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DES MOINES, Iowa — The heavily funded super PAC backing Republican Jeb Bush will spend at least $10 million on television time in the earliest voting presidential primary states, the first salvo in a major TV ad campaign to support the former Florida governor’s bid for the Republican nomination. The plan, shared by the group with the Associated Press before Monday’s buy, is the first evidence of Right to Rise USA’s strategic spending of the roughly $100 million it had on hand last month. The group... Читать дальше...

BEIRUT — Syrian air strikes on a Damascus suburb killed more than 80 people Sunday in one of the deadliest such raids of the four-year civil war, as fighting escalated around President Bashar Assad’s seat of power at a time when his overstretched forces have been losing ground elsewhere in the country. The strikes appeared to have been launched in retaliation for the capture of an army base in a nearby suburb a day earlier by the Islamic Army rebel group, which enjoys strong support in Douma. The Local Coordination Committees... Читать дальше...

Chelsea Manning, the former U.S. Army soldier convicted of leaking nearly a million classified and sensitive government cables to WikiLeaks, is being denied access to the legal library at Fort Leavenworth military prison, according to a tweet posted by her supporters. The news comes as Manning, 27, prepares for a disciplinary hearing that could result in her being sentenced to solitary confinement for unauthorized reading material and expired toothpaste.

ITV journalist Tom Bradby describes how he tried in vain to save the life of an elderly man who drove his car off a harbour wall in Greece.

Star Wars fans won’t have to venture to a galaxy far, far away to experience the places seen in their favorite films. The Walt Disney Company plans to bring the magic a little closer to home when it opens its first Star-Wars themed lands at two of its parks.

Cody Walker has a big reason to celebrate this weekend! Paul Walker's brother married longtime girlfriend Felicia Knox Saturday evening in Oregon, E! News confirms. In the...

A national survey on the implementation of Centre’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyan recently placed the capital at the 397th position, prompting AAP’s Delhi government and the BJP-led corporations to get into another war of words.

German Chancellor says the International Monetary Fund will probably take part in a new bailout for Greece

ATLANTA (AP) — Republican presidential candidates are split on whether the U.S. should send ground troops to the Middle East to combat Islamic State forces. Yet several other Republicans want to try — or at least not to get mired in the details beyond casting President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as weak and feckless. Businessman Donald Trump, who is leading most surveys of likely Republican primary voters, backed into a commitment of ground troops Sunday during a wide-ranging interview on NBC's "Meet the Press.

The big story of Monday’s parliamentary elections in Sri Lanka may well be the possibility of a comeback by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

Swiss 18-year-old Belinda Bencic wins the Rogers Cup as Simona Halep retires hurt in the third set of the final.

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Delhi Metro has been auctioning used poly-bags, water bottles, lunchboxes, umbrellas and helmets left behind by commuters in trains and stations every six months. That it’s a smart move can be gauged from the fact that, in November last year, the auction generated Rs 2.1 lakh.

Kenny Chesney is a country star of a bygone era. He entered MetLife Stadium on Saturday night (Aug. 15) on a zip line chair a la ...

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department detectives are assisting the Baldwin Park Police Department with investigation of the in-custody death of a man accused of stealing a U.S. flag, authorities said.

A nine-year-old boy was electrocuted when he went to the neighbourhood park to fetch a kite on Independence Day in south east Delhi’s Badarpur area.

Double Olympic champion has stood by his coach but has spent much of summer training away from coach

Despite a strong Irish start, Scotland grew into the game and nearly sprung a surprise in their 28-22 defeat

Government officials in Punjab called for three days of mourning after a suicide car bomb ripped through the Shadi Khan village of Attock -- 43 miles from Islamabad -- and killed Pakistani Provincial Minister Shuja Khanzada and 20 others. The suicide bomber blew himself up at the home of Khanzada, 71, who had been holding a meeting with locals. The attack was one of the highest profile assassinations in the country in recent years.

A 42-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide by jumping in front of a Metro train in Janakpuri East Metro station on Sunday afternoon. A seven-page long suicide letter was recovered from her possession. Police said she hasn’t blamed anyone for her death.

OMAHA — A hearing next month could help determine whether the Nebraska Oil and Gas Commission will continue to regulate the mining industry in the state.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee - Former inmates at a privately run Nashville jail say they worked without pay building bean-bag "cornhole" games, plaques shaped like footballs, birdhouses and dog beds so that officials could sell them through their personal business at a flea market.

A doctor running a dental clinic in east Delhi has been asked to pay Rs 1.15 lakh as compensation to a patient for conducting a faulty surgery in 2011, due to which the victim suffered injuries to her tongue and still has difficulty speaking.