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(ATTN: UPDATES in last 3 paras with Yoon's plan to visit Korea, Japan) By Chang Jae-soon WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 (Yonhap) -- The United States and its partners should intensify sanctions and pressure on North Korea to force the communist regime to come ba

PHILADELPHIA — A suburban Philadelphia judge settled one of two key pretrial issues in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial when he ruled on Monday that the jury could hear Cosby’s damaging testimony from a decade-old civil deposition. The defense had argued that Cosby only gave the testimony after being assured he would never be charged in the case. But Montgomery County Judge Steven O’Neill concluded that Cosby had no such guarantee. O’Neill has vowed to bring the case to trial by June.

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Africa’s second-longest serving leader will not contest next year’s elections

US lenders pay out $80bn from 2008 to 2016 as regulation drives increase

Missouri Gov.-elect Eric Greitens says his wife was robbed at gunpoint not far from their St. Louis home.

Russia's proposal to establish a global coalition to counter terrorism is unlikely to come to fruition considering potential members cannot even agree on which groups to target, analysts told Sputnik.

New jobs from Google and Facebook boost sector but spur employers’ pursuit of skills

German stakeholder says separation of Openreach ‘won’t work’

NEW YORK (AP) — "Girls" creator Lena Dunham and author-essayist Ta-Nehisi Coates, strangers until Monday night, found they had a lot in common.

NEW YORK (AP) — "Girls" creator Lena Dunham and author-essayist Ta-Nehisi Coates, strangers until Monday night, found they had a lot in common.

NEW YORK (AP) — "Girls" creator Lena Dunham and author-essayist Ta-Nehisi Coates, strangers until Monday night, found they had a lot in common.

NEW YORK (AP) — "Girls" creator Lena Dunham and author-essayist Ta-Nehisi Coates, strangers until Monday night, found they had a lot in common.

NEW YORK (AP) — "Girls" creator Lena Dunham and author-essayist Ta-Nehisi Coates, strangers until Monday night, found they had a lot in common.

Finding it hard to keep up with serpentine queues of customers demanding to exchange old notes or withdrawing cash, the staff of a bank here gears up for the tough day ahead by praying.

Hubba Inc., whose software allows retailers to access marketing and product information, has raised an undisclosed amount in a new round of new venture-capital financing led by a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. fund.

NEW YORK — Ikea’s U.S. division is offering longer parental leave to employees who are new parents, following similar overtures from tech companies like Netflix as it strives to keep good workers in an improving job market.

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Only 26 percent of computer professionals were women in 2013, according to a recent review by the American Association of University Women.

That figure has dropped 9 percent since 1990.

Explanations abound. Some say the industry is masculine by design. Others claim computer culture is unwelcoming — even hostile — to women.

So, while STEM fields like biology, chemistry, and engineering see an increase in diversity, computing does not. Regardless, it’s a serious problem. Читать дальше...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Ikea's U.S. division is offering longer parental leave to employees who are new parents, following similar overtures from tech companies like Netflix as it strives to keep good workers in an improving job market.

NEW YORK (AP) — Ikea's U.S. division is offering longer parental leave to employees who are new parents, following similar overtures from tech companies like Netflix as it strives to keep good workers in an improving job market.

NEW YORK (AP) — Ikea's U.S. division is offering longer parental leave to employees who are new parents, following similar overtures from tech companies like Netflix as it strives to keep good workers in an improving job market. Ikea had previously given women giving birth five days of paid leave in addition to six to eight weeks of paid disability leave. Lars Petersson, president of Ikea's U.S. division, told The Associated Press the parental leave expansion will give employees a better feeling... Читать дальше...

HAVANA — Music is playing in the streets again. Tourists are sipping mojitos at sidewalk cafes. Flags are flapping at full staff. After nine days of national mourning for Fidel Castro, Cuba is slowly returning to noisy, boisterous normality.