During a 2013 playoff game against the San Antonio Spurs, Stephen Curry hit a 3-pointer off one foot. The shot helped inspire the Golden State Warriors to give Curry the green light to take more crazy shots. Photo: NBA Entertainment
P.R. professionals know how busy magazine editors are these days. To save them time and energy, press reps have developed a technique called the “deskside,” in which products and story ideas are brought directly to the editors’ offices for review.
Laborers gathered on Wednesday for an event aimed at showcasing how the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is trying to make labor laws more understandable instead discussed their grievances. They talked about unscrupulous bosses, abuses and poor conditions rampant across the Gulf Arab states.
Laborers gathered on Wednesday for an event aimed at showcasing how the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is trying to make labor laws more understandable instead discussed their grievances. They talked about unscrupulous bosses, abuses and poor conditions rampant across the Gulf Arab states.
Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe attend a screening of the second season of Outlander on Tuesday (April 5) at the NYU Skirball Center in New York City. The actors were joined at the event by their co-star Tobias Menzies. Sam recently opened up to Vanity Fair about the celebrity fan of the show that surprised [...]
US campus culture wars claim new victim as talkfest in Boulder fractures
In the past months, Apple made it very clear that it did not want to help the FBI unlock the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooting suspects.
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Scottish craft brewery Innis & Gunn is now selling both beer marmalade and marmalade beer.
When you're craving a little — or a lot — of chocolate, it's hard to turn down a double-chocolate espresso walnut cookie from Julienne in San Marino. The cookie recipe, which combines melted semisweet chocolate with chunks of bittersweet chocolate folded in at the last minute, makes for a cookie...
Helped by buoyancy in indirect taxes, the government managed to surpass the total tax collection target for 2015-16 by Rs 5,000 crore at Rs 14.60 lakh crore.
With France still reeling from two major, tragic terror attacks in 2015, it has also seen the upcoming film "Made In France" come under great scrutiny. Originally slated to be released in the country by SND Films, they dropped the thriller following the Ile-De-France attacks in January 2015. Then, four days away from release, with the now eerie poster (see below) plastered everywhere, Paris suffered another series of horrific attacks on November 13th, prompting distributor Pretty Pictures to push back the release... Читать дальше...
Within the confines of the Democratic Party's vast and amorphous universe of "strategists" and "operatives," theories about the dangers of an imminent Donald Trump nomination have shifted.
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There's college hijinks. And then there's this.
A University of Iowa student was arrested last week after he allegedly burned "derogatory" penis designs into a dormitory ceiling, police said.
To safeguard investor interest, stock exchanges NSE and BSE have advised members to take extra caution while trading in more than 400 illiquid stocks.
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The Taliban has exposed a significant flaw in Google's app review process.
An app developed by the Taliban called "Alemarah" was up on the Google Play store for two days before the tech giant took it down, according to the Guardian. But the fact that the app went up in the first place demonstrated an issue with the company's app review... Читать дальше...
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When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon, they did what any tourist would do — take hundreds of photos.
A few of these images are more famous than others, like the one of Aldrin with Armstrong reflected in his visor, and the one of Aldrin looking at the American flag.
But people at NASA and contributors to the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal have painstakingly uploaded every single one of the photos from all six moon landings onto the Journal's website and Flickr page. Читать дальше...
WARRINGTON, England - Jurors have started to decide whether 96 Liverpool fans were unlawfully killed in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.
Princess Charlotte may not even be 1 years old yet, but that won't stop her from being an impressive athlete in the making. A month shy of her first birthday, the little lady...
Higher crude oil prices in global market also afftected the market sentiment.
Gert Timmerman Jr. gaat in hoger beroep tegen de celstraf die hem woensdag werd opgelegd voor het bezit van kinderporno. Gert Jr. is de 50-jarige zoon van het ooit succesvolle zangduo Gert en Hermien. Op zijn computer werden ruim 5.000 afbeeldingen van kinder- en dierenporno gevonden.
In case you missed it‚ TV personality Boity Thulo and award-winning rapper Cassper Nyovest are the first duo to lock horns in the global TV premiere of Lip Sync Battle Africa. And by the looks of it‚ Boity is all set and ready to go.
Sometimes, the ESPN-on-ESPN crime happens quickly. On other occasions, it takes a while to percolate. A day after some in-house consternation over the “exclusive” Greg Hardy interview, ESPN’s Mike Reiss has a report that directly conflicts with prior information perpetuated by ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Reiss reports that the one-year deal given by the Patriots to…
The Air Force is planning about half a billion dollars in upgrades at Eielson Air Force in the next five years to make way for two new squadrons of F-35 fighter jets.
With the economy flatlining, currency on the ropes and politics in turmoil, many South Africans are turning to humour for relief, mainly at the expense of President Jacob Zuma and his R246 million home improvements.
The biggest U.S.-based drugmaker, Pfizer Inc., will stay put thanks to aggressive new Treasury Department rules that succeeded in blocking Pfizer from acquiring rival Allergan and moving to Ireland — on paper — to reduce its tax bill. As analysts and investors had ...