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Tom Hiddleston: hunky actor, Taylor Swift's boyfriend and now an official Instagram user! Yes, the 35-year-old Brit joined the social media platform on Tuesday (better late...

HENGELO - Een auto en een fietser zijn dinsdagmiddag op elkaar gebotst op de kruising van de Wegtersweg met de Slachthuisweg. 

U .S. stock indexes edged higher in early trading Tuesday, following gains in global stock markets as slack Chinese consumer price figures stoked expectations of more stimulus. Consumer-focused companies and healthcare stocks were among the biggest risers, while energy shares lagged the most. Oil...

A federal appeals court on Tuesday dealt another defeat to New Jersey's yearslong attempt to legalize sports betting, setting aside the state's challenge to ...

I remember the very moment that I found out that Whitney Houston had died. New York Fashion Week was in full swing, and I had just returned home from the tents at Lincoln Center when CNN reported the breaking news. My Twitter feed went from being flooded with runway snapshots to classic photos and videos of Houston.

Fashionable psychology of nudging consumers will not transform the sector, writes Jonathan Ford

The Catalans have added Andre Gomes, Samuel Umtiti, Lucas Digne and Denis Suarez to their squad for the coming season, but the coach does not rule out more purchases

DETROIT — General Motors and its autonomous technology company Cruise Automation are testing self-driving cars on the streets of Scottsdale, Arizona. Testing of self-driving electric Chevrolet Bolts began in Arizona about two weeks ago. It’s the second city for GM’s real-world tests. Autonomous Bolts with Cruise Automation software have been driving around San Francisco since

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — The woman slated to become the first openly gay government minister in highly conservative Serbia said Tuesday she hopes public attention surrounding her election will soon fade so she can focus on her new job.

Over the first three weeks of August, Clinton is spending $8-million on the national NBC network

Israel's Supreme Court rules a collection of unpublished Franz Kafka manuscripts, must be transferred from an Israeli family to the country's National Library, ending an eight year battle.

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors and its autonomous technology company Cruise Automation are testing self-driving cars on the streets of Scottsdale, Arizona.

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors and its autonomous technology company Cruise Automation are testing self-driving cars on the streets of Scottsdale, Arizona.

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors and its autonomous technology company Cruise Automation are testing self-driving cars on the streets of Scottsdale, Arizona. Autonomous Bolts with Cruise Automation software have been driving around San Francisco since May 20.

Lilia Li-Mi-Yan

Russia has greater economic disparity than any other major global power. In 2014, Credit Suisse's Global Wealth Report claimed that those in Russia's richest 10% control 85% of the country's wealth. Additionally, just 111 billionaires have been found to control 19% of total household wealth in the country, according to the report.

This alarming discrepancy is what photographer Lilia Li-Mi-Yan set out to explore in her series "Masters and Servants," an intimate view... Читать дальше...

Quigley titled his first video "Delta? delay is big business for McDonald's at Narita Airport." With a smile on his face, he talks to his Facebook audience about the delay and takes them to a McDonald's outlet in the departure area. Quigley then walks down a line of at least 75 people stretching along a corridor from the McDonald's counter. Everyone went nuts in the departure area when they announced that the flight would be delayed until the morning, he says, adding, "There was so much screaming and yelling... Читать дальше...

Ted Galen Carpenter

Global Governance, Asia

Seoul isn't looking to pick a fight with Beijing.

Beijing is agitated about the decision by the United States and South Korea to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) ballistic missile defense system. Although the principal impetus for the THAAD deployment seems to have been North Korea’s increasingly erratic and provocative behavior, Chinese leaders suspect that the system is at least indirectly aimed at their country. Читать дальше...

Essential Politics: Gov. Jerry Brown delays plans for a regional power grid, more delays on Internet poker bill in Sacramento Aug. 9, 2016, 8:21 a.m. Welcome to Essential Politics, our daily feed on California government and politics news. Here's what we're watching: Gov. Jerry Brown sent legislators...

Indirect tax collections rose by 29.9 percent during April-July period of the current fiscal to Rs 2,71,719 crore, mainly due to impressive growth in central excise duty mop-up.

Science writer Ed Yong talks about his new book, which looks at diet and the microbiome and whether poop transplants and probiotics are all they're cracked up to be.

Themes of national identity and mascularity are deftly drawn in Al Smith's modern adaptation of Gogol's short story

Russia needs "ironclad guarantees" to resume work on the South Stream pipeline project after it was stalled due to opposition from the European Commission, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday.

Nigeria’s currency, Naira has remained at N395/$1 at the parallel market today, August 9, as it was on Monday, August 8, NAIJ.com can authoritatively report. This would leave Naira’s black market value unchanged since it regained strength from an unbelievable N400/$1 rate it was at the end of last week. According to currency traders and […]

Debbie Roes owns the largest jewelry box she could find, but it was still so full she had difficulty seeing her belongings. So she decided to de-clutter it as part of an overall purging of her possessions, and the result made her happy. “It used to be so cluttered that I didn’t really know what