It's winter in Rio, but the only place you'll find snow and ice skating is at Switzerland's hospitality house. WSJ's Luciana Maglhaes takes a tour of four of the most popular theme houses of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Photo: Jeff Bush
It's winter in Rio, but the only place you'll find snow and ice skating is at Switzerland's hospitality house. WSJ's Luciana Maglhaes takes a tour of four of the most popular theme houses at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Photo: Jeff Bush
The missile forces in Russia's Kamchatka region have been put on high alert, a spokesman for the Eastern Military District said Tuesday.
Je noemt iemand een goede vriend en juist die persoon duidt jou aan als vage kennis. Gênant en pijnlijk, maar niet uitzonderlijk. Want recent Amerikaans onderzoek toont aan dat de helft van de vriendschappen niet wederzijds is.
– As unbelievable as it sounds, the Ministry of Niger-Delta Affairs has only completed just one project since it was established in 2008 – The minister said no personal or collective interest was worth the destruction of oil pipelines in the Niger Delta As unbelievable as it sounds, the ministry of Niger-Delta Affairs has only […]
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Britain's relationship with China is at a "crucial historical juncture", the Chinese ambassador in London has warned, as the Government prepares to make a decision on the Hinkley Point nuclear project. Liu Xiaoming, writing in the Financial Times, said that he hoped the UK would "keep its...
It's never healthy for coverage of any event to be be restricted to one source, but the IOC is increasingly walling off the Olympics.
Ready-made meals, cheap cups of coffee and frozen softdrinks are at the forefront of Coles' renewed efforts to take on 7-Eleven in the convenience store sector.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas waterslide billed as the world's tallest remained off-limits as authorities pressed to figure out how a state lawmaker's 10-year-old son died of a neck injury while riding it.
(AP) — A Kansas waterslide billed as the world's tallest remained off-limits as authorities pressed to figure out how a state lawmaker's 10-year-old son died of a neck injury while riding it. Kansas City, Kansas, police issued a statement late Monday afternoon saying that Caleb suffered a fatal neck injury around 2:30 p.m. while he was riding the slide with two women, neither of whom was related to him. On the waterslide certified by Guinness World Records as the world's tallest, riders sit in... Читать дальше...
Russian state television has reportedly likened United States swimmer Michael Phelps’ now-famous cupping method to meldonium — a banned performance drug that resulted in suspensions of many Russian athletes on accounts of doping, increasing tensions between the two countries.
A man in a balaclava who held up a club in Canberra's south escaped with a sum of cash through the back door, ACT Policing has said.
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Authorities say Brent Luyster, a former Vancouver man with a violent criminal past, was standing on the porch of a rural Woodland home when he shot two of his friends to death. He then allegedly barged inside the house and…
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Sigfox, a Low-Power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN) provider, will partner with network operator UnaBiz to create an IoT network in Taiwan, according to RCRWireless.
The network would allow the testing and deployment of a wide variety of IoT devices throughout numerous sectors of the island’s manufacturing and production base.
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Plummer, of Minneapolis, earns climactic medal after taking Olympic plunge at 30.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas waterslide billed as the world’s tallest remained off-limits as authorities pressed to figure out how a state lawmaker’s 10-year-old son died of a neck injury while riding it. Details remained murky about what happened Sunday to Caleb Thomas Schwab on the 168-foot-tall “Verruckt” — German for “insane” — that
Swimming champ Michael Phelps deserves another gold medal, not for his prowess in the pool but for the best Olympic game face.
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Smoke plumes roiling from flaming ridges of the San Bernardino Mountains blew all the way across the Mojave Desert to Las Vegas as California's latest big wildfire forced the evacuation of hundreds of homes and threatened thousands more