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In Amsterdam is woensdagochtend een afgehakt hoofd gevonden op straat. Het gaat om de 23-jarige Nabil Amzieb die dinsdag werd aangetroffen in een brandende auto in Zuidoost. Hij zou een gunstige verklaring af hebben willen leggen voor een bekende crimineel. Het hoofd lag voor een bekende ontmoetingsplek (een shisha lounge) in de Amsterdamse onderwereld. In maart 2014 werd Mohammed El Mayouri vlakbij die plek doodgeschoten, toen hij de lounge net had verlaten. Verslaggever Peter Winterman twittert ter plekke over de zaak.

Both teams know a series win will be crucial at this point of the season and boost their confidence.

Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's decades-long battle to bring democracy to Myanmar is likely to come to fruition on Thursday with a whimper, not a bang. Despite leading her party to a smashing election victory last year, she seems certain not to become her country's leader.

Country wakes up to a total solar eclipse, while other parts of Asia enjoy a partial eclipse

He was best known for his work with the Beatles.

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Minnesota Vikings coach Mike Zimmer likes his young receivers enough that the team decided to release veteran wide receiver Mike Wallace on Tuesday.

People gazed at the sky in wonder and cheered while others knelt in prayer as a total eclipse of the sun unfolded over Indonesia on Wednesday, briefly plunging cities into darkness and startling wildlife.

A study compared long-term, heavy cannabis users (individuals aged 30-55 who had smoked cannabis a mean of 18,000 times and a minimum of 5,000 times in their lives) to an age-matched group of subjects who had smoked at least once but no more than 50 times in their lives.

HONG KONG - Cathay Pacific Airways said Wednesday that its annual profit nearly doubled in 2015 as passenger demand grew and tumbling oil prices cut its fuel bill.

HONG KONG (AP) — Cathay Pacific Airways said Wednesday that its annual profit nearly doubled in 2015 as passenger demand grew and tumbling oil prices cut its fuel bill. "Strong competition from other airlines in the region, foreign currency movements and weak premium class passenger demand will put pressure on passenger yield," Slosar said in a statement.

Failing to snag a sharp double-play comebacker in the first inning of Tuesday night’s exhibition, Bumgarner was visibly peeved, as if it were midseason. The Giants’ ace is struggling with his cut fastball, usually one of the first pitches he masters in spring training, and got mad after throwing a third-inning cutter to Scott Schebler, though it struck him out. Was Bumgarner showing his competitive juices two starts into spring training? Bumgarner worked three innings and struggled in the first, giving up three runs on three hits. Читать дальше...

The opposition and government on Wednesday clashed in the Rajya Sabha over the of use of Army personnel for a three-day world cultural festival being organised by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's Art of Living on the Yamuna floodplains in Delhi.

The opposition and government on Wednesday clashed in the Rajya Sabha over the of use of Army personnel for a three-day world cultural festival being organised by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's Art of Living on the Yamuna floodplains in Delhi.

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A decision on the status of Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig in a domestic assault investigation is forthcoming.

Ankara’s firm stance at the summit with the European Union was in particular provoked by Ankara’s intention to put pressure on Brussels to normalize ties with Russia, according to a US think tank.

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Dickmatised = being hypnotised by the D.

We've all been in that position where our romantic judgement has been clouded because we're hypnotised by the majesty of a beautiful dick.

Being dickmatised is a real fucking thing and it leaves you dumb as shit.

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You always get dickmatised by a fuckboy for a start, so you know it's all going downhill from there.

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A poor price environment in the aluminum market hit Rusal hard in the fourth quarter but demand should increase, the deputy chief executive officer of the world's largest aluminum producer, Rusal, told CNBC.

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Ryan Braun will not play in spring training games for at least another week but the Milwaukee Brewers expect him to be ready for Opening Day.

OTSU, Japan - A Japanese district court ruled Wednesday that two nuclear reactors at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s T...

Can a machine beat a human? That’s what Lee Se-dol, the world champion of the ancient Chinese board game Go, is about to find out. Lee is facing AlphaGo, a computer program built by Google DeepMind, on Wednesday in the first of five games of Go. The stakes are high. If Lee wins, he gets […]

EX-WADA boss Dick Pound says Maria Sharapova has no excuses for her failed test amid revelations the Russian was warned to stop using Meldonium on five occasions.

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Miami Marlins right-hander Carter Capps will miss the 2016 season recovering from Tommy John surgery.

CR resident joins AAA