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Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton emerged from yesterday’s Super Tuesday sweepstakes on an inexorable path to the Democratic presidential nomination after soundly defeating Sen. Bernie Sanders in seven of 11 contests and rolling up an impressive delegate count. 

As expected, Clinton dominated Sanders in the delegate-rich southern states of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia, and even beat the Vermont democratic socialist in Massachusetts... Читать дальше...

A Muslim woman says she was fired and replaced with a non-Muslim in her 20s.

Loksatta Party, which is part of the newly formed Puthiya Sakthi Front (PSF), released its manifesto for the 2016 Tamil Nadu assembly.

The United Nations Security Council voted to impose the toughest-ever sanctions on North Korea following its recent nuclear bomb test and rocket launch. Here are five things to know following the latest penalties.

There are two secrets to finding untramelled pow in downtown Hogtown: Get up early, and have your gear at hand

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Security,

Technological evolution will change the way that the U.S. military fights its wars.

A recent New York Times editorial cast a skeptical eye toward the many calls for huge increases in U.S. military spending. “Giving the Pentagon a blank check does not ensure security,” the Times editors observed. “It got most of what it wanted in the decade after 9/11, yet America still struggles to keep Afghanistan and Iraq from falling to insurgents.”

Why do we spend so much... Читать дальше...

Threat levels have escalated from “JK” to “OMG RLY?”

So, here we are: Donald Trump prevailed on Super Tuesday, winning seven out of 11 states.

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To Publicly Decrying, and "literally" buying a plane ticket to Canada, if you're Raven-Symone.

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Het is misschien wel het bekendste Duitstalige gedicht van na de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Het meest macabare ook. Todesfuge, van de net zo geniale als getraumatiseerde joodse Duitse dichter Paul Celan, verhaalt over de Holocaust en de wreedheden van de concentratiekampen. Wereldwijd zijn er voor zover bekend slechts drie originele getypte exemplaren in omloop, twee daarvan liggen opgeborgen in een Nijmeegse bankkluis.

Het Amerikaanse ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken heeft een telefoonnummer in het leven geroepen waarop mensen kunnen doorgeven of de wapenstilstand in Syrië wordt geschonden. Dat lijkt handig, maar in de praktijk blijken gesprekken problematisch te verlopen doordat telefonisten gebrekkig Arabisch spreken.

Every technical fest that engineering colleges host has at least one event dedicated to robotics and the craze has run so deep that children these days start learning robotics from the age of eight.

Kristin Chenoweth bundles up in a blue scarf while posing at the JC Penney Get Your Penney’s Worth Campaign Launch at Union Square on Wednesday (March 2) in New York City. The 47-year-old Broadway star is set to appear on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live later that evening for the 1000th episode of the show, [...]

Cuba’s national team will play 19 games in June against six teams in independent league in Canada and the U.S.

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HONG KONG (Reuters) - More wealthy Chinese are ploughing money into technology start-ups which are increasingly seen as a safe haven as the slowing economy eases hopes of extracting returns from traditional investment such as stocks, property or gold.

While Chinese shares are being pummelled and the yuan is under pressure, these private investors are turning to businesses such as taxi-hailing company Didi Kuaidi, which saw its valuation rise 25 percent to about $20... Читать дальше...

“When you see something in #Dartmouth and you’re not sure it’s actually happening.”

US lawmakers introduced a bill on Wednesday requiring the US president to provide a report to Congress outlining federal actions that would ensure future Arab-Israeli peace accords consider Jewish refugees displaced from Iran and other Arab countries.

A headless torso found in a Bay Area levee belonged to a mother who was reported missing and whose husband later committed suicide by jumping off the San Francisco Bay Bridge, Alameda County coroner's officials confirmed.

Goldman says to go overweight on Indian stocks, in a bet that buoyant consumption and government spending will underpin profits.

The Tamil Nadu government has saved a tidy sum of Rs 20 crore per month after the discovery of nearly 2 lakh bogus old-age pension beneficiaries in the state.

Such a banger.

The remix pretty much proves One Direction and Zayn Malik always work well together.

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And let's be real, even with different musical directions they still just mash perfectly together.

Just sayin'. No pressure or anything.

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DES MOINES, Iowa -- As Donald Trump was racking up big wins on Super Tuesday, a campaign adviser took to Facebook to air his frustration after the business mogul lost four states, citing a lack of organization and resources.

IT’S hello wider screen and goodbye headphone jack if the rumour mill can be believed ahead of next month’s iPhone 7 release.

UPDATE 10:05 p.m. EST -- The projectiles fired by North Korea were fired from the eastern coastal town Wonsan, said defense spokesman Moon Sang Gyun, the Associated Press reported. Authorities were reportedly  attempting to determine what exactly North Korea fired; the projectiles could have been missiles, artillery or rockets, according to the Defense Ministry. Original story:

At a time when doctors talk of a diabetic epidemic in society, a well-known diabetologist in Chen nai has argued that the disease is over-diagnosed.