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ATLANTA — One final defensive stand to close out Thursday night’s preseason win over Washington was a perfect ending for Falcons coach Dan Quinn. Quinn, the former Seattle defensive coordinator beginning his second season in Atlanta, was pleased his defense allowed only 79 yards rushing and 234 total yards in the 23-17 win over the

Who could have seen this coming?!

A week ago, on the letters page of Melbourne's The Age, there was this headline.

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A spokesman from the Australian Bureau of Statistics has stated that: "Online could handle 1 million form submissions every hour. That's twice the capacity we expect to need" ("Chaos plagues countdown to online census", 2/8). The ABS is expecting to collect data on 24 million Australians, but the only... Читать дальше...

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It's rare that a long, technical paper in a biology journal turns out to be a page-turner. But it happens.

A team of researchers published a thorough review of the science of why we age this week in the journal Cell. It ties together that still-young field's confusing, sometimes contradictory findings into a single coherent whole and offers the most complete explanation I've seen anywhere as to why human beings get old, as well as what we can do to slow the aging process.

As a science writer ... Читать дальше...

Tom Hiddleston and Taylor Swift have made it Instagram official – he’s finally following her on his new account! The 35-year-old Thor actor joined the social networking site earlier this week but didn’t start following anyone right away. PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Tom Hiddleston Taylor got the follow on Friday (August 12) [...]

The new trainer has called up Barca's star to take on Uruguay & Venezuela, while the Juve man is the most high-profile omission

The Investment Company Institute applauds the California governor and legislature for aiming to promote savings among the state’s private sector workers—but it questions lawmakers’ proposed method.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln fire officials say a person has been hurt jumping from an upstairs window of a burning home.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Ruby Wilson, the blues, soul and gospel singer known as “The Queen of Beale Street,” died Friday, her manager said. She was 68. Rollin Riggs, a partner at Resource Management Group, said Wilson died at a Memphis hospital. Riggs said she suffered a massive heart attack the previous Saturday and never regained

ATLANTA (AP) — One final defensive stand to close out Thursday night's preseason win over Washington was a perfect ending for Falcons coach Dan Quinn.

ATLANTA (AP) — One final defensive stand to close out Thursday night's preseason win over Washington was a perfect ending for Falcons coach Dan Quinn.

On Season 14 on American Idol, irreverent rocker chick, Jersey girl, and third-place finalist Jax stood out for her wild-child antics — performing “My Generation” draped in a Union Jack flag; wearing that blue-and-black (or was it white-and-gold???); infamous “Dress,” amusingly covering Adam Sandler’s Wedding Singer ditty “I Wanna Grow Old With You” on Idol’s Movie Night; rolling around on the judges’ table with finale duet partner Steven Tyler. ...

On Season 14 on American Idol, irreverent rocker chick, Jersey girl, and third-place finalist Jax stood out for her wild-child antics — performing “My Generation” draped in a Union Jack flag; wearing that blue-and-black (or was it white-and-gold???); infamous “Dress,” amusingly covering Adam Sandler’s Wedding Singer ditty “I Wanna Grow Old With You” on Idol’s Movie Night; rolling around on the judges’ table with finale duet partner Steven Tyler. ...

After years of negotiations, a slight majority of flight attendants at United Continental Holdings approved a five-year labor contract. That news came as the airline later reached an agreement in principle with its mechanics.

Nearly two dozen women held at a Berks County, Pennsylvania, migrant family detention center have launched a hunger strike to protest their and their children’s long detentions – some which … Click to Continue »

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A judge has sentenced Gravity4 founder Gurbaksh Chahal to 12 months in a county jail. The judge granted a stay to the sentence, pending an appeal from his attorney, according to Bloomberg's Ellen Huet.

Judge Tracie Brown found the tech CEO guilty in June of violating his probation and he was forced to turn over his passports. He also transferred ownership of what remains of his ad tech company to his sister. 

In October 2014, the tech entrepreneur... Читать дальше...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Six years undefeated, two Olympic gold medals won, and more to come. French heavyweight Teddy Riner, a record-eight time world judo champion, earned a second straight gold Friday in the sport’s final event of the Rio de Janeiro Games. Riner is arguably the sport’s biggest star, and he didn’t disappoint on

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PIERRE, S.D. — The 82-year-old Oglala Sioux member whose push to rechristen South Dakota’s highest point for a revered tribal spiritual leader fell on receptive federal ears said Friday that the decision was a sign of compassion and reconciliation. Harney Peak, named after a man whose soldiers killed Native Americans, was changed Thursday to Black

Wall Street capped a record-setting week with a day of mostly listless trading Friday that left the three major U.S. stock indexes essentially flat.

Wall Street capped a record-setting week with a day of mostly listless trading Friday that left the three major U.S. stock indexes essentially flat.

Atlanta rapper 2 Chainz has built his career around his tenacity. In his pursuit of being the best rapper out, he...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Ruby Wilson, the blues, soul and gospel singer known as "The Queen of Beale Street," died Friday, her manager said. She was 68.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Ruby Wilson, the blues, soul and gospel singer known as "The Queen of Beale Street," died Friday, her manager said. She was 68.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Ruby Wilson, the blues, soul and gospel singer known as "The Queen of Beale Street," died Friday, her manager said. She was 68.