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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York is lifting its ban on serving food or beverages at funeral homes next year under a law signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

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If you ever felt like the most attractive people always have the greatest career success, you may be on to something.

As it turns out, success, at least in some part, is skin deep.

Of course attractive people aren't always dealt the best cards — just more frequently than the rest of us average joes.

Here's how being attractive influences success:

Drake Baer contributed to reporting in this article.

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HAARLE - Zo'n honderdvijftig kinderen uit Haarle beginnen maandag bij schaapskooi Twilhaar aan de Paltheweg met het timmeren van houten hutjes in het bos, die samen een heus dorp gaan vormen. Een houtdorp!

“After revoking AFSPA in few areas, we can assess the situation there. If successful we can revoke it in entirety,” CM Mufti said.

The couple claimed Dahbi called them 'c**ts, whores and bitches'

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. After flames driven by gusty winds swept through an evacuated neighborhood, firefighters reported that some buildings had been engulfed, but it was not immediately clear whether they were homes, outbuildings or garages, said Nathan Judy, a spokesman for the U.S. Fire Service. Читать дальше...

One pot is all you need.

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Slow Cooker Teriyaki Chicken

A quick one-step marinade means this chicken is as juicy as can be.

Get the recipe here.

Proper Tasty

One Pan Baby Back Ribs

I mean, do you even need any more information?

Get the recipe here.

Tasty

Cider Pulled Pork

All of the flavour, and none of the washing up.

Narsingh had won a lengthy legal battle over two-time Olympics medallist Sushil Kumar, who also staked his claim to represent the country in 74kg freestyle at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

SEOUL, July 24 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean government's spending on research and development (R&D) projects advanced 7 percent in 2015 from a year earlier, data showed Sunday, with the science ministry being the top beneficiary of the investment.

Jeff Gordon's return in place of Dale Earnhardt Jr. coincides with the four-car team mired in a slump.

Will there be a need to tell a confused colleague that they’re saying “Kuuuuuuuuuhn” and not booing this season? John Kuhn believes there will be. The longtime Packers fullback has not landed a job for 2016 as camps get set to open around the league, but says he’s staying in shape and ready to roll…

Well played, Stephen Curry.

It’s been a lousy couple of years for researchers who study the effects of computerized brain training. In October of 2014 a group of more than seventy academics published what they called a consensus statement, asserting that playing brain games had been shown to improve little more than the ability to play brain games. “Perhaps the most pernicious claim, devoid of any scientifically credible evidence, is that brain games prevent or reverse Alzheimer’s disease,” the group stated. “No studies... Читать дальше...

It's been a hell of a week, hasn't it? I know everyone here at Crooks and Liars is pretty well exhausted after last week's fiasco of a convention. I expect the Democratic convention this week is going to be a breath of fresh air after the lying, vitriol, hatred and fearmongering we were all subjected from Trump and his sideshow at the RNC.

Amanda du Pont and Sbahle Mpisane are making sure that winter doesn't get the best of them. And their bodies.

The research, published recently in Science, could open the door to targeting other autoimmune diseases.

We civilized humans love to watch wild animals being wild. It’s why we go on safari and to the aquarium and hope the lions are active at the zoo. One of the best things about living in Los Angeles is we can be city dwellers and at the same time be surrounded by abundant fauna.

In late 2014, California became the first state to ban the most controversial form of rural entertainment since cockfighting: coyote-killing contests, wherein hunters won prizes or gambling pots based on the number of the wild predators they killed in a weekend. Some no doubt saw the move as coddling...

Donald Trump made one part of Hillary Clinton’s job easier last week — by making the braggadocious claim that he alone can cure the nation’s ills, a boast that sounded more like a promise of one-man rule. But Clinton faces three other big challenges at her convention in Philadelphia this week,...

On two recent trips to Turkey to study constitutional reform, I asked everyone I interviewed — politicians, scholars, activists —  if there was any risk of a coup in the country. They all said “Impossible.” Last Friday, as jets bombed the parliament in Ankara and tanks blocked the bridges of Istanbul,...

Delegates gathering in Philadelphia on Monday for the Democratic National Convention have a lot to be thankful for.

A suicide bomber attacked a security checkpoint in northern Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 14 people, Iraqi officials said. 

Kabul intends to strike a deal on buying Mi-17 and Mi-35 helicopters from Russia.