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Like most people of my generation from the Netherlands, my life is closely associated with that of Johan Cruyff, the Dutch football icon who died today at the age of 68. Wherever I would go around the world, from Canada to South Africa and from Kazakhstan to Chile, people would bring up "Kroif" and tell me about their admiration for "number 14" and their sadness that he and his "brilliant Oranjes" never won the World Cup.

I was too young to have seen Cruyff play during his glory days. To be honest... Читать дальше...

Knowledge makes the world go round. And my own odyssey around the world of knowledge, hopefully, can give birth to a "Science Spring" in the Middle East by completing a circle that began 70 years ago. That circle of destiny has taken me from the Nile Delta that was once the premier center of learning in its time to that foremost temple of science in today's world, the California Institute of Technology, or Caltech, to being awarded the Nobel Prize, and back to Egypt where we are creating a Caltech... Читать дальше...

A clip from Jenner's E! show "I Am Cait" reveals Clinton congratulating Jenner and her friends for their work addressing trans issues across the U.S.

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GREAT FALLS, Montana - A Montana woman who police said was stumbling and smelled of alcohol was arrested after driving to a cafe hosting a "Coffee with a Cop" event.

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LOS ANGELES, March 24 (UPI) -- "The Predator" director Shane Black revealed his "Predator" reboot will be a big-budget "spectacle" along the lines of "Iron Man 3."

 – A Christian missionary is believed to have been kidnapped by Islamic State terrorists  – There are fears the terror group plans to release a video of him being crucified on Good Friday  – Father Uzhunnalil was kidnapped in Yemen after other members of his group were slaughtered Fears are growing for an Indian priest […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee police have arrested a suspect in the deaths of a woman and her 4-year-old daughter whose bodies were found after a house fire last weekend.

Twitter proves chatbot Tay wasn’t ready for the masses

Oil futures settled lower Thursday as a bigger-than-expected climb in U.S. crude inventories and recent strength in the U.S. dollar helped prices tally their first weekly loss in six weeks. May WTI crude settled at $39.46 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, down 33 cents, or 0.8%, for the session. Prices declined roughly 4.1% for the week, according to FactSet data.

LeBron James said he’d take a pay cut to play with Carmelo Anthony, Dwyane Wade and Chris Paul. Melo is on board. Melo, via Marc Berman of the New York Post: “We still got years in this league,’’ Anthony said Wednesday after the Knicks defeated the Bulls, 115-107, at United Center. “Everybody dreams sometimes. Everybody […]

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Exposure to the hormone leptin in the womb may increase a child's risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a new mouse study suggests.

The militants’ leaders are dying in U.S. strikes at the rate of one every three days, and Syrian government troops on Thursday entered Palmyra, the historic town snatched by the Islamic State nearly a year ago during its last major burst of offensive activity.

UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura said that it s necessary to involve Syrian Kurds in the intra-Syrian-talks.

Robert Griffin III is getting a chance to revive a career that once seemed unstoppable. One of the NFL's brightest and flashiest stars just a few years ago, Griffin signed Thursday with the Cleveland Browns, a franchise on a perpetual mission to ...

Belgian police have been accused of ignoring and being slow to react to terror warnings over the suspects involved in Tuesday’s attacks in Brussels that killed 31 people and injured hundreds more. Despite being given specific warnings by Turkish authorities about one of the bombers, who had been detained on the Syrian border during the summer, security forces in Belgium were unable to act fast enough to catch Ibrahim el-Bakraoui and his accomplices before they carried out terror attacks at Brussel’s... Читать дальше...

The suburbs where a string of terror attacks were plotted are a short drive, and another world, away from Brussels' glistening institutions and chocolatiers

The suburbs where a string of terror attacks were plotted are a short drive, and another world, away from Brussels' glistening institutions and chocolatiers