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These two thieves made a rabbit in the Bronx disappear and cops are calling on the public to help identify them.

LONDON — London is under Harry Potter’s spell once more — and J.K. Rowling hopes the rest of the world will eventually follow. The stage play “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” had its gala opening Saturday in London’s West End and is already the theater event of the year. Rowling joined director John Tiffany,

The Australian men's basketball team have been buoyed by the return of star centre Andrew Bogut, who had his first hit out in more than six weeks in the Boomers' warm-up win against China.

A rare blooming of a corpse flower, known for its stench, has drawn about 25,000 people to the New York Botanical Garden since July 20.

Rowling joined director John Tiffany, playwright Jack Thorne and the cast onstage to receive a raucous standing ovation at the end of the two-part show at London's Palace Theatre, where it's scheduled to run at least until December 2017. The play has been in previews at the theater for almost eight weeks, but few details of the plot have leaked (though those seeking spoilers online will find them). Tiffany said spilling the play's secrets was like unwrapping children's Christmas presents for them in November, in front of their eyes. Читать дальше...

Islamic State claimed twin attacks on oil and gas facilities in northern Iraq on Sunday that killed at least five local employees, the latest in northern Iraq by the extremist group, which relies on oil for a significant portion of its revenue.

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton accused Donald Trump on Sunday of scapegoating the parents of a Muslim soldier killed in Iraq, after the Republican nominee took issue with remarks the soldier's father made at the Democratic National Convention.

Trump, in an ABC interview that aired on Sunday, questioned why Ghazala Khan, mother of U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan, stood quietly by her husband, Khizr Khan, as he took the stage at last week's Democratic convention in Philadelphia. Читать дальше...

CLEVELAND — Corey Kluber admitted there was an extra buzz in the Indians’ clubhouse before Sunday’s game against Oakland. Acquiring one of the best relievers can do that to a team. “There was definitely a good vibe,” Kluber said after limiting the Athletics to five hits over seven innings in an 8-0 win. “You could

SPRINGFIELD, N.J. — Golf and storms don’t mix. That’s especially the case at Baltusrol. The last time the PGA Championship was on the A.W. Tillinghast design, thunderstorms forced the tournament to be delayed until Monday. Play resumed the next morning with Phil Mickelson facing a putt on No. 14. Mickelson ended up claiming a one-shot

Başbakan Yardımcısı Prof. Dr. Numan Kurtulmuş, Taksim Meydanı’ndaki demokrasi nöbetine katıldı. Buradaki vatandaşlara seslenen Kurtulmuş, “7 Ağustos’ta İstanbul’da yapılacak büyük miting meydanları dolduran...Devamı için tıklayınız

French police are probing the encrypted messaging app, Telegram, after ISIS terrorists used it to post messages prior to Tuesday’s premeditated murder of a Catholic priest in Normandy. International Business Times reports: Investigators are trying to obtain more information about 200 members of a closed chat group on the smartphone application, which was used by at least one of the two killers, Adel Kermiche and Abdel Malik Nabil Petitjean, both aged 19, to discuss the murder with other suspected IS-affiliated members. Читать дальше...

Sen. Bernie Sanders argued on Sunday that his signature issues stood the best chance of being addressed by a President Hillary Clinton.

LAKEVILLE, Minn. (AP) — Police say a man cutting down a tree in the southern Twin Cities was killed when the tree fell on top of him.

"They don't like either one of them, and ultimately they're going to say, who's got something that's going to help me and my future and my family economically?" Maslin said in a TV interview.

Republicans have responded to controversial comments that GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump made about the parents of a fallen war hero.

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Most everyone has been in a situation where the person you're dating, or interviewing, or arguing with makes a comment and something just feels ... off.

Perhaps it's less about what they said explicitly and more about how they looked while they said it. As in, their gaze was freakishly fixed on your face or their left leg kept jiggling.

Scientists have spent decades trying to figure out what these nonverbal displays really mean.

And while sometimes they mean absolutely nothing... Читать дальше...

What 25 major world leaders and dictators looked like when they were young

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When you're managing a team, you may find your discussions consistently being dominated by your most outspoken employee, or even yourself, with your employees eagerly agreeing with all of your conclusions.

This, of course, is not the most productive scenario.

Performance coach Tony Robbins recently visited Business Insider's New York office for a Facebook Live Q&A, and he addressed this particular problem. A viewer asked, "How can I turn my team from followers... Читать дальше...

Obama will also announce that the administration is halfway toward building a massive database on veterans’ health when he addresses the annual convention of the Disabled American Veterans service organization Monday in Atlanta. The president leaves office in January, and he plans to use this appearance to recap how he has tried to help former military members, moving beyond headline-grabbing scandals over lengthy wait times for veterans seeking medical care. Care for America’s veterans is a top issue in the presidential campaign... Читать дальше...