DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Vice Media, the North American media network popular among millennials, has launched an ambitious new project in Arabic targeting youth in the Middle East.
Known for tackling thorny and controversial issues, Vice and its regional partner, Moby Group, will have to navigate the region's ...
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - The Kentucky Derby Museum has announced a $6.5 million project to renovate and expand.
A statement from the nonprofit museum says plans call for adding more than 11,000 square feet (1,022 sq. meters) to the facility in Louisville and renovating about 5,000 square feet (465 sq. ...
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The sweaters with the intricate designs inspired by the art of Andrew Warhol, Picasso or a Grecian urn, can fit in the palm of a small adult's hand.
The knitted gloves sit on a fingertip.
It's hard to imagine that human hands, however deft, created the elfin-sized ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - What an opening weekend in college basketball as the stars shined and the top teams played liked contenders.
UConn showed it has moved past its shocking loss in the national semifinals last season with a rout of No. 10 Stanford in the top-ranked Huskies' opener on ...
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Six-time Iditarod finisher Wade Marrs says one of his dog has suffered a broken leg after a car hit his team and then drove away.
KTUU-TV reports that rookie Iditarod musher Andrew Nolan was running Marrs' team on Friday when an oncoming vehicle hit the dogs.
...NEW YORK (AP) - Three former South American soccer officials are going to trial in a U.S. case expected to provide a window into systemic corruption within FIFA, the sport's governing body.
Jose Maria Marin, Manuel Burga and Juan Angel Napout have pleaded not guilty to racketeering, wire fraud and ...
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COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) - An Iowa Western Community College professor and literacy advocate has donated hundreds of books to a county jail.
Nicole Juranek, a communications professor at the community college in Council Bluffs, hauled 800 paperback books to the Pottawattamie County Jail on Wednesday to give inmates there ...
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