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A leaked copy of a report highly critical of the £400m government scheme to help troubled families says its had no discernible impact.

Beijing will allocate 430 billion yuan ($64.5 billion) for the projects to combat water pollution, the Chinese Environmental Protection Ministry said in a statement Tuesday.

Need a new excuse for binge watching Stranger Things and living off Uber Eats?

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Three people who fell 30 to 45 feet from a Ferris wheel in Tennessee were responsive and answering questions Monday night, police said.

Political rookie Paul Nehlen's longshot bid to unseat House Speaker Paul Ryan will be the unexpected highlight of the Wisconsin primary.

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Three people who fell 30 to 45 feet from a Ferris wheel in Tennessee were responsive and answering questions Monday night, police said.

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Three people who fell 30 to 45 feet from a Ferris wheel in Tennessee were responsive and answering questions Monday night, police said.

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Three people who fell 30 to 45 feet from a Ferris wheel in Tennessee were responsive and answering questions Monday night, police said.

(AP) — Three people who fell 30 to 45 feet from a Ferris wheel in Tennessee were responsive and answering questions Monday night, police said. The company that runs the midway will have 24 hours to file a report with state regulators and have a third-party safety inspection, he said.

ENSCHEDE - In een flat aan de Wethouder Beverstraat is dinsdagmorgen een brand uitgebroken. Niemand raakte gewond. Wel was er veel rookontwikkeling. 

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Saint Petersburg (AFP) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan jets into Russia on Tuesday for his first meeting with counterpart Vladimir Putin since the two strongmen leaders began healing a bitter feud over Ankara's downing of a Russian warplane.

Erdogan's visit to Putin's hometown of Saint Petersburg is also his first foreign trip since the failed coup against him last month that sparked a purge of opponents and cast a shadow over Turkey's relations with the West. Читать дальше...

He has the worn look of a man defeated, someone who knows he’s fighting a lost cause but is fighting just the same. 

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A team of students from well-known Paris design school ENSCI Les Ateliers had an idea that could change the face of tattooing.

The team came up with the idea during a recent design challenge hosted by the French Ministry of Culture and worked with other ENSCI students and teachers to bring it to life.

Their idea? An industrial robot that could autonomously create a tattoo from a database of images.

The idea was conceived as part of the Public Domain Remix... Читать дальше...

An analysis of the most 'crowded trades' highlights just how wary investors are of Australia's major banks - and Apple.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Political rookie Paul Nehlen's longshot bid to unseat House Speaker Paul Ryan will be the unexpected highlight of the Wisconsin primary.

(AP) — Political rookie Paul Nehlen's longshot bid to unseat House Speaker Paul Ryan will be the unexpected highlight of the Wisconsin primary. [...] Nehlen, the senior vice president of water filtration company Neptune Benson, got plenty of national attention last week when Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump praised him and said he wasn't ready to endorse Ryan. Three candidates are vying for the GOP nomination in northeastern Wisconsin's 8th District after incumbent Republican Reid Ribble decided not to seek a fourth term. Читать дальше...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The leader of the federal Food and Drug Administration is headed to Charleston for a round-table discussion with top West Virginia officials about the state's opioid epidemic. Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin announced Monday that FDA Commissioner Robert Califf will attend the event at the Department of Health and Human Resources. Tomblin, U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin and other officials are also slated to attend.

"Pokémon GO" received an update Monday that brought numerous minor tweaks to the app, the most significant of which, however, was rolled out to only some players as a test. This was “Sightings,” a tracking feature that Niantic is testing as a replacement for the now-defunct “Nearby” feature.

Prestigious western suburbs schools are on alert after an attempted abduction of a student in the area last Friday.

The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission announced the dates earlier this month based on information provided by biologists and public comments.

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Australia - and the world - meet your new hero: Ellia Green.

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At 171cm (5'6") and 76kg (167lbs), she is the enforcer of Australia's gold medal winning women's rugby sevens team.

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Aussies have known about Green since this barnstorming 80-metre, match winning try at the Gold Coast Sevens last year.

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Donald Trump is suggesting that rival Hillary Clinton's emails may be responsible for the death of an Iranian nuclear scientist who was executed for spying. The FBI has said there is no evidence that Clinton's emails were hacked when she was secretary of state.