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Click:Cosmetic glass jar At 1.32pm, exactly a week after a gunman began shooting people at two mosques in Christchurch, the nation of New Zealand observed a two-minute silence to remember the 50 victims.  Brenton Tarrant, a 28-year-old suspected white supremacist from Australia, had launched the attack to try to repel “invaders” from New Zealand, he wrote […]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Throughout the 2016 softball season, the NFCA will feature some of the sport’s highest-profile contests in our “Featured Five” Games of the Week. Each weekly installment will be released on Thursday, providing live stat links, game notes, team info, social media accounts and any available broadcast links in hopes of becoming another reason […]

Prison guards have blocked access to 18 prisons in France after two colleagues were stabbed in a brutal attack by a ‘radicalized’ inmate in Normandy. The prisoner’s wife, who was visiting at the time, died in the incident. About 60 guards have blocked the Condé-sur-Sarthe prison in north-western France, the scene of Tuesday’s horrifying attack, […]

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is officially free-to-play on PC and Mac, and a new, smaller scale battle royale mode has been added. Announced through counter-strike.net, the mode is called Danger Zone, and is played by 16 players at a time (this can go up to 18 if players queue as a squad of two or three). […]

JOLIET, Ill. — Dick Smith, a longtime coach at the University of Saint Francis and Valparaiso University, who also was an accomplished author and served his country in the U.S. Army and as an FBI special agent, died Saturday after a long battle with cancer. He was 83. Smith served two 10-year stints as St. […]

The French language is poised to undergo a feminine facelift after the austere council charged with safeguarding France’s linguistic heritage abandoned its hard-nosed opposition to the feminization of job titles. In a surprising departure from its centuries-old ban on feminine-fiddling with trade names, the Academie Francaise, or “French Academy,” has declared in a new report […]

Update #2: According to a report by Ars Technica, Wade Callender filed a discrimination claim with the Texas Workforce Commission’s Civil Rights Division 10 days before Gearbox sued him. Ars Technica’s report says the claim alleged Gearbox took part in “harassment, discipline, inequitable terms and conditions, and discharge” because of an employee’s religious beliefs. Gearbox […]

He is used to being chauffeur driven in a convoy on royal tours but on Tuesday Prince Charles took to the driving seat to embrace Cuba’s love of classic cars. The heir to the throne took the wheel of a beautifully restored 66-year-old MG TD – a rare sight on an island where many still drive […]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. –Barry junior Cheyanne Head and Catawba senior Carley Tysinger were named the Louisville/Slugger NFCA Division II National Player and Pitcher of the Week, respectively on Wednesday afternoon. The each earned their first nod after outstanding play during the week of Feb. 15-21. Head was nearly perfect at the plate in Barry’s three-game Sunshine […]

Indian media have provided a detailed account of its downed pilot’s dramatic air combat with Pakistan in Kashmir, featuring rapid duels and daring aerial maneuvers on both sides. Some details have been disputed by Islamabad. The detailed account of the dogfight was published by India’s Times Now channel in an exclusive on Sunday. The minute-by-minute […]