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A lion falls in to a waterfall near Vosburg, South Africa.

Damascus and Kiev topped the list of cities that saw the steepest decline in liveability over the past five years, research by The Economist newspaper said on Tuesday.

California's drought will cause the state to lose as much as $2.74 billion this year, said a report released Tuesday.

The Italian city of Venice has long been a popular tourist destination, boasting 25 million visitors a year, but locals say tourism has hit critical mass, prompting even the city's tourism councilor to gripe about visitors. Mass tourism has made walking the city's streets seem like touring a museum, tourism councilor Paola Mar told the Local Tuesday. “The city doesn’t have to become a museum,” Mar said. “We have to find a way for the residents to live with the tourists.”

The Weeknd Got to Try on the Kanye West Yeezy Season 1 Collection  If the public hype surrounding Kanye West’s Yeezy Boost sneakers are any indication of how consumers will react to to his first clothing collection, then it’s sure to be a hit (despite the mixed reviews it received when it was first presented at New York Fashion Week in February). GQ got to try on the entirety of Season 1 and let the Weeknd do the honors while creative director Jim Moore picked his favorite pieces. "You can buy Kanye’s closet.

Anquan Boldin raising awareness of the exploitation of African farmers (Audra Melton/Oxfam).The Saints’ receivers are sick of 49ers’ receiver Anquan Boldin. So sick, they jokingly made up wrist bands with the acronym “WWAD” for “What would Anquan do.” This is in response to Saints receivers coach John Morton, who was Boldin’s position coach the last four seasons in San Francisco. Morton was so impressed with Boldin’s on-field and off-field approach, he constantly gave his players examples of what Boldin did. Читать дальше...

INDIANAPOLIS - Federal, state and local officials have begun assessing the damage from severe storms and flooding in 29 Indiana counties between June 7 and July 29.

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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Lady Gaga fueled rumors she will play a Countess of Bathory-like character on "American Horror Story: Hotel" by hosting a blood-red pool party for the cast.

Here's another reminder to think before you tweet, folks.  Comedian Mike Epps has come under fire after his wife Mechelle Epps seemingly caught her hubby flirting with...

Sagawa Chika, born Kawasaki Ai in 1911, died of stomach cancer in 1936, before her twenty-fifth birthday. Even with such a brief career, she was one of the most innovative and prominent avant-garde poets in early-twentieth-century Japan. At the time, few women in Japan wrote poetry, and those who did typically used traditional forms to address domestic concerns. Sagawa sounded different: she wrote in free verse, not tanka or haiku, and her images were shockingly new. “A chef clutches a blue sky,” begins one of her many short... Читать дальше...

Do we have a new housewife on our hands?! Jenny McCarthy revealed on her SiriusXM radio show, Dirty, Sexy, Funny With Jenny McCarthy, Monday that Real Housewives of New York City cast...

Here's where portfolio manager Michael Sansoterra thinks there is value to be found.

The Thane police have taken into custody two clerks from the Amritsar district administration believed to have made fake licenses of the 31 illegal sophisticated weapons recovered by cops last month

The German visitors were arguably the stronger side, but the substitute's second-half effort gave the Italians the advantage

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BRUNSWICK, Ga., Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Researchers from the University of Georgia recently found toxic chemicals, escaped from a Superfund site, in birds along the Georgia coast.

Thane girls won medals at the Junior Squash Championship held in Mumbai recently. Ananya Dabke, Aishwarya Bhattacharya, Aarya Ogale, Anannya Morey- all top-ranked junior squash players from the city made a mark in their respective categories

A Michael Carrick own goal helped Club Brugge to an early lead over the Premier League side at Old Trafford.

In 1777, a year before his death, the great 18th century Italian artist, antiquarian and architectural theorist Giovanni Battista Piranesi traveled to the magnificent archaeological site of Paestum south of Naples, where three ancient Greek temples had been rediscovered in 1746. While Piranesi is most famous for his intricate etchings of Roman ruins and architecturally sinister series of “Imaginary Prisons,” his portfolio of Paestum drawings are unusual in their level of finished detail and expressive... Читать дальше...

With great power comes great responsibility...and a great chair.  Comedy Central just released its first promo for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and, we have to say, it contains a...

The US Air Force is urging service people to show discretion when it comes to their social media accounts, warning in a new poster: "Loose tweets destroy fleets."

EU residents who have settled in Britain would not need dual citizenship despite a scare campaign by British media over the country's possible exit from the European Union, experts told Sputnik.

The summer signing came to the fore with two stunning goals as Louis van Gaal's side came from behind to take a strong lead to Belgium for the play-off second leg

Guardian minister Eknath Shinde’s announcement of a proposed tunnel highway connecting Thane and Borivli is largely seen by locals as just another “half-baked and vague” thought, similar to a string of projects announced by his party here, which never took off