Volkswagen AG’s head of the company’s namesake brand said he told U.S. dealers that the German auto maker plans to ‘redefine’ the tarnished brand in the U.S. and grow volume in the market to record levels.
Magadh University (MU) academic council has decided to set up a separate cell for the smooth running of vocational courses being taught at all constituent colleges and a few postgraduate departments of the university.
Hillary Clinton, responding Saturday to a front page Daily News story, charged her presidential primary opponent Bernie Sanders was the one ducking a debate before the New York primary.
Singer Rihanna and Shonda Rhimes were among the honorees at BET's annual women's empowerment awards show, "Black Girls Rock."
I looked up from my breakfast. We were sitting in a diner in August of 2000, on the second day of U.S. Senate candidate Hillary Clinton's three-day tour of Long Island, and I was feeling slightly bummed out. I had planned to finish three stories while she was out here, the first a straightforward piece about her campaigning on Republican opponent Rick Lazio's home turf, the second a feature story about the political instincts of her daughter, Chelsea, who was campaigning with her, and the third, a fun... Читать дальше...
Donald Trump has thus far defended his campaign manager Corey Lewandowski after a battery charge, but behind the scenes, changes are taking place.
Catalans record their third victory in nine days as early Super League pacesetters Widnes fall to a third loss in a row.
Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said the government would follow the court decision on the Shani -Shingnapur controversy.
Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said the government would follow the court decision on the Shani -Shingnapur controversy.
Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said the government would follow the court decision on the Shani -Shingnapur controversy.
The exhibition that opened Friday at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City shows people what it feels, sounds and looks like to be elderly with the help of a high-tech exoskeleton equipped with virtual reality goggles. The co-creator of the R70i Age Suit, Bran Ferren, says the suit simulates several ailments of old age such as glaucoma, macular degeneration and a hearing problem that produces ringing in the ears.
You could look at The Story of God With Morgan Freeman as a sequel to The Bucket List.
Smashing up expensive racing cars with Jack Nicholson is fun and all that, but what happens, you know, next?
The Story of God, a six-part National Geographic special that launches Sunday at 9 p.m. ET, lets Freeman explore an infinitely expansive subject with which he has long professed fascination: what exists out there beyond what we can tangibly identify through our five senses.
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Maybe it's time to pray to Christ the Redeemer.
With just over four months remaining until the cauldron is lit in Rio de Janeiro's Olympic stadium, Brazilian officials are grappling with some epically poor ticket sales.
A spokesperson for the Rio 2016 organizing committee confirmed to Agence France-Presse on Saturday that only 50% of tickets for South America's first ever Summer Olympics have been snapped up.
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The god of tits and wine, and now the Iron Throne.
Winter and Season 6 of Game of Thrones are coming, which is why two mathematicians decided to calculate once and for all who the most important character in the realm really is.
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Using network science, they mapped out all of the relationships to find and explain patterns within the story. And what they discovered was one character kept popping up...
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INDIANAPOLIS — Jamie Weisner has always been about the team first.
Gwen Stefani rocks cameo print pants as she heads out of a taping of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Friday evening (April 1) in New York City. The 46-year-old singer is set to be the musical guest on Saturday Night Live this weekend alongside host Peter Dinklage. PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics [...]
Lue correctly says the Warriors are the team to beat.
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Now it wasn't just pro-choice advocates who are angry at Trump. He also received intense criticism from the right and from anti-abortion advocates, the last majority of whom do not favor any kind of criminal punishment for women who receive abortions. But while it's right for anti-abortion advocates to criticize Trump, it's also a little hypocritical because in state houses across the country anti-abortion advocates are still looking for other non-criminal... Читать дальше...
Mark Twain once called San Antonio one of only four unique cities in the United States.
For decades, authorities have struggled to halt a street racing craze that has plagued Los Angeles County, sometimes with fatal results.
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The exhibition “Desert Now” is the result of a 12-day, Adderall- and LSD-fueled trip through the American Southwest by three German artists — Julius Von Bismarck, Julian Charriere and Felix Kiessling — who have transformed the galleries at Steve Turner into an idiosyncratic, dystopian museum focusing...
New technology, new safety measures, and a new relationship with Cuba are what reporter Jesse Sanchez says will be the big stories in baseball this year.
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If your go-to conversation topics revolve around work and weather, then you probably don't enjoy going to networking events.
But talking to new people doesn't have to be such a drag.
There are ways to get the conversation going without resorting to irritating clichés.
Check out these 17 icebreakers that will help ease you into an engaging conversation with people you've never met before.
'Hello.'
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