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Sie erfanden den totalen Fußball und erklärten der Welt, wie man zu spielen hat. Jetzt gibt es erstmals seit mehr als 20 Jahren in den großen europäischen Ligen keinen niederländischen Trainer mehr.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Melania Trump says she hopes the giving spirit that Americans displayed during a season of devastating hurricanes will continue over Christmas and into the new year. The first lady says she wants people to remember that the holidays are about family, service and gratitude — not gifts. She adds that Americans must continue to look out for and help one another. Mrs. Trump spoke Wednesday as she visited a Washington-area military base to help sort gifts for the Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots program. Читать дальше...

“Small-market” is a dumb thing, anyway

Everybody knew it wasn’t going to happen. Among the infinite possible universes that exist, there is only one of them in which the Cincinnati Reds had any chance at signing Japanese maximum baseball cyborg Shohei Ohtani. And that universe also uses lollipops for currency, everyone on the planet is a billionaire athletic shoe mogul, and intercourse is common, fruitful, and satisfying. It was never going to happen.

But that didn’t stop Dick Williams. Читать дальше...

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Equinix Inc (NASDAQ:EQIX) is one of 180 companies within the Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) GICS industry group, which is in turn part of the 221 company GICS Real Estate sector. The market value of EQIX is $35.4 billion which falls in the top 10% of its industry group. The stock's current Portfolio Grader score places it 17 among the 180 companies in this industry group, positioning it among the leaders; in... Читать дальше...

IBM has released two sets of freely available code and other development assets: IBM Code Patterns and Bot Asset Exchange.

Man Utd, Paris Saint-Germain, Arsenal, Bayern Munich, Liverpool, AC Milan & Man City are all in action around Europe - follow it all as it happens!

Pep Guardiola's side are looking to become the first English top-flight side to record 15 straight league wins - follow all the action LIVE!

Al-Jazira Real Madrid 1 2 FT Game Details Live football odds with bet365. Bet Now » GameCast Lineups and Stats Gareth Bale was the surprise hero as Real Madrid survived a shock against outsiders Al Jazira to win 2-1 in Wednesday's extra dramatic Club World Cup semifinal in Abu Dhabi. Читать дальше...

Austrian airline Niki said Wednesday that it would stop flying from Thursday after it applied to open insolvency proceedings.

Mauricio Pochettino has insisted Tottenham aren’t frustrated by Manchester City’s runaway lead in the Premier League, suggesting Spurs are not a “finished product”. City are big favourites to win the title this season while Tottenham are now battling for a place in the top four. “We’re not frustrated. We’re not disappointed in our project,” Pochettino said. “City is doing so well but our project is on time.” (Quotes via ESPN.) He added... Читать дальше...

Real Madrid hat sich am Mittwoch ins Finale der Fußball-Club-WM in Abu Dhabi gemüht. Die Madrilenen setzten sich gegen die Hausherren von Al-Jazira nach überraschendem Rückstand mit 2:1 durch. Im Endspiel am Samstag gegen Gremio Porto Alegre hat der Champions-League-Sieger die Chance, Geschichte zu schreiben: Noch nie hat ein Team den Club-WM-Titel erfolgreich verteidigt.

Real Madrid hat sich am Mittwoch ins Finale der Fußball-Club-WM in Abu Dhabi gemüht. Die Madrilenen setzten sich gegen die Hausherren von Al-Jazira nach überraschendem Rückstand mit 2:1 durch. Im Endspiel am Samstag gegen Gremio Porto Alegre hat der Champions-League-Sieger die Chance, Geschichte zu schreiben: Noch nie hat ein Team den Club-WM-Titel erfolgreich verteidigt.

Treasury yields held onto its earlier fall after the Federal Open Market Committee voted to raise rates by a quarter percentage point on Wednesday, bringing it up to between 1.25% and 1.50%. The Fed stuck to its forecast for three rate increases in 2018. They also forecast U.S. GDP forecasts to rise to 2.5% next year from 2.1% and unemployment to fall to 3.9%. The 10-year Treasury note yield was at 2.362%, from 2.403% on late Tuesday. The 2-year note yield 1.803%, from 1.829%. The 30-year bond yield 2.741%... Читать дальше...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Just in time for the holiday season, volunteers and advocacy groups shopped for foster children to bring them Christmas gifts. One of the shoppers on Wednesday was Oklahoma legend Barry Switzer. The former University of Oklahoma and Dallas Cowboys football coach joined the Oklahoma Institute For Child Advocacy group buying gifts for the kids. Shoppers spent the morning at the Walmart on Northwest Expressway fulfilling wish lists from Oklahoma Foster Wishes. “I’m out here for OK Foster... Читать дальше...

The president of the Russian-Chinese Tourism Association positively has outlined his views on the conditions of the cultural exchange between Russia and China, saying the bilateral tourist flow to increase.

7-Eleven is testing mobile ordering on its 7-ElevenNow app at select stores in Dallas, Texas, the company announced today.

Two agreements were signed specific to Lincoln: the signing of a partnership agreement with the Chongqing Wine Association and the signing of a friendship agreement with future sister city Xijing.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden sought to console the daughter of ailing Sen. John McCain after she began crying while discussing her father's battle with brain cancer on ABC's "The View." Meghan McCain, a panelist on the program, told Biden on Wednesday she hadn't been able to get through his new memoir, "Promise Me, Dad," which centers on the 2015 death of his son, Beau, from an aggressive tumor called glioblastoma. Doctors diagnosed Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain with the same type of tumor this past summer. Читать дальше...

There was stiff resistance put up by the champions of the UAE thanks primarily to a superhuman goalkeeping performance from Ali Khaseif

WASHINGTON (AP) — Below is the statement the Fed released Wednesday after its policy meeting ended: Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in November indicates that the labor market has continued to strengthen and that economic activity has been rising at a solid rate. Averaging through hurricane-related fluctuations, job gains have been solid, and the unemployment rate declined further. Household spending has been expanding at a moderate rate, and growth in business fixed investment has picked up in recent quarters. Читать дальше...

Google Assistant has been flexing a lot of new skills as of late, from connecting you with local home services to telling you the name of a song playing nearby. Now, Google has announced Assistant is available to use on even more devices, coming to Android tablets running Android 7.0 Nougat and 6.0 Marshmallow, and phones running 5.0 Lollipop.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A former polygamous sect leader was sentenced Wednesday to nearly five years in prison for his role in a carrying out an elaborate food stamp fraud scheme and for escaping home confinement while awaiting trial. U.S. District Judge Ted Stewart said during a hearing in Salt Lake City that Lyle Jeffs deserved the 57-month prison sentence because his behavior showed he doesn't respect U.S. laws and puts his allegiance to his brother and the sect's imprisoned prophet, Warren Jeffs, above everything else. Читать дальше...

A child born very close to a well is likely to be smaller and less healthy than a child born farther away.