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I recently spent three weeks in Stockholm to help launch Business Insider Nordic.
When I told people I was traveling to Sweden, one of the first things they invariably mentioned was fika. This refers to the tradition to having coffee and a pastry.
The difference between fika and typical American trips to Starbucks is that you're supposed to slow down instead of toting your latte and blueberry muffin back to the office.
"Coffee represents a true break... Читать дальше...
Islamic State said its fighters were behind the attack.
About 150 people spent the night in tents pitched on the railroad tracks near Anacortes, about 70 miles north of Seattle.
Officials in Las Vegas have talked to Raiders owner Mark Davis about attracting his team to the city. But if the Raiders stay in Oakland, Vegas won’t be done trying to get an NFL team. Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman said on the Dan Patrick Show that she and her husband, former Mayor Oscar Goodman,…
It was a far cry from confabs just harping on how media disseminate hate speech, promote sedition, spread rumors, and are used for nefarious purposes.
The Arab Media Forum (#AMF2016) this week in Dubai - a major annual attraction - focused on how media in general, and social media in particular, can be channeled to spread peace and humanitarian principles, and how to make happiness an achievable target.
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The Uttar Pradesh Board of Secondary Education will announce the results on its official website: http://upmsp.nic.in/
“I think I need to keep drinking for a while, and then I’ll have an idea.”
Grace Reid becomes the first Scot to win an individual European diving medal for Great Britain for 62 years.
The Twins are trying to avoid a nine-game losing streak as they send Ervin Santana to the mound.
We’re an annoying species.
Cats want us to know they're not here to take selfies.
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They're not here to go on pleasant walks in the park.
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They'd rather stay in a box than do all of our dirty work.
Twitter: @hasminejill
Unless it's cold outside, THEN they want nothing more than to escape the confines of the human abode. Читать дальше...
That awkward moment when you realize you have been doing something really bizarre in public.
FIFA's head of audit and compliance, Domenico Scala, quit Saturday to protest changes at the top of global soccer's governing body that he said will imperil efforts to eliminate corruption.
HILLSBORO, Ore. (AP) — The new buildings surrounding the Orenco MAX station look like they could have been airlifted from the Pearl District. The train whizzes by a public plaza where families and couples gather. Young professionals drink craft beer…
The United States condemned the 2008 arrests of Baha’i leaders in Iran Saturday and asked the Islamic Republic to free them. Iran arrested Fariba Kamalabadi, Jamaloddin Khanjani, Afif Naeimi, Saeid Rezaie, Behrouz Tavakkoli, Vahid Tizfahm, and Mahvash Sabet. They were all convicted of espionage, insulting religious sanctities, and propaganda against the Islamic Republic. They were […]
One of the closest encounters between a comet and Earth has been captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The American space agency released a series of images on Thursday of Comet 252P/LINEAR flying past our planet. The images were captured in early April — two weeks after the icy object zoomed by. On March 21, […]
The man credited with spearheading reforms at scandal-hit FIFA resigned Saturday in a major blow to the world governing body’s new president Gianni Infantino. Swiss Domenico Scala stepped down as chairman of FIFA’s independent audit and compliance committee, complaining that the reforms were being undermined. Scala was angered by a decision of the FIFA Congress […]
VfB, who won the Bundesliga title in 2007, Stuttgart II and Stuttgarter Kickers were all demoted following poor campaigns this year
Nevada Republicans gathering at their state convention Saturday in Reno have agreed to place limits on the size of their party platform so as to appeal to a broader base of voters in the November …
Republican activists in Kansas on Saturday worked to persuade the state party's conservative base to unite behind Donald Trump as the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, even as they picked a national convention delegation opposed to his candidacy. … Click to Continue »
The Uttar Pradesh Board of Secondary Education is expected to announce the Uttar Pradesh Board Intermediate (Class XII) Results 2016 on Sunday i.e. May 15, 2016.
US President Barack Obama called on the US Congress to allocate additional funds to treat addiction to prescription painkillers on Saturday.
