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Doctor Who's Eleventh Hour, which guest-starred Olivia Colman, has 5 things fans loved and 5 things they felt could have been improved upon.

The iconic photoshoot took place three days before the rapper was murdered in 1997.

Environmental campaigners and analysts are criticizing Norway’s plan to open new areas for oil drilling in the Arctic, saying that operations could threaten pristine areas and wildlife and potentially strain Norway’s relations with Russia, which has great ambitions for Arctic development, the Guardian reports. Norway’s Ministry of Petroleum and Energy proposed in June to offer 136 blocks for oil and gas exploration in the licensing round for less explored areas on its shelf, including 125 blocks... Читать дальше...

Hurricane season can be a frightening time for people near the East Coast of the US, but Europe rarely ever sees full-on hurricanes reach its shores.

As Breaking Bad’s kingpin in a chicken franchise, Gus Fring, Giancarlo Esposito cemented a place for himself in prestige television history. It was a long time coming, though: He’s been a working actor since the late ’70s, with multi-episode arcs on everything from Sesame Street to Homicide: Life On The Streets, and…

The Challenges Facing South Sudan

The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of Comet NEOWISE on August 8, 2020, after the object's close approach to the sun.

Sadio Mane? Raheem Sterling? Marcus Rashford? Find out who was named the Premier League Winger of the Season in the 2019-20 Sports Mole Reader Awards!

Lessons from a top RIA: Effective Processes & Brand

The former Bosnian Serb army chief appealed his convictions, his lawyers argued he was not involved in genocide

• The coronavirus transmission rate remains high even though many people are following safety guidelines that include face mask-wearing, social distancing, and good hand hygiene.
• A new study further proves why those measures are required, detailing a "superspreading" event in Boston from late February that led to the infection of tens of thousands of people across the US and around the world.
• Nearly 100 people who attended a business event developed COVID-19 and spread the virus to others. Читать дальше...

A plan advanced Wednesday to try to help lower-income residents keep their homes in the Woodlawn neighborhood near the site of the proposed Obama Presidential Center by helping tenants to organize themselves to try to purchase multiunit buildings and setting aside funds for tenants to repair their homes.

Officials with the Department of Public Safety are investigating after a fisherman found a 49-year-old Kingston man drowned in Lake Texoma Tuesday morning.

Facebook's employees in India have apparently been conveyed the message that controversies like the one around company’s policy on hate speech posts are to be expected given its reach.

Anti-government activist Ammon Bundy has been arrested for the second time in two days at the Idaho Statehouse

Emmerdale's latest episode hinted Dawn Taylor was ready to reveal all about Malone's murder, or escape the village instead

Retired Gen. Keith Kellogg, National Security Advisor to the Vice President, is scheduled to speak at the 2020 GOP convention on Wednesday night.

As his Wednesday media availability wound down, New England Patriots quarterback Cam Newton was asked to describe his reaction to recent events in Kenosha, Wis. On Sunday, Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, was shot seven times in the back by a Kenosha police officer. Newton called the shooting, which occurred three months after George […]

NCB busts drug syndicates selling MDMA in Bengaluru, Mumbai; seizes 4,317 tablets

Two people were killed and one was injured when shots rang out at the protest just before midnight Tuesday, the police department said.

Facebook Inc. on Wednesday said privacy updates to Apple Inc.'s latest operating system have hindered the social-networking company's ability to deliver targeted ads to iPhone owners when they use outside apps. The announcement, made in a note to app developers, says changes to iPhone's new operating system, called iOS14, impact Facebook's Audience Network business, which connects users' Facebook identities with their off-platform activities. Facebook said the changes will "have a far-reaching... Читать дальше...

They say they will use their own money to continue offering discounts when the government promotion ends.