Judiciary as an institution is facing crisis of credibility, Chief Justice of India TS Thakur said as he asked judges to be conscientious of their duties. He also did not mince any word as he said that bar has "not been very cooperative" in disposal of cases even if judges are ready work longer.
Ariana Grande had a few hiccups on Saturday Night Live.
Hundreds of Tibetan and non-Tibetan devotees offered warm welcome to the Dalai Lama with flowers and traditional Tibetan scarves.
For a long time I was the crime fiction reviewer at the Detroit Free Press and I loved my work because I'd been reading mysteries and thrillers for years. I still do, and I have my own series set at a fictional Michigan university.
I usually got one and sometimes two boxes of books every month to sort through for my column. Time after time, I'd be captured by a book and then a smart character would do something really dumb. Like the chic woman investigating a murder who walked into a nasty dark alley in super-high heels. Читать дальше...
A dissatisfied customer has shared photo of what was seen in a vegetable salad after buying it recently. Read the mail sent to Stella Dimokokorkus below: ”Hi Stella,I want to report a case. My brother’s friend, bought a salad from Shoprite, Festival Mall, Festac on 10-03-2016.Alas! He found the broken glass shard in his […]
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Kerala-born Sunny Varkey, 59, a Dubai-based education philanthropist, launched the Varkey Foundation Challenge Fund at the two-day Global Education and Skills Forum 2016.
Hundreds of police officers, Secret Service agents and private security guards in cars, on foot and on horseback blanketed the area around Donald Trump's campaign rally Saturday afternoon. Dozens of protesters would soon ...
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Like it or not, Microsoft is everywhere.
From its origins as a super-hot startup in the 1970s to taking over the world in the 1990s to its current reinvention under CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft has a long and storied history right alongside the PC itself.
But how much do you really know about Microsoft?
Here are 18 things you probably never knew about the biggest name in the PC business.
If you bought one share of Microsoft stock for $21 at its March 13, 1986, IPO, it would be worth $14,990 today. Читать дальше...
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said on Sunday that he is looking into paying the legal fees for a man who sucker-punched a protester at his campaign rally on Wednesday.
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The ECB’s decision to offer cheap four-year loans offers fresh hope to struggling banks in Southern Europe—and drew immediate ire from their Northern European rivals.
What : According to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence , shares of the clinical-stage biotech Sarepta Therapeutics gained nearly 14% last month.
As an all-out search for two tugboat crew members stretched into hours following a deadly crash on the Hudson River, New York's governor gave his stark forecast. "Sometimes people go to work and they don't come home," Gov. Andrew Cuomo said as numerous agencies ...
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Alaska State Troopers on Saturday arrested a 26-year-old man in connection with attacks on two musher teams taking part in the Iditarod dog sled race that killed at least one dog and injured three others.
Two veteran mushers in Alaska's Iditarod told race officials on Saturday that a person driving a snowmobile tried to drive the machine into their sled teams in apparent attacks.
Alaska State Troopers said they arrested Arnold Demoski in connection with the incidents... Читать дальше...
Tony Little argues privileged children need to find out how to bounce back from failure
The head of Louisiana's large carnivore program says it will happen when her annual survey of radio-collared females turns up one with one or two cubs about the same size as this 7-week-old male. U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said Thursday that she got to cuddle the 7-week-old cub at the Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Louisiana, the heart of the subspecies' range.
Four years ago, when Saints quarterback Drew Brees became the first quarterback with a $20 million annual salary, the salary cap allowed for $120.6 million in spending per year. That meant Brees consumed 1/6th of the full cap by himself. Under that same standard, Brees should be making $25.87 million this year. While his cap…
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(AP) — Lawmakers, still bristling from a bitter special session that didn't address all the state's financial problems, are returning to the Louisiana Capitol to dive into a three-month regular legislative session. [...] they'll also add politically charged debates about Louisiana's TOPS free college tuition program, abortion, same-sex marriage, illegal immigration and Confederate monuments.
LENZERHEIDE, Switzerland - Lara Gut is surely now the overall World Cup champion after placing third in a combined event on Sunday, won by her Switzerland teammate Wendy Holdener.
The Rams re-signed defensive end William Hayes early in free agency and they’re holding onto another member of their defensive line as well. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that the Rams have re-signed defensive end Eugene Sims. It’s a three-year deal worth up to $10 million with $3.75 million in guaranteed money. Sims joined…
A 1974 report emphasized vitamins and minerals for malnourished kids, not protein. That was a game-changer. A new study asserts that protein is just as vital.
As Jim Dwyer reported in The New York Times yesterday, you can't get a mosque built in Basking Ridge, New Jersey -- even if you're the ex-mayor:
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The political future of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is nonnegotiable, his chief envoy said Saturday, undercutting a chief demand of rebels who are scheduled to attend negotiations next week aimed at defusing a brutal five-year war. Assad’s status is a “red line,” Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem told reporters in Damascus, even as he confirmed […]