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Lady Gaga didn’t rely on any special guests — or even particularly special effects — to thrill the crowd at Houston’s NRG Stadium during Super Bowl LI’s halftime show. After executing a bungee-cord-anchored dive through the stadium roof, the performance relied instead on Gaga’s talent, pure and simple, as she danced fiercely through a medley of her greatest hits, including “Poker Face,” “Born This Way,” “Telephone,” and “Just Dance.” And, the notoriously edgy fashionista didn’t even indulge in a multitude of costume changes... Читать дальше...

The days of TV journalists and photographers using helicopters to get a bird's eye view are fast fading. Drones, big and small, are increasingly being used to get stunning aerial images most of us thought were out of reach.

Four intruders, some armed with baseball bats, are believed to have smashed their way into a house where four footballers were sleeping - stealing their cars.

In the wake of President Trump's executive order, lawyers nationwide have spent the past week taking part in a wave of activism rarely seen among the U.S. legal community

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Nintendo's first ever Super Bowl ad shows off the portability of its Nintendo Switch console, which will launch March 3.

The teen in the ad plays the Nintendo title "Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" and gave many viewers a first glimpse of what the game will look like.

What many viewers may not have noticed are the references to the game Nintendo hid in its ad.

The horse lamp on the boy's bed is a reference to the main Zelda character Link's steed Epona. Читать дальше...

Super Bowl LI - New England Patriots vs. Atlanta Falcons

Super Bowl LI: Patriots win thriller over Falcons in overtime Feb. 5, 2017, 8:32 p.m. The New England Patriots scored 31 unanswered points to defeat the Atlanta Falcons in overtime, 34-28, at NRG Stadium in Houston on Sunday, making Tom Brady the first quarterback to win five Super Bowl games....

Airbnb has taken its opposition of President Trump's immigration executive order to the Super Bowl, the NYT reports.

Former prime minister Kevin Rudd has hit back at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp Australia, accusing the company of a "bullying culture".

One Iraqi family has been caught in limbo for eight days.

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Bud Light just revived its most controversial mascot of all time: Spuds MacKenzie. 

The beer brand debuted a commercial starring the ghost of Spuds MacKenzie during the Super Bowl. In the ad, Spuds takes on a Christmas Carol-esque role, encouraging an anti-social young man to spend more time with his friends. 

Spuds MacKenzie has a rich and controversial place in Bud Lights' history.

Bud Light first introduced a "super party animal named Spuds MacKenzie," during... Читать дальше...

A customer-service representative takes an uncomfortable call, in this Super Bowl for T-Mobile.

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Doesn’t the Left get tired of protesting all of the time? One would think the country could unite and enjoy ...

Australians spent more than $25.6 billion in December, but sales for the month dipped 0.1 per cent, confounding hopes for bumper Christmas sales.

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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's smog-hit capital Beijing plans to slash coal consumption by a further 30 percent in 2017 as part of its efforts to combat air pollution, the official Xinhua news agency said late on Sunday, citing the city's mayor.

Beijing has promised to implement "extraordinary" measures this year in a bid to tackle choking smog from traffic congestion and the heavy use of coal.

"We will try to basically realize zero coal use in six major districts... Читать дальше...

Acclaimed cricket umpire Louis Patrick "Lou" Rowan passed away on the Gold Coast on Friday aged 91.

The Indomitable Lions will join seven other nations at this summer's tournament in Russia.

The Patriots dug themselves a huge hole in Super Bowl LI and are now trying to dig their way out. A Tom Brady touchdown pass to James White and a Stephen Gostkowski field goal have given the Patriots a little life, cutting the Falcons’ lead to 28-12 with less than 10 minutes to go in…

Donald Trump picked his friend Tom Brady‘s team to win the Super Bowl, but he left his own party before the game ended. The 45th president of the United States left his viewing party at Mar-a-Lago in Florida by 9 p.m. eastern time, which would be during the halftime show shortly after Brady thew a back-breaking interception that put the Falcons up 21-3 at the break.

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President Donald Trump watched Super Bowl 51 at a swanky party at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida.

His wife, Melania, and his chief of staff, Reince Priebus, were both by his side.

See how Trump spent America's biggest sporting event, with some key details from pool reporters at the party:

After a day full of criticizing a federal judge on Twitter for blocking his temporary immigration ban of seven majority-Muslim countries, Trump arrived at his golf club. Читать дальше...

Trotz coached Radulov in Nashville, and benched him during the playoffs for breaking curfew.

Parts of Australia's farming industry are rushing to recruit a new generation of tech-savvy graduates as the sector swaps its bucolic past for a future of drones, robots and automated sensors.

Trump’s election spurred many to give time and money to social causes.