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The continent has some of the lowest fixed-broadband subscription rates in the world, with most people’s first encounter with the world wide web coming via their mobile phones. Around 70%…
In an epic battle of Phone vs. Toilet, BuzzFeedBlue investigates which surface is dirtier — the one we tap on to do business or the one we sit on to…
A new compound has blocked H.I.V. infection so well in monkeys that it may be able to function as a vaccine against AIDS, the scientists who designed it reported Wednesday….
The directive comes from Steven Wheeler, a senior designer at online clothing company Betabrand. We’re at the company’s San Francisco headquarters in a little room in back of their retail…
The directive comes from Steven Wheeler, a senior designer at online clothing company Betabrand. We’re at the company’s San Francisco headquarters in a little room in back of their retail…
The directive comes from Steven Wheeler, a senior designer at online clothing company Betabrand. We’re at the company’s San Francisco headquarters in a little room in back of their retail…
The two sides have been battling for weeks for control of Debaltseve, and the truce, which exists on paper, faltered soon after it apparently went into effect Sunday. Conflicting reports…
Delta (DAL) apologized Wednesday for CEO Richard Anderson’s remarks, which he made on CNN’s “Quest Means Business.” “He didn’t mean to suggest the gulf carriers or their governments are linked…
KABUL — Last year was the deadliest for civilians caught up in Afghanistan’s war since the United Nations began keeping records in 2009, the world body said Wednesday — a…
As for “Boyhood,” a favorite to win Best Picture, Richard Linklater’s 12 year opus comes in second to last with just $25 million. Best Actor box office winner: Bradley Cooper…
Geraldo Rivera doesn’t exactly seem like a pre-eminent authority on rap culture, but he has some very interesting thoughts about hip-hop, which he shared with HuffPost Live on Tuesday. –…
Greece’s economic problems are not solely about the austerity measures, but also about the bureaucracy, which almost caused Stamatiou Plastics, owned by Philippos Stamatiou and his father, to close last year.”…
Follow Us: Get the Upshot in your Inbox FEB. 17, 2015 – But the ultimate question is whether, in these particular talks, which logic will prevail. There is the short-run…
So said Aydin Soei, an author and sociologist who met Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein as a troubled teenager in 2011. Police have still not formally named El-Hussein as the suspect…
The great city of St. Louis has a major problem with gun violence. Even as homicide rates have continued to decline elsewhere in the country, they have surged in St….
She’s also one of three owners of the shih tzu named GCH Hallmark Jolei Rocket Power, which won the toy dog category Monday at the 139th Annual Westminster Kennel Club…
Would you dare to freeze yourself fit by stepping into a chilling chamber colder than Antarctica? Golfers are used to frosty fairways, stormy tees and soggy greens but Padraig Harrington…
Van Morrison is back with a new studio album. RCA records will release “Duets: Re-working the Catalogue,” featuring songs from the artist’s fruitful repertoire redone with duet partners, including Michael…
Athletes who spent the past few years embracing or scorning barefoot running can now consider whether increasingly popular “maximalist” shoes — with their chunky, heavily cushioned soles — are the…
The United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday agreed to defer the release of a landmark inquiry into possible war crimes in Sri Lanka, after an intense lobbying campaign by…
(Reuters) – A few worried families are all that remain of Yemen’s ancient Jewish community, and they too may soon flee after a Shi’ite Muslim militia seized power in the…
It could be billed as the billionaires’ derby. A clash between Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday signals the business end in this season’s Europe’s money-spinning Champions League competition has…
Humor, like beauty, doesn’t always last. Chevy Chase and Eddie Murphy proved that. And even the most secure institutions aren’t impregnable, as Jerry Seinfeld’s joke about the disgraced NBC News…
Shortly after escaping from North Korea, Shin Dong-hyuk formulated what he called a “sanitized” version of the his life, which he repeated for almost 10 years and subsequently became a…
The next phase in the underwater search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has begun. The GO Phoenix search vessel arrived in the search area in the southern Indian Ocean and…
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS, Feb 15 (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council was on Sunday set to demand Iranian-backed Houthi militia in Yemen withdraw from government institutions, call…
It isn’t warming up anytime soon, which means we’re still in need of a mid-winter Caribbean vacation to keep us sane. Barbados, Barbuda, the Bahamas — there are too many…
OTTAWA — About 3,000 locomotive engineers and conductors at the Canadian Pacific Railway walked off the job early Sunday morning in a dispute over wages and benefits. Although the company…
The Galicians put their more illustrious hosts under pressure for long spells and were unfortunate not to level matters at the beginning of the second period when midfielder Celso Borges…
The attack occurred just over a month after the massacre at the Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which had come under fire for its publishing cartoons of Mohammed….