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Crowds left the stadium believing Australia had done the improbable. Bolt was indignant ... until the rules were double-checked.

ATLANTA — A new exhibition takes a look at how American artists found inspiration in rural landscapes during an era of modernist art that was more closely associated with cities. “Cross Country: The Power of Place in American Art, 1915-1950” opens Sunday at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. It features about 200 works

Kylie Jenner is gonna be marketing clippers pretty soon . . . given that she’s taken to CUTTING TYGA’S HAIR. And that may be the WORST HAIRCUT that we’ve ever seen . . . EVER. Tyga should have just taken that FIRST ‘L’ when she did it two weeks ago, and let his hair grow […]

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Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Crude oil prices recovered lost ground early Thursday, continuing a market rebound sparked by an increase in demand at the consumer level.

This would be the first official eSports league operated by a professional sports league in the United States.

An overwhelming majority wants Panneerselvam to be Tamil Nadu CM, claimed a survey.

The idea that there is a difference between "natural" chemicals, like those found in fruits and vegetables, and the synthetic version of those chemicals is just a bad way of looking at the world.

David Friedman chairs an American nonprofit organization which is funding a newly-approved apartment building in the West Bank.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln man has been accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy he met through a networking app.

The UK is losing up to £300 million ($377 million) per year to foreign aid fraud and has no idea it is happening, auditors claim.
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An Amnesty International's report on mass extrajudicial killings in Syria is a provocation, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Thursday.

The "Fast Money" traders share their first moves for the market open.

Scientists said studying ape language was like using a time machine.

Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino is expecting a "high-tempo, intensive" game when his side play Liverpool on Saturday and says Spurs need to be "clever" to win at Anfield.

Teaching attitude is something that a lot of leaders give up on before they even try. They say “Pat just is the way he is. He’s a little cranky, and he’s a little sarcastic, but I can’t do much about that.” But when you look at great leaders, they do teach attitude, and so can you.

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The proliferation of smartphone ownership, expansion of cell infrastructure, and vast adoption of mobile video will drive up mobile data consumption seven-fold by 2021, according to the 2016 Cisco Mobile Visual Networking Index Forecast.

By the end of the forecast period, mobile data is projected to account for 20% of total internet traffic, up from just 8% in 2016. Читать дальше...

The number of countries with an 'AAA' rating from credit rating agency Fitch has slunk to a 13-year low.

It's a very crowded TV landscape out there these days, and several cable channels have taken, recently, to overhauling their brands in the hopes of finally getting into a niche that no other channel is filling and getting an increase in ratings in the process. Word came down today that Spike TV is getting in on the recent cable channel rebranding trend soon. But, what does that mean for it's current lineup of shows? Unfortunately for fans of "Lip Sync Battle," we don't quite know yet.

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A federal judge has blocked a proposed merger between Cigna and Anthem that would have created the largest health-insurance company in the US based on number of people covered.

US District Judge Amy Jackson said in her decision, released Thursday, that the proposed deal was anticompetitive in nature and would create higher costs for consumers, but a big part of the decision to block the case was what Jackson called the "elephant in the courtroom": Cigna was actively fighting the merger. Читать дальше...