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India’s chief economic adviser, Arvind Subramanian, on Tuesday declined to answer a question about how bans on cow slaughter affect the country’s rural economy, choosing to avoid an issue that has become a political flashpoint.

Good news: Oil prices show promising signs of stabilizing

A woman was electrocuted after she tripped and fell onto illegally connected wires in Pietermaritzburg, paramedics said.

In a landmark battle between man and artificial intelligence (AI), the world champion of the game Go was narrowly defeated by his computer opponent. Google's DeepMind AlphaGo program beat South Korea's Lee Se-dol in the first of a series of games in Seoul. In October 2015, AlphaGo beat the European Go champion, an achievement that was not expected for years. A computer has beaten the world chess champion, but the Chinese game Go...

A Chinese woman has been been found dead a month after being trapped in a malfunctioning lift, sparking outcry over shoddy maintenance.

He made the remarks during a debate on the statement of US Secretary of State John Kerry that Saudi Arabia could purchase a nuclear bomb from Pakistan.

You know spring is just around the corner when sugar snap peas start catching your eye at the local farmers market. Unlike other peas, sugar snap peas require almost no work to prepare, fortunately for all of us. We share tips for buying, as well as plenty of spring-inspired recipes.

Just like many of its compatriots it likes to surf... though the similarities probably end there.

Savo Heleta, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

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Savo Heleta, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

Research and creative thinking can change the world. This means that academics have enormous power. But, as academics Asit Biswas and Julian Kirchherr have warned, the overwhelming majority are not shaping today's public debates.

Vicky Bowes was sliced down the cheek by the unknown attacker.

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Frankfurt (AFP) - German power giant E.ON on Wednesday said it booked a massive 7.0-billion-euro (£5.4 billion, $7.7-billion) net loss in 2015 and warned that "the course ahead will be tougher and longer than anticipated."

E.ON said in a statement that "impairment charges of 8.8 billion euros... primarily on generation assets resulted in a substantial net loss of 7.0 billion euros" last year.

And it warned that as a result of its planned spin-off... Читать дальше...

"Everything here is like a big casino and they play, dirty play. We are the playing cards. No one looks at us as humankind." — Abu Haida, a Syrian refugee stranded at a camp at the Greek-Maced…

Wits playmaker Elias Pelembe has urged those who have written off Wits and Kaizer Chiefs in the Premiership race to do so at their peril.

At least three Russians were among the people wounded in a series of knife attacks in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, Israeli police spokesman Michael Zingerman said Wednesday.

[...] the experience of the film is about something else, about creating a feeling of transcendence and joy through visual means. Malick pulls into this film so many aspects of consciousness and so many moments of previously uncaptured stray experience that it’s like watching someone tap into the miraculous. [...] what’s especially impressive and gratifying here is that he tried to do something similar with his previous film, “To the Wonder,” and failed. [...] instead of retreating, he has gone deeper into this mature style... Читать дальше...

A few months ago I asked to use his phone because my battery had died. Dear Weirded Out: I took your question to an expert on the subject of adult entertainment viewing, Larry Flynt. If you need more assurances, continue this discussion so that you both will know what you’re getting if you marry. Most of the time he smokes outside, except in winter, when he opens the bathroom window. When he wakes up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, he’ll light up a cigarette, take a few puffs and then put it out and return to bed. Читать дальше...

More than 5,000 operations across England were cancelled ahead of the 48-hour strike by junior doctors

Wildlife campaigners threaten court action over Thai elephant polo festival but organisers insist they are giving animals a 'holiday' from hardship

Triple R Horse Rescue in Cave Creek, Arizona is searching for homes for 20 miniature donkeys.

California State University faculty members appealed to trustees Tuesday to do more to avert a strike at the nation's largest university system, but the two sides remain at odds over salaries for about 26,000 professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors and coaches.

Five years have passed since Fukushima; a series of articles look at the human impact of radiation and, as importantly, the psychosocial effects of living through a disaster.

People who are overweight or shorter in height are more likely than normal-weight or taller peers to have a poorer socioeconomic status, a new study reveals.

Learn about some of the common complications of labor that can occur, including fetal distress, excessive bleeding and placenta previa.