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The Australian marathon swimmer finished 20th but was already the story of the 10km race at Copacabana. Then he and his parents produced some of the most memorable post-race interviews of the Games.

OOTMARSUM - De brandweer van Ootmarsum is dinsdagavond een wervingsactie begonnen voor nieuwe vrijwilligers. Het korps zit dringend verlegen om uitbreiding.

(AP) — A New York City woman killed while out running near her mother's Massachusetts home brought light to the lives of everyone she touched, mourners were told at her funeral Tuesday. Family, neighbors and a bus full of Google co-workers were among the hundreds of people who paid tribute to Vanessa Marcotte, 27, at Our Lady of the Lake Roman Catholic church in Leominster. Marcotte grew up in Leominster, graduated from Boston University and worked as an account manager at Google in New York City.

NEW YORK (ANP) - De aandelenbeurzen in New York zijn dinsdag met kleine verliezen gesloten. Beleggers deden een stapje terug na de recordstanden van maandag en wogen de woorden van een vooraanstaande centrale bankier, die wees op de mogelijkheid van een renteverhoging in september.

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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- Taraji P. Henson plays real life NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson in the first trailer for "Hidden Figures."

*watches as kitchen explodes*

Cooking is HARD.

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Have you ever had a truly horrifying kitchen experience?

What were you doing and which poor unfortunate soul were you cooking for?

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Maybe you were trying to impress by being "experimental" but ended up totally failing?

You should NEVER try and be experimental.

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Stanford is one of the top academic institutions in America, but if the Summer Olympics are any indication, it's also an international athletic powerhouse.

At least one Stanford athlete has walked away a medalist from every Olympics since 1912. Prior to the Rio Games, Stanford athletes won a total of 243 Olympic medals (125 gold, 66 silver, and 52 bronze).

This month, 29 current, former, and incoming Stanford students are competing in Rio for Team USA — more students than any other American university. Читать дальше...

(AP) — A Vermont nonprofit will now handle the arts education at an independent children's academy under a new partnership. School officials say this new partnership will give the students more opportunities to engage in creative work with the community arts organization.

'Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan' features the 'Office' star as an 'up-and-coming' version of the CIA analyst.

Carmaker sets up deals to develop model with no pedals or steering wheel

Bradley Cooper is dapper in a baby blue suit while attending the premiere of his latest film War Dogs held at the TCL Chinese Theatre on Monday (August 15) in Hollywood. The 41-year-old actor, who also serves as producer for the flick, was joined by his co-stars Miles Teller and his girlfriend Keleigh Sperry, Jonah [...]

Now that Ontario doctors have voted against a tentative agreement with the provincial government on physician fees, the two sides are heading into uncharted territory.

Sue Watt was invited to Malawi's Liwonde National Park to see the first day of the world's biggest elephant translocation operation.

Betsy McCaughey, a surrogate for Donald Trump's presidential campaign, suggested World War II-style internment camps for Muslim refugees on Tuesday because she said that American women were being exposed to "gang rapes."

The Farnes are a group of islands off the northeast coast of Northumberland, England. Siobhan Starrs visits

A video of the living legend singing "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" at a Denny's with his a capella group has taken the Internet by storm

The Navajo Nation sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday, one year after 3 million gallons of toxic wastewater spilled into three states from an abandoned Colorado gold mine. In a court filing, the Navajo tribe alleged the EPA and other parties "recklessly" burrowed into the Gold King Mine in 2015, releasing waste into water upstream from the tribe's land. A year later, the waterways remain contaminated and the Navajo people have yet to be compensated, according to the complaint... Читать дальше...

Nashat Nawati jostled his way through a scrum of two dozen fellow Gazans outside of the Hamas housing ministry, hoping to get word about when he can expect to return home.

Two days after the apprehension of an inmate who walked away from a Los Angeles County halfway house, another inmate escaped from the facility on Monday, officials said.

TUESDAY, Aug. 16, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Poor habits that take a toll on health are also costing Canadians an average of six fewer years of life, new research suggests.

TUESDAY, Aug. 16, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Where and when children are born may affect their risk for celiac disease, according to a new study.

TUESDAY, Aug. 16, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- An experimental drug appears to reduce the risk of bone fractures in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis better than a placebo and the currently available drug, a new study finds.

TUESDAY, Aug. 16, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- The longer a woman is overweight, the higher her risk of several cancers, researchers report.

TUESDAY, Aug. 16, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Poor habits that take a toll on health are also costing Canadians an average of six fewer years of life, new research suggests.

TUESDAY, Aug. 16, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Where and when children are born may affect their risk for celiac disease, according to a new study.