527.70 MT during April-February 2018-19. It was 6.6 per cent higher as compared with 495.08 MT during the corresponding period of the previous year... Читать дальше...

All the Brexit action as it comes in.

The two-year-deal will see SportPesa, licensed in Ireland, become the FAI’s latest commercial partner.

Weeping family members gathered Thursday in a remote field in rural Ethiopia as crews scoured for the remains of those killed in the Ethiopia Airlines crash, but many fear they’ll never be able to bury their loved ones.

They didn’t adopt my rule proposal - free nacho cheese for all.

Baseball has been looking to pick up the pace of baseball games in an attempt to stave off an attendance decline and sagging post-season television ratings. Some of the proposed ideas have been good and some not so good, but they have finally settled on some rule changes for this year and next that they hope will create a more pleasing sport. There will be no pitch clock for now, and the DH rules will remain the same. But you... Читать дальше...

She’s stunned audiences with her unflinching artistic analyses of antebellum slavery and post-colonial black iconography, and now, artist Kara Walker is bringing her bold, always conversational and sometimes controversial visions to Britain’s renowned Tate Modern museum, courtesy of Hyundai.

It’s only been a couple months, but conservatives are already plotting how to replace the new batch of Democrats in the House.

More families arrived on Thursday at the site of the Ethiopian Airlines crash that killed 157 people. They came with the hope that they could bring some trace of their loved ones home, but some fell to their knees in grief when they learned there was nothing left.

Facebook takes tens of millions of dollars of advertising revenue every day.

Addicts used drugs and gangsters would hide between the shrubs waiting to attack people, while some residents would also dump their rubbish there.

The congested Old Kashi area comprises Dashashwamedh, Manikarnika ghats, Kashi Vishwanath temple, and the popular Godauliya, Lanka market areas, among others

NASA will be able to colonise space by creating “petrol stations” around the solar system using asteroids, a leading Cambridge professor revealed during a radio broadcast.

The Philippines is expected to continue posting strong growth but a slowdown in remittances will likely contribute to a widening current account deficit and make the country vulnerable shifts in…READ

The spree took place on Wednesday between 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. with the man asking for scratch tickets then taking off without paying.

The EU has a big job these days.

1. Curing Muslim migrants of wanting to shoot up concerts, ramming cars into Christmas markets and bombing airports.

2. Curing Muslim migrants of groping young girls in swimming pools and sexually assaulting women at New Year's Eve events

3. Curing Muslims of bombing and shooting up synagogues, Jewish stores and murdering Jewish girls in schools

So far the EU hasn't done so well with 1 and 2. I'm not so confident about 3. Читать дальше...

BOSTON (AP) — The biggest school admissions scandal ever prosecuted began with a tip from an executive investigators were targeting in a securities fraud probe, a law enforcement official said Thursday.

Environmental activist Greta Thunberg, who inspired the Youth Strike for Climate movement, has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Jermain Defoe thinks Rangers fans should be excited by what they have seen, but need to stay patient.