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Syrian rebels report fresh Israeli airstrikes near Damascus

Syrian rebels report fresh Israeli airstrikes near Damascus

27 March 2017, 12:46

At the time of his death a year ago, Hezbollah said Badreddine had been killed by insurgent shelling in Syria. This report is the fourth to emerge on Israeli strikes in Syria in the past week, including an attack on Sunday against a local militia c...

Uber halts driverless auto tests after vehicle rolls over in Arizona smash

Uber halts driverless auto tests after vehicle rolls over in Arizona smash

27 March 2017, 12:45

The ride-hailing company started testing its autonomous vehicles in Tempe last month after it was banned from testing its autonomous cars in San Francisco . The crash comes at a hard time for the company, both in terms of its self-driving auto tec...

County unemployment rate rises again

County unemployment rate rises again

26 March 2017, 12:39

More people joined the labor force , which grew by 7,000 to 5,067,000, and even more people - 13,000 - reported they were working. While 2017 started with an increase in unemployment, February has seen those numbers slightly fall. The education...

SC coach describes team's March Madness win over Duke

25 March 2017, 12:34

Frank Martin witnessed Scott Drew rebuild the Baylor program from also-ran to perennial national contender while an assistant and then the head coach at Kansas State. Gamecock great Alex English, a basketball Hall of Famer, was at Sunday's win ove...

General Mills, Inc. (NYSE:GIS) Broker Price Targets For The Coming Week

General Mills, Inc. (NYSE:GIS) Broker Price Targets For The Coming Week

22 March 2017, 12:34

Albion Financial Group UT now owns 32,472 shares of the company's stock worth $2,074,000 after buying an additional 4,718 shares during the period. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $0.65 EPS. The ex-dividend date of this ...

Wall Street to open higher on Fed's 'gradual' rate-hike outlook

Wall Street to open higher on Fed's 'gradual' rate-hike outlook

19 March 2017, 12:57

Data on Friday showed a steadily improving USA economy, with manufacturing output rising for a sixth straight month in February and preliminary consumer confidence for the month of March increasing as well. That gradual pace is one reason investors r...

Narada Sting Operation: Calcutta High Court Orders CBI Probe

Narada Sting Operation: Calcutta High Court Orders CBI Probe

18 March 2017, 01:19

A Division Bench of acting Chief Justice Nishita Mhatre and Justice T Chakraborty asked the CBI to complete its preliminary inquiry in 72 hours and file an FIR if necessary. So, I am the one who knew all along whether the tapes were doctored. The TMC...

Marine Le Pen will not win French election

Marine Le Pen will not win French election

18 March 2017, 01:17

She said the prime minister would eventually be forced to meet with her if she wins the presidential election in a couple of months. "I'm waiting to see what happens with the French elections, because I don't fancy being thrown out of the European ...

Highway 401 closed in both directions after chemical spill

Highway 401 closed in both directions after chemical spill

17 March 2017, 01:19

Police said one of the transport trucks involved in the collisions leaked a toxic substance, and its driver later died in hospital. The second crash, involving seven tractor trailers and three vehicles, happened about one kilometre west of the firs...

Rex Tillerson 'used email alias' at Exxon to talk climate change

15 March 2017, 12:57

Officials told the judge that Exxon had not included emails from the " Wayne Tracker " account in its reply to the subpoena and that company officials hadn't even acknowledged that the account existed. Exxon has been accused of trying to cover up t...

Elon Musk thinks Tesla can help solve Australia's energy woes

Elon Musk thinks Tesla can help solve Australia's energy woes

13 March 2017, 12:57

He's confident that Tesla could get the system installed and working within one hundred days of signing a contract. "Holy s#%t", he tweeted , then appealed to Musk directly: "Lyndon & @elonmusk - how serious are you about this bet? ".

Airbus Delivers Second Jet To Iran Air

Airbus Delivers Second Jet To Iran Air

13 March 2017, 12:59

The Airbus A330 is a medium- to long-range wide-body twin-engine jet. The handover took place at Airbus's Toulouse delivery facility. Iran Air's A330-200 features a two-class cabin layout, seating 32 passengers in business and 206 in economy.

Starbucks Is Releasing Colorful Spring-Themed Cups for the First Time

Starbucks Is Releasing Colorful Spring-Themed Cups for the First Time

13 March 2017, 12:50

However, it's always pretty easy to tell when the holiday season officially begins - Mariah Carey's voice is suddenly inescapable and people have a lot of opinions about the cups at Starbucks . It first started offering seasonal cups over 20 years a...

Pipeline Opponents Protest at Maine State House

Pipeline Opponents Protest at Maine State House

11 March 2017, 12:42

The final leg of the pipeline is set to be built under Lake Oahe in North Dakota. The bigger legal battle is ahead. He denied a request by the Cheyenne River Indian tribe to halt pipeline construction in North Dakota on grounds that the pipeline ...

California Earthquakes: San Diego-Los Angeles Fault Could Cause 7.4-Magnitude Temblor

California Earthquakes: San Diego-Los Angeles Fault Could Cause 7.4-Magnitude Temblor

11 March 2017, 12:38

If the entire fault were to rupture, the researchers estimate the maximum potential could be between a magnitude 6.7 and magnitude 7.3 to 7.4. However, this new study concludes the systems are actually one continuous fault system which runs from ...

Hyperloop One: First 760 MPH Hyperloop Transportation System To Run This Year

Hyperloop One: First 760 MPH Hyperloop Transportation System To Run This Year

10 March 2017, 12:39

As you can see from the photos, that's a big stretch of tubing, and it looks like they're actually quite far along. Hyperloop One has built a test structure in the Nevada Desert featuring a tube that's 500 meters (1,640 feet) long with a 3.3-meter ...

Growth Plans of Exxon Mobil

Growth Plans of Exxon Mobil

09 March 2017, 12:34

Woods expects shale production to rise by 20% a year through 2025 and to do so within existing industry economics. The paragraph included in both the White House press release and the Exxon release read as follows. Woods said Wednesday. Hours...

United States fines China's ZTE $1.2 billion for violating Iran, North Korea sanctions

United States fines China's ZTE $1.2 billion for violating Iran, North Korea sanctions

08 March 2017, 12:40

The Chinese company has agreed to pay a criminal and civil penalty of about 892 million US dollars and an additional penalty of 300 million dollars which will be suspended during a seven-year probationary period to deter future violations, the ZTE ...

Iranian vessels approach Royal Navy ships in 'unsafe' move

Iranian vessels approach Royal Navy ships in 'unsafe' move

08 March 2017, 12:39

In the incidents involving the Invincible , an Iranian frigate came within 150 yards of the Navy ship on Thursday, Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis told reporters. A large portion of the world's oil passes through the strait on tankers, makin...

Keystone pipeline won't use U.S. steel despite Trump pledge

Keystone pipeline won't use U.S. steel despite Trump pledge

05 March 2017, 12:57

Sanders said it would be hard to do an about-face on Keystone because it's already under construction and the steel has been acquired. "But I know that everything moving forward (in future projects) would fall under that executive order". "I said fro...