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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The city of Baton Rouge will continue to memorialize officers slain in a shoot-out outside a convenience store just a week ago with funeral services planned Monday for police officer Montrell Jackson.

(AP) — The city of Baton Rouge will continue to memorialize officers slain in a shoot-out outside a convenience store just a week ago with funeral services planned Monday for police officer Montrell Jackson. Just days before he was shot and killed, Jackson posted an emotional Facebook message saying he was "physically and emotionally" tired and expressing how difficult it was to be both a police officer and a black man.

BATON ROUGE, La. — The city of Baton Rouge will continue to memorialize officers slain in a shoot-out outside a convenience store just a week ago with funeral services planned Monday for police officer Montrell Jackson. Just days before he was shot and killed, Jackson posted an emotional Facebook message saying he was “physically and

In two weeks, just before 1am on August 8, the last car will drive along the southern end of Acland Street, then the traffic barriers will go up and Yarra Trams will begin to convert St Kilda's famous shopping strip into a plaza.

Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) is in talks to buy debt-laden Gujarat State Petroleum Corp's (GPSC) stake in the under-construction Rs 4,500 crore Mundra LNG import terminal in Gujarat.

A bomb scare triggered by a note found on a Qantas plane has caused an evacuation of Queenstown Airport in New Zealand on Sunday afternoon.

President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has named Deh Mazang ‘Martyrs Squre’ following a deadly attack that left over 80 dead. The Office of the President in a statement said President Ghani has named Deh Mazang ‘Matyrs Squre’ to honor and respect the victims of the brutal attack as well as help remember those who have lost Read the full article...

Once reserved for emergency situations, provisional ballots were freely handed out across California on June 7 as a Times analysis finds they were used by more than one of every five primary voters who showed up at a polling place.

Hello! I’m Mark Olsen, and welcome to your weekly field guide to a world of Only Good Movies.

Tamil Nadu boasts of over 21 million urban internet subscriber base, with Maharashtra and Delhi competing almost neck-to-neck with 19.7 million and 19.6 million subscribers respectively, followed by Karnataka with 17 million users, as on March, 2016.

Stadium Stomp fundraiser helps Mater Hospital open pregnancy centre.

Medewerkers van de BBC kregen tijdens de Koude Oorlog de kans aangeboden om tijdens een eventuele nucleaire ramp uit te zenden vanuit een ondergrondse bunker, maar ze mochten daarover niets aan hun vrouw vertellen. Dat blijkt uit documenten die de zender openbaar heeft gemaakt.

LOS ANGELES — Thousands of homes remained evacuated Sunday as two massive wildfires raged in tinder-dry California hills and canyons, and authorities said a burned body was found in one neighborhood swept by the flames. The body was discovered Saturday evening outside a home on Iron Canyon Road in Santa Clarita, just north of Los

Holden star Craig Lowndes has rocketed back into Supercars title contention with a dominant display on Sunday at Queensland Raceway.

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Butterflies are more than just another pretty bug.

Sponsored by the Dishman Hills Conservancy and Inland Northwest Land Conservancy, a classroom session was followed by a walk in a natural area with a group that included seniors, couples and parents with kids ranging from teens to a gaggle of fascinated elementary schoolers. A butterfly's life cycle begins as an egg and hatches into a larva (caterpillar), which does most of the feeding. Yarrow is a favorite butterfly enticements to have in a yard with other flowering plants, he noted as he highlighted what lures the insects. Читать дальше...

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Dave Lacey shouts over his shoulder, his voice carrying through salty air laced with a pungent shrimp-and-sour mystery aroma: "Have you ever smelled whale's breath before?"

Postal workers rise to challenge of delivering kids’ postcards Not wanting to hurt their feelings, she found a half-inch space on one side and in tiny print wrote our names and address. Dear Thankful: I’m pleased to pass along your message to the caring postal workers who ensured that you receive the postcards. When I started writing this reply, I thought I’d quote the postal workers’ official motto: “Neither rain nor hail nor sleet nor snow,” etc. The familiar sentence “Neither snow nor rain... Читать дальше...

Uranus (the “rules are made to be broken” planet) does a quick trine to Mercury on Friday before doubling back to retrograde in Aries. Talk about conflict, talk about a game changer. Aries (March 19-April 18) We all know you’re a force to be reckoned with, Aries, but now — with Uranus sitting in your sign — you’re unstoppable. Just keep in mind that all-powerful but also fickle Jupiter still lurks in your work house. Taurus (April 19-May 19) There’s an elephant sitting in your closet — your secret sector. Читать дальше...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thousands of homes remained evacuated Sunday as two massive wildfires raged in tinder-dry California hills and canyons, and authorities said a burned body was found in one neighborhood swept by the flames. The area was among those ordered evacuated as the fire raged through brush withered by days of 100-degree temperatures as Southern California sweltered through a heat wave. Since Friday, the fire, propelled by gusty winds, has burned up and down ridgelines, blackening 31 square... Читать дальше...

The new Australian parliament shows a clear majority in support of same-sex marriage for the first time in the nation's history.

For wine-lovers with fat wallets and a sense of adventure, these are the five places to see...

Learn about autoimmune diseases, whereby the immune system attacks healthy cells in the body. Examples include celiac disease and type 1 diabetes.

Research that has discovered an interaction between mutant LRRK2 gene and alpha-synuclein may lead to new treatments for Parkinson’s disease, study says.