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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — It was a Dutch sweep at Copacabana.

For anybody who doesn’t think that Germans are a resourceful people, look no further than the recent story of a 49-year-old man who found a way to dent a car with a giant sausage.

SEJONG, Aug. 16 (Yonhap) -- Four South Korean companies applied for government approval on Tuesday to become the first beneficiary of the newly established law aimed at facilitating voluntary corporate restructuring, the trade ministry here said. T

Ailes, who left Fox News following sexual harassment allegations, returning to politics

Iraq is ready to cooperate on achieving balance within the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) with other members of the cartel, country’s Oil Minister Jabar Ali Luaibi said Tuesday.

Amity University today asked two of its faculty members to proceed on leave as it set up a six- member committee to probe the death of a law student whose family has accused college authorities of abetting suicide.

In one of the refugee camps in the Lebanese Bekaa province on the border with Syria, children are being provided with free courses, which differ radically from their regular school program.

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«C’est très proche de la réalité, les meurtres et les perruques en plus, bien sûr.» (Avertissement: spoilers jusqu’à la saison 4!)

A 30-year-old woman appeared in the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday for stealing a new-born baby.

Another day, another fight in Bears-Patriots joint practices, and another ejection from the session. Via multiple reports, center Bryan Stork was sent to the showers by coach Bill Belichick for fighting with Bears players. Tom Curran of CSN New England reports that Stork reacted to a “post-play shove in the shoulder by John Timu with…

Repairs to the current fleet of Marine One helicopters, which transport the president of the United States, no longer will be done in Connecticut after negotiations between Sikorsky Aircraft and the U.S. Navy fell through.

TEQUESTA, Fla. — The Latest on the killing of a couple by an attacker caught biting the dead man’s face (all times local): 3:15 p.m. The teenager charged with fatally stabbing a couple at their Florida home in an apparently random attack was known for not playing aggressively on his high school football team. Quarterback

Burberry is shaking up the high-fashion world, with a new policy of combining its women's and menswear collections, and making the newest styles available to order right off the runway. Bad news for counterfeiters.

Burberry is shaking up the high-fashion world, with a new policy of combining its women's and menswear collections, and making the newest styles available to order right off the runway. Bad news for counterfeiters.

Soul food or Soul fighter?

The death toll from the Saudi-led coalition's airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Yemen has climbed to 14.

This pediatrician can't believe that Congress would take a seven-week vacation at the height of mosquito season without approving Zika funding first.

Normal life remained crippled in most parts of the state on Tuesday due to a dawn to dusk bandh called by the Congress party in protest against obstruction of Mahanadi flow by Chhattisgarh.

HONG KONG (AP) — China's Cabinet approved a long-awaited initiative Tuesday that will give foreign investors more access to Chinese stocks by linking stock exchanges in Hong Kong and the mainland city of Shenzhen. Hong Kong is Chinese territory but its financial system is open to foreign investors, while mainland markets are largely sealed off from global capital flows. "Based on the success of the Shanghai-Hong Kong link, the launch of the Shenzhen-Hong Kong link marks a concrete step toward making Chinese capital markets more law-based... Читать дальше...

I was twenty when I learned to ride a bike. I’d owned one when I was six—a little yellow number with training wheels, a gift from a boyfriend of my mother’s. Unfortunately, someone stole it, and, for whatever reason, I never got another. For fourteen years, I walked. It wasn’t until 2001, when I was a junior in college and at loose ends for the summer, that I decided to join the rest of humanity behind the handlebars.