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Over-bidding: that phenomenon by which buyers, pitted against one another for a limited stock of homes, not only meet but exceed the asking price– sometimes by many millions of dollars. The year of 2016 was no stranger to dramatic over-bidding. As this list compiled by The OpenHouse.com reveals, the nation’s biggest over-bid in terms of

Pro-Assad forces now control 98 percent of eastern Aleppo, Syria's military said Monday after days of sustained bombardment on rebel areas.

A member of the Village Guard

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SILVAN, Turkey — Hamesa Benin spent a lifetime fighting and toiling, hoping for some measure of peace and prosperity for his family and the corner of southeast Turkey he calls home. He never found it. Instead he watched as Kurdish villages and towns sank deeper into violence, and his family left divided and broken.

Back in 1994, Hamesa joined a pro-government Kurdish militia known as the Village Guard — or koy korucalar ... Читать дальше...

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Joe Scarborough knocked President-elect Donald Trump on Monday over his dismissal of the CIA's reported assessment that Russian hackers leaked private emails of top Democrats to help Trump win the election.

Over the weekend, Trump repeatedly said he did not believe reports indicating that the CIA told top lawmakers that evidence suggested Russia hacked and subsequently leaked the emails of top Democratic officials specifically to sow discord in a way that would benefit the Republican nominee. Читать дальше...

Park Chan-wook's The Handmaiden is a piece of Victorian pornography as postmodern novel in movie form. It immediately recalls Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac in the way it transforms self-consciously literary themes into filmic poetry. The Handmaiden, for instance, is composed of three parts which perform the cinematic equivalent of the unreliable narrator in a novel, with each part rethinking the narrative and presenting earlier scenes both with more information and from an ever so slightly skewed point of view. Читать дальше...

Police said they are hunting fields and towns in southeast France for four thieves who stole dozens of kilograms of gold Monday from an armored truck before setting cars ablaze near a major highway.

NEW YORK — Chipotle Mexican Grill on Monday named founder Steve Ells as the sole CEO of the burrito chain as it fights to recover from a series of food scares.

ENTER - De Elsmoat begint steeds beter te lopen. Het Enterse bedrijf Starline Oost vertrekt op korte termijn vanuit het huidige pand aan de Vonderweg naar het bedrijventerrein tussen Enter en Rijssen.

"You hate to see a guy have to feel that way after the game,” said captain Blake Wheeler.

PARIS (AP) — French police say they are hunting for four men suspected of stealing gold dust worth an estimated 1.5 million euros from an armored truck Monday before setting cars ablaze near a major highway and fleeing.

PARIS (AP) — French police say they are hunting for four men suspected of stealing gold dust worth an estimated 1.5 million euros from an armored truck Monday before setting cars ablaze near a major highway and fleeing.

Syrian military says it has gained control of 98% of the formerly rebel-held eastern area of the northern city.

Award winning children's novelist, Sally Gardner, didn't let dyslexia stop her from writing

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal from two former American International Group executives seeking to avoid civil fraud claims on charges they hid hundreds of millions of dollars in losses from investors.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Authorities say a 53-year-old Florida man faces charges after he extracted 10 teeth without anesthetic and made dentures during house calls to save people money.

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Chipotle co-CEO Monty Moran has stepped down from his role effective immediately. Founder Steve Ells is now the company's sole chief executive, Chipotle said Monday.

"Given the ongoing challenges facing the company, the board felt strongly that it was best for Steve to resume leadership of the company going forward," Neil Flanzraich, lead director of Chipotle's board, said in a statement.

Ells said Chipotle's... Читать дальше...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Chipotle Mexican Grill on Monday named founder Steve Ells as the sole CEO of the burrito chain as it fights to recover from a series of food scares.

NEW YORK (AP) — Chipotle Mexican Grill on Monday named founder Steve Ells as the sole CEO of the burrito chain as it fights to recover from a series of food scares.

NEW YORK (AP) — Chipotle Mexican Grill on Monday named founder Steve Ells as the sole CEO of the burrito chain as it fights to recover from a series of food scares.

The change at the top comes as Chipotle's sales and customer traffic continue to suffer indigestion more than a year after an E. coli outbreak first surfaced in 2015. [...] activist investor Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital has taken a nearly 10 percent stake in the chain.

The 2016 Critics’ Choice Awards on Sunday were anything but predictable. The cast of HBO’s original comedy series “Silicon Valley” took home the award for best comedy series, but it seems not everyone in the audience agreed with that judgement.