NEW YORK (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - Internettaxibedrijf Uber heeft over de eerste zes maanden van het jaar een brutoverlies van 1,2 miljard dollar in de boeken gezet. Dat zei financieel topman Gautam Gupta tijdens een bijeenkomst met zijn investeerders.
The potholed path to election 2016 is so treacherous, we need a break from the awfulness. So instead, let’s marvel at the weirdness.
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The Latest on Colombia's peace deal (all times local):
The family of an Arizona shooting range instructor accidentally killed by a 9-year-old girl has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit.
BRUNSWICK, Ga. — Police near Georgia’s coast are investigating the thefts of 70 Confederate flags from the graves of soldiers who fought in the American Civil War. The Florida Times-Union reports that the stolen flags were small replicas of the third official flag of the Confederate States of America, which includes a red bar and
This independently-owned, rustic beach retreat is set in the heart of the Menai Bay Conservation Area. Its 26 thatched cottages are strung along a two-kilometre beach where you can launch yourself into the sea for reef dives and picnic on secluded sandbanks.
But Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan refuses to put a timetable on a possible hike.
Washington will remain Colombia's partner, John Kerry said commenting on a peace agreement between the South-American country's government and FARC guerrillas.
Why equating ‘natural’ with ‘normal’ is harmful, not helpful, to many women
Cancer has passed heart disease as the leading cause of death in nearly half of U.S. states, according to a new report. In 2014, cancer was the leading cause of death in 22 states, including many in the West and Northeast. In the rest of the 28 states, heart disease remained the leading cause of death in 2014.
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There’s a myth going around that music geeks are essential to good music curation.
It’s an attractive idea. Just look at BuzzFeed writer Reggie Ugwu’s glowing feature on the “small teams of anonymous, hardcore music fans [racing] to solve the record industry’s toughest problem.”
Indeed, Pandora, Apple, Spotify, Tidal, Google Play, and the rest bend over backwards to make clear how much they rely on music experts, and there seems to be no worse slander... Читать дальше...
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Maksim Chmerkovskiy will reportedly partner with Amber Rose on "Dancing with the Stars" Season 23 after a four-season hiatus from the show.
YREKA, Calif. — The Latest on wildfires burning in the West (all times local): 3:20 p.m. A 160-square-mile wildfire in central Idaho is continuing to grow to the northwest but fire managers say progress has been made with control lines on the west and northwest perimeters. About 1,800 firefighters are fighting the blaze Thursday that’s
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. — The Latest on wildfires burning in the West (all times local): 9:30 a.m. The South Entrance to Yellowstone National Park is expected to remain closed into this weekend because of a fire burning in neighboring Grand Teton National Park. However, cooler, damper weather has moderated fires burning in Yellowstone, and
Germany should prevent a situation in which political differences between Moscow and Berlin could lead to a conflict between the peoples of Russia and Germany, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier wrote for the website Vorwärts and once again called to maintain dialogue with Moscow.
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police say a man they were questioning about a fire that killed an infant, two children and a man has been released without charge.
Indian authorities are investigating a massive security breach involving secret data relating to the combat capabilities of submarines being built for the Indian navy by a French shipbuilder that could delay shipment of the vehicles, VOA News reported Thursday. The release of more than 22,000 pages of sensitive information relating to Scorpene submarines were made public earlier this week by The Australian newspaper, the report said. India is not the only one affected by the confidentiality breach. Читать дальше...
Who is asking the questions matters.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Saudi King Salman in the Red Sea city of Jiddah on Thursday ahead of wider talks focusing on the conflicts in Yemen, Syria and Libya with other…
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Police near Georgia's coast are investigating the thefts of 70 Confederate flags from the graves of soldiers who fought in the American Civil War.
The Republican Party platform is fully anti-LGBTQ, but actual Republicans hold much more mixed views.
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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has powered his way to the top. The action star is the world's highest-paid actor with $64.5 million earned in the past year, according to Forbes, supplanting previous No. 1 Robert Downey Jr.
Johnson, who more than doubled his pay compared to 2015, starred opposite Kevin Hart in "Central Intelligence," the top comedy of 2016 with over $210 million worldwide at the box office.
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Nature Valley
That granola bar you had for breakfast may have contained a pesticide.
Lawsuits filed Wednesday in New York, California, Minnesota, and Washington, D.C. argue that because General Mills' Nature Valley granola bars contain small amounts of pesticide, the bar's "100%-natural" claims dupe customers, Bloomberg reports.
According to the complaints, Nature Valley products such as Crunchy Oats & Honey and Sweet & Salty Nut granola bars that say they're made... Читать дальше...
Das sind doch ganz normale Fotos - oder was denkst Du?!
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Huch, wie äh, ist das passiert?
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Was sie da im Glas?
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ENTSCHULDIGUNG?! AH. Okay. oh. Verguckt.
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