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Dick's Sporting Goods Inc. shares rose 5.7% in Tuesday premarket trading after the retailer beat second-quarter earnings estimates and raised its full-year outlook. Dick's reported net income of $91.4 million, or 82 cents per share, up from $90.8 million, or 77 cents per share, for the same period last year. The FactSet consensus was 69 cents per share. Revenue totaled $1.97 billion, up from $1.82 billion last year and beating the FactSet consensus of $1.88 billion. Same-store sales increased 2.8%... Читать дальше...

SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Yonhap) -- Cho Yoon-sun who was nominated to become the new culture minister on Tuesday is a trusted confident of President Park Geun-hye and could help the chief executive push forward key agendas towards the end of her term in office.

Today on the campaign trail and more of the biggest news stories and exclusive features from Washington on politics, policy, financial regulation and defense.

People whose parents have lived long are likely to have fewer heart diseases and stay healthy in their sixties and seventies, according to a British study involving nearly 190,000 participants. The study, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, also suggested that knowing the age when parents died may help predict the risk of heart disease and related conditions in their children. Furthermore, children of long-lived parents had lower risk of cancer.

The University of the Witwatersrand is soaring on a world ranking of the best tertiary institutions in the world‚ while the University of Cape Town is holding steady.

– Boko Haram terrorists recently released a video showing some of the Chibok girls are still alive – Humanitarian worker says aftermath of insurgency could last for at least 10 years – More relief materials are needed in Northeast region Audu Musa, a humanitarian worker in the insurgency ravaged Northeast state of Borno, has observed […]

Notwithstanding the significant jump in consumer price inflation, the Reserve Bank of India is expected to cut key policy rates by 25 basis points in its policy review meet on October 4, as good monsoon is likely to damp inflationary pressures, says a report.

With a low pressure area over north Bay of Bengal and its neighbourhood likely to intensify further, the IMD today warned Odisha government about heavy rainfall and an increase in the height of sea waves upto four meters.

Wide receiver Victor Cruz was held out of Giants practice on Monday after a Sunday return to the field ended with Cruz’s injured groin still bothering him after several days on the sideline. Cruz on the side watching practice has been standard operating procedure for the Giants since he tore his patellar tendon during the…

A breakaway Taliban faction in Afghanistan has appointed a new leader for the group, the nephew of the faction's longtime leader who was killed in fighting with rivals last year.

Up to a third of savers have cashed out a retirement plan. Financial advisors share worst-case scenarios they have witnessed.

Nigerian rapper Falz and singer Simi performed on stage at MTN’s Music Plus launch and their steamy performance left tongues wagging. Popular Nigerian singers Falz and Simi perfromed at MTN’s Music Plus and 24 launch on August 12. The pair took to the stage to perform Simi’s hit single: Jamb Question. READ ALSO: Fast rising Ghanaian […]

BREDEVOORT Vluchten als thema. De Heimattag van de Duitse grensregio Borken samen met Duitse en Nederlandse heemkundeclubs gaat zaterdag 27 augustus over het vinden van een nieuw 'thuisland'.

The Serbian Radical Party voiced its support for US presidential hopeful Donald Trump because he deplored Washington's bombing of Belgrade and due to his attitude toward Russia.

HEI Hotels and Resorts identified 20 hotels in 10 states and Washington, D.C. that were hacked, in which customers’ payment card information may have been affected.

(AP) — A Mississippi resident missing for 43 years has been identified as the unnamed teenager killed in a traffic accident in Texas City, Texas, in 1973. Johnson said Monday officials with the Galveston, Texas, medical examiner's office were unable to get a proper DNA sample from Spears' body to confirm the identity.

Is it hard to believe that Osama bin Laden, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and for that matter Adolf Hitler, Idi Amin, Benito Mussolini were once cute little babies and darling little kids. Can you imagine little Adolf in his Lederhosen and Benito with spaghetti sauce on his face or Idi shooting his toy spear in the backyard? There is one exception; it is hard to imagine Kim Jong-un as a cute little baby. Now it's indeed possible that Osama bin Laden was colicky and it would be interesting to find out and... Читать дальше...

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MEXICO CITY, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- Mexico's National Center for Disaster Prevention on Monday said the Popocatépetl volcano erupted multiple times, spewing ash and burning rocks into the air.

Clarets make a splash to try and boost chances of survival.

Katharine McPhee gets into character in a pink top on set while shooting her hit show Scorpion on Monday (August 15) in Los Angeles. The day before, the 32-year-old actress rocked a black dress as she and pal Lea Michele, 29, had a Sunday Funday at Jennifer Klein‘s Day of Indulgence party at a private [...]

To celebrate the opening of its 100th restaurant, Shake Shack is giving out free burgers - but only for the first 100 people.

SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's defense chief will visit Seongju, the selected site for an advanced U.S. anti-missile system this week, to hold talks with local residents angered by the "unilateral" deployment decision, the defense ministry sa

Angelina Jolie stunned in a white ensemble during her outing with her children Pax and Zahara at a mall in Los Angeles Sunday. Over the last few months, the actress has been battling divorce rumors with her husband Brad Pitt.

The video changed everything. The surreptitious recording of a teacher berating a first-grader for failing to explain a math problem correctly, ripping up her paper, and then inexplicably telling the subdued child to go sit in the "calm down chair" went viral and jump-started a long-running national debate over the "no excuses" charter school model — a pedagogical approach marked by heavy workloads, rigid zero-tolerance discipline, and a relentless focus on metrics, particularly standardized tests. Читать дальше...