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The 24-year-old has signed a new four-year deal with the Blues before sealing a switch to Slaven Bilic's side where he will spend the rest of the season

SpongeBob SquarePants is heading to Broadway as a musical with original songs by David Bowie, John Legend and Cyndi Lauper.

Ever wondered what stormtroopers do on their days off?

The post Imperial Stormtroopers: They’re Just Like Us! appeared first on WIRED.

Ever wondered what stormtroopers do on their days off?

The post Imperial Stormtroopers: They’re Just Like Us! appeared first on WIRED.

Digital distributor TuneCore launched in the U.K. on Tuesday, the company's third country-specific service. Available only to U.K.-based artists...

US streaming video service provider makes its first foray into region

The sharemarket recorded its second 100-plus points sell-off in as many weeks and is now around 300 points away from bear market territory after China growth fears were revived on Monday, but Australia's top 200 companies are on track for a record dividend payout this financial year.

Canberra is witnessing the death of its original "nappy valley" as mums and dads pack up their strollers to abandon Tuggeranong, but Gungahlin's population is soaring.

An agreement between Russia and Pakistan on the North-South gas pipeline is ready for signing, a source in the Russian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.

Sorry Tumblr: Marilyn Monroe probably didn't say that.

If looks are any indication of scent, then we know this for certain: Theo James' Hugo Boss cologne just became the sexiest-smelling fragrance on the market. We of course already...

Becca Green, 22, and Aaron Rosenberg, 23, have plenty they could be doing on a hot summer weekend in Los Angeles.

Suddenly, we're all living in Donald Trump's one-man reality show.

Super League Gaming Inc., a Santa Monica start-up that temporarily turns movie theaters into makeshift arenas for competitive video-gaming, is ready to go global.

Last season, after a middling Pac-12 Conference performance, the UCLA basketball team sneaked into the NCAA tournament and made a run to a regional semifinal for a second consecutive season.

Tim Young flew 2,720 miles to Los Angeles for one thing and one thing only: "The Unauthorized O.C. Musical."

I wish the noise patrol that got the book club banished from the Napa Valley Wine Train had come along on my vacation instead.

It is morning and young men sit slumped in front of the general store, looking slightly dazed. Tall sunflowers in a field seem to sway to music blasting from a huge, ancient speaker. One man is dancing. Business is slow.

Kids who carry a certain gene variant are likely to become nearsighted if they read for more than 1 hour a day, scientists suggest.

"What we really want to do is win this week and grow from there," Husker coach Mike Riley said.

[...] the free service, which launches in 18 countries, creates a secure website that people can use to collect money from friends or family who owe them for split restaurant bills, shared cab rides or other personal debts. Meron Colbeci, PayPal’s senior director of consumer product management, pitched the service as “your personal link to getting paid back.” When it launched in 1998, PayPal pioneered the use of digital payments for online purchases that once required checks or money orders. In 2012... Читать дальше...

In both Democratic and Republican presidential polls, anti-establishment voices -- such as Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and Ben Carson -- are putting in strong showings. Will voters stick with them? Jerry Seib explains. Photo: AP

Crude oil and energy stocks are outperforming this week, but one technician says to stay away.

I've always known my husband Henry is exceptionally intelligent. But I didn't realize the extent of his brilliance until he sprung it on me last Mother's Day.

I'll set the scene.

Days prior to that exploitative holiday I'd convinced Henry we should spend it with his mother.

(Did an inchoate Dread shadow his footsteps after agreeing? Breathe down his back in the still of the night? Were there warning omens and vexing portents that he was heading into a trap? And even worse... Читать дальше...

President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has said that the government contracts were main source of corruption in previous years. While talking to an anti-corruption gathering in Kabul, President Ghani said that one of the reasons that the curroption reached to its peak in Afghanistan was that the receivers of the government contract would not execute it Read the full article...