Diego Corrales retained his world lightweight boxing titles despite being stopped by Jose Luis Castillo in the fourth round.
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"My smartphone has been my longest relationship. We connect with our phones on so many emotional levels. We look to it for solace, to calm us down, to put us to sleep, to ease our minds," Aaron said in a YouTube video.
Trump was good for world peace. He didn't start a war anywhere, which is not something that can be said for most of his predecessors, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
The 25-year-old from the District of Columbia is 'the most intelligent contestant in recent memory'!
The American writer and counterculture icon shot himself at his Colorado home.
That flash of light in the sky followed by thunder can be both mesmerising and scary. Rediff.com presents some amazing pictures of lightning captured by ace lensmen.
Freed on a $ 3 million bail, Jackon is now staying at Green Valley Ranch hotel resort in Henderson in Nevada state.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Saturday
The IWF has admitted to mentioning two different urine sample numbers in its communication of her dope flunk earlier this year, according to a letter that the world body sent to the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA).
Bernard Hopkins defended his world middleweight championship for the 19th time, knocking out Oscar De La Hoya in the ninth round.
The Indian made his 13th cut of the season at the end of the second round of the Reno Tahoe Open.
A decision on this could be taken before Christmas, which might not necessarily result in a formal announcement as that could be delayed till the next year, people familiar with her thinking process said.
Customers of US cable companies took to social media on Saturday to report problems ordering the pay-per-view (PPV) for the boxing megafight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao, which was expected to smash records.
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Did you blink? There was a total eclipse of the moon on Saturday -- and it was an unusually short one.
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The four defendants allegedly used three California corporations to orchestrate the improper submission of more than one hundred H-1B visa applications.
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The world's first publicly accessible ATM machine which can exchange digital currency - bitcoins - for any official currency has been launched in Canada by a group of young entrepreneurs.
An Indian citizen has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for conspiring to support terrorist attacks in India, including assassination of an Indian government official, as part of the Khalistan movement to create an independent Sikh state.
Locked in a neck-and-neck battle, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have made a last minute dash to key swing states to woo undecided voters as major polls on the final weekend before the election day showed the race for the White House was too close to call.
The lawsuit seeks an injunction to stop the entire rule from going into effect.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's fan following is not only restricted to India but he is also popular in the United States where he has more Facebook fans than most current members of Congress, governors and other political leaders, according to a media report.
Saturday's heavily anticipated welterweight showdown between undefeated American Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Filipino southpaw Manny Pacquiao at the MGM Grand Garden Arena is expected to be the richest prize fight of all time.
The Iraq war veteran has become the first-ever Hindu to be running for the presidency in the US.
At least 29 people have died so far in the fast-moving wildfire which began in California on November 8. The numbers are expected to rise.
The aptly named Comet Lovejoy contains ethanol and the simple sugar glycolaldehyde, researchers report online October 23 in Science Advances. This is the first time these complex organic molecules have been detected on a comet.
The lawsuit accuses Trump of "an unconstitutional and unlawful scheme".
Mayor of Miami, Carlos Gimenez, has pulled back his support from former England football captain David Beckham's 200 million pounds US football franchise to leave the star midfielder's dreams in tatters.
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"I will keep you in suspense," said the Republican as he refused to commit to accepting the election result if he loses, in the third debate against Hillary Clinton.
Indians constitute 4 per cent of the total illegal immigrants living in the US, a country where the overall unauthorised immigrant population has remained unchanged since 2009, a latest report has said.
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