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Anglophile French industrialist who with Margaret Thatcher's help got the Channel Tunnel built

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LONDON, March 21 (UPI) -- "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" star Daisy Ridley confirmed she's in early negotiations to star in a "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" reboot.

FanDuel and DraftKings agreed to leave New York state, Attorney General Schneiderman

Cricketer who was a fast-scoring batsman and a long-serving correspondent for The Daily Telegraph

Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley brands MPs a joke as he confirms he will not give evidence in Parliament about how his workers are treated.

Scientists are urging people to turn their eyes skyward Monday and Tuesday this week as two comets will fly past Earth – with one of them coming closer to our planet than any other comet since 1983, a Business Insider report said. Don’t have a telescope? Don’t worry as scientists say the larger – but more distant – of the pair is becoming so bright, scientists believe it will be seen with just the naked eye. The smaller comet, named Comet P/2016 BA14, will be harder to see, even though it will make... Читать дальше...

A casita caught fire this morning behind a home in the 200 block of Hollywood Avenue in the east valley, according to the Clark County Fire Department. Nobody was injured ...

Gawker potentially hangs in the balance as a jury considers additional damages for the publication of the Hulk Hogan sex tape.

Smaller role for SC governor after less-than-enthusiastic backing of U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz

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The Wolfsburg forward has been removed from Joachim Low's group after question marks were raised about his behaviour off the pitch

An American Islamic State group fighter who handed himself over to Kurdish forces in Iraq earlier this week said he made "a bad decision" joining IS, according to a heavily edited interview he gave to an Iraqi Kurdish television station

The shoulder injury David Perron suffered during Sunday’s game against Winnipeg will keep him out of Anaheim’s lineup for the foreseeable future, head coach Bruce Boudreau confirmed on Monday. “He’s going home for an MRI,” Boudreau said, per PHT’s Joey Alfieri. “It’s a shoulder injury. I don’t know how bad it is, but I assume […]

Former middleweight champion David Lemieux of Canada will meet gritty Glen Tapia as the co-main event to the May 7 Saul “Canelo” Alvarez-Amir Khan World Boxing Council middleweight title bout at the new T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

Tim Cook kicked off Apple's product launch event on Monday by briefly addressing the company's ongoing legal battle with the government.

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The San Antonio Spurs delivered perhaps the first eye-opening win over the Golden State Warriors this season on Saturday night.

The Spurs won ugly, beating the Warriors and marking the first loss they have had to another top-five team this year.

While it's foolish to draw concrete conclusions from one game, the Spurs seemed to once again demonstrate the one formula for beating the Warriors: muck it up.

In the two teams' previous match on January 25, the Warriors blew out the Spurs 120-90. Читать дальше...

Soldier who fought in the Radfan Mountains of Aden and later witnessed the Maze prison breakout

White House budget seeks 18% increase in ex-president pensions

The US detachment of the 200 marines whose deployment was announced by the US authorities, arrived to participate in joint training exercises of US and Iraqi Navy with the approval of Iraq's government, according to the Iraqi military command.

Avant, vous étiez honnêtes.

Avant, vous mettiez des photos de votre chat, un peu fun, prises sur le moment parce que vous trouviez ça cool.

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Aujourd'hui, votre chat est devenu modèle à temps plein et c'est lui qui vous apporte le plus de likes.

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Avant vous mettiez une photo de profil dessinée ~à l'arrache~ par un-e pote artiste.

A launch pad test of a Soyuz-2.1a booster rocket at Vostochny Cosmodrome, Amur Region, Russia

Chasing 157, Australia won with three wickets in hand thanks chiefly to Usman Khawaja's maiden T20I fifty.