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Three-time NBA champion LeBron James has a firm spot in the basketball history books and his exact placement is becoming more clear.

At 17.5 million, India’s diaspora continues to be the largest in the world. It constitutes 6.4% of the total world migrant population of 272 million. India’s diaspora in absolute numbers has increased 10% from 15.9 million in 2015.

For more than a century, the humble and ubiquitous fruit fly has helped scientists shed light on human genetics, disease, and behavior. Now a new study by University of Miami researchers reveals that the tiny, winged insects have an innate time- and color-dependent preference for light, raising the intriguing possibility that our own color choices depend on the time of day.

50,000 GM workers walked off the job this week — and more strikes are planned

Picture this: Two Amish men drinking alcoholic beverages while operating a horse and buggy carrying a 12-pack of Michelob Ultra and outfitted with a giant stereo system.

Watch PSG vs Real Madrid Highlights Video Here is how each team played the last five matches:

This is the song ... that never ends.

Three years and two mega-successful albums later, Taylor Swift has more light to shed on the in"Famous" phone call with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian that overhauled Swift’s “Reputation” in 2016.

“The world didn’t understand the context and the events that...

Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has named three players, who are expected to feature during the Europa League opener against Astana on Thursday night. The Red Devils returned to winning ways after three games last weekend as they secured… Continue Reading →

The American Airlines mechanic who disabled a key navigation system on a jetliner leaving Miami — saying he did it over a labor dispute — had grisly ISIS propaganda videos on his cellphone, federal prosecutors said in court on Wednesday. Prosecutor Maria Medetis said that when investigators grilled the mechanic, Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani, after...

Biggio’s rare feat against the Orioles was the first by a Jay since Frye did it against his old club, the Texas Rangers, in 2001. He turned a double into a single to complete the set, which rubbed some people the wrong way. It shouldn’t have, Gregor Chisholm writes.

MIAMI — A federal judge cited new evidence of potential terrorism sympathies Wednesday in denying bail for a longtime mechanic charged with sabotaging an American Airlines jetliner that prosecutors say could have caused it to crash with 150 people aboard.

Radical plans to commit Labour to cutting UK greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2030 are expected to be watered down at the party’s annual conference, HuffPost UK can reveal.

Government ‘expected’ to take decision within one month, says court

The collision occurred about 20 km east of the village of Bancroft.

US President Donald Trump is set to appoint Robert OBrien the Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs at the US State Department as his new national security advisor the US leader said via Twitter on Wednesday

A report compiled by an independent group of experts claims that governments and NGOs are woefully unprepared for the next big pandemic, while subsequently warning of a “very real threat” for a global-scale pandemic to kill 50 million to 80 million people.

2:47pm the Senate began a 15 minute roll call vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R.2740: Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2020.

The World Is ‘Grossly’ Unprepared for the Next Major Pandemic, Watchdog Finds  Gizmodo

A report compiled by an independent group of experts claims that governments and NGOs are woefully unprepared for the next big pandemic, while ...

Coral reefs and the abundant life they support are increasingly threatened today, but a snapshot of a coral reef that flourished 150 million years ago shows that many animals were then at their peak of diversity, just offshore of the land ruled by dinosaurs.

1. Giant asteroid crash 470 million years ago 'could hold clues to prevent climate disaster'  Sky News
2. Dust cloud sparked explosion in primitive life on Earth, say scientists  The Guardian
3. Asteroid collision led to Ice Age 470 million years ago - and scientists want to recreate it  Mirror Online
4. Scientists discover ancient asteroid collision sparked ice age by 'filling solar system with dust'  Evening Standard
5. Blowing-up asteroid to block out Sun could stop global warming - it's happened before... Читать дальше...

Just wondering if anyone watched the chase this afternoon
One of the questions was Wigan Warriors are the leading club in which sport
Luckily the guy was from Yorkshire and knew the answer
Our famous clubs presence has no boundaries
Even tv quiz shows mention us
On a similar note another question was what word links New York and Huddersfield in sport and the woman picked jets instead of giants but then she was from darn sarf

Statistics: Posted by Millikenised — Wed Sep 18, 2019 8:34 pm ... Читать дальше...

Following a 2015 constitutional amendment, the next president will have fewer powers than his predecessors.

Bostrom Knausgaard trusts underlying truths and realizations to form in the reader’s mind.

Here’s some good news as we head into cold and flu season: Scientists may have found the cure for the common cold.