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Top three finishers in each weight category will secure an Olympic berth for a country.

Names on the move ahead of the open.

Up to 90 percent of state revenue and a third of jobs are at risk as oil production in Alaska loses money.

Koningin Máxima is een van de meest invloedrijke mensen ter wereld. Ze staat op de Time 100, een lijst die het tijdschrift Time elk jaar opmaakt. Het nieuwe overzicht is donderdag gepubliceerd. Time prijst haar inzet voor ontwikkelingslanden.

Dutch coach hopeful United's good form will continue and seal a top four spot.

HANOI, Vietnam - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday questioned China's intentions with its massive land reclamation project in the South China Sea during a visit to Vietnam.

BEIRUT - The Latest on Syria's civil war and peace talks in Geneva (all times local):

European stock markets fell as the euro steadied and investors turned their focus on a European Central Bank meeting Thursday. While analysts reportedly expect benchmark interest rates to be kept unchanged, investors will be looking to the ECB to signal a willingness to ease policy again to boost inflation.

George and Charlotte steal the spotlight in this sweet new portrait with the Queen — while Mia Tindall steals her Majesty’s purse. Captured by photographer-to-the-stars Annie Leibovitz, whose images have graced the cover of Vogue and Vanity Fair countless times, the picture shows the nonagenarian cuddling up to Princess Charlotte, who turns 1 on May 2, while George stands to the side of his sister and “Gan-Gan.” Mia Tindall, a cousin, stands to the right clutching onto the Queen’s handbag.  The image... Читать дальше...

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Editor’s note: Chief communications officer to the former governor of Kogi state, Captain Idris Wada, Mr Phrank Shaibu writes on the quick succession of deaths of prominent politicians in Kogi state. Shaibu also addresses some of the criticisms that has been aimed against Captain Wada by some political elements in the state.  Five months have passed since […]

TV and Radio times for both the Sprint Cup and Xfinity Series.

In less than five months, Australia will bid farewell to its Reserve Bank governor for the past decade, Glenn Stevens.

Their boss is no stranger to getting a dressing-down. And now it seems like Presidency staff have been given a dressing-down too…over dressing-up.

The kitchen at the Perennial, one of the restaurants participating in ZeroFoodprint’s Earth Day Campaign. Photo: John Storey/Special to The Chronicle Related Links From menus to food scraps, four-and-a-half-month-old San Francisco restaurant, the Perennial, is at the forefront of showcasing how restaurants can reduce waste, improve efficiency and reduce their carbon footprint. For Earth Day (Friday, April 22), Perennial partner Anthony Myint is taking this environmental mindfulness a step further. Читать дальше...

“Three’s Company,” the iconic sitcom that made household names of John Ritter and Suzanne Somers, may be getting a re-boot as a movie.

Bhubaneswar, Apr 21 () The Odisha Power Generation Company Limited (OPGC) and Odisha Hydro Power Corporation Limited (OHPC) today inked an agreement to form a joint venture firm with a target to start production from Manoharpur and dip-side Manoharpur coal blocks by April 2019.

Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, Iwan Rheon and Alfie Allen joined the 'Late Late Show' host for this fun sketch.

Bernie Sanders supporter Robert Reich takes to Facebook to argue that whatever the result of the Democratic primaries, either candidate is better than electing a Republican. No Donald Trump or Ted Cruz in the White House, no thank you.

Emptywheel: The Obamacare "wonks" are awfully selective about which taxes and costs they see.

In the late summer of 2009, lawyers at the Securities and Exchange Commission were preparing to bring charges in what they expected would be their first big crackdown coming out of the financial crisis. The investigators had been looking into Goldman Sachs’s mortgage-securities business, and were preparing to take on the bank over a complex deal, known as Abacus, that it had arranged with a hedge fund. They believed that Goldman had committed securities violations in developing Abacus, and were ready to charge the firm. Читать дальше...

From the Prime Minister to her grandson to those who might be referred to as commoners, the British are paying tribute Thursday to Queen Elizabeth II on her 90th birthday. “Mr. Speaker, we are uniquely blessed in our country,” Prime Minister David Cameron said in the House of Commons — a chamber, incidentally, that the […]

Eight years after helping Barack Obama defeat Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary, David Plouffe believes Clinton has the party’s 2016 nomination locked up and that she should be rooting for Ted Cruz to emerge as her general election opponent. “I’d prefer to run against Cruz,” Plouffe told David Axelrod on “The Axe Files,” a […]