Morley Safer, the veteran "60 Minutes" correspondent who was equally at home reporting on social injustices, the Orient Express and abstract art, and who exposed a military atrocity in Vietnam that played an early role in changing Americans' view of the war, died Thursday, according to Kevin Tedesco, a CBS News publicist.
Woodland’s $10 million parks and sports complex project got a big boost recently when the state awarded it $500,000.
Gold futures settled with a loss on Thursday, at their lowest level in roughly three weeks. Minutes from the U.S. Federal Reserve’s April meeting released late Wednesday suggested that the central bank was open to raising interest rates in June. Higher rates can boost the dollar and weigh on dollar-denominated prices for gold. June gold dropped $19.60, or 1.5%, to settle at $1,254.80 an ounce on Friday.
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Editor’s note: The Niger Delta Avengers in a bid to make the federal government respond to its demand has been blowing up gas and fuel pipelines in the region. In this opinion, Greg Odogwu point out that the damage and danger that such actions posit and that the people living in the region are going […]
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Het passagiersvliegtuig van EgyptAir dat in de nacht van woensdag op donderdag verween had 66 mensen met twaalf verschillende nationaliteiten aan boord. Onder hen waren tien crewleden, een kind en twee baby's. Steeds meer slachtoffers krijgen een gezicht.
Bird nest cams have become hugely popular, and spring is when they're full of action. Millions of viewers log on to see live-streamed egg-laying, egg-incubating and chick-hatching. Along the way, many become attached to the little birds. But nests are also nature, and nature can be nasty.
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Supporters of Donald Trump's presidential campaign are furious over a Home Depot worker who was spotted wearing a hat critical of the US.
The hat reads "America was never great" — which is a play on Trump's campaign slogan, "Make America great again."
Someone snapped a photo of the employee wearing the hat at a Home Depot in Staten Island, and shared it online.
The photo went viral on social media.
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APTOS, Calif., May 19 (UPI) -- A California man was undisturbed after spotting a large shark swimming underneath his boat while kayaking.
ENSCHEDE - Onder de kop ‘FC Twente mag blij zijn dat de club nog bestaat’ wijdt NRC Handelsblad van donderdag een commentaar aan het oordeel van de licentiecommissie. De gezaghebbende krant constateert dat de woede over de sanctie verkeerd gericht is. “Twente heeft de straf geheel aan zichzelf te wijten”.
US Department of State spokesperson John Kirby said that Washington does not have any indications at all if there were American citizens onboard of the EgyptAir Flight MS804.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Directors Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg had always intended to try to elevate disgraced politician Anthony Weiner's story above the sensationalism of the sexting scandal that effectively ended his congressional career. What they didn't know, however,…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Directors Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg had always intended to try to elevate disgraced politician Anthony Weiner's story above the sensationalism of the sexting scandal that effectively ended his congressional career. What they didn't know, however,…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Directors Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg had always intended to try to elevate disgraced politician Anthony Weiner's story above the sensationalism of the sexting scandal that effectively ended his congressional career. What they didn't know, however,…
(ATTN: UPDATES with film's planned release in North America at bottom) By Shim Sun-ah and Koo Jung-mo CANNES, France, May 19 (Yonhap) -- Director Na Hong-jin said he didn't have any malignant desire to confuse viewers with the ambiguous last part of
The Blaugrana have slammed the move to forbid nationalist flags at the Vicente Calderon ahead of their final contest against Wednesday's Europa League winners
The head of the Russian State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee Alexei Pushkov stated on Thursday that Russia may apply for return to the PACE in January.
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Has anyone ever accused you of being a workaholic? Have you ever jokingly referred to yourself as one?
Perhaps you're just a high performer.
"Recovering workaholic" and nationally recognized corporate speaker Jullien Gordon pointed out in a 2014 LinkedIn post that workaholism looks similar to high performance on the outside — but they're actually nothing alike.
A high performer works hard in "healthy sustainable ways and feels happy and inspired,"... Читать дальше...
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Amid Google's splashy demos of its smart speaker and slick new video app at its IO conference on Wednesday, the company tucked a quick preview that could have bigger implications for app creators than anything else it debuted on stage:
Android Instant Apps.
The idea is that people can tap on a URL and open an Android app instantly without having to install it. In essence, it blurs the line between the web and apps to an unprecendented level.
This has obvious benefits for users ... Читать дальше...
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that 129 UN peacekeepers from 50 countries lost their lives last year.
Two teams from Black Forest and AFNORTH make cut, joining entries from Aviano, Bitburg, Florence and Marymount.
Sometimes there are no proper words to discuss the perniciousness of certain conservative pundits.
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ED may go for a forensic audit of the electronic platforms on which the accounts and transactions of the group companies of liquor baron Vijay Mallya were being conducted in order to take forward its money laundering probe against him in the alleged Rs 900-crore IDBI bank loan fraud case.
