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Adrienne Bailon just announced that she’s engaged to her boyfriend Isreal Houghton! The 32-year-old The Real host took to her Instagram to share a beautiful video showing off her new ring in front of the Eiffel Tower. “You. Me. Oui,” she captioned the video, while her new fiance wrote a more lengthy post about their [...]

RIO DE JANEIRO — The prospect of a samba-style Super Saturday is still alive for Britain. For a time on Friday, though, it felt more like a Super Scare. Heptathlete Jessica Ennis-Hill started her first day of the seven-discipline event and Greg Rutherfold had to qualify for the long jump on Friday, so they could

Sachin Isaacs defeated six others in a special election on Tuesday.

A woman is hospitalized in critical condition after an alligator bit her hand at a fish camp in the Florida Everglades, authorities said. The unidentified 49-year-old woman was bitten Friday night near Fort Lauderdale, according to Mike Jachles, spokesman for the Broward Sheriff’s Fire Rescue. The victim, who was on a dock, dropped a can […]

Reports of strike action by Nigeria’s Olympic football team ahead of their quarterfinal game Saturday at Rio 2016 have been dismissed by a leading government official. “This is speculation,” Nigeria Sports and Youth minister Solomon Dalung told CNN after the country’s Olympic team reportedly skipped training and threatened to boycott Saturday’s match. “I have not […]

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India's sports minister drew widespread criticism on Friday after the organisers of the Rio Olympics reportedly accused his entourage of "aggressive and rude" behaviour at the Games.

In Tamil Nadu, the second unit of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant will be synchronized with southern power grid by the end of this month, according to site director RS Sundar.

Lincoln Public Schools officials, apparently responding to the last sentence in a Lincoln Independent Business Association statement on the district’s proposed 2016-17 budget, got out the PowerPoint tools at the last school board meeting.

Tina Siebert left St. Patrick’s Catholic School as an 8th grade graduate in 1992, but she still finds herself coming back numerous times a week.

With school starting -- Lincoln Public Schools students start class on Monday -- the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services reminds parents to make sure their children’s vaccinations are up to date.

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TOKYO, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- The foreign ministers of Japan and South Korea agreed on how $9.9 million in funds would be used to help comfort women.

An edited transcript of an interview with former Giants pitcher Gaylord Perry, who is being honored with a statue at AT&T Park: Were you able to consult on the statue? Just to mess with people, did you put some Vaseline in the back pocket? Tell us about when you got the call, when they told you that you were getting a statue. What do the Giants mean to you? What did that Giants uniform mean to you? [...] it’s always been the Giants. Do you have any regrets about not capturing that flag with five Hall of Famers? Читать дальше...

US military distortion of intelligence could explain why the Islamic State (Daesh) continues to survive despite frequent claims of progress made by politicians, former US Ambassador Chas Freeman told Sputnik.

Internet programmers have deciphered a mysterious Tweet sent out by Edward Snowden last week, revealing that the NSA whistleblower may be in grave danger.  Users on Reddit say that the 64-character Tweet sent out on 5th August, 2016, was a distress signal to those in the know. Sputniknews.com reports: Edward Snowden’s unexplained tweet of a 64-character hex code on Friday led many to question whether the message was a “dead man’s switch,” an automatic message set to release if the user is killed or captured... Читать дальше...

See the most incredible moments from the 7th day of the Rio Games.

RIO DE JANEIRO — They call her “Six Feet of Sunshine,” and Kerri Walsh Jennings is pretty good under the moonlight, too. The three-time gold medalist and partner April Ross advanced to the quarterfinals of the Olympic beach volleyball tournament in a midnight match, dispatching Italy 21-10, 21-16 in just 35 minutes. It was the

Canberra sprinter Melissa Breen's Olympic Games campaign ended in less than 12 seconds, but the 25-year-old was beaming with pride after being eliminated from the 100 metre event.

Clinton's goal is not economic growth, but reducing inequality and social injustice in the name of "fairness."