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Who says love can't conquer death in the world of "Game of Thrones"? Emilia Clarke, who plays Daenerys Targaryen on the hit HBO series, and Jason Momoa, who played her warlord husband in the first season, reunited at Paris Fashion Week -- and they commemorated the meeting with a playful photo. "Well I guess the sun rises in the west and sets in the east then huh? Paris fashion week just kicked off....!" Clarke wrote in a post on her Instagram account, adding the hashtags #Momoaloveforlifebaby, #nomorebeerleftinparis and #bestdresseddothraki.

As part of its ongoing Golden Jubilee celebrations, the Border Security Force (BSF), on Monday, organised an exhibition and awareness camp for students of the Khalsa Model Senior Secondary School in Dunlop, Kolkata. This is the fifth school where such an exhibition was held since September.

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — The next parliamentary elections in Croatia will be held on Dec. 8 with the leftist government facing a strong challenge from the conservatives amid the migrant crisis and bad economy. President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic on Monday formally called the vote — Croatia's first parliamentary election since it joined the European Union in 2013. The balloting will be held amid economic problems and regional tensions fueled by the influx of tens of thousands of migrants passing through the Balkans ... Читать дальше...

European stock markets kick off the week sharply higher on Monday, with a jump in commodity prices and resource companies helping to bolster the region’s bourses.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department and five states have finalized a settlement worth more than $20 billion arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, federal officials announced Monday. The deal resolves all civil claims against BP and ends five years of legal fighting over the nearly 134 million-gallon spill. It requires the company to commit to a widespread cleanup project in the Gulf Coast area aimed at restoring wildlife, habitat, water quality and recreation.

Photo: Instagram/badass16 An eclectic cast of celebrities sat in the front of Stella McCartney’s Spring 2016 show: Salma Hayek, Maria Sharapova, Rhys Ifans, Suki Waterhouse, Mario Testino, and MIA, who told Yahoo Style: “Stella is my friend, I like supporting her shows.” The singer, who was wearing a giant white faux fur coat from McCartney’s last season, confessed she was getting “very hot” from the glare of the lights.   But soon enough all went dark and the designer proceeded to send out a bold range of looks. Читать дальше...

A year and a half into an ongoing veterans’ health care scandal, President Barack Obama has tapped a Washington lawyer to be the first permanent Department of Veterans Affairs Inspector General since 2013.

Washington announced the move Monday, a day after the Nationals finished the regular season barely above .500 at 83-79, second to the New York Mets in the NL East

Joe Root says Moeen Ali "played really well" as he scored 22 on the opening day of England's tour match against Pakistan A.

Joseph Mbu, the new commandant of the Police Staff College has dismissed the rumour that his new posting to Jos, Plateau state capital was meant to serve as a punishment to him. He said contrary to what his detractors are circulating, his new posting is neither demotion nor punishment. Mbu noted that as a professional police […]

Gun stocks are doing better than Apple. That's how popular and profitable they are.

When you speak to Jodi Berg, you find yourself hoping she'll channel a little bit of Dan Aykroyd. After all, she's the fourth generation to head her family's Vitamix company, maker of those super powered blenders prized by home cooks and professional chefs alike for their ability to grind and puree nearly anything into smoothie goodness. Because that's the same blender that inspired the now iconic 1976 "Saturday Night Live" skit in which Aykroyd proselytized infomercial-style about the wonders of something called a Bass-O-Matic. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Afghan forces who reported being under Taliban fire requested the U.S. airstrike that killed 22 people at a medical clinic in northern Afghanistan over the weekend, the top commander of American and coalition forces in Afghanistan said Monday, correcting an initial U.S. statement that the strike had been launched because U.S. forces were threatened. The strike wasn't sought by U.S. forces, Gen. John F. Campbell said at a hastily arranged Pentagon news conference. "We have now learned that on Oct. Читать дальше...

According to authorities, New York is prohibited from enforcing state laws against self-insured health plans, covering about half New York workers, where private employers pay all or a portion of employees' health care costs directly.

LONDON -- For Microsoft, the smartphone battle is already over and it has lost. The U.S. tech giant has spent billions on building its Windows Phone platform and even more buying the doomed Nokia smartphone business -- all for less than 3 percent of the market. On Tuesday it will unveil its latest flagship smartphones, but if you read between the lines it's clear Microsoft is laying the groundwork for Plan B.

​Theatre is all about performance, but there is one 'performance' that it is too shy to portray on stage. Time to relax, says Amber Massie-Blomfield

U.K. stocks extend gains from the end of last week, when a disappointing U.S. jobs report fueled speculation the Federal Reserve won’t hike rates this year, as Glencore rises on reports of asset-sale talks.

The two men want one thing in Washington to stay the same

A family split by crime, punishment and a paltry restitution.

International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) President Tom Buffenbarger said that the TPP was negotiated in secret by multinational corporations that have no allegiance to any country, which will provide jobs to nations that lack basic human rights and labor standards such as Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Mexico.

U.S. stocks climbed for a second straight session Monday, as investors continued to weigh last week’s disappointing U.S. employment report.

The ancient city of Palmyra risks complete destruction, Syria’s director general of antiquities and museums has warned, after Islamic State militants destroyed the city’s vaunted 2,000-year-old Arch of Triumph.

The last date for the submission of vision statement and goals for Smart City ended on Monday. The compilation work has begun to submit the citizen’s views to the evaluation panel. A total of 680 submissions have been made on the Mygov.in portal by Mangalureans.

Tom Mulcair says an NDP government would not "feel bound" by the Trans-Pacific Partnership if the deal puts family farms at risk. At a Quebec dairy farm Saturday, Mulcair reiterated support for the supply management system