By James M. Dorsey
Over the past decade, religiosity and religious intolerance have seeped into national sports teams in Pakistan and Egypt, societies that have been wracked by faith-based narrow-mindedness and political fanaticism.
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New York Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul appears in a fireworks safety public service announcement one year removed from the accident that damaged his right hand.
A person with direct knowledge of the moves tells The Associated Press that Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Matt Carle and Boston Bruins defenseman Dennis Seidenberg are among the players on buyout waivers.
A person with direct knowledge of the moves tells The Associated Press that Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Matt Carle and Boston Bruins defenseman Dennis Seidenberg are among the players on buyout waivers.
Jupiter takes center stage with the arrival next week of a NASA spacecraft built to peek through its thick, swirling clouds and map the planet from the inside out. The solar-powered Juno spacecraft is on the final leg of a five-year, 1.8 billion-mile voyage to the biggest planet in the solar system.... ......
Moscow does not expect that NATO will make any new decisions on reinforcing the Alliance's military presence in Europe at the upcoming summit in Warsaw, Russia's envoy to NATO Alexander Grushko said Thursday.
The AC Milan full-back praised Italy's soon-to-be departing boss and believes the unity in Azzuri's Euro 2016 squad can help them overcome Germany and reach the semi-finals
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After a state jury declared that Cinemark, the nation's third-largest theater chain, was not responsible for the Colorado theater shooting in which 12 people were killed during a showing of "The Dark Knight Rises" in 2012, the chain now wants the victims who brought the lawsuit to pay its legal fees from the case.
According to Deadline, paperwork was filed last week in which Cinemark is seeking $699,187.13 in legal fees and other costs from the case.
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(ATTN: UPDATES with details throughout) SEOUL, June 30 (Yonhap) -- Two Vietnamese fishermen accused of murdering two South Koreans aboard a vessel in the Indian Ocean were brought to South Korea Thursday to face trial, the foreign ministry said. T
Rejoice! Google has finally added multi-stop trip support for its Maps app.
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Judicial Watch Director of Research and Investigations Chris Farrell on the deposition of Hillary Clinton’s top aide. Photo credit: Alex Brandon/Associated Press.
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There are countless crime scenes every day. It's up to experts to turn back time and figure out what happened using evidence left behind, such as blood.
Until now, blood DNA tests could determine someone's ethnicity and sex, but they couldn't determine age. The tests also took several days to yield results. But now things are changing.
A new ACS publications study could help crime scene experts better analyze blood evidence. The study researchers developed... Читать дальше...
Petrol price was on Thursday cut by 89 paise a litre and diesel by 49 paise a litre, the first decrease in rates in two months.
Google says it expects to have Google Calendar up and running normally following widespread reports of an outage. Google said Thursday that users had been seeing "server error" messages when opening the app. It later said ...
Malaysian opposition politician Lim Guan Eng, who has criticized Prime Minister Najib Razak’s handling of state investment fund 1MDB, pleaded not guilty to abusing his position as chief minister of Penang state.
Ed Adamczyk
LEAWOOD, Kan., June 30 (UPI) -- The plan to merge AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. and Carmike Cinemas Inc., to form the United States' largest movie theater chain, could be in jeopardy.
Employment Policies Institute Research Director Michael Saltsman on how Friday’s minimum wage hike will affect the job market for young workers. Photo credit: Mike Nelson/European Pressphoto Agency.
Sydney Kramer
I attended the Summer Fancy Food Show this week for the second time in my life, and boy, was it a whirlwind.
The general idea of the show is that hundreds of food purveyors from all over the world come and give out samples of their wares, hoping to gain distributors that will sell their product. As a result, you've got everything from hot dog flavored potato chips to hot-sauce flavored ice cream. Just when you think we, as a human race, have peaked in terms of what we can produce foodwise... Читать дальше...
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All parents want their children to grow up understanding that the best things in life are free, and that happiness has zilch to do with accumulating stuff. Getting kids to grasp these concepts, however, is more complicated than ever.
That’s because many kids are raised with an expectation of entitlement when it comes to toys, clothes and other physical items, says Fran Walfish, Psy.D., child and family psychotherapist and author of “The Self-Aware Parent: Resolving... Читать дальше...
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South Africa’s weakening economy and surging public dissatisfaction has placed it on a “warning” in the latest Fragile States Index.
The Cape May County resort topped this year's vote as best overall beach in the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium survey, followed by Wildwood Crest. The group changed the rules this year, allowing voters to select top beaches in each of the state's four coastal counties.
People weren't happy.
US Marine Corps
It’s called the Lightning II, but perhaps it should be renamed the Phoenix. Like the mythical bird, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) has risen from the ashes.
This is a program that once seemed to be on life support, where the short takeoff/vertical landing (VSTOL) variant was placed on a two-year probation by then Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Unquestionably, the challenges of producing a single fighter in three variants for the Air Force, Navy and Marine... Читать дальше...