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Kengan Ashura has two seasons of 12 episodes each on Netflix

The Japanese manga series centers around an underground fighting ring in existence since the Edo period

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Rarely does a champion get eclipsed in the way that Kamaru Usman did during UFC 245 fight week. There was little he could do to prevent it. With opponent Colby Covington willing to say or do anything to get the spotlight—from wearing garish suits to accusing the champion of using performance-enhancing drugs to bringing up a family member’s legal troubles—Usman had to bide his time and silence him the old-fashioned way.

Here’s fun fact: the world’s deepest manmade hole goes 15 kilometers into the ground. They stopped drilling at the 15th kilometer because it got too hot at the bottom of the hole. Welcome to geothermal energy, the reason most religions depict Hell as a place deep underground and the reason why we may succeed in building a clean energy future for the planet without turning it into a disco ball of solar panels. Geothermal energy is, simply put, heat; heat that is generated from the decay of radioactive... Читать дальше...

Drugs can cause permanent harm to the brain. We're only beginning to find ways to heal the hurt.

You may recall the story of a Florida man being eaten by an alligator this past summer. Well, we now know exactly what happened. Continue reading…

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Two separate Australian Federal Police teams are now conducting investigations into Australia's most decorated living soldier over his time in Afghanistan.

Proxy advisors are giving the green light to executive pay packets at NAB and ANZ ahead of both AGMs next week.

The domestic headwinds we’re suffering are home-grown and all too evidently a sign of poor economic management.

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Paul Volcker was a courageous central banker. 

Paul Volcker, who died on Dec. 8, is the poster boy for central bank independence and why it matters.

One of his legacies, as you may have read in the many obituaries published since his death, is taming the runaway inflation that posed an existential threat to the U.S. economy in the late 1970s. Less discussed is just how important he was to establishing the principle of an independent Federal Reserve, which he led from 1979 to 1987.

Traditionally working class voters have voted for leftwing parties. In fact Labour has claimed to be the party of the working class. But overseas elections has shown this relationship is dissolving. In Australia many working class suburbs voted Liberal. We know that Trump won by winning over white working class voters. Boris Johnson just won […]

Volkswagen has used GTD, GTE, and GTI to denote the diesel, plug-in hybrid, and performance variants of its models, respectively, for some time. But since GTE is already taken, it had to come up with something else for its new electric cars. And that’s how VW took the name of the Plymouth GTX.

In the preview of the Weekend Ka Vaar episode, it was shown that there were double evictions where Madhurima Tuli and Shehnaz Gill names were suggested. A lot of drama was created around Shehnaz Gill’s eviction but later, Salman announced Vikas Phatak aka Hindustani Bhau’s name for eviction.

Here's everything you might have missed in boxing this weekend.

Cisco has unveiled further details behind its technology strategy for building a new Internet.

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Six people with the knowledge of the expulsion have told the newspaper that American officials believe that at least one of the two Chinese officials was an intelligence officer operating under diplomatic cover.

Government that leads should also be ready to emulate examples set by others

Kayla Severi, 18, told her mum that she wanted a dog for Christmas 'more than anything in the world' - and when her wish was rejected, she decided to get creative to show she could take care of one

With the Oakland Raiders moving to Las Vegas next season, Sunday's game against the Jacksonville Jaguars marks the last time Raider Nation will see their team in the Coliseum. Unsurprisingly, diehard fans were lined up outside of the Coliseum lot well before sunrise today to get their spots in history.

The law lets migrants fleeing religious persecution claim citizenship - but not if they are Muslim.

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Bong Joon Ho's Palme d'Or winner "Parasite" leads the crowded field of Oscar submissions; it's likely to be South Korea's first Oscar nominee.