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HOUSTON — A Houston high school student has lost her battle with terminal cancer days after having a dream come true in a talk with Beyonce over a video chat. Alief Independent School District spokeswoman Kimberly Smith says senior Ebony Banks died late Saturday night. The teen’s Hastings High School classmates started an online campaign

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Virginia researchers have designed a grating, painful, high-pitched alarm that just might save your life one day.

AIGLE, Switzerland — Brazilian team Soul Brasil Pro Cycling faces another ban from racing after two more riders were implicated in doping. The International Cycling Union says the team will be judged by its disciplinary panel which can impose bans of up to one year. Cycling rules allow teams to be suspended if two riders

During her storied career at CBC Radio, Barbara Frum interviewed a lot of people — artists, celebrities, world leaders and, one time in 1977, a man holding 11 bank employees hostage with a sawed-off shotgun.

It’s rather unfortunate that Nigerians pay a great deal of attention to the major vices in our society, pretending not to see the minor ones which accumulate...

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Warning: Minor spoilers for "The Leftovers" ahead.

Imagine 2% of the world disappeared one day. 

But they didn't die. They didn't contract a deadly virus, nor were they killed in a terrorist attack or the victims of a devastating natural disaster. 

Instead, roughly 140 million people around the world vanished into thin air. Babies disappeared from strollers, the drivers of cars evaporated (leaving their vehicles behind and causing accidents), and even the Pope vanished from the Vatican. Читать дальше...

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In December, HSBC's UK branch launched the trial of HSBC SmartSave, a personal finance management (PFM) app developed in partnership with Pariti, a UK fintech.

The trial was conducted as part of the Financial Conduct Authority's Regulatory Sandbox initiative, which encourages financial services providers to test new consumer products with their clients. Читать дальше...

“Galaxy of the Guardians” star Chris Pratt took to Instagram Sunday to praise his wife, “Mom” actress Anna Faris. The two have ben married since 2009.

ROME (AP) — Prosecutors in northern Italy say money problems may have driven a father to kill his two young children at his family's home before he jumped off a cliff and killed himself.

“Eu quero ter o cabelo assim, do mesmo jeito que ele É”.

Pensa em uma criança que já sabe o que quer para a sua vida: é esta menina, bem pequenininha, falando do quanto ama ter cabelo cacheado.

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Ela já começa botando banca: "pra quem é recalcado, ó, partiu moda". E dali em diante é só tiro.

Como, por exemplo, quando ela diz... Читать дальше...

Frederik Andersen, hurt Saturday in Buffalo, only lasted 20 minutes of practice this morning.

Clem Curtis, the former lead vocalist of 1960s group The Foundations, has reportedly died.

Time to start buying stock in Tim Horton’s.

Biographer John A. Farrell offers an even-handed approach in 'Richard Nixon: The Life.'

A number of household objects have been found to contain higher levels of potentially harmful bacteria than toilet seats, according to a report published Thursday by USA Today. Kitchen sinks, playground equipment and electronic devices were some of the surfaces reportedly covered in fecal matter.

Seahawks QB Trevone Boykin was arrested in Dallas early Monday morning after a car he was in crashed into a bar and injured five people.

The Trump administration is going to great lengths to distance itself from former associates in the face of an F.B.I. investigation into whether there were connections between the Trump campaign and Russia. … Click to Continue »

Trump spent the weekend in Washington, D.C., where he dined with his daughter and son-in-law.

A stalemate over Russia's participation in this year's Eurovision song contest continues as the organizer, the European Broadcasting Union (...

Human space travel to Mars is largely considered a far off moonshot – though not entirely impossible – to the international scientific community, considering the entire trek would take years and could lead to radiation exposure, cancer and other medical risks.

HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston high school student has lost her battle with terminal cancer days after having a dream come true in a talk with Beyonce over a video chat.

HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston high school student has lost her battle with terminal cancer days after having a dream come true in a talk with Beyonce over a video chat.

HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston high school student has lost her battle with terminal cancer days after having a dream come true in a talk with Beyonce over a video chat.

HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston high school student has lost her battle with terminal cancer days after having a dream come true in a talk with Beyonce over a video chat. The teen's Hastings High School classmates started an online campaign before her death to give her a chance to meet her favorite singer, Beyonce.