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A University of Portland tennis player has been kicked off the team after a sexually suggestive, misogynistic speech in which he detailed his collegiate quest to “get white women to sleep with brown men,” according to a report. Goutham Sundaram, a senior from Portland, was hosting the university’s fifth annual Wally Awards — a year-end...

A University of Portland tennis player has been kicked off the team after a sexually suggestive, misogynistic speech in which he detailed his collegiate quest to “get white women to sleep with brown men,” according to a report. Goutham Sundaram, a senior from Portland, was hosting the university’s fifth annual Wally Awards — a year-end...

Andrew Sean Greer was at dinner in Europe when he saw his phone was full of messages. “Then a friend shouted because he saw his phone!” Greer told The Chronicle. “Then I called Michael Chabon and asked, was it true? And he said, ‘Yes, Andy, it’s true. And let me tell you, it is all good news.’” Greer had just found out he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel “Less.” “I did not see this coming!” Greer said. “I guess I get to meet Kendrick Lamar?” he added... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The Twitter message sent by US President Donald Trump warning Russia and China not to devalue their currency was simply a warning shot to the two countries, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Tuesday.

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Relying on language learning apps is like putting old wine in new bottles. Put down your mobile phone if you want a more rewarding and profound connection to the German language, argues seasoned German teacher Michael Schmitz.

The Cannes film festival said Tuesday that it was still in talks with Netflix despite the platform's dramatic withdrawal of its films last week.

At least one protester was killed when a riot broke out during a protest Tuesday in Pakistani city of Karachi in response to the rape and murder of a six-year-old girl. Angry protestors accused police of negligence in the case. District police chief Aamir Farooqi said the girl disappeared Sunday and her body was found Monday in western Karachi. He said the first forensics report indicated the girl may have been raped before being strangled. More than a dozen people were reported injured during the protest... Читать дальше...

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Following their departure from the Champions League, the ESPN FC panel rate the success of Barcelona's season so far. Barcelona will return to the United States this summer to take part in the International Champions Cup, with games against Tottenham, Roma and AC Milan. Ernesto Valverde's side will be predominantly based on the West Coast, with their fixtures taking place in Los Angeles, Dallas and Santa Clara. The La Liga leaders plan to spend a few days training in Portland before heading to Los... Читать дальше...

PARIS (Sputnik) - Russian film director Andrey Zvyagintsev will be on the jury of the 71st Cannes Film Festival in May, the festival’s artistic director, Thierry Fremaux, said Tuesday.

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Anti-ship precision strike missile DF-26 fully combat ready amid Pentagon's raid on Syria.

The US-led coordinated strikes on Syria last week, in response to the Assad regime’s suspected use of chemical weapons, has given the Chinese military more impetus to develop its own precision airborne strike systems.

The Pentagon once again showcased its highly sophisticated weapons capabilities when targeted missile strikes allegedly crippled Assad’s... Читать дальше...

The sea in Balluta Bay was turned milky white over the hours of Tuesday afternoon, after dust from a construction site ended up in the water. A first photo sent to Times of Malta early in the afternoon showed some discharge, but a photo sent by another reader soon after showed that the problem had escalated. A Sliema resident who was walking past was horrified to notice the discharge and was told by a man on the site that there was a temporary problem - but was more or less brusquely told to mind his own business. Читать дальше...

Gualitana: A Festival of Music continues today at the University of Malta Gozo Campus, Xewkija, at 7.30pm with the third event from the ‘TALK re u’ series entitled ‘Art and Music’. For this final session, Gaulitana presents three speakers: composer Federico Gozzelino who wrote a number of musical works inspired by artefacts, pianist Silvia Belfiore who will interpret these works tomorrow in a “concert with artefact projections”, and painter and Manuel Theatre artistic director Kenneth Zammit Tabona, who has worked extensively in both art forms.

Update 10:55 a.m. ET: Twitter.com appears to be back online, at least in the U.S. Its mobile apps are now updating as well. Original story follows below.

Cheating is as old as time itself if the discovery of a mysterious 600-year-old dodgy dice is anything to go by. The highly unusual wooden dice was found during excavations in the Norwegian city of Bergen. Featuring “two fives” and “two fours,” archaeologists believe that the dice was used to cheat in games. Experts from...

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) says it apprehended three suspected members of the extremist group Islamic State (IS) and that a fourth suspect blew himself up while being arrested.

Manchester City have announced that striker Sergio Aguero has undergone minor knee surgery.

Mit roher Gewalt stürmte er auf den Boxthron, mit ebensolcher Wucht zerstörte er sein Werk. 1986 wurde Mike Tyson im Alter von 20 Jahren jüngster Schwergewichts-Weltmeister.

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. factory output edged up a slight 0.1 percent in March, as strong production gains in motor vehicles and electronics were partially offset by declines in food and textiles. The Federal Reserve said Tuesday that factory output slowed from a 1.5 percent gain in February, though it has risen 3 percent over the past year. Overall industrial production, which includes mines and utilities, rose 0.5 percent in March. Utility production jumped 3 percent last month, while mining output increased 1 percent. Читать дальше...

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• Blake Shelton held a free concert in Las Vegas Sunday night after the Academy of Country Music Awards.
• His girlfriend Gwen Stefani joined him onstage.
• She sang some of her old hits.
• The couple sang a duet of her 2002 song "Hella Good." 

Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton are a couple that hits the stage together. 

After the Academy of Country Music Awards Sunday night, Shelton, 41, held a free pop-up concert at the House of Blues in Las Vegas. Читать дальше...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — A Wyoming judge has tossed out a lawsuit filed by the town of Mills to oppose the closure of an elementary school. Judge Daniel Forgey ruled Monday that the town did not have standing to sue the Natrona County School District over the impending closure of Mountain View Elementary, which is the last school in the Mills area. The school district in October voted to close the school, citing its decreasing enrollment and looming budget cuts. The town filed the lawsuit in January,... Читать дальше...

Hey mods, this isn't particularly tied to speculation on the battle between ourselves and Spurs for Gylfi, but it's not unrelated, so if you want to move it into a thread fine by me...

My points are more directed towards the need for calm heads and cool thinking towards FSG. Up until now the nature of heated debate has been to equate 'calm heads and cool thinking' with allaying concerns with FSG. I'm not so sure. I think it's an entirely appropriate time to be asking some key questions about the direction we are going in. Читать дальше...

“He doesn’t complain about a darn thing out on the court. He just plays through everything.”