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In refugee camps in Bangladesh, Rohingya refugees from Myanmar face high levels of malnutrition, despite a large presence of aid organizations on the ground for over eight months. Aid workers are providing hot meals and treating malnourished children, but mothers in the camps need more support to keep their children well fed. For VOA, Jason Patinkin reports from malnutrition clinics and refugee camps in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar District.

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There's a person you follow on Twitter. You have only a tenuous connection to this person IRL. Perhaps you followed one another at a party years back and occasionally cross paths.

But despite the fact that you don't actively keep in touch, you're still well acquainted with their day-to-day. You know that they just adopted a cat, that their new office has an iced coffee keg, that they visited a friend in San Francisco last week and posted, like, 15 times about it. Читать дальше...

The survey showed one of the more startling trends was the connection between foster homes and homelessness in Guelph and Wellington County.

Some quick impressions of the high stakes hearing in the Paul Manafort case in Virginia: Federal judges are often cranky!...

17 October 2002. That date will always be etched into my mind. I close my eyes and I can still put myself there. The memory of my first Mutua Madrid Open back in the Rocódromo in Casa de Campo has not gone away, and I don’t think it ever will.

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• Oil prices rose more than 2% to as high as $69.93 a barrel on Friday.
• West Texas Intermediate hasn't hit $70 per barrel since 2014.
• Follow oil prices in real time here.

Oil prices spiked Friday, approaching fresh highs amid worries the US will reimpose hefty sanctions on Iranian barrels. 

West Texas Intermediate was trading up 2.1% at $69.93 per barrel at 12:15 p.m. ET. Brent, the international benchmark, rose 1.59%... Читать дальше...

The Marvel Cinematic Universe may have aliens, stones that control space and time, and a giant angry green man. And while all that seems unrealistic, some of the fundamental ideas presented in "Avengers: Infinity War," and other Marvel films, is based on real science.

The former Gunners centre back Phillippe Senderos says the Frenchman will be impossible to replace. Will Arsenal's next manager be able to take the current crop of players to new heights or is a complete overhaul on the way for the Gunners? The FC pundits are asked if they have any empathy for Arsene Wenger as his tenure as manager will end in a meaningless game against Huddersfield. Arsene Wenger shares his disappointment following Arsenal's Europa League exit and provides an update on Laurent Koscielny's injury. Читать дальше...

A’s Coverage:

• Game #31: A’s drop game, series to Mariners...
• Cwik: The underrated star at the center of the A’s surprising start...
• MLBTR: Athletics Release Simon Castro...
• Milles: Melvin reflects on his time managing Ichiro...
• A’s Farm: Jorge Mateo’s 4 hit Thursday night included 2 HRs and a stolen base...

MLB News:

• ESPN: Mariners’ Ichiro Suzuki to enter front-office role for rest of ‘18 season...
• Crasnick: Braves... Читать дальше...

GARVIN COUNTY, Okla. – Authorities say an inmate who escaped from an Oklahoma jail earlier this week after assaulting a detention officer has been captured. On Sunday, around 9:30 p.m., officials say Jason Glen Willis, 32, was being escorted by a Garvin County detention deputy through the court-house when he allegedly attacked the deputy. Officials say Willis was being escorted through the court-house because he was a jail worker who was preparing for meal service. However, when the detention deputy... Читать дальше...

Everton Southampton 4:30 PM UTC Game Details Live football odds with bet365. Bet Now » PickCenter GameCast Lineups and Stats Everton will be without Dominic Calvert-Lewin for the visit of Southampton on Saturday.The forward... Читать дальше...

Being an iPad Pro parent usually has you feeling like the coolest one in the room: While everyone else at the meeting is on their giant, heavy MacBook or their tiny, barely legible iPhones, you whip out this fancy, perfectly-sized tablet and start writing with your Apple Pencil like it's a dang notebook.

TULSA, Okla. – The prosecution has rested in a case against Michael Bever, a teenager accused of killing five members of his family. On July 22, 2015, authorities arrested Michael Bever, then 16, and his brother Robert Bever for the murder of five people. Authorities discovered the bodies of 52-year-old David Bever, 44-year-old April Bever, a 5-year-old girl, a 7-year-old boy and a 12-year-old boy inside the family’s home. A 13-year-old girl, who was stabbed but survived, told police that her eldest... Читать дальше...

George Burch is facing a life sentence for murdering a woman in the United States. The trial hinged around evidence from a Fitbit device and is just the latest case to have revolved around silent testimony from high tech gadgets.

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PHOENIX (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Arizona schoolchildren returned to classes Friday a day after state lawmakers approved 20 percent raises for teachers and they ended a six-day walkout that shuttered most classrooms around the state. Teachers at a high school in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa lined up to greet students with cheers and handshakes. An elementary school principal greeted students with high-fives on the other side of metro Phoenix. Educators returning to work at San Marcos Elementary... Читать дальше...

PHOENIX (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Arizona schoolchildren returned to classes Friday a day after state lawmakers approved 20 percent raises for teachers and they ended a six-day walkout that shuttered most classrooms around the state. Teachers at a high school in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa lined up to greet students with cheers and handshakes. An elementary school principal greeted students with high-fives on the other side of metro Phoenix. Educators returning to work at San Marcos Elementary... Читать дальше...

"The initial $500,000 donation will be allocated towards the families' funeral expenses, travel, accommodation and other immediate costs incurred following the tragedy," the release continued.

Real Madrid star forward, Cristiano Ronaldo, has agreed a partnership with the Gramado Parks resorts network and chocolate brand Lugano, the deal will see Ronaldo launch a chain of restaurants in Brazil featuring Portuguese.

In August 2010, I took my son (age 7 at the time) up to Baltimore to see the surging White Sox play the lowly Orioles at Camden Yard. Showalter had just be named manager of the Orioles. Buehrle was the mound for the Sox, but Felix Pie took him deep early in the game, and the Sox lost (3 out of 4 in that series that started the nose dive of that season).

Ottawa fire officials say a fire that broke out Monday in a high-rise under construction in Little Italy was 'accidental' and caused $10 million in damages.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin will soon decide on a bill that would only allow judges to sentence juveniles convicted of murder to life in prison without parole. The Oklahoman reports that lawmakers introduced the measure because of U.S. Supreme Court decisions that practically eliminated mandatory life without parole sentences for offenders who are accused of killing when they were 17 or younger. The measure would require a judge to consider the immaturity and failure... Читать дальше...

The retail world was shaken by a disturbing PETA video exposing the cruel treatment of Angora goats at a dozen farms in South Africa. Top clothing chains, including Zara, H&M, Gap and Topshop, have pledged to stop selling mohair, which is made from the soft hair of Angora goats.