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Sri Lanka opt to bat first in second Bangladesh Test

Winning the toss at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium, visiting skipper Dinesh Chandimal opted to bat first. "I think on the Chittagong pitch if you bat st...

Conviction in hate crime case 'vindication'

But after hearing all of the evidence, the jury felt differently and found Majors guilty of first-degree murder, malicious intimidation or harassment and threat...

US Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell announces 2-year budget accord

The funding deal was expected to draw opposition from Republican ultra-conservative fiscal hawks and was dismissed beforehand by some Democrats who are dema...

Ireland's Joe Schmidt changes four for Six Nations clash with Italy

The 20-year-old full-back has won a place on Ireland's replacements bench for Saturday's encounter after impressing in his breakthrough campaign at Leinster...

Indian woman's kidney stolen after failure to pay dowry

Rita Sarkar, a resident of West Bengal, India, was taken to a private hospital by her husband, Biswajit Sarkar, when she complained of stomach pain a couple of ...

Scared carriage horse takes off down street, crashes

The incident happened as the horse and carriage was waiting at a red light in Central Park on Saturday. According to Birnkrant, the horse was spooked by an um...

95% of councils in England plan to hike council tax

Those increases would come thanks to 80 per cent of councils fearing for their balance sheets, and attempt to make sure they can make ends meet. Nearly all co...

Eight killed in fresh Russian-backed air strikes on Syrian rebel area

New air strikes launched by Russian and Syrian government forces on a rebel-held region east of Damascus have killed at least eight people, opposition act...

EU Parliament votes to create "Spitzenkandidaten"

The resolution passed approved with 457 votes in favour, 200 against and 20 abstentions, while the report that included a proposal for the establishment of a jo...

Influential Analyst Rating Changes: RELX PLC (RELX), SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. (SSNC)

State Street Corporation stated it has 3.01 million shares or 0.01% of all its holdings. Thomson Horstmann & Bryant Inc increased Citizens Comm Bcp (NASDAQ:CZ...

Gay Olympian Adam Rippon Reportedly Refused Meeting With Mike Pence

During an interview with USA Today last month , Rippon said of Pence's involvement with the Olympics , "You mean Mike Pence , the same Mike Pence that f...

Services held on 60th anniversary of Munich air disaster

Marcus Rashford, who follows in United's proud tradition of blooding young, homegrown players, said he learned about the disaster as a young child. "Like the ...

Rangers throttled by Bruins at MSG, Lundqvist pulled again

Lundqvist is a top-tier National Hockey League goalie, but he should have stopped the shot Patrice Bergeron scored on to give Boston a 3-1 second-period lead....

WEATHER: Ice warning as temperatures in Portsmouth reach freezing

Scotland is set for further wintry conditions with snow and ice warnings issued for most of the country . "Less cold than recent days, with highs of 6 to 10 ...

Vodafone 4G VoLTE Rolls Out in Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Gujarat Circles

If your smartphone supports VoLTE technology, make sure it's turned on by going to the Settings Mobile Data Mobile Data Options Enable 4G Turn on Voic...

Clips show Jagdish Tytler confessing about riots: Sikh leader

While the man's face was not clearly visible, his voice was also not distinct in many places. The representative of Shiromani Akali Dal stated that clip 4 c...

Senate Leaders Reach 2-Year Budget Deal

USA federal government is running on a short-term spending bill which expires on February 8. As Trump was keen to note, it includes a major bump in military spe...

Pyeongchang Winter Olympics competition begins with curling

South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported Thursday that North Korean officials said they "don't have a willingness" to meet with the us delegation, led b...

North Korea not interested in meeting US VP Pence

The isolated state conducted almost 20 missile tests previous year . The 30-year-old, who has seen her profile rise steadily since 2014, was last year prom...

EPS for Clearwater Paper Corporation (CLW) Expected At $0.80

Finally, Royal Bank of Canada dropped their price target on Clearwater Paper from $47.00 to $43.00 and set a "sector perform" rating for the company in a repo...

Winter Storm Watch in metro Detroit issued for Thursday night, Friday

A mix of freezing rain and snow bombarded much of CT and MA on Wesneday, forcing 1,200 flights to be cancelled, including many at New York, Boston and Baltimore...

North Korea has 'no intention' to meet USA in South

US officials have grown increasingly dire in their warnings about the North's march toward developing an operational nuclear-tipped ballistic missile capable of...

Tripura is wearing wrong 'Manik' for 25 years

Manik Sarkar has been governing Tripura for 20 of the 30 years the CPM has been in power in the state. More than 14 lakh people, half of Tripura's populati...

White House Senior Staffer Resigns After Domestic Abuse Allegations

Kelly had earlier told the British Daily Mail , " Rob Porter is a man of true integrity and honor", after the tabloid first published allegations of domestic ...

Photo of Sisi and Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Having Dinner Goes Viral

Discussions also touched on various fields of cooperation including the political, economic and developmental aspects, as well as issues of common interest. The...

MoD hits back at Congress on call for Rafale deal details

Earlier a year ago, at a press conference on November 17, Nirmala Sitharaman had said that the details, on the comparative cost of each aircraft negotiated by t...

Israel names new Jordan envoy after diplomatic row resolved

A fluent Arabic speaker, Weissbrod served as first secretary at Israel's embassy in Amman from 2001 to 2004. His appointment awaits final confirmation by th...

Philippines Says Hague Tribunal Will Investigate Duterte Over Drug War

But Roque dismissed the ICC process as "a waste of time", and argued that the Philippines' war on drugs can not be considered as a "crime against humanity",...

Gust of wind reveals Donald Trump's curious hair problems

Judging by a video widely shared Wednesday on social networks, the answer is: not much. The former "Celebrity Apprentice" host was boarding the stairs to Air ...

House Intelligence Committee Postpones Steve Bannon Interview

Monday evening, Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Texas, the Republican leading the panel's Russian Federation probe, told reporters he expected Bannon to appear. Presiden...