Chechen leader Akhmad Kadyrov has invited the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, to participate in festivities – to be held in Grozny in early October – marking the 200th anniversary of the city’s founding. Kadyrov personally announced the invitation in a post on Chechnya’s own social network Mylistory. He wrote that he had
Apple has officially announced a games subscription service called Apple Arcade during today’s special event in the Steve Jobs Theater. As revealed during the announcement event, Apple Arcade is a single subscription with access to over 100 new and exclusive games, with more to be added. It will be available in Fall 2019 in 150
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – As Florida State held on to the No. 1 ranking, Texas &M made the most noise in the USA Today/NFCA Division I Coaches Poll, for games played Feb. 20-26. The undefeated Aggies (15-0), who knocked off the Seminoles (14-1-1) and three other nationally-ranked programs on the second weekend of the prestigious Mary
Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev has said that a terrible conflict could emerge from Georgia’s accession into the NATO bloc and noted that there was no real justification of such risk. “This could provoke a terrible conflict, and it is not clear why is this necessary,” the official said in an interview with Kommersant radio aired
INDIANAPOLIS —The NCAA Division III Softball Committee has announced the 62 teams that will compete in the Division III Softball Championship. The regional round will be held May 11-14. Four teams will compete at 14 regional sites and three teams will compete at two regional sites. The team advancing from each regional will compete in
State of Decay 2’s newest update, Choose Your Own Apocalypse, will bring with it the Dread Zone and Nightmare Zone difficulties. Announced during Inside Xbox and arriving on March 26 for free to all players, Choose Your Own Apocalypse will allow State of Decay 2 players to choose two new types of difficulty modes –
More than a century ago, members of Calgary’s city council gathered items important to the city at the time and sealed them in a copper box, placing the box within a cornerstone of City Hall. Today, mayor Naheed Nenshi pulled that box out, revealing a snapshot of a small city just beginning to grow. The
A Russian school administration faces a civil probe after banning a 15-year old girl from attending class because she had pink hair and a modified version of the uniform. A local ombudsman described the incident as discrimination. The story began on September 1, the beginning of the current school year. A member of the legislative
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The National Fastpitch Coaches Association is pleased to announce the 12 players named to the NFCA Northwest Athletic Conference (NWAC) All-America team. Additionally, Wenatchee Valley College’s Amber Writer and Makenzi Howard were named recipients of the Diamond Catcher of the Year and New Balance NFCA Golden Shoe awards. 2017 NWAC NFCA All-Americans
OTTAWA — The Liberal government is creating a commission to organize federal leaders’ debates to take the planning “out of back rooms” where political parties try to design the debates for their own advantage, Democratic Institutions Minister Karina Gould said Tuesday. The commission will organize two leaders’ debates for the 2019 election — one in