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The extinct human species dubbed the "Hobbit" vanished from its home on the Indonesian island of Flores far earlier than previously thought, according to scientists our species may have had a hand in the demise of these diminutive people. The Hobbit's discovery in 2003 had created a scientific sensation.

DeMar DeRozan scored 26 points, Jonas Valanciunas added 19 points and nine rebounds, and the Toronto Raptors earned their franchise-record 50th victory of the season Wednesday night, 105-97 victory over the Atlanta Hawks.

There few places in the world better than this tiny, flat, wealthy island where the locals adore technology to embrace driverless cars.

You've seen it happen so often it's become a tired cliché - the business owner who sees a better path forward only to procrastinate implementing the needed solution with the ready excuse, "Now is just not the right time."

This is the business owner who says, "David, I know I need to do things different, and I can even see the 'different' that I need to do, but now just isn't the right time. Later... After I finish this one project... After I make this one hire... After [you fill in the blank]..."

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You've seen it happen so often it's become a tired cliché - the business owner who sees a better path forward only to procrastinate implementing the needed solution with the ready excuse, "Now is just not the right time."

This is the business owner who says, "David, I know I need to do things different, and I can even see the 'different' that I need to do, but now just isn't the right time. Later... After I finish this one project... After I make this one hire... After [you fill in the blank]..."... Читать дальше...

Alex Chiasson and Zack Smith scored for the Senators as Ottawa snapped a four-game road losing streak with a 2-1 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Wednesday night

John Kasich has committed the biggest New York faux pas of them all — eating a slice with a fork and knife.

(AP) — A Northern California jury has found a former Stanford University swimmer guilty of sexually assaulting a woman on campus after both attended a fraternity party. Prosecutors say the victim told investigators she drank about four shot glasses of whisky before going to the fraternity party, and then drank vodka there.

Under intense criticism from California lawmakers, the state will begin using blood test results from children to help focus its massive cleanup of lead-contaminated homes in southeast Los Angeles County, state officials said Wednesday.

The Model 3 has drawn eager buyers to Tesla stores more than a day before the electric car will be unveiled.Tesla will start accepting $1,000 reservation deposits for its mid-priced Model 3 when stores open Thursday morning, though buyers won’t get their first glimpse of the car until 11:30 pm ET on Tesla’s website. That’s also when customers can begin placing orders online.Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter that ...

All eyes stay on Kohli even as India grapple with questions over team composition after Yuvraj Singh is ruled out with injury.

Police on Wednesday arrested three persons of a family for allegedly lynching a 52-year-old woman on suspicion of witchcraft at G Bhalia Sahi village under Gajapati district's R Udayagiri police limits the day before.

SEOUL, March 31 (Yonhap) -- South Korean shares traded lower late Thursday morning, driven mostly by increased foreign investors' selling that led to a drop in auto and other large cap stocks. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index lost 8

SEOUL, March 31 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's central bank increased the portion of U.S. dollar-denominated assets in its foreign exchange reserves from a year earlier in 2015 amid the strengthening of the U.S. greenback, the Bank of Korea (BOK) said Thurs

SEOUL, March 31 (Yonhap) -- Excess funds held by South Korean households and non-profit institutions rose from a year earlier in 2015 backed by a rise in their income, central bank data showed Thursday. Excess funds held by households and non-profi

SEJONG, March 31 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's online sales to foreign customers nearly tripled last year from a year earlier on the back of rising demand for domestically produced cosmetics and clothing by Chinese consumers, a report showed Thursday.

SEOUL, March 31 (Yonhap) -- Dongwon F&B Co., a South Korean food producer, said Thursday it has chosen Song Joong-ki, the actor of hit TV drama "Descendants of the Sun," as a new TV commercial model for its tuna products. Dongwon said it hopes feat

Two undertrial prisoners escaped from the sub-jail at G Udayagiri in Kandhamal district by scaling the wall of the jail hospital on Tuesday afternoon.

Four separate teams raided two houses of the CDPO at Semiliguda, her office and her husband's office at Semiliguda, said SP (vigilance) S B Mishra.

Rob Ford's faithful supporters march and sing in funeral procession, line entranceway to cathedral as they pay homage to their 'everyman'

A Maoist is suspected to have sustained bullet injuries following an exchange of fire between Special Operations Group (SOG) personnel at Pokharibandh reserve forest in Kandhamal district on Wednesday.

Police in Koraput district on Wednesday arrested two persons for smuggling ganja and seized 25 kg of the contraband from their possession.