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Warriors’ draft picks aiming to quell any doubts Patrick McCaw leaned back in his chair and clutched his first NBA jersey as if it were as precious as a newborn puppy. McCaw and Damian Jones know they arrived on the doorstep of the NBA lugging around some question marks, but the Warriors’ draft picks did their best during Friday’s introductory news conference to quell any doubts about their futures. The 20-year-olds commanded the stage at the Warriors’ downtown Oakland practice facility during... Читать дальше...

Rome: Pope Francis waded into turbulent geopolitical waters once again during his first visit to Armenia when he made an unscripted remark referring to the World War I-era massacre of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks as a genocide. The prepared text of his speech did not include the politically contentious word, which generally draws furious reactions from Turkey. Instead, the text opted for the more veiled Armenian expression "metz yeghern", which translates as the "great evil". Читать дальше...

A popular North Carolina water park suspended part of its operation Friday after health officials found a brain-destroying amoeba in the water there.

The British online retailer has been closed for over 24 hours.

13,704,240 hectares down – just 177,967,600 to go.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Britain's stunning vote to bolt from the European Union sent political tremors across the Atlantic Friday, fueling Donald Trump's confidence that frustrated U.S. voters will back similarly sweeping change and rattling Democrats who are banking on Americans ultimately choosing a more conventional leader in Hillary Clinton. The referendum also centered on a single issue, while the presidential election can be as much a decision about personality and temperament as candidates' policies. Читать дальше...

A car bomb killed four civilians and wounded 14 others in the war-torn Libyan city of Benghazi Friday night, a hospital official said. The car was parked in front of the entrance of the Al-Jalaa hospital, one of the two biggest in the city and where troops battling armed groups, including Islamic State jihadists, get treatment for injuries. Fadia Berghathi, head of the hospital's media department, told AFP "a car bomb exploded in front of the entrance of the hospital, killing four civilians and wounding 14 others". Читать дальше...

Baylor and Art Briles have mutually agreed to part ways, almost a month after the release of a scathing report over the university's handling of sexual assault complaints against ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The Detroit Red Wings gained salary-cap relief by trading veteran star Pavel Datsyuk's contract to the Arizona Coyotes on Friday night at the NHL draft.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The Detroit Red Wings gained salary-cap relief by trading veteran star Pavel Datsyuk's contract to the Arizona Coyotes on Friday night at the NHL draft.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The Detroit Red Wings gained salary-cap relief by trading veteran star Pavel Datsyuk's contract to the Arizona Coyotes on Friday night at the NHL draft.

A fourth MLS franchise in California? Where's there's money, there's soccer?

A US Senator has praised the NSG for deciding against granting India membership of the grouping immediately, hours after the elite group's plenary meeting ended in Seoul with no decision on India's membership in face of strong China-led opposition.

To the list of things that should not be uttered in modern China, add this: padded bras cause cancer.

MIAMI (AP) — Chicago Cubs second baseman Ben Zobrist has left his team's game at Miami after he was hit by a pitch on the left ankle.

MIAMI (AP) — Chicago Cubs second baseman Ben Zobrist has left his team's game at Miami after he was hit by a pitch on the left ankle.

MIAMI (AP) — Chicago Cubs second baseman Ben Zobrist has left his team's game at Miami after he was hit by a pitch on the left ankle.

Police are hunting for a man who has carried out seven armed robberies in Perth's southern suburbs, the most recent on Thursday night.

Marana police say 53-year-old Karie Laflamme has been booked into Pima County Jail on suspicion of aggravated assault of a police officer and aggravated assault of a police officer with a weapon. The vehicle stopped in the center median emergency lane and when a DPS trooper gave Laflamme multiple commands to exit the vehicle, she drove off and ran over the trooper's foot.

In the wake of the mass shooting at a gay club in Orlando, queer Muslims feel intensified pressure on multiple facets of their identities.

This week, a second Baltimore police officer, Caesar Goodson, was acquitted of all criminal charges in the death of Freddie Gray, a suspect who was fatally hurt last year while being transported, handcuffed, in a police van. Since Gray was Goodson’s charge in the van, Goodson was most responsible for Gray’s well-being, and in that […]