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TheRepublic.com 

Balotelli livid at Bastia fans he says racially abused him

PARIS — Nice striker Mario Balotelli has spoken out against Bastia fans he said made monkey noises during Friday night’s French league match and is disappointed at what he sees as a lack of swift response from the French league. The Italian forward wrote a message on his Instagram and Twitter pages on Saturday describing

Zee News (zeenews.india.com) 

EC nod to commanders' meet Congress' moral defeat: BJP

With the Election Commission's nod to the Combined Commanders' Conference being held at the IMA here in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Pradesh BJP on Saturday said it was a moral defeat of the Congress which had tried to politicise the event by raising objections to it.

WSJ.com 

Emmanuel Macron Unsettles French Presidential Race

As France’s ruling Socialist Party prepares to vote on a standard-bearer Sunday to run to succeed its unpopular president, a former investment banker is laying claim its voters.

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

San Francisco Octagon houses - home to 3 spinsters and a ghostly past

At one time, it was reported that San Francisco was home to five octagonal shaped houses, four of which were on Russian Hill. The most famous one, located at 2645 Gough Street, between Green and Union Street, in Cow Hollow, the one on Green Street, in Russian Hill, a tea house on Russian Hill's Fallon Place (was not counted among the 5), once home to a bohemian artist, Styles Dickenson and the one that sits in disrepair at Land's End (also not counted among the 5). That one was used as a look out for ships. Читать дальше...

The New Yorker 

Last Day at the Civil Rights Division

At 10 A.M. on her last day of work, Vanita Gupta, the head of the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department, opened a door in her office and stepped out into a conference room with cream-colored walls and a fireplace at one end. This room was once the office of the F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoover, but now the Civil Rights Division uses it for meetings. That morning, Gupta and her senior leadership filed in. Before they took their seats, however, somebody noticed that the official portraits... Читать дальше...

«FOX Business» (foxbusiness.com) 

2017 Is a Pivotal Year for Etsy Inc

The purveyor of handmade crafts mounted a comeback last year. What should investors be looking for in 2017 for the trend to continue?

BusinessInsider.com 

A Nobel Prize-winning biologist reveals how to slow down the effects of aging

In 2009, Elizabeth Blackbrun — along with Jack. W. Szostak and Carol W. Greider — was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her help in discovering "how chromosomes are protected by telomeres." Telomeres protect our DNA, but over time our telomeres wear down. When this happens, we age — but some of us age faster than others. 

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