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Inequality has become a popular topic over the past decade. In books like Capital in the Twenty-First Century and Inequality and Instability, economists have warned that the growing income gap is spinning us back to strict 19th-century-style social hierarchies, where elites dominate everybody else, usually on the basis of inherited wealth.

How the iconic visage came to be.

Notwithstanding the exit poll results announced by different agencies at the end of polling for Bihar assembly election on Thursday, both the NDA and Grand Alliance claimed they would win two-third majority.

Billionaire investors Carl Icahn is trying to break up one of the U.S.’s largest insurance companies.

President Bidya Devi Bhandari administered the oath to the ministers at a special function held at the President's office Sheetal Niwas.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Mignon Clyburn isn’t exactly a household name for most of America, but for anyone who has a friend or family member behind bars, Clyburn has become something of a folk hero. That’s because late last month, Clyburn, a commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission appointed by President Barack Obama, voted to impose new regulations on the freewheeling prison phone call industry that charges high rates on calls between prisoners and their families.

Sweden's migration minister warned on Thursday that the government could no longer guarantee finding accommodation for newly arrived refugees as the country applied for EU emergency aid to cope with record number of asylum seekers.

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Finland has just released a set of national emojis, but if you had to choose a symbol of modern Britain, what on earth would it be?

Finland has just released a set of national emojis, but if you had to choose a symbol of modern Britain, what on earth would it be?

A 39-year-old garments trader sustained injuries after two bike-borne men shot at him and robbed him of Rs 25,000 at Kandivli (West) on Thursday

Back when Ryan Murphy first revealed that American Horror Story would reboot each season, he even famously promised that this show would never involve vampires or werewolves.

John Cerbone, 43, who does double duty as a plumber and a goodfella, tried to portray himself as a good guy.

Lagosians in the Toyota bus-stop axis, along Apapa-Oshodi expressway today, November 5, witnessed an accident involving an articulated truck carrying a container which caused heavy gridlock all the way to Ilasa.  The incident is coming one month after the Lagos state government reiterated its determination to ensure strict enforcement of the Lagos state Road Traffic Law 2012, which […]

An agency that oversees civil aviation in Russia says it is suspending the certification of Boeing 737 planes used by Russian airlines pending resolution of safety concerns.

An agency that oversees civil aviation in Russia says it is suspending the certification of Boeing 737 planes used by Russian airlines pending resolution of safety concerns.

Only an hour after polling came to a close in Bihar on Thursday, Lalu Prasad predicted the grand alliance’s win in 190 of the state’s 243 assembly constituencies

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This could be the plan to fix it. 

The U.S. Navy is struggling to meet its worldwide commitments with only ten aircraft carriers in the fleet. The service has been down to ten flattops ever since USS Enterprise (CVN-65) was retired in December 2012. The Navy will only return to eleven ships once USS Gerald R. Ford is commissioned in 2016, but that vessel won’t be ready for deployment until 2021.

But the law requires the Navy to operate a minimum of eleven carriers. Читать дальше...

It's one in a long line of gaffes made by broadcasters.

It’s a critical time to have someone in your corner.

The US House has passed a USD 607 billion defense policy bill restricting President Barack Obama's efforts to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Television executives are seldom household names, and veteran Preston Beckman is not one of those vaunted few, despite having served as the scheduler-in-chief for NBC throughout its “Must See TV” era and Fox during the golden “American Idol” years. But he’s the reason “Friends” and “Seinfeld” joined forces on the same night, and he’s one of the reasons Fox avoided wearing out “Idol’s" welcome for so long, as he advocated for limiting it to one cycle per year.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his newly appointed spokesman has apologized for a series of insulting comments about President Barack Obama and other public figures.