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'Women see the games as the ultimately reality TV show and mini-series rolled into one,' explained John Miller of NBC, completely missing the point that more women watch the Olympics than other sports probably because the Olympic Games have more women in them

On Friday evening, activists of No Border" tried to help 200 refugees residing in camps in Italy's Ventimiglia to cross the French-Italian border. In an interview with Sputnik, French MP Gilbert Collard commented on the incident and the current migration crisis in general.

Independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin joins Morning Joe to discuss why he is running for president, why he says Donald Trump seeks to divide the country and why he believes his campaign will have the funding it needs to be competitive.

SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Yonhap) -- South Korea plans to deploy dozens of "jamming proof" air-to-ground guided missiles that can be carried on its F-15K fighters in a bid to bolster its strike capabilities amid mounting military threats from North Korea, militar

The cancellations Tuesday follow about 1,000 cancelled flights Monday and almost 3,000 delayed flights after an outage at its Atlanta headquarters initiated a global meltdown of its booking and communications systems. Delta's challenge on Tuesday will be to find enough seats on planes during the busy summer vacation season to accommodate the tens of thousands of passengers whose flights were scrubbed. Instead of being able to stay home, many passengers only learned about the flight problems when they arrived at the airport. Читать дальше...

Manchester City have signed centre back John Stones from Everton as new manager Pep Guardiola continues to reshape his side.

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Gaza Strip is a prosperous territory with lush lawns and gleaming high-rises — at least that's the image in a sleek campaign video made by activists of the territory's ruling Islamic militant Hamas group.

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Gaza Strip is a prosperous territory with lush lawns and gleaming high-rises — at least that's the image in a sleek campaign video made by activists of the territory's ruling Islamic militant Hamas group.

The South African government has condemned a terrorist attack on a hospital in the Pakistan city of Quetta on Monday in which at least 70 people were killed and more than 100 injured.

Adam Page started playing his beard into a microphone one night by accident. It grew from there.

– The APC in the United Kingdom has described the arrest of Abubakar Usman Sidiq as an attempt designed to ruin President Buhari’s reputation – Abubakar Sidiq Usman, a popular blogger and publisher of Abusidiqu.com was arrested by EFCC operatives on Monday – Some are insinuating his arrest may be connected to his latest posts […]

The network communications specialist rose after another quarterly beat.

SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Yonhap) -- The ruling Saenuri Party and the government on Tuesday agreed to seek a more-than-average increase in defense spending for next year, amid mounting military threats from North Korea. During their first bilateral consultati

Wal-Mart's acquisition of Jet.com was in some ways a return to basics for the world's largest retailer.

Sluggish economic data and dovish words from policymaker knock the pound

Tim Tebow hasn’t reached the same heights in professional football that Michael Jordan reached in professional basketball, but that doesn’t mean he can’t steal a page from Jordan’s book when it comes to unexpected second acts in sports. Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that Tebow is “actively pursuing a career in professional baseball” and plans…

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Display Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Mitsuru Homma attends a press conference in ...

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is due to visit the Russian Urals city of Yekaterinburg on August 15 to attend an event of the German-Russian Summer School on Energy Sufficiency and Renewable Energies, the German organizers of the event told Sputnik on Tuesday.

The Delta state police command on Monday, August 8,  paraded two suspects who sold a three-month-old baby to a Lagos-based businessman for N500, 000. The suspects, a 43-year-old fake nurse, Uju Okonkwo and a fake lawyer, Ezurum Joseph, who claimed to have graduated from the Nnamdi Azikwe University, NAU, Anambra state in 2011 with registration […]