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William Liddiard, a Canadian inventor, has his own design for omnidirectional wheels. The Verge reports.

LONDON — As videos, photos and written accounts of intolerant abuse percolate across the internet in the wake of Britain’s referendum to leave the European Union, Juan Jasso has become one of the country’s best-known victims. The U.S. Army veteran is seen deflecting abuse as a British-sounding youth in a baseball cap, clutching a bottle

Law Blog rounds up the morning's legal news.

PARIS — Both the English city of Leicester and the island nation of Iceland have populations of 330,000; both have shaken the established order in European soccer. A member of Leicester City’s backroom staff has advice for Iceland’s national team as it heads for a quarterfinal at the European Championship against host France: Forget about

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A civilian who helped a New York police officer subdue a gunman who had already fatally shot another officer is one of 23 people being honored with Carnegie medals for heroism announced Thursday.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A civilian who helped a New York police officer subdue a gunman who had already fatally shot another officer is one of 23 people being honored with Carnegie medals for heroism announced Thursday.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A civilian who helped a New York police officer subdue a gunman who had already fatally shot another officer is one of 23 people being honored with Carnegie medals for heroism announced Thursday. Jones suffered a heart attack shortly afterward but recovered, and the shooting suspect died of his gunshot wounds. Cioci was one of 13 U.S. police officers awarded the nation's Medal of Valor last month by President Barack Obama for risking their lives to save others. The Carnegie Hero... Читать дальше...

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Love and attraction are weird and mysterious things.

There's a lot we don't understand — and a lot that's idiosyncratic to individual people and couples.

That's why a lot of research into why we mate is bizarre to the point of incoherence — cultural norms as well as oddities in the research methods can create a lot of noise.

Yet it turns out there is a lot of science about why people fall in love that is at once super strange and actually fairly credible. Читать дальше...

Apartment hotels offer a useful self-catering option for visitors to Bruges, and this one is not only superbly located, but also delightfully relaxed and welcoming. The apartments themselves are simple and uncluttered, but have all you need for a base from which to walk out and explore the city.

Opinion-makers believe that the City of Cape Town’s plan for affordable housing in the inner city could be a game changer in transforming the lives of poor and marginalised people.

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Opinion-makers believe that the City of Cape Town’s plan for affordable housing in the inner city could be a game changer in transforming the lives of poor and marginalised people.

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On a particularly cold January day in 2009, a plane made a miraculous landing on the Hudson River after a flock of Canadian geese flew into the engine.

At the spur of the moment, Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger landed the plane in the river and saved everybody on board. It was a stunning moment that felt right out of a movie. So it almost feels crazy that Hollywood took so long to turn it into one. 

The upcoming "Sully" is directed by Clint Eastwood and... Читать дальше...

LONDON (AP) — As videos, photos and written accounts of intolerant abuse percolate across the internet in the wake of Britain's referendum to leave the European Union, Juan Jasso has become one of the country's best-known victims.

LONDON (AP) — As videos, photos and written accounts of intolerant abuse percolate across the internet in the wake of Britain's referendum to leave the European Union, Juan Jasso has become one of the country's best-known victims.

LONDON (AP) — As videos, photos and written accounts of intolerant abuse percolate across the internet in the wake of Britain's referendum to leave the European Union, Juan Jasso has become one of the country's best-known victims.

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An apparent hacker has used the Twitter account of the CEO and co-founder of Oculus Inc. to announce a new head of the company.

Prepare to freeze your socks off as snow hits the Cape this weekend‚ and Gauteng's maximum temperatures only get to the low teens.

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HOUSTON, June 30 (UPI) -- Texas wildlife officials are asking residents to steer clear of alligators after a video posted online showed a man wrestling with a wild gator in Houston.

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JERUSALEM, June 30 (UPI) -- A 13-year-old Israeli girl was fatally stabbed in her home in a West Bank settlement in what is being called a terrorist attack by a Palestinian assailant.