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Influential producer signed the Beatles to EMI and was a key factor in creating their unique sound

It is the biggest contract Spanish firms have ever undertaken abroad, a high-speed railway linking Islam's holiest cities, Mecca and Medina, in Saudi Arabia - but sand is covering the tracks and now the building partners are arguing over who should clean it up.

Savchenko is suspected of helping to direct artillery fire near the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk on June 17, 2014, that led to the death of two Russian journalists Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin.

The U.S. Justice Department sent German automaker Volkswagen AG a subpoena under a bank fraud law in its diesel emissions probe.

The apparent loser in the race for the medical device maker is, in fact, the winner

Whether it is a proposal for marriage, wedding or win in the sports, in some areas of Afghanistan people shot in the air to express their happiness. They load their weapons and ready to pull the trigger as soon as the girls family say ‘yes’ to the proposal for marriage. The celebratory shots are also Read the full article...

Some New Zealanders were allegedly voting more than once in the poll on whether to change the national flag, the Electoral Commission said.

Despite leading her party to a smashing election victory, Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Ky seems certain not to become her country's leader.

President Barack Obama's administration will announce further measures to ease travel and trade restrictions on Cuba, sources said.

A Russian Antonov An-26 cargo plane carrying four people crashed Wednesday morning in southeastern Bangladesh, according to reports. The plane’s pilot has been killed, a co-pilot was critically injured and two others are missing. According to China's Xinhua News Agency, the plane crashed into the Bay of Bengal, off the coast of Bangladesh's southeastern Cox's Bazar district.

A gunman suspected of shooting and wounding four police officers was holed up in a rural New Zealand house, police said.

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On March 9, 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt presented the first of his New Deal policies, the Emergency Banking Act, to Congress.

In response to Mitt Romney's remarks about his failed businesses, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump shows off 'Trump Water', 'Trump Steaks' and holds an issue of 'Trump Magazine'.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Yet to win a state and far behind in the delegate count, John Kasich turns to Ohio hoping high approval ratings and a robust get-out-the-vote operation will deliver him a victory in his home state next Tuesday.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Yet to win a state and far behind in the delegate count, John Kasich turns to Ohio hoping high approval ratings and a robust get-out-the-vote operation will deliver him a victory in his home state next Tuesday. Kasich's campaign, alongside the state GOP and the outside group backing his candidacy, is running an aggressive ground game aimed at reminding voters why they've twice elected Kasich to the governor's seat. Polls show Kasich enjoys support from a majority of Ohio residents... Читать дальше...

When the going gets tough, the wise get out until it is calm, says research

When the going gets tough, the wise get out until it is calm, says new research

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A man suspected of fatally shooting four people at his neighbor's home in Kansas before killing another man about 170 miles away in a rural Missouri house was taken in…

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Iran reportedly test-fired two ballistic missiles Wednesday with the phrase "Israel must be wiped out" written on them, a show of force by the Islamic Republic as U.S. Vice President Joe Biden visited Israel.

In the first of five scheduled games, the artificial intelligence program developed by Google’s DeepMind has beaten the world champion Go player Lee Sed-ol in what is seen as a milestone for AI research. The game, which took place in the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul, South Korea, took three-and-a-half hours to complete with Lee resigning with over 28 minutes left on his game clock. Speaking after the game, Lee said: "I was very surprised. I didn't expect to lose. [But] I didn't think AlphaGo would... Читать дальше...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed an executive order approving the holding of the 6th St. Petersburg International Legal Forum on May 18-21, a copy of the document published on the official portal of legal information on Wednesday confirmed.