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Russia and NATO concurrent military drills in the Mediterranean will not lead to any conflicts, Director of NATO Information Office in Moscow Robert Pszczel said Tuesday.

Check out what the state of affairs are for all the teams on the continent as the qualifying campaign nears its end

Renaissance Technologies LLC will be closing down one of its underperforming hedge funds, The

After finishing third at the 2014 World Cup, the Netherlands have failed to qualify for the European Championship next summer.

Two stocks that were previously in the portfolio but currently are not have earned the chance for another look and possible addition.

Every two to five years, dengue fever rages in tropical regions. This year, a particularly bad outbreak in India has struck more than 1,800 people in recent weeks, killing five. Officials are unsure why this year's outbreak has been so much worse than others and many wonder why dengue outbreaks seem to happen in cycles. Now, researchers at the National Institutes of Health may have found a clue: the weather phenomenon known as El Niño.

Weeks after a sordid tide of tampon applicators, syringes and other waste washed ashore from the Santa Monica Bay, a Los Angeles city councilman says he wants answers about what happened.

The US Navy last week wrapped up its second round of flight tests of the Lockheed Martin F-35C Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter on board the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Dollar General Corp. will cut 255 jobs as part of a corporate restructuring, effective immediately, according to a release. About 115 of the eliminated positions are vacant. None of the positions are at the store level. The company projects a $7 million pre-tax cash expense for the third quarter of 2015 related to one-time severance-related expenses associated with the restructuring. Dollar General stock is down 15% for the past three months. The S&P is down 4.6% for the same period.

An Indian man gave Mumbai hospital staff the shock of a lifetime when he opened his eyes on the operating table after being declared dead, officials claimed Tuesday.

Dollar General Corp. will cut 255 jobs as part of a corporate restructuring, effective immediately, according to a release.

Fox News host Shepard Smith ridiculed NBC for inviting Donald Trump to host “Saturday Night Live” just months after the network cut ties with the reality TV star.

At least 20 students of a private school in Ponneri were injured when the van in which they were travelling overturned near Pulicat Lake, 60 km from Chennai, on Tuesday morning.

Poor Olivia Nuzzi, she was tasked to cover Rand Paul's 24 hour live streaming event and found it to be somewhat frustrating.

A study estimated that 99 percent of cable TV subscribers rent their set-top boxes and pay on average $231 a year to do so. Groups want to make it easier for consumers to own similar devices.

There are not enough U.S. soldiers in Europe, where concerns over Russia have shown the U.S. Army to be too thinly spread after years of cuts, a top American general said Tuesday. The U.S. military has been caught in the crossfire of a dispute between the White House and Congress over how the 2016 defense budget will be funded, leaving all three groups uncertain about future funding.

Authorities were scouring the campus after a "credible" bomb threat was phoned in at an Energy Department lab in Albany, Oregon, the agency said.

The Arsenal and Real Madrid men were both on target as the nation celebrated the place secured for France 2016 in the previous match against Bosnia-Herzegovina

Prairie View City Councilman Jonathan Miller was kneeling on the ground when the Taser struck his back, electric shocks that made him scream in pain as his muscles tensed and then went into spasms.

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LONDON, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- "Mad Max" director George Miller revealed Charlize Theron isn't slated to reprise Furiosa despite her well-received turn in "Mad Max: Fury Road."

Donald Trump plans to tweet during tonight's Democratic debate, though an assistant probably has to type the actual tweets because Trump's got such stubby fingers. Jim Webb will be there, despite uncertainty over whether he's even still running for president. And we imagine Larry Lessig will be alone in his car at makeout point, listening to the debate on the radio, telling himself there's plenty of fish in the sea, that he'll show 'em, that he doesn't need to be part of some dumb debate ritual anyway. Читать дальше...

A few advocates in the Madras high court and law students, who laid a day-long siege to the Chief Justice's court on September 14, has given an undertaking that they would not indulge in such protests in future.

What's the one clothing item Donna Karan likes to wear the most?

In an interview on NPR's "Fresh Air" on Monday to promote her new memoir, "My Journey," Karan shared a lot of wisdom, from how to design the perfect pair of jeans (it's all about the shape), to how she transitioned from running Anne Klein as a new mother to starting her eponymous label, and then DKNY after, taking it to such global heights.

We had two wonderful dog experts on the show this week. Cesar Millan, the original “Dog Whisperer” himself, came by to talk about dealing with our dogs’ behavioral quirks. And for medical advice, we paid a visit to Dr. Kim Rosenthal at the Westside Veterinary Center, where she filled us in on how to keep our dogs free from ticks, illness, and the coming winter cold.

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In this imaginative riff, directed by Danny Boyle and written by Aaron Sorkin as a kind of three-act play, Jobs is relentlessly unpleasant, unreachable and uninspiring, not a visionary so much as a sleek, nasty businessman — but he’s entertaining. The characters all sound exactly like they’re in an Aaron Sorkin movie, ping-ponging wisecracks, pithy observations and casual but devastatingly accurate putdowns, and to say that this is anything less than delightful would be churlish. The film takes place on three different days... Читать дальше...