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Wade Sheridan
BANNER ELK, N.C., May 16 (UPI) -- A pack of cubs along with their mama bear were spotted crossing the street together in Banner Elk, N.C.

Having a laat-lammetjie has given me a profound gift, says Murray Williams.

As I look back at my three decades at Independent Media, I am reminded of all that has changed, and all that is still changing, says Pretoria News editor Valerie Boje.

This year's campaign may be the most-polled in history. We’re getting more clues as to why some online polls are more accurate than others. And we've rounded up a sampling of what we learned from the American Association for Public Opinion Research conference this year. This is HuffPollster for Monday, May 16, 2016.

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Magnitude 5.6 quake recorded north of Tokyo: NHK

Pachauri was accused of sexually harassing a female colleague in 2015.

Hillary Clinton says she would put her husband in charge of revitalizing the economy, which did very well during his eight years as president.

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Tristram Hunt

Yesterday was a historic day for parks in New York City. While most tourists do not get to see much of Staten Island beyond the ferry terminal, a new urban park is taking shape in that borough on the site of the city's last garbage dump (I mean "landfill"). Sunday, May 15th was "Discovery Day" at the Freshkills Park. According to the website of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, people were invited to:

Discover Freshkills Park and explore 700 acres of the otherwise closed site with free tours and recreation. Читать дальше...

Ryan Farquhar is moved out of the intensive care unit at the Royal Victoria Hospital and his condition is stable after his North West 200 crash.

Parties to conflict in Libya should reach in agreement before the UN wll act, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said at a ministerial conference on Libya in Vienna on Monday.

The British chancellor George Osborne has said that ‘Brexiters’ are so paranoid that they would accuse the media and politicians of faking the moon landing and covering up the loch ness monster. The Tory chancellor even shared a platform on Monday with his former rivals Ed Balls and Vince Cable to warn about the terrible dangers of leaving the EU. The Huffington Post reports: George Osborne has claimed the ‘Brexit’ campaign is so paranoid it thinks the moon landing was faked as he made a fresh warning... Читать дальше...

India’s political activists supported Narendra Modi's initiative to provide poor families with free gas, comparing him to Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation, who is listened to and followed by the whole country.

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– Aluko reportedly lost $3 million in the sales – Oil magnate also got contract from Nigeria’s former petroleum minister Oil magnate, Kola Aluko, has sold his mansion in Bel-Air, Los Angeles for $21.5 million, a report by Forbes has indicated. Mfonobong Nsehe, Forbes contributor, quoted the Los Angeles Times as reporting that Aluko, “a […]

"When I was very young, I sold my work just to make a living," but as the artist Arman got older - he died in 2005 at the age of 76 - he wished he still had some of the art that was pivotal to the development of his career. So, when his 1960 assemblage of French gas masks in a wooden box, entitled "Home Sweet Home II," came up at auction at Sotheby's in London in 2000, he was one of the bidders and ended up paying $326,530 for a work he had sold 45 years before for $6,000. Selling low and buying high is no formula for success... Читать дальше...

Know who is Nitinbhai Patel!

It starts the season after next.

Empire State index turns negative in May

The Central Bank of Russia will set the country's annual key interest rate at 5 percent if the inflation rate reaches 4 percent.

Bernie Sanders supporter Sen. Jeff Merkley talks about the Oregon primary on Tuesday. He says Sanders has a large grassroots energy in Oregon especially from Independents.