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GantDaily.com 

Japanese town uses funeral discount to entice elderly drivers off the road

Japanese pensioners aren’t in a rush to dump their driving licenses, but one police department is hoping to entice them to retire from the roads with a novel incentive — discount funerals. A town in Aichi prefecture is piloting the scheme, which it hopes will see a decrease in the number of elderly drivers getting […]

Boxingjunkie (usatoday.com) 

On This Day: Tony Tubbs destroyed by peak Mike Tyson

Routine for Iron Mike Tyson as overweight Tony Tubbs collapsed under relentless pressure in 1988 The post On This Day: Tony Tubbs destroyed by peak Mike Tyson appeared first on Boxing News.

NAIJ.COM (Nigeria News) 

ThinTallTony returns to Lagos (photos)

Thin Tall Tony on Sunday night eviction show ended his quest for the N25 million star prize at the on-going Big Brother Naija as he was evicted from the house.

MarketWatch.com 

General Mills beats profit expectations but sales fall shy

Shares of General Mills Inc. fell 0.8% in premarket trade Tuesday, after the branded consumer foods company reported a fiscal third-quarter profit that beat expectations but sales that fell a bit short. Net earnings for the quarter to Feb. 26 came to $357.8 million, or 61 cents a share, compared with $361.7 million, or 59 cents a share, in the same period a year ago. Excluding non-recurring items, adjusted earnings per share were 72 cents, above the FactSet consensus of 71 cents. Revenue declined 5.2% to $3.79 billion from $4.00 billion... Читать дальше...

TheRepublic.com 

Amid tensions, Kurds celebrate spring festival in Turkey

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — Thousands of Kurds have gathered in Turkey to celebrate a spring festival that has traditionally been used to assert the Kurdish ethnic identity and demand more rights. Turkish authorities permitted the Newroz celebration on Tuesday in Diyarbakir, a mainly Kurdish city in a region where Kurdish militants regularly clash with government forces.

MSNBC 

Spicer remarks fly 'into the face of facts'

Top Talkers: As Jim Comey's Monday hearing was taking place, WH Press Secretary Sean Spicer was tasked with holding his daily press briefing and answering questions about ties to Russia.

International Business Times 

Women And Health Care: Study Reveals Gender Split In Ability To Afford Coverage

The American Health Care Act—alternatively known as “Trumpcare,” “Ryancare” and “Obamacare Lite”—stands to hurt many low-income Americans who receive lower subsidies, by raising their premiums by between 15 and 20 percent over the next couple of years and denying Medicaid coverage beyond a specified in

The Conversation (UK) 

A rattled Saudi Arabia pivots for support to South-East Asia

Capital cities across Asia spent the last month rolling out the red carpet for a rarely seen visitor: Saudi Arabia’s ageing King Salman, accompanied by a hundreds-strong diplomatic entourage including senior princes, businessmen and ministers. Taking in Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Japan, China and the Maldives, the king spent March leading a concerted effort to strengthen Saudi Arabia’s commercial links with Asia’s fast-growing economies.

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International Business Times 

Hubble Snaps New Image Of Spiral Galaxy NGC 1448

Nearly 50 million light-years from Earth, in the faint constellation of Horologium (also known as the Pendulum Clock), lies a spiral galaxy named NGC 1448. On Monday, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) released an image of a section of the galaxy — one that shows it from a unique vantage point — captured using the Hubble Space Telescope. In the image, because of its orientation vis-à-vis Earth, the galaxy appears more oval than circular, and its spirals are not immediately evident.