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GENEVA - Roger Federer and late replacement Marco Chiudinelli missed a chance to seal Switzerland's victory in a Davis Cup relegation playoff on Saturday, losing a five-set doubles match to the Netherlands.

GENEVA (AP) — Roger Federer and late replacement Marco Chiudinelli missed a chance to seal Switzerland's victory in a Davis Cup relegation playoff on Saturday, losing a five-set doubles match …

The spokesman for Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry says some 100,000 security personnel have been deployed to oversee the annual Islamic hajj pilgrimage that begins on Tuesday.

Richmond Federal Reserve President Jeffrey Lacker on Saturday said he dissented at a Fed policy meeting because he thought the economy was now strong enough to warrant higher interest rates. Fed policymakers on Thursday voted to keep the Fed's target interest rate at between zero and a quarter point. "Such exceptionally low real interest rates are unlikely to be appropriate for an economy with persistently strong consumption growth and tightening labor markets," Lacker said in a statement.

In 2009, Sam Bradford made a gutsy decision to enter the 2010 NFL Draft despite missing most of his junior year with an injury to his shoulder. 

Chelsea gladly transferred some of its chaos to crosstown rival Arsenal, by winning 2-0 on a bad-tempered afternoon in which two Arsenal players were sent off.

Son of Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Rashid bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has died at the age of 33 due to heart attack. A three-day mourning period was declared in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) following the announcement of Sheikh Rashid’s death. The state news agency – WAM (Wakalat Anba’a al Emarat) confirmed today that Read the full article...

In 2011, the moviegoing public finally received a response to the burning question, “What could a personal film from Roland Emmerich possibly look like?” That answer came in the form of “Anonymous,” a madman’s speculation on the true origins of the corpus of writing popularly attributed to William Shakespeare that played it fast and loose with historical accuracy. And yet, even with this revealing glimpse into the obscurer nooks of the blockbuster maestro’s tortured psyche, hardcore Emmerich-heads... Читать дальше...

Tokyo (AFP) - China accused Japan of threatening regional peace Saturday after Tokyo passed laws clearing Japanese troops to fight abroad for the first time since World War II, saying that its rival should learn "profound lessons from history".

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The majority of North Dakota schools have met the state's Adequate Yearly Progress goals, but much of their success comes from the state's waiver from U.S. Department of Education measures. [...] the waiver allows North Dakota to throw out students' standardized test scores in determining whether schools and school districts meet the goals, said state Superintendent Kirsten Baesler. Penalties range from allowing students to transfer to passing schools, to spending money on... Читать дальше...

Bitburg pounded the visiting Tigers 44-6 in the season opener for both DODDS-Europe Division II hopefuls, deploying an unstoppable running game and stout defense to regain the upper hand in the teams' recently-developed rivalry.

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon's 2016 ballot looks to be filled with hot-button initiatives that have left voters sharply divided in the past.

Melbourne researchers have developed a tiny drug-delivery system that could save people with macular degeneration the 10 injections a year – directly into the eyeball – that serve as the standard treatment in staving off blindness.

Liverpool skipper Jordan Henderson is facing up to two months on the sidelines after breaking a bone in his foot.

Claiming that the declassified files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose did not have anything significant, opposition parties in West Bengal on Saturday said "political mileage" was the motive behind the ruling Trinamool Congress making public 64 secret files on the revolutionary leader.

Bernie Sanders brushed aside comparisons Friday night between his anti-establishment presidential campaign and Donald Trump’s, telling “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert that the real estate mogul is relying on racism to fuel his front-runner status among Republicans. “What Trump is doing is appealing to the baser instincts among us — xenophobia, and, frankly, racism,” Sanders […]

Three transplant patients have died at a Pittsburgh medical center after contracting a fungal infection, and officials have struggled to find the source of the mold. An intensive care unit has been temporarily closed during the hunt. But it isn’t some kind of killer mold. It’s a household kind — plain old indoor mold. It […]

ENSCHEDE - Peter Reinders heeft de Jan Schaeferprijs van de PvdA gewonnen. De uitreiking was zaterdagmiddag in buurthuis ’t Nije Terphoes in Boswinkel. De jury roemt de inzet van Reinders voor de wijk Pathmos; hij zorgt ervoor dat de sociale samenhang in de wijk groter wordt. 

North West is one trendy tot! Even Kardashian BFFs Malika Haqq and Khadijah Haqq McCray think so! In an exclusive interview with E! News, the DASH Dolls weighed in on little Nori's...

Michigan has reached into its bag of tricks a little bit, and after a reverse gained a few yards to the right, an end around worked perfectly back to the left as receiver Jehu Chesson scored a 36-yard touchdown.

Why Punjab is saying no to ‘MSG 2’

Gary Roberts' hard-hitting collection of photos of Africa's wildlife

Gary Roberts' hard-hitting collection of photos of Africa's wildlife