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Jordan's general security department said four policemen, a female Canadian tourist and two Jordanian civilians were killed in a series of shootings. Several others were reported wounded.

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IranAir has trimmed its planned order from Europe's Airbus <AIR.PA> to 100 planes, partly by dropping superjumbo A380s, the flag carrier's head said on Sunday, confirming an adjustment first reported by Reuters.

"Although the nominal value of the contract for 118 Airbus planes had been announced at $25 billion, the A380 planes have been dropped from this contract, so the value of our Airbus contract will not be more than $10 billion," said Farhad Parvaresh, quoted by the state news agency IRNA. Читать дальше...

NEW YORK — The Latest on Sen. Charles Schumer saying the federal government needs to look at exploding e-cigarettes (all times local):

AbbVie, Exelixis, and Organovo could smoke most marijuana stocks over the long run.

Just in case things get ugly and the world erupts into a real Star Wars, yes, it is possible to shoot a gun in space. Here's everything that would happen to you when you pull the trigger. 

“The name of this look is Barb in the upside down.”

Boozy holiday party season is here, which means it's time for wacky holiday party makeup. So when the women of Ladylike found out about this new ombré eyebrow trend gradually we submitted ourselves as tributes in order to give it a try.

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First, we applied white liquid lipstick to our brows to lay a base for the color.

Seeing yourself without brows is weird as hell, BTW. Читать дальше...

"This isn't about what the coaches are doing, this is on us." Damian Lillard

He has eight points in his past eight games

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on Sen. Charles Schumer saying the federal government needs to look at exploding e-cigarettes (all times local):

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on Sen. Charles Schumer saying the federal government needs to look at exploding e-cigarettes (all times local):

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer says the federal government needs to figure out why e-cigarette devices and batteries are exploding and catching fire, hurting users. The New York Democrat on Sunday cited a recent Associated Press story saying the FDA identified about 66 explosions in 2015 and early 2016. Schumer wants the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to figure out the problem. U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is increasing the heat on the federal government... Читать дальше...

A federal appeals court on Friday denied an emergency request from two Democratic electors to suspend a Colorado state law that requires electors to vote for the candidate who won the state. These electors filed a suit because they said they should be able to vote for whomever they believe to be the most qualified. […]

The series remembers this story of demonic possession is a family drama, first and foremost

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Human personality is fantastically complex, which is why personality tests that try to shoehorn a person into binary, defined categories — e.g. thinking or feeling, but not both — are often considered problematic.

But there are indeed differences between people that can be tested.

One of the most common, preferred ways psychologists use to measure personality is what's called the "Big Five": extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience. Читать дальше...

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Your 20s see you through from your awkward teenage years to your transformation into a full-fledged adult. The decade is all about experiencing new things, taking on new challenges, making mistakes and learning from them, and working towards becoming the person you're meant to be.

For those reasons, there's no better time than your 20s to ditch bad health habits and get on to being that better you.

Habits form from routine behaviors, and they're... Читать дальше...

90 Seconds founder Tim Norton is building a multi-million dollar company from around the world.

A team of scientists made some unexpected friends while exploring the deep Pacific Ocean. The marine biologists came across extremely rare chimaeras — also called ghost sharks — on the rocky seafloor near the Hawaiian Islands and off the coast of central California. The pointy-nosed blue chimaera is known to live in deep waters near Australia, New Zealand and the French territory New Caledonia. But the unusual fish had not been previously identified in the Northern Hemisphere.  Lonny Lundsten... Читать дальше...

The midfielder feels his team wanted the victory more than the Gunners and also felt their tactics were far superior to Arsene Wenger's at the Etihad

All it took for one bad outing by rookie quarterback Dak Prescott for Cowboys owner Jerry Jones to open the door for Tony Romo's return. Cartoon by Rob Tornoe.

The release of the portrait marks the end of the Queen's 90th birthday year.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said there was no sign the buses had left Aleppo or the villages, and a passenger on one told Reuters he had been on the bus for four hours and was still in the city`s rebel enclave.

Despite unprecedented efforts, don't expect changes to the outcome of the election or the Electoral College after Monday's final vote.