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(Olympics) S. Korean weightlifter sees friendly rivalry with N. Korean

Yonhap News Agency (en) 

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 2 (Yonhap) -- For South Korean weightlifter Son Young-hee, North Korea's Kim Kuk-hyang is an athlete whom she wants to be friends with through these Summer Games. Son and Kim, both born in April 1993, know each other very well

Lucky girl: Nigerian student bags two certificates under 24 hours

NAIJ.COM (Nigeria News) 

Strange but true, a Nigerian Birmingham City University student Anu Yusuf earned two certificates in less than 24 hours. Yusuf, who was billed to graduate on Wednesday, July, 27, 2016 also got married same day. Yusuf, aged 26 graduated with a first-class degree in Law (LLB) in a ceremony at Symphony Hall alongside hundreds of […]

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24 Hilarious Tumblr Posts For People Who Are Obsessed With Pokémon RN

BuzzFeed 

Pika! Pika! *electronic screams of the damned*

When the Pokédex hit too close to home.

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When you accept your new lord and master.

fabulousanima.tumblr.com / Via reddit.com

When it's Bring Your Poké To Work Day

When you try to use a Moon Stone IRL.

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India Inc looks forward to GST becoming a reality

Zee News (zeenews.india.com) 

India Inc on Tuesday said it is looking forward to introduction of the much-awaited Goods & Services Tax (GST), saying it would be a very significant step in the field of indirect tax reforms in India.

The lawyers of the Charleston church shooter are arguing that the death penalty is unconstitutional

BusinessInsider.com 

Thomson Reuters

(Reuters) - Attorneys for a white man accused of killing nine black parishioners in a racially motivated attack at a South Carolina church a year ago argued that their client should not face the death penalty, asserting the punishment is unconstitutional.

Federal prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Dylann Roof, 22, who is accused of opening fire on a Bible study session at Charleston's historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on June 17, 2015. Читать дальше...

Laquon Treadwell recalls the time he successfully defended Jahlil Okafor in hoops

«Star Tribune» (startribune.com) 

There’s a reason why rookie receiver Laquon Treadwell  would ultimately “stick to football,” as he remembered  often hearing from Chicago grade school and Amateur Athletic Union basketball opponents. A three-year varsity starter at Crete-Monee High School, Treadwell was too aggressive for the sport, he said. “Too many fouls,” Treadwell recalled. “Too many fouls.” His style of play was better suited for the gridiron, where he played receiver and everywhere from defensive end to safety on the other side of the football. Читать дальше...

Scientists’ annual physical of planet: ‘Earth’s fever rises’

TheRepublic.com 

WASHINGTON — Earth’s fever got worse last year, breaking dozens of climate records, scientists said in a massive report nicknamed the annual physical for the planet. Soon after 2015 ended, it was proclaimed the hottest on record. The new report shows the broad extent of other records and near-records on the planet’s climatic health. Those

Alabama prison again on lockdown after another disturbance

TheRepublic.com 

ATMORE, Ala. — One of Alabama’s toughest prisons was on lockdown Tuesday following the second incident since March in which officers had to regain control of an inmate dormitory following a disturbance. Officers were maintaining tighter-than-normal restrictions on inmate movement at Holman prison, said Bob Horton, a spokesman for the Alabama Department of Corrections. Located

Trump says America was great before. Clinton says it's great now. Both are wrong.

Vox 

America has never been great for all of its people.

Over the past two weeks, the dueling Democratic and Republican conventions argued about America’s greatness.

At the Republican convention, you had Donald Trump and his ilk pushing the idea that America needs to be made great again — with the obvious suggestion that the country was great before. At the Democratic convention, Hillary Clinton, the Obamas, and others argued that America is already great — and Trump could screw it all up. Читать дальше...

The Making of a Flop: Internet Cat Video, the Sequel

The New Yorker 

The original’s only seventeen seconds long but it tells a complete story: a cat walks up the stairs, jumps onto the bannister, almost loses his balance, but then . . . doesn’t. The cat regains his composure, shakes his head, and rubs his paw across his brow as if to say, “Phew, that was a close call.” He meows, looks directly at the camera, and breaks into a big cat smile. You can’t plan shit like that.





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