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THOUSAND OAKS, California - At 18, Bernard Moon was looking at a bright future. A charismatic high school honors student and athlete, he had been accepted at elite universities.

A charismatic high school honors student and athlete, he had been accepted at elite universities. [...] his life was cut short this week by the blast of a homemade rocket — a failed nighttime science experiment on the tarmac of a Southern California elementary school. A homemade chemical rocket attached to a skateboard blew up Monday night, mortally injuring Moon, who died at a hospital. The experiment at the elementary campus wasn't sanctioned by any school, and the victims likely were using the courtyard because it's an open space... Читать дальше...

So, what the hell is Miitomo?

Nintendo did something that it has never done before: It made an app for your phone, and it's kind of awesome.

BuzzFeed / Jeff Barron

But I'm not entirely sure Nintendo had this in mind when it created Miitomo (free, iOS and Android).

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People can bearly contain their excitement about the app.

About 11 million people — roughly equal to the population of Portugal or the southern U.S. state of Georgia — who live in or around 114 of the 229 World Heritage sites, could be negatively affected by harmful industrial activities, according to a report by World Wide Fund for Nature.

The students of Srinagar's National Institute of Technology (NIT) on Wednesday accused the college administration and police of harassing them.

– Dr. Ibe Kachikwu at a town hall meeting with workers of PPPRA assured Nigerians that fuel scarcity will be a thing of the past in Abuja and Lagos today (Wednesday) – The minister of state for petroleum resources explained why it is important to privatise the petroleum downstream sector – Kachikwu at the town […]

The West Indies Women team and a few players from the men's champions side arrived to a heroes' welcome as the country celebrated their clean sweep of the World T20 titles.

King Goodwill Zwelithini snubbed an investigation on the cause of last year’s xenophobic violence in the province.

Are you even allowed to do this?

OLDENZAAL - De gemeente Oldenzaal inventariseert woensdag op drie momenten de opkomst bij het referendum over het associatieverdrag met Oekraïne. Rond 11.00, 16.00 en 21.00 uur worden de opkomstpercentages op de eigen website gepubliceerd. Kort na 21 uur wordt ook de definitieve uitslag duidelijk.

HENGELO - Het is een betrekkelijk nieuwe vorm van criminaliteit: accu's stelen uit scootmobielen. In Hengelo bij bejaardencomplex 't Swafert veroorzaken de diefstallen veel onrust.

But with significant challenges ahead for both, that may not be enough to thwart Trump, Clinton

Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union vows to proceed with its planned industrial action at some of Sibanye Gold’s operations.

Armenian armed forces shelled the Azerbaijani Tartar District in the line of the contact zone, local media reported Wednesday citing the head of the local administration.

Student activist Vusi Mahlangu, who claimed he was kidnapped and assaulted last week, has been arrested on charges of perjury and defeating the ends of justice.

Mumbai, Apr 6 () Consulting firm EY's Fraud Investigation and Dispute Services has launched an automated tool, EY SAPPHIRE, to help clients maintain compliance, control licence costs and optimise existing licence landscape.

VROOMSHOOP - Leerlingen van groep 8 van de Oranjeschool in Vroomshoop gaven dinsdag 5 april de adoptie van het monument voor vrede, vrijheid en recht op het Vredesplein in Vroomshoop over aan hun leeftijdsgenoten van De Sleutel, een basisschool voor speciaal onderwijs. Elk jaar wordt het monument door een schoolklas 'geadopteerd', voor onder meer het onderhoud. 

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco approved a measure Tuesday making it the first place in the nation to require businesses to provide fully paid leave for new mothers and fathers to spend time with their new child.

–  A member of the House of Representatives said the full details of the budget would be forwarded to President Buhari for assent before the end of the week – President Buhari had refused to sign the budget owing to the failure of the National Assembly to send the full details of the budget Taofeek Adaranijo, a […]

Bill Posters

To understand Brandalism — a movement that illegally replaces outdoor ads from billboards and bus stops with art — you need to look back to the UK summer riots of 2011.

For five days that August, thousands of Britons demonstrated their frustration at the establishment by rampaging through city-centers, looting or destroying whatever consumer trinkets stood in their way. Overall, across the country, the rioters caused around £100 million ($142 million) of damage.

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ENSCHEDE – Nederland mag deze woensdag naar de stembus, om haar stem te laten horen in het Oekraïne referendum. Wil je weten waar je kan stemmen? Bekijk hieronder het overzicht van stembureaus in Twente en de Achterhoek.

De eerste opkomstcijfers stromen langzamerhand binnen. In sommige steden, zoals Rotterdam en Heerenveen, lag het percentage om 10.00 uur al boven de 5 procent. Het hoogste percentage is tot nu toe behaald in Schiermonnikoog. Daar kwam voor 11 uur al 16.65 procent van de kiesgerechtigden opdagen. Onderstaande tabel wordt continu bijgewerkt.

COLUMBIA, South Carolina - Corrections officials say contraband cellphones are among the top security threats within prisons, and federal officials are in South Carolina to learn more about the problem.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Corrections officials say contraband cellphones are among the top security threats within prisons, and federal officials are in South Carolina to learn more about the problem.