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The 13th season of “Brain Ring” intellectual games continues with support of Nar, known for attaching a special importance to promotion of education, science and enlightenment. Just as every year, a special contest is being held this season for the TV

Also, you can finally change your PlayStation ID—but you may not want to.

Jones isn’t just still lurking in the first round. He could be a top-15 pick.

The Golden State Warriors are huge favorites on the series prices at sportsbooks to open the playoffs with a victory over the Los Angeles Clippers.

With another NBA year at an end for the Raptors, we got together to rank our favourite moments from Toronto’s 2018-19 regular season run.

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Chris Sale’s early troubles; adjustments to Old Hoss and Ty Cobb’s stats; Chris Paddack’s vulcan change

Vasyl Lomachenko amassed a 396-1 amateur record by relying on a disciplined diet and a host of unconventional training techniques.

In today’s highly charged political climate, it should be little surprise that nonpartisan races are becoming, well, partisan. That often happens. But this year is different. The May 4 municipal … Click to Continue »

• Scott Parazysnki is the only NASA astronaut who has both flown in space and successfully climbed to the summit of Mount Everest.
• Parazynski, 57, joined NASA as an astronaut in 1992. He flew on five Space Shuttle missions, and participated in seven spacewalks. 
• After his first attempt to reach the top of Everest was aborted in 2008 due to a back injury, Parazynski returned the next year, and was successful. 
• Italian astronaut Maurizio Cheli became the second person... Читать дальше...

• A hedge fund executive is selling a Beverly Hills estate, which was once home to Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt, for $56 million, The Wall Street Journal reported.
• The executive bought the home in 2006 after Aniston and Pitt's divorce.
• The two actors reportedly spent three years renovating the home, adding heated marble kitchen floors, a private screening room, and a pub room with wood floors from a 200-year-old French chateau.
• The Beverly Hills pad also includes... Читать дальше...

• Researchers are looking into a potential link between coffee consumption and lung cancer risk.
• Previous research on the connection has been inconclusive since a large number of subjects also smoked cigarettes.
• The newest study is still in the works, but researchers have tentatively observed that people who drink two or more cups of coffee or tea daily have an increased lung cancer risk, regardless of whether they ever smoked cigarettes.
• Visit INSIDER's homepage for more. Читать дальше...

• INSIDER's entertainment correspondent Kim Renfro covers "Game of Thrones" extensively and is writing "The Unofficial Guide to 'Game of Thrones,'" a behind-the-scenes fan guide and companion book to the series.
• Fans can pre-order the book now. It will be out October 8.
• Visit INSIDER.com for more stories.

"Game of Thrones" may be coming to an end, but fans still have more to look forward to in a new behind-the-scenes book. 

A’s Coverage:

• Slusser: Surging Khris Davis leads A’s past Orioles as Oakland continues HR binge...
• Gallegos: A’s Takeaways — The absurdity of Khris Davis and the return of Edwin Jackson...
• Lockard: Fan favorites Stephen Vogt and Jerry Blevins still have Bay Area big-league dreams... ($)
• Slusser: A’s happy Edwin Jackson is back: — ‘This guy meant so much to us’....
• Lockard: Viva Las Vegas — Shaun Anderson feels confident in his changeup; Aviators’... Читать дальше...

Everything that could be confirmed in the Premier League this weekend

The second baseman inked a seven-year, $35 million deal that includes a pair of club options.

The anesthetic-cum-party drug restores the ability to make connections among brain cells

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Cyclists may be allowed not to dismount at crossings.

A slowdown in manufacturing sector flattened industrial output growth during February to 0.1 per cent, official data showed on Friday.Factory output as measured in terms of the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) had grown by 6.9 per cent in February 2018."The quick estimates of Index of Industrial Production (IIP) with base 2011-12 for the month of February 2019 stands at 127.5, which is 0.1 per cent higher as compared to the level in the month of February 2018," according to an official statement... Читать дальше...

The programme is having a 'profound effect' on the prevalence of cancer-causing strains of the virus – even on those who have not been inoculated, explains Kevin Pollock

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says the abuse directed at Mohamed Salah in a song sung by a small number of Chelsea fans is "disgusting".

Eight years after the revolts that shook up the Arab world, the public's awareness of its own power isn't enough to start real revolutions

Volunteers seek new owner for Vermont general store opened in 1796 Journal Record Volunteers are searching for a new owner for what is considered the oldest continuously operating general store in Ve

A leg spasm had forced Rohit Sharma to miss an IPL game for the first time in 11 seasons when he sat out of Mumbai’s last match against Kings XI Punjab at the Wankhede Stadium on Wednesday.

Even games which pride themselves on historical authenticity can get a bit weird, given the topsy-turvy and-up-down world we live in. World War 1 multiplayer FPS Tannenberg is recreating reported real-world events from the winter of 1916/17, when… Russian and German troops temporarily joined forces to fight the ravenous packs of wolves trying to eat […]