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KCCA FC Chairman Aggrey Ashaba believes that his side's progress in the CAF Champions League this season can inspire other Ugandan teams in continental competitions. The reigning Uganda Premier League champions made history on Saturday when they eliminated Ethiopian giants Saint George 1-0 on aggregate to become the first side from the East African nation to reach the group stage of Africa's top club competition. "The club has now broken the barrier and it will not be able to look back," Ashaba...

München (dpa) - Der Staat Mexiko hat in München zwei Jahrtausende alte Kultfiguren aus der Olmeken-Kultur zurückerhalten. Die beiden Holzbüsten seien an der archäologischen Stätte El Manati im heutigen Bundesstaat Veracruz in einem Sumpf gefunden und illegal außer Landes gebracht worden, sagte Maria Villarreal vom Nationalen Institut für Anthropologie und Geschichte (INAH) in Mexiko am Dienstag in München. Experten gehen davon aus, dass es sich um Opfergegenstände handelt, die ungefähr aus dem Jahr 1200 vor Christus stammen. Читать дальше...

A brutal double-overtime loss pushed Denver further back in the race.

While it is true that Nuggets vs. Heat had massive playoff implications, they were skewed. Miami is going to make the playoffs: they lead Detroit by six games in the loss column. What remains to be decided is whether the Heat will be the No. 7 or 8 seed in the East. (There’s a shot they could move up higher than that.)

Monday’s Miami vs. Denver tilt meant more to the Nuggets, who found themselves one back from No. Читать дальше...

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• Finding common ground with Trump

Saudi Arabia’s young crown prince has an ambitious list of to-dos: modernise his conservative kingdom, weaken Iran’s hand across the Mideast and, this week, rehabilitate his country’s image in the eyes of Americans.

Middle-aged and elderly people taking up exercise shouldn't be put off by joint pain. It will pass.

“Happy f—king birthday. From all of us,” McGowan eerily tells Weinstein before her voice drops to a whisper. “We win.”

The United Nations has called on Turkey to end the state of emergency introduced after the July 2016 failed coup that it says has led to large-scale human rights violations, but Ankara dismissed the call as "biased" and "unacceptable."

By Andrew Warshaw

March 20 – A British football agent who claims he missed out on a lucrative World Cup sponsorship deal because of FIFA’s behaviour has finally won the right to take the organisation to court in the UK.

Tony McGill claims he brokered a deal to secure top Chinese sponsor Vivo for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups but was cut out from receiving commission in return.

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The post McGill wins right to take FIFA to court in UK over unpaid Vivo sponsorship... Читать дальше...

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The regular joint military exercises between South Korea and the United States, which start on April 1, are to last twice as less as in previous years, local media said Tuesday.

Cristiano Ronaldo says the key to his staggering success is believing nobody is better than he is -- and he advised his Portuguese teammates to adopt the same attitude.

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Shares of CSRA Inc. rose 0.9% in premarket trade Tuesday, after General Dynamics Corp. raised its per-share bid to buy the information technology company, in the wake of a rival bid from CACI International Inc. . General Dynamics said it will now pay $41.25 a share in cash, up from its original bid announced on Feb. 12 of $40.75 a share in cash. That increases the value of the deal to $9.7 billion, including the assumption of $2.8 billion in debt, from $9.6 billion. Over the weekend, CSRA confirmed... Читать дальше...

Shares of CSRA Inc. rose 0.9% in premarket trade Tuesday, after General Dynamics Corp. raised its per-share bid to buy the information technology company, in the wake of a rival bid from CACI International Inc. . General Dynamics said it will now pay $41.75 a share in cash, up from its original bid announced on Feb. 12 of $40.75 a share in cash. That increases the value of the deal to $9.7 billion, including the assumption of $2.8 billion in debt, from $9.6 billion. Over the weekend, CSRA confirmed... Читать дальше...

OKLAHOMA CITY – A group of Oklahomans seeking a $16 billion refund for AT&T customers is taking its case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Officials say a bribed vote in the late 1980s resulted in commissioners letting Southwestern Bell reinvest millions of dollars in excess revenue into its infrastructure rather than returning it to customers. One of the commissioners and a Southwestern Bell attorney ended up going to prison for bribery over that vote. In September, the Corporation Commission voted... Читать дальше...

In a wide-ranging interview with Radio Free Afghanistan, John Bass, U.S. ambassador in Afghanistan, he reflects on the prospects and challenges to peace and security in Afghanistan.

The Central Bank of Malta has issued numismatic coins in gold and silver depicting ‘The Baptism of Christ’, a statuary group by Giuseppe Mazzuoli (1644-1725). The coins are issued under the Europa Programme with the theme ‘Baroque and Rococo’ and bear the Europa Star logo. The gold coin has a face value of €50, while the silver coin has a face value of €10. These coins are legal tender in Malta only. The €10 coin, which is limited to 2,500 pieces, is struck in silver (0.925 fine) while €50 coin... Читать дальше...

Nicht nachvollziehbar ist für Salzburgs Landeshauptmann-Stellvertreter Christian Stöckl das Vorhaben der Bundesregierung, ab 2019 die Tabaksteuer in Österreich nicht mehr zu erhöhen.

S'il prend le pouvoir aux prochaines élections, le PQ compte remplacer le projet de Réseau express métropolitain (REM) par un vaste réseau de tramways et de bus rapides reliés aux lignes de métro et de trains pour s'attaquer aux problèmes de congestion en desservant l'ensemble de la grande région métropolitaine.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Victoria station, one of London's major rail terminals, has been evacuated due to a fire alarm, police said on Tuesday.

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U.S. stocks dropped sharply on Monday as Facebook led a selloff of technology shares. Facebook's stock fell by 7.1 percent as its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, faced calls from lawmakers to explain how a data firm linked to President Trump's campaign got access to information on 50 million Facebook users. Facebook shares finished the day down 13 percent from a record high reached on Feb. 1. Other major tech stocks also fell on rising speculation of tighter regulation in the tech sector. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 1.8 percent... Читать дальше...

S'il prend le pouvoir aux prochaines élections, le Parti québécois suspendrait le projet de train du Réseau express métropolitain (REM) mis de l'avant par la Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ-Infra) pour le remplacer par un autre plan de transport beaucoup plus étendu dans la région de Montréal, selon ce qu'a appris Radio-Canada.

With 100 days to go until the FIFA World Cup, Ian Darke joins a group of ESPN writers and experts for a roundtable discussion about what to expect in Russia this summer. It might not feel like it, but March is a crucial time if your national team is going to the World Cup. This is where the adventure starts. The competition is 12 weeks away, but it feels so close as the two friendly matches played this month are the last before the 32 national team managers name their squads for Russia. As France boss Didier Deschamps put it on Monday... Читать дальше...

Russian diplomats ordered expelled by Britain over a nerve agent attack on British soil are preparing to leave the country. Russian media are reporting a moving van was seen outside the Russian Embassy in London on Tuesday. Britain ordered the expulsion of the diplomats last week, blaming Russia for the poisoning ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the British city of Salisbury earlier this month. Russia retaliated by expelling 23 British diplomats, who are expected to leave Moscow in the coming days. Читать дальше...