MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say 12 Christians died after drinking contaminated homemade alcohol during the Christmas holiday.
MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say 12 Christians died after drinking contaminated homemade alcohol during the Christmas holiday.
Christians make up a tiny minority and tend to work in low-income jobs, meaning that homemade liquor, despite the risks, is more affordable.
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Henderson police spokeswoman Michelle French said Monday the 63-year-old man was found dead about 2:30 a.m. by Clark County school police in a desert area near College Drive and the U.S. 95 on-ramp — not far from Foothill High School. The man's identity wasn't immediately made public, pending an autopsy and determination by the Clark County coroner of a cause of death.
Kim Kardashian West made a social media appearance over the holiday weekend, a rarity for her lately. The reality star attended her family’s annual over-the-top Christmas party on Saturday night and was in several of Khloe Kardashian’s Snapchats. In one video, Kardashian told fans: “Look who it is in the house. Mrs. West in the […]
We asked, what will our generation do to fight extremism here, and now Prince Charles is positing the same theory: are we going to fight this fascist monstrosity or succumb willfully to this all-too-familiar extremism?
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Most of us imagine dinosaurs as the huge, towering prehistoric beings that once walked the Earth. But it turns out that dinosaurs were actually a wide range of sizes — and some of them weren't much larger than a turkey. Here's how big all the dinosaurs from "Jurassic Park" are relative to an average human man.
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When you say "I do," it's a vow to share everything with your partner: Your fears, your dreams, your home, and even your money.
Deciding how to combine your finances with your partner's includes myriad practical aspects — Should we get a joint bank account? How much should we save for retirement? — but much of the money conversation comes down to a non-monetary factor: communication. Successful married couples make it a priority to talk about their finances and stay on the same page. Читать дальше...
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Eddie Marritz's body lay on a couch, but his mind was hovering far above him.
He'd recently taken a dose of the psychedelic drug psilocybin, the main psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms, as part of a clinical trial.
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On Christmas Day in 1914, German, British, and French soldiers left their trenches along the western front of World War I to observe the holiday in peace.
In the midst of war, soldiers laid down their arms to sing Christmas carols, play soccer, and barter with the cigarettes and sweets they'd received in care packages from the nations they served.
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The decision of Afghanistan’s first female airplane pilot, Niloofar Rahmani, to seek asylum in the U.S. drew anger from her home country’s military leadership, which said she could face disciplinary action if she didn’t return.
Today’s column examines spousal benefits before widow's benefits, year-end bonuses and the Earnings Test, filing and suspending for greater spousal benefits, declining retroactive benefits at 70 and the utility of delaying spousal benefits past FRA.
In a major relief to farmers, they will now have 60 more days to repay their crop loans due for November-December as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Monday gave them an additional time to repay.
After a couple of his late runs in Saturday’s 34-31 overtime win over the Bills, Dolphins running back Jay Ajayi seemed to be favoring his left shoulder and had it checked out by members of the team’s medical staff. Ajayi kept going back into the game, though, and finished with 206 rushing yards that were essential…
Due to free speech issues involving the indictment filed by the Jerusalem District Attorney’s Office, Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit personally approved the indictment.
Musicians all over the world are mourning 64 members of Russia's Alexandrov Ensemble, who died in the plane crash in the Black Sea.
As Russian flags fly at half-mast to mark the tragic loss of life in yesterday's Ministry of Defense plane crash in the Black Sea, the rest of the world joins in mourning the 92 passengers who died.
