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Salman Khan’s late body guard Ravindra Patil spent his last days in the shadow of disease and despair. His health deteriorated and his family abandoned him after he was diagnosed with tuberculosis.

A long time ago, following the release of "Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge Of The Sith," and before Lucasfilm was sold to Disney, George Lucas was busy making more plans for "Star Wars," and they were pretty bold. Titled "Star Wars: Underworld," the stories would've bridged the gap between the movie prequels and the original trilogy, and writers were hired including Ronald D. Moore ("Battlestar Galactica") and Louise Fox ("Camelot"). Four hundred episodes were planned, and apparently between fifty and one hundred scripts had been completed. Читать дальше...

INDIANAPOLIS - Anthem's board has named CEO Joseph R. Swedish as chairman and consolidated leadership roles that were once an impediment to its planned $48-billion combination with rival health insurer Cigna.

New Golden Globes game this year: Drink every time host Ricky Gervais makes you laugh uncomfortably.

Gap between official onshore and offshore rate at its widest in 3 months

Millennial voters of both parties are leaning toward anti-establishment candidates in the 2016 campaign, a new poll released Thursday finds, giving an edge to Sen. Bernie Sanders, businessman Donald Trump and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson.

Chinese search engine Baidu has teamed up with BMW to test its own driverless cars in Beijing, joining the race with Google to get the first autonomous vehicle to market

Chinese search engine Baidu has teamed up with BMW to test its own driverless cars in Beijing, joining the race with Google to get the first autonomous vehicle to market

A 29-year-old woman, Adaeze Eboh, has dragged his 46-year-old former lover, Kalu Samuel, to court for his alleged refusal to marry her, PMNews reports. Eboh dragged her estranged lover to the Isolo Magistrates’ court for trying to jilt and dupe him at the same time. Samuel had promised to marry Eboh last year and Police […]

The Swedish Prosecution Authority was not involved in the decision by London's police service to remove its officers from outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been residing since 2012, the chief prosecutor said Thursday.

Discussing the current market environment for the U.S. consumer, with Michael Arone, State Street Global Advisors.

Paul Hayward: Yes, three clubs are into the last 16 - but England's status in Europe has still been diminished

It's a list of cool stuff. It's becoming so much more.

The post Product Hunt Is Tech’s New Tastemaker, and It Has Big Plans appeared first on WIRED.

It's a list of cool stuff. It's becoming so much more.

The post Product Hunt Is Tech’s New Tastemaker, and It Has Big Plans appeared first on WIRED.

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Happiness does not make you live longer and stress-related misery will not shorten your life, according to a major new study.

Many people believe that unhappiness, caused by working conditions, stressful relationships or general dissatisfaction with one’s lot, is likely to be life-shortening.

Some studies have in the past appeared to support that theory. But, according to Oxford University researchers, they have generally not allowed for the unhappiness caused by poor health. Читать дальше...

Not showering, but also spending lots of time worrying about the fact that you’re not.

CALGARY - Some experts are taking issue — and Twitter is snickering — over actor Leonardo DiCaprio's recent comments about having seen the "terrifying" effects of climate change while in Alberta filming his new feature "The Revenant."

Antonin Scalia -- aka Donald Trump in a robe -- is holding forth again:

On December 1, it felt like another spell of monsoon rain for Anna University's architecture professor Sunalini Esther who lived in Ganga Nagar, Jafferkanpet.

EIBERGEN - Mensenrechten zijn (niet) vanzelfsprekend. In De Oude Mattheüs in Eibergen en boekhandel Licht in Lichtenvoorde wordt donderdag een schrijfmarathon gehouden voor gewetensgevangenen voor wie Amnesty International actie voert.

Kendrick Lamar is being sued for $1 million by a disgruntled fan following a meet-and-greet dispute.

Jose Mourinho believes his Chelsea team might could challenge for the Champions League this season.

The ‘All in the Family’ spin-off is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.

It may have taken a little more than two years but McLaren has finally built its final P1. It was at the 2012 Paris Auto Show that McLaren first rolled out the P1, which back then will still in the concept stage. The production version followed roughly six months later at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show and shortly after all 375 build slots were sold out.

The chief of Afghanistan’s intelligence service, Rahmatullah Nabil, announced his resignation on Thursday after pointedly criticizing Pakistan and political interference by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.