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Joey Evans, 6-foot-5, is a forward on Midland University’s men’s basketball team, and he's ready to give up one athletic scholarship for another.

SEOUL, May 12 (Yonhap) -- Kyunghee University and Yonhap News Agency held the final round for a Korean speech contest on Thursday with an aim to encourage foreigners to better understand the country's language and culture. The preliminary round for

May 13 1975 -- In the face of continuing popular unrest, Park Chung-hee promulgates the 9th State of Emergency decree, the final version of a series of emergency measures that led to the jailing of hundreds of dissidents. 1997 -- Two Nort

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We take a look at 20 successful entrepreneurs — and where they worked as lowly interns (sometimes unpaid) before making it big. 

1. Katia Beauchamp

The cofounder of cosmetics subscription serviceBirchBox interned at NBC Universal as a summer associate for digital distribution in 2010 — the same year she started her company while an MBA student at Harvard Business School.  

2. Kayvon Beykpour

The CEO and co-founder of Periscope... Читать дальше...

Activision Blizzard continues to stake its claim as the ESPN of competitive video games, or e-sports, as it announces new content.

ALMELO – Jacinta Stokkingreef uit Albergen is sinds begin deze maand de trotse eigenaar van de Zuivelhoeve-winkel aan het Eskerplein in Almelo. Na een snelle verbouwing van vier dagen heropende de gerestylede winkel afgelopen vrijdag opnieuw haar deuren. 

The Oklahoma Supreme Court says a state broadcasters' association can sue for the release of surveillance video that was used in an assault case against Oklahoma running back Joe Mixon. … Click to Continue »

DENEKAMP - In Denekamp komt een voetgangersverbinding tussen de Ootmarsumsestraat en de Molendijk. Daarover hebben de gemeente Dinkelland en de stichting Promotie en accommodatie SDC';12 overeenstemming bereikt.

Blake Lively took issue with a joke aimed at Woody Allen and the sexual abuse allegations against him. 

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Twenty-five police officers in Connecticut have been singled out as stopping minority drivers at significantly higher rates than their peers, according to a new report commissioned by the state government and described by its authors as…

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Twenty-five police officers in Connecticut have been singled out as stopping minority drivers at significantly higher rates than their peers, according to a new report commissioned by the state government and described by its authors as…

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Twenty-five police officers in Connecticut have been singled out as stopping minority drivers at significantly higher rates than their peers, according to a new report commissioned by the state government and described by its authors as…

AMSTERDAM (AFN) - De belangrijkste Europese aandelenbeurzen gaven hun aanvankelijke winsten donderdagmiddag grotendeels uit handen. Veel bedrijven in binnen- en buitenland kwamen met een kwartaalupdate. In Amsterdam kregen vooral verzekeraar Aegon en bouwbedrijf BAM klappen na opening van hun boeken.

ALMELO - Het is een klus die al een tijd niet meer gedaan was: het schoonmaken van de geluidsschermen langs de singel in Almelo. Verhart Groen uit Montfoort poetst er met volautomatische blauwe borstels de vogelpoep en alg af.

Trying to fill the gaps in its security apparatus with outside help, online adult video giant Pornhub is offering as much as $25,000 to hack its website and find flaws, media and technology company Vocativ reported.

Gene Simmons, who said Prince chose to “slowly” kill himself with drugs and alcohol, apologises and explains his remark.

The actress has been struggling through a particularly tough time in recent weeks

Behold: a 4K, stereoscopic, 360-degree virtual reality camera that costs less than some iPhones.

Kohl's fell more than 6 percent after the retailer reported quarterly results that fell short of analyst expectations.

– Wazobia FM OAP Nedu posts a compromising photo of him and model Sarah Ofili – This got his fans angry and called him out – Nedu apologises and explains reasons for the photos Earlier on Thursday, May 12, 2016 Wazobia FM on-air-personality (OAP) Nedu caught a lot of flak after he posted a photo […]

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Walmart is fixing the biggest weakness with its online business.

The company is testing a shorter free shipping window for members of its subscription shipping service, called ShippingPass.

The shipping window was formerly three days, and it will now be two days.

The change will make ShippingPass a more formidable rival to Amazon Prime, which also offers two-day shipping.

ShippingPass, which is still in test phase, costs $49 annually. That's half the cost of Amazon Prime. Читать дальше...

Zimbabwe imported 350,000 tonnes of maize between January and the end of April to meet shortages caused by a drought, the UN World Food Programne (WFP) said on Thursday.

German companies are stepping up their efforts to bypass Western anti-Russian sanctions since Russian remains one of the most lucrative markets in Europe. In order to operate under sanctions, German companies open their own production in and invest in factories in Russia.