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Jirka Väätäinen has recreated some of the most classic Disney characters, like Belle, Cinderella, Ursula, and Elsa, to appear more realistic.

Engineers have made significant progress in the removal of the toppled tower crane during a busy Thanksgiving weekend.

Stocks capped a wobbly day of trading on Wall Street with modest losses Monday, a shaky start to the week for the market after its first weekly gain in a month.

The 2019 CMT Artists of the Year event is almost here! This Wednesday, Oct. 16, some of the biggest stars in entertainment will gather in Nashville for the 2019 CMT Artists of the Year...

Whatever their aircraft is like, Boeing’s PR strategy is definitely stealthy. There’s a strategic reason for that.

The debate over how to best marshal the country's alternative energy sources may affect a new independence referendum.

Music companies are hot investments again -- but the bargains are becoming hard to find.  Sellers of record labels and music publishing assets...

Harry Kane was in impressive form for England this evening during their Euro 2020 qualifier in Bulgaria. The Three Lions captain proved once again he is more than just a than just an out and out goalscorer after providing three assists. Kane got his just reward when he found the back of the net with just five minutes remaining to round off a 6-0 thrashing in Sofia. Spurs fans will certainly be hoping that the 26-year-old will bring this form into Saturday’s Premier League match against Watford in North London. Читать дальше...

Canadian writer Margaret Atwood and British author Bernardine Evaristo split the Booker Prize on Monday, after the judging panel ripped up the rule book and refused to name one winner for the prestigious fiction trophy.

The ICC has given Zimbabwe and Nepal member status once again following a board meeting in Dubai.

Canadian literary star Margaret Atwood has won the Booker Prize for the second time, but is sharing it this time with British author Bernardine Evaristo.

Paulo Bento says South Korea are suitably prepared for their rare clash with North Korea.

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Host Alberta teams Calgary Foothills WFC and St. Albert Impact won the Boys’ U-15 Cup and Girls’ U-15 Cup respectively at the 2019 Toyota National Championships in Edmonton, AB. Foothills girls defeated Quebec’s AS Brossard 4:2 in the Gold Medal Match on Teck Finals Day with St. Al

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• Patrick Day, a 27-year-old American boxer, is "fighting for his life," his trainer Joe Higgins said according to USA Today.
• The super welterweight was dominated in a Saturday bout against a 21-year-old called Charles Conwell.
• In Chicago's Wintrust Arena, Conwell knocked Day down in the fourth and eighth rounds and then out in the 10th.
• Day left the ring on a stretcher and had seizures en route to hospital.
• A statement... Читать дальше...

In April 2018, LendingClub provided us with $5,000 to open a brand new account. Since then we have been chronicling the status of the account on a quarterly basis. Below are links to the full series of blog posts in chronological order: How to Open Up a New LendingClub Account in 2018 Setting Up LendingClub’s Automated Investing […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Harold Bloom, the critic and Yale professor whose seminal "The Anxiety of Influence" and melancholy regard for literature's old masters made him a popular author and standard-bearer of Western civilization amid modern trends, died Monday at age 89.

Monday’s Personal Finance Stories.

When it comes to tires, it’s time to start thinking about the switch from summer to winter wheels. But for two Alberta companies, when it comes to tires, a switch means they are completely transformed. Sarah Komadina has the details.

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The original plan was for Logan Roy to die at the end of season one of Succession, Brian Cox told me a few days before the season two finale, over a lunch of onion soup, meze, and a couple of Arnold Palmers in a Persian restaurant near his 51st-floor apartment in Brooklyn.

Ross Barkley and Raheem Sterling hit two goals apiece as England thrashed Bulgaria 6-0 in a Euro 2020 qualifier amid racist behaviour from fans in Sofia.

Hello Friends, As expected yesterday’s little waves have faded into the knee to maybe waist high range this morning at Dee Why. At 0730 skies were partly cloudy and wind was coming faintly from the NE, texturing the surface slightly. Tide was coming into a 1.6 m high at 0955.  At 0500 the MHL buoy […]

Manchester United are reportedly confident of striking an agreement to sign Mario Mandzukic from Juventus when the transfer window reopens in less than three months’ time. Mandzukic was fancied to replace Romelu Lukaku at United over the summer but a… Continue Reading →

Gaelic football team Enniskerry GAA won the Wicklow Junior B-level football championship on Saturday, and disaster struck as they were celebrating atop a bus, when the railing crumpled and sent a good chunk of partiers to the pavement. Nine people were hospitalized, though nobody was critically hurt, per the team.…

Martin Scorsese’s 1990 blockbuster Goodfellas is a modern classic, an Oscar nominee that’s enjoyed a much longer shelf life than most Oscar winners. It’s surprising, then, to learn that the first audiences to see it were as dismissive of it as Scorsese is with Marvel movies. The famed director revealed in an interview