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Venezuela’s opposition movement announces it would follow a multipronged plan to remove leftist President Nicolás Maduro from office as the oil-rich country struggles with a debilitating economic and social crisis.

JERUSALEM — A majority of Israeli Jews marry within their own religious or secular subgroups, and they inhabit largely separate social worlds, according to the findings of a survey exposing the deep gulfs over the role of religion in Israeli politics and society. The first in-depth study of religion in Israel conducted by the Pew Research Center in Washington, released on Tuesday, found that religious and social divisions are reflected in “starkly contrasting positions on many public policy questions,”... Читать дальше...

Opposition leaders in the legislative assembly and the legislative council, Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil and Dhananjay Munde, on Tuesday boycotted chief minister Devendra Fadnavis customary tea party on the eve of the Budget session that will begin on Wednesday

NIAMEY, Niger - A coalition of opposition parties in Niger says it is boycotting a presidential runoff vote scheduled for March 20, claiming it will be rigged.

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — A coalition of opposition parties in Niger says it is boycotting a presidential runoff vote scheduled for March 20, claiming it will be rigged.

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NEW YORK, March 8 (UPI) -- Children who spend time playing video games were shown in a recent study to have higher intellectual function and higher overall school competence.

The sexual transmission of the Zika virus is more common than previously thought, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, citing reports from several countries.

Yum Brands Inc. said late Tuesday its board appointed Robert Walter as non-executive chairman, effective May 20. Walter will succeed David Novak, who announced his plan to step down as chairman in January. Novak had retired as Yum's chief executive in January 2015. Yum shares were flat at $76.68 after hours.

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We all do our best to be accurate, responsible users of the English language, but despite our best intentions, we’ve all had the occasional slip up ("literally" or "ironic", anyone?)

It's particularly easy to get things wrong when it comes to science, because words often have a different meaning for scientists than they do for the rest of the population — and we're pretty sure we're not the only ones who've made at least one of the mistakes below.

If not, you definitely know someone who does it regularly. Читать дальше...

The hit HBO series returns April 24.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea by the association of Maharashtra's private medical colleges to be allowed to conduct its own common entrance test (CET) for medical and dental college admissions.

Broadway veteran Francis Jue returns to his Bay Area home at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley for the regional premiere of Kimber Lee’s “Tokyo Fish Story,” a comic drama about sushi survival in a society obsessed with change. Jue plays revered sushi master Koji, whose landmark sushi bar is struggling to survive as trendy competitors are packing in customers. [...] maybe both of them should listen to hip assistant Nobu (Arthur Keng), or to Ama (Nicole Javier), the punked-out sushi chef trying to get a foothold in what’s always been a man’s world.

“Being a young disabled person can be daunting, but facing the world with an adorable fluffball by my side makes it so much easier.”

The tap draws from Lake Huron. Eatery owners have bought ice, bottles and expensive filters. Large signs in windows post lead-free test results. But diners in this Michigan city are still leery.

A television news reporter covering a Bay Area train derailment was almost run over by a careening automobile Tuesday morning, but escaped injury when a camera operator shouted at him to get out of the way at the last second.

Reed College

Steve Jobs was a college dropout in 1973, but he still occasionally hung around the campus of Reed College, the Portland, Oregon, school he went to, and audited the occasional class.

One of those classes was calligraphy, and it was taught by a Trappist monk named Robert Palladino.

Palladino died last month, and his obituary in the New York Times explains that he was a huge influence on Jobs and Apple.

Jobs credited Palladino's class with teaching him about typefaces... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON, March 8 (Yonhap) -- A Singapore-based shipping firm used its account at a Bank of China branch to conceal North Korean payments to operate ships carrying arms and other goods on behalf of the regime in Pyongyang, a news report said Tuesday.

WASHINGTON, March 8 (Yonhap) -- A Singapore-based shipping firm used its account at a Bank of China branch to conceal North Korean payments to operate ships carrying arms and other goods on behalf of the regime in Pyongyang, a news report said Tuesday.

NIJVERDAL - Rudy Schwarte gaat de vrouwenwaterpoloploeg van Het Ravijn in Nijverdal coachen. Hij maakt het lopende seizoen af. Schwarte volgt Wyco de Vries op, die vorige week besloot zijn rol als hoofdcoach neer te leggen.

The Department of Homeland Security said that the US government has teamed up with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to enlist fans of college sports as volunteers on alert against any signs of terrorist attacks.

Sexual transmission of the Zika virus is more common than previously thought, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, citing reports from several countries. After a meeting of its emergency committee on Tuesday, the U.N. health agency also said there ...

DPA Moscow

Russia just joined a new kind of space race: The race to develop reusable rockets to ferry wealthy people into space.

Space tourism is a growing business opportunity made possible by the advent of reusable rocket technology, which has only begun to take off in the last year.

In the lead are the privately owned American space companies Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic, but Russia's private space company KosmoKurs could soon offer some healthy competition.

Last week... Читать дальше...

Alfred T. Palmer/The Library of Congress

The 1930s and 1940s were a time of upheaval for both the US and the world at large. 

Reeling from the start of the Great Depression in 1929, the world soon faced a greater disaster with the start of World War II from 1939 to 1945. Although the US did not enter into the war officially until after Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the global war still affected the US.

The following photos, from the US Library of Congress, give us a rare... Читать дальше...

There is nothing revolutionary about the destruction of property, arts minister Nathi Mthethwa said on Tuesday.