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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- "Sons of Anarchy" creator Kurt Sutter's followup series, "The Bastard Executioner" starring Lee Jones, was canceled after one season on FX.

European Union member nations missed their self-imposed deadline to appoint officers to coordinate refugee relocations, and have fallen short of funding pledges in their efforts to relocate 160,000 Syrian, Eritrean and Iraqi refugees from Greece and Italy to less affected countries, the Guardian reported Wednesday. The EU’s emergency relocation scheme intends to move the refugees in the next two years, but has relocated just 158 people so far — 128 from Ita

Judges approve a payout of over $1 billion to victims of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, including those who invested with money manager J. Ezra Merkin.

UN officially recognized November 19 as World Toilet Day to motivate and mobilize millions around the world on issues of sanitation.

Amid protests by the BJP in the House and Congress outside the Delhi chief minister's residence over failure of the Delhi government to table the Jan Lokpal Bill, the cabinet cleared it hurriedly on Wednesday.

Most people don't know how to evaluate whether or not they have a good 401(k) plan. Read this and you will.

It contains a drum kit, a flat-screen TV and lots of Super Noodles.

As many as three masked robbers struck at a house in Surajkund of Para late Tuesday night and held captive the family of three, injuring two of them. The robbers sneaked into the house from the rear side breaking a small area of the wall and stole cash and gold jewelry worth Rs 2 lakh.

Andy Murray describes the decision to postpone Aljaz Bedene's appeal against his Davis Cup ineligibility as "disrespectful".

The dollar strengthened against its main rivals Wednesday after minutes from the Federal Reserve's October meeting showed most Fed officials are in favor of a December interest-rate hike. The euro fell to $1.0617 after the minutes were published -- its lowest level in seven months -- after trading at $1.0638 shortly before. The dollar rose to 123.76, its highest level in two-and-a-half months, from 123.48 before the report. Fed policy makers have repeatedly said they will likely raise interest rates in December... Читать дальше...

U.S. stocks added to solid gains on Wednesday after the minutes from the Federal Reserves October policy meeting confirmed that most participants were eager to begin raising interest rates in December. The S&P 500 rose 21 points, or 1%, to 2,071. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 161 points, or 0.9%, to 17,656. The Nasdaq Composite advanced 62 points, or 1.3%, to 5,048.

If we boil things down to the most base stereotypes, there are some things that just don’t go together. Female Republicans, for example. Most women like having control over their bodies, something Conservatives aren’t so into. Patriotic Muslims, is another one.

Spanish FM Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo says thinking that democracy can be exported like soluble coffee is a mistake.

The needle on Apple shares has barely budged in 52 weeks, but that doesn't mean much to Morgan Creek CEO Mark Yusko.

With illuminated earthen lamps floating in the river and women worshippers offering water to the rising sun, the festival of Chhath ended on Wednesday. As main rituals at riverbank got over early in the morning the devotees spent their entire days making festive delicacies as ‘prasad’ and distributing it to their extended family and friends.

'It was really dark. There were dozens of bodies lying on top of each other on the ground, the dead, the injured, the survivors who were pretending to be dead'

The opposition on Wednesday made it clear that it would now allow the government to table five Bills that are scheduled to be introduced this session, saying that they had been passed by the cabinet through an unconstitutional process. The three BJP MLAs also questioned the government's intent on regularisation of unauthorized colonies, saying that despite tall promises, the government had done nothing to regularise them.

Court documents: Illinois officer who staged death spent embezzled money on coffee, movies

MOSCOW - Thousands of years after their brief lives ended in the frozen reaches of Siberia, the remarkably well-preserved carcasses of two cave lion cubs have been shown to the public.

MOSCOW (AP) — Thousands of years after their brief lives ended in the frozen reaches of Siberia, the remarkably well-preserved carcasses of two cave lion cubs have been shown to the public.

October meeting notes show most supported first move since 2006

The voice was similar to one a year ago in an ISIL video called Flames of War, which showed the masked narrator forcing prisoners to dig their graves and then executing them

MOSCOW (AP) — To the naked eye, Kazimir Malevich's famed "Black Square" painting looks just like that: a featureless black square. But X-ray examination found much more, Moscow's Tretyakov Gal…

MOSCOW - To the naked eye, Kazimir Malevich's famed "Black Square" painting looks just like that: a featureless black square. But X-ray examination found much more, Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery revealed Wednesday.