Indian director convicted of raping American graduate student
Mahmood Farooqui, who co-directed the comedy "Peepli Lives" that was his country's entry for the 2011 foreign language Oscar, was convicted on Saturday for the March 28, 2015 attack.
Mahmood Farooqui, who co-directed the comedy "Peepli Lives" that was his country's entry for the 2011 foreign language Oscar, was convicted on Saturday for the March 28, 2015 attack.
Restaurants aren't typically known for skimping on portion sizes, but one list of dishes released Monday tips the caloric scales even more than usual.
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SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- Jimmy Walker captured his first major championship with a one-shot victory over Jason Day in the 98th PGA Championship on Sunday at Baltusrol Golf Club.
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Commission says Nigerian army killed 348 Shiites in attack in which 1 soldier was killed, calls for prosecution of troops.
The famous ballerina, well-known becoming the first African-American principal dancer at the American Ballet Theater, married her long-time boyfriend Olu Evans on Sunday, according to E! News.
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Police say a group of men with semi-automatic weapons and body armor went to a Kentucky Wal-Mart to prepare for doomsday. Lexington Police Lt. Jackie Newman tells the Lexington Herald-Leader (http://bit.ly/2anfYnk ) that officers were called to the Wal-Mart on Saturday night after people reported seeing men inside a car wearing body
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Action thriller Free Fire, starring Brie Larson and Cillian Murphy, will close this year's BFI London Film Festival, it has been announced.
In her next film, Florence Foster Jenkins, directed by Stephen Frears, Meryl Streep gives full-throated life to an eccentric socialite and self-styled diva—and her uproarious off-key singing.
Lexington Police Lt. Jackie Newman tells the Lexington Herald-Leader (http://bit.ly/2anfYnk ) that officers were called to the Wal-Mart on Saturday night after people reported seeing men inside a car wearing body armor and holding weapons. Lexington Police spokesman Richard Willoby says the men were not doing anything criminal with the weapons.
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Amazon passed Exxon Mobile in market cap on Monday, making it the fourth most valuable public company.
The switch came after Amazon posted its fifth straight quarter of profits last week as the oil giant's profits tumbled 59 percent during the same rough period.
Now, tech companies are in spots 1-4 at top of the market value rankings. Facebook comes in at no. 6, and if Exxon keeps dropping — it's down over 2% in early trading — all five could be tech companies by the end of the day. Читать дальше...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Police say a group of men with semi-automatic weapons and body armor went to a Kentucky Wal-Mart to prepare for doomsday.
LONDON (AP) — The renowned Battersea Dogs and Cats Home is offering Britain's government a bit of know-how to discourage cat fights on the doorstep of the national seat of power.
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Yonhap) -- Sales of South Korea's leading automaker Hyundai Motor Co. dropped from a year earlier in July due partly to a decline in output caused by a series of labor strikes that led to significant cuts in both domestic and overseas sa
(AP) — An early education nonprofit has moved into the former location of a historic school for the deaf and hard of hearing in Vermont. The Winston Prouty Center for Child Development purchased the Brattleboro campus of the Austine School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing after it declared bankruptcy and closed two years ago.
Patsy's Italian Restaurant of New York
While New York City sees a constant shift in its restaurant scene, one family-owned restaurant is still going strong after 70 years.
Since Patsy’s Italian Restaurant opened on 56th Street in between 7th and 8th Avenue in 1944, it has only had three chefs: Pasquale Scognamillo (or Patsy, as he became known), his son Joe, and his grandson, Sal.
Four generations of Scognamillos have worked at the restaurant, including Sal's brother, Frank, and Frank's son, Paul. Читать дальше...
LAGRANGE, Ga. — An official in the west Georgia city of LaGrange is praising four teenagers for taking the initiative to find jobs instead of succumbing to the pressure to join gangs. News outlets report that LaGrange Housing Authority CEO Zsa Zsa Heard wrote in a widely shared Facebook post that she hired the 13-year-old
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BRENTFORD , England, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- British pharmaceuticals firm GSK and Alphabet Inc.'s Verily Life Sciences announced the formation of a new company, Galvani Bioelectronics.
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US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is not the first woman to run for President.
As Janet Tavakoli at Tavakoli Structured Finance pointed out on Monday, the first female nominee was in fact over a century ago in 1872.
Victoria Woodhall, also the first woman to work on Wall Street, secured the third party nomination by the Equal Rights party in the 1872 election.
Her opponents were Horace Greeley for the Liberal Republican Party and incumbent President Ulysses S. Читать дальше...
PARIS — A French prosecutor has thrown out the case of a prominent cardinal who was under investigation for alleged failure to report suspected pedophilia by a priest under his watch. Lyon prosecutor Marc Cimamonti told The Associated Press on Monday that there wasn’t sufficient evidence against Cardinal Philippe Barbarin and the statute of limitations
All the consternation over whether golf’s addition to the Summer Games makes sense raises the question of whether tennis — another individual, professional sport with four annual Grand Slam tournaments and millions of dollars in prize money — belongs, too. To U.S. Olympic men’s tennis coach Jay Berger, the answer is obvious. “When it first
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will award national defense heroism badges for bravery to 334 South Koreans who fought for the country in the Korean War (1950-53) and are now residing in San Francisco, the government said Monday. The award c
EIBERGEN - De Berkel is iets bijzonders. Schrijfster Doris Röckinghausen vindt de waterloop van het Duitse Billerbeck naar Zutphen zelfs zo speciaal dat ze er een boek over schreef. Ook Eibergen komt daarin voor.
WVU said in a news release Monday that economic indicators show the recession likely ended during the second quarter of this year, based on slight gains in the Mountain State Business Index in June and July. [...] WVU Bureau of Business and Economic Research director John Deskins says there is "very guarded optimism" for slow economic growth in the months ahead.
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Yonhap) -- The following are the major cultural and tourist festivals to be held in South Korea in August. * Busan Sea Festival When: Aug. 1-4 Where: Haeundae and other major beaches in Busan The Busan Sea Festival has