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MONTALTO DI CASTRO, Italy - World track champion Fernando Gaviria sprinted to his first World Tour victory on Friday, winning the third stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico.

New service robots welcome visitors at the international travel fair in Berlin, and could soon be the face of the check-in desk at international hotels. Ivor Bennett reports on how the latest wave of disruptive technology is impacting the travel industry.

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Noah Kagan, founder and chief executive of AppSumo, was hired by Facebook at age 24 as the company's 30th employee.

He was fired nine months later, for poor performance and leaking information to the media, among other reasons.

But those nine months were long enough to teach Kagan some valuable lessons about entrepreneurial success — lessons that help him run AppSumo today.

In a 2014 interview with Ramit Sethi, author of the bestselling "I Will Teach You to Be Rich," Kagan shared the No.

Zenefits

One day in February 2015, a cheer rang through Zenefits' sales offices.

The San Francisco-based company, which offers free benefits management software in exchange for becoming the customer's insurance broker, had hit another sales milestone.

Everyone stopped working. Office cabinets were opened and giant bottles of Fireball whiskey, tequila, and scotch appeared.

"The entire company, including all of engineering, would line up at all the tables with shots as soon as a milestone happened. Читать дальше...

Public hearings regarding Wisconsin’s proposed 2016 waterfowl season structure will be held March 14-17. After public comments have been collected, final season structure will be set by the Natural Resources Board at its April 13 meeting in Madison.

– PDP said Aregbesola is confused and a copycat governor – Aregbesola said the new councils will not constitute any financial burden adding that the state will make judicious use of its revenues Osun governor, Rauf Aregbesola has come under heavy fire from the main opposition party in Osun state, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) […]

I had an incredibly vivid dream a few days ago. I was in a hospital bed holding my baby whose face was crinkled into an angry pout. I was desperately trying, and failing, to nurse my baby.

What made this dream most disturbing was the fact that my brain and body reproduced the sensations. I was feeling the same bodily sensations of pain and the same sense of emotional overwhelm that I experienced when my son was born.

Truth: Breastfeeding can be painful.

I attended the... Читать дальше...

Travel editor Domini Clark shares five essential tips for making your time at the airport less painful

Women in construction is not revolutionary but it remains a male-dominated industry

The dark story of an everyday object

Mikhail Ulyanov on why the U.S. nuclear modernization program is dangerous

Former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says he and Donald Trump have "buried the hatchet" after months of political wrangling, and he is endorsing the GOP front-runner's White House bid. At a press conference in Palm Beach, Florida on Friday, Carson ...

Major auto makers are testing driver-monitoring systems that use artificial intelligence to determine if a driver is too tired or distracted to drive safely, and the first such systems could be available next year.

– President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged Nigeria’s support for the people of Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) – He assured the SADR minister for international affairs that outstanding issues on self-determination for the country would be attended to President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged Nigeria’s support for the people of SADR on the country’s right to self […]

A teenage Pappas could not afford a new car, so he and his friends would watch the new crop of cars drive by, with each boy selecting the car of his dreams. The purchase was arranged sight-unseen, as was transportation, and the Starfire soon was on the back of a truck heading to the Virginia home of Pappas. A coat of Garnet Mist exterior paint is accented by outrageous bright work along the flanks of the lengthy car. The capacity of the gasoline tank is 20 gallons, while the cooling system keeps... Читать дальше...

Popular Nigerian musician Kcee, has fulfilled his promises to the hawker he rescued from the streets  The musician had met Promise who hawked shoe racks and brushes, when he went undercover for MTN, and decided to help turn his life around . Kcee and his brother chose to help Promise in honour of E-money’s birthday. PAY […]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida - A federal judge says a farmworkers coalition may use loudspeakers and a slow-moving truck during its planned weekend demonstration in the Town of Palm Beach but its marchers must remain on the sidewalk.

Huh? 

A gorgeous new Lane Bryant television ad featuring models Ashley Graham, Tara Lynn, Denise Bidot and Georgia Pratt in the brand's underwear (nothing we haven't already seen from Victoria's Secret), including a shot of new mom Lynn breastfeeding her baby, was rejected by major networks. 

TMZ first reported ABC and NBC turned down the #ThisBody Lane Bryant ad "as is." A representative for Lane Bryant confirmed this to The Huffington Post and provided a statement from NBC about why they declined. Читать дальше...

The night the koala went missing, zoo employees checked surveillance footage and saw something startling: P-22, the city’s famous urban mountain lion, lurking about.