MEMPHIS, Tennessee - Memphis and Temple matched the longest game in NCAA women's basketball history Thursday night, with the Tigers outlasting the Owls 100-97 in five overtimes.
By Darrell Bird, The Sports Xchange
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Only 16 days removed from its most staggering loss of the season, No. 14 Kentucky set out to right a wrong.
International Business Machines Corp. announced Thursday plans to acquire Truven Health Analytics, an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based provider of healthcare data and analytics, for $2.6 billion. The cloud-based analytics company will become a part of IBM’s Watson Health business, which was launched in April 2015.
Albert Shamess thought he was accepting a job as director of waste management for the City of Vancouver in 2012. He didn’t know he was also becoming manager of Canada’s most prolific, if unconventional, bird habitat. “It’s pretty interesting, not what you normally think of for a landfill,” he says while taking The Vancouver Sun on a safari-style tour through the city’s 225-hectare garbage dump at Burns Bog in Ladner.
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Renewable energy saw record investments last year and is becoming a mainstream investment, says Edgare Kerkwijk, MD of Asia Green Capital Partners.
Trump, speaking at a nationally televised CNN town hall, said the younger President Bush went to war in Iraq to complete a mission that had been begun by his father, President George H.W. Bush.
Jakob Poeltl added 15 points and 11 rebounds and Kyle Kuzma added 13 points and nine rebounds as the Utes (20-7, 9-5), who let a 14-point second-half lead dwindle to two, took sole possession of third place in the Pac-12. Nate Mason had 18 points, six rebounds and six assists to help host Minnesota (7-19, 1-13) get its first Big Ten win of the season with a 68-63 upset of No. 6 Maryland despite shooting 33 percent. The Tigers and Owls matched the longest game in Division I women’s basketball history... Читать дальше...
When a company acquires some of its own shares, either through share buybacks or when the shares are initially created but not entirely sold to the public, there are two categories these shares can fall into -- treasury shares and retired shares.
IOL Lifestyle Editor Renee Moodie has a talent for annoying Banters. Here she goes again...
Читать дальше...Lonn Trost has a message from certain Yankees fans: Some people just don’t belong!
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CLEVELAND -- LeBron James bid farewell to a dear friend Thursday, then began revving his engines for the stretch run of the season.
Prosecutors raided Volkswagen's South Korean head office Friday, a spokesman for the carmaker said, as part of a probe into the firm's emissions-cheating scandal.
The website apparently crashed due to immense traffic amounting up to 6 lakh hits per second. Also, due to a glitch, some buyers were able to book up to 99 smartphones at a go.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's top court has upheld a death penalty for a soldier convicted of killing five comrades in shooting and grenade attacks in 2014.
(ATTN: ADDS photo, details throughout) By Kang Yoon-seung SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Yonhap) -- LG Electronics Inc. said Friday it has joined forces with a Danish-based audio firm to provide better sound-related features on its smartphones, including the upcomi
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's finance minister said Friday that the recent shutdown of an inter-Korean industrial complex will have little impact on the economy amid rising concerns about heightened geopolitical risks and an economic downtur
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Yonhap) -- Prosecutors said Friday they have raided the offices of the local unit of Volkswagen in southern Seoul following the German carmaker's poor execution of recall orders on its emissions-faked vehicles. The Seoul Central Dis
John Kasich touched on a personal moment he shared with a young supporter at CNN’s Republican town hall on Thursday. “You’ve got to celebrate other people’s wins, and sometimes, you’ve got to sit with them and cry,” Kasich said. Kasich’s words came after he met a young voter named Brett Smith from Franklin, Georgia, on […]
John Kasich touched on a personal moment he shared with a young supporter at CNN’s Republican town hall on Thursday. “You’ve got to celebrate other people’s wins, and sometimes, you’ve got to sit with them and cry,” Kasich said. Kasich’s words came after he met a young voter named Brett Smith from Franklin, Georgia, on […]
Oregon lawmakers have set the state on course for a higher minimum wage. On Thursday, the state’s House of Representatives voted 32-26 to raise the wage, which currently sits at $9.25 per hour. While the bill will increase the minimum wage across the state, the extra cash workers will receive depends on where they are. […]
(CNN)Eleven-year-old Abu Imara al Omri kneels down to kiss his father's hand; a final blessing before the boy blows himself up in a truck full of explosives. The disturbing goodbye was captured in a series of ISIS propaganda photos last month. Supporters of the terror group claim the boy was used to help take the village of Ghazl near Aleppo, Syria. But Omri is not alone. The use of child soldiers far predates ISIS, but what concerns researchers and policymakers is that ISIS' use of boys and girls... Читать дальше...
According to the sources, Apple was granted additional time to implement an order of the Department of Justice to help the FBI unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers.
Hamlet, Lear and Othello are considered by many to be the most challenging roles in Shakespearean literature. The characters can seem so imposing as to intimidate production of said plays.
