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NEW YORK — Billie Jean King and her World Team Tennis league have returned to the venue where she won four U.S. Open singles titles. The New York Empire are competing in Forest Hills Stadium at the West Side Tennis Club, the former site of the U.S. Open through 1977. The new Empire team is

Palestine has become the first state to ink the Declaration on Media Freedom in the Arab World, according to the International Federation of Journalists.

Locked out of home ownership for a lifetime, the state would be left to foot the bill for Generation Rent when they are retired and still living in the high-cost, high-turnover private rented sector

The new Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has just been announced, and it's packed full of upgrades that you won't find in the Galaxy S7. It even has one feature that has never been in any Samsung product to date — an iris scanner. Here are some of the best features in this year's Note model.

Guiness World Records are on the case

President Obama with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore on the South Lawn of the White House on Tuesday.

In Benue state, a family has exhumed the remains of a relative identified as Simeon Mbaana Acka who died 48-years-ago in order to give him a befitting reburial. According to Idoma Voice, the deceased was buried in Ampo cemetery, Gboko in 1968. His family members believe he was wrongly buried and on July 29, as […]

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TADOUSSAC, Quebec, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- A large whale came within inches of a boat full of tourists in Canada out on a whale-whatching excursion.

Ogbonge wahala dey for inside Old Trafford as some people wen dey follow follow Manchester United don dey yab their new coach Jose Mourinho. Many of them don tanda gidigba say make the former Chelsea coachie nor go even try sell Bastian Schweinsteiger. Remember say na last week the player wen dey play for Germany talk say […]

Here are our 23 favorite backpacks, from classic printed ripstop to swanky exotic leather. Now, banish that grubby Jansport from your memory once and for all.

Here are our 23 favorite backpacks, from classic printed ripstop to swanky exotic leather. Now, banish that grubby Jansport from your memory once and for all.

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Tony Robbins grew up in a poor and unstable family. He was on his own at 17, living on a janitor's income.

After saving up for one of the late motivational speaker Jim Rohn's seminars, he approached Rohn for a job. Rohn became a mentor to Robbins, who eventually became a speaker himself. He initially struggled to find his own voice that would warrant the corporate clients and big crowds attracted by Rohn.

It was around this time that Rohn gave Robbins the career... Читать дальше...

MONTPELIER, Vt. — A handful of hopeful moose hunters visited the Vermont Statehouse on Tuesday and joined top Fish and Wildlife biologists and others hunters across the state in listening to a live radio broadcast that revealed the dwindling number of coveted moose hunting permits being issued for the fall hunt. The 160 permits drawn

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A new report by the Center for Science in the Public Interest has identified the unhealthiest restaurant meals in America.

For the nonprofit's annual "Xtreme Eating" list, its nutrition experts reviewed menus at 200 restaurant chains in the US to identify which dishes are the most overloaded in calories, saturated fat, sodium, and sugar.

Some of the worst culprits include Buffalo Wild Wings, Jersey Mike's, and Uno Pizzeria & Grill.

Here's the list... Читать дальше...

Some economists fear the election will worsen an already-high level of uncertainty.

Perhaps the most significant portion of the Permanent Court of Arbitration's July 12 500-page unanimous ruling on the South China Sea is the decision on Mischief Reef.

The wedding day requires a lot of preparation and money to put together and the bride is the last person who should be worrying about anything that day. However, due to an unreliable wedding planner, last minute change or an unexpected and unforeseeable complication, the bride made be thrown in headfirst into the planning and find […]

Ronnie Spector, the lead singer of the Ronettes, on the Chantels, a girl group that inspired her, and the song “Maybe.”

With the UK still undecided over when it will actually begin formal Brexit negotiations, there are fears the impending talks will have a negative impact on Switzerland, with the country currently stuck in a stalemate with the EU over how to reform its relationship with the bloc.

QMA is pulling back from stocks as the firm sees fewer signs to hold out hope equities will put up gains in the near term.

Having been released early from a jail term for tax evasion charges, the former Germany star could make a comeback at the Allianz Arena

Follow the young blues rocker Angelica Garcia through a series of terrible dates with a good-for-nothing papier-mâché monster in the new video for her song "Orange Flower."

Wide receiver Odell Beckham isn’t fully back to work at Giants practice on Tuesday, but it doesn’t look like he’s going to be slowed down too much by the cuts he suffered during a collision with cornerback Janoris Jenkins at Sunday’s practice Per multiple reports from the Giants facility, Beckham was in uniform for practice…