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One Photo That Perfectly Sums Up FIFA's Flexible Nationality Rules For The...
The question of nationality at the World Cup took another bizarre turn as Germany faced Ghana in the World Cup. During the match, brothers Jerome Boateng of Germany and Kevin-Prince Boateng of Ghana...
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Emerging Payment Technologies Will Create New Winners And Losers In The Giant...
The credit and debit card ecosystem is much bigger than MasterCard, American Express, and Visa. Scores of companies play different roles in the system as intermediaries, most of them as merchant-facing...
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Germany's Draw With Ghana Was The Best Possible Outcome For The US
Germany and Ghana played to an exciting 2-2 draw in Group G. The result also happened to be the best possible outcome for the U.S. national team.With the draw, the United States can now clinch a spot...
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Glenn Greenwald Explodes On Bill Maher's Show: 'That Is Total Bull----'
Things got rather testy during a discussion on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" Friday, after journalist Glenn Greenwald erupted at Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America founder Paul Rieckhoff...
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The Coolest Part Of New Game 'Destiny' Shows Mobile Has Nothing On Consoles
Over the weekend, I tried out “Destiny,” the new game from the makers of “Halo” that’s coming out in September during an alpha demo for PlayStation 4 users.If you don’t know much about the game, you...
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Bricks-And-Mortar Retailers Will Use Beacons To Combat The Showrooming Threat
Beacon deployment has begun in earnest.LevelUp, one of the top mobile in-store proximity payments companies, recently installed beacons at select retail locations. London's Regent Street, a top...
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Sting: My Children Won't Inherit My Wealth
Sting's children cannot expect to inherit his multimillion-pound wealth, the rock star has said, joining the ranks of the super-rich who have claimed that passing on their vast fortunes to their...
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Here's Why The Middle East Will Be 'On Fire' For The Foreseeable Future
The Middle East is being shaken by an intensifying sectarian war stretching from the Mediterranean coast to Iran.And all signs suggest that the situation created by the ongoing war in Syria — which has...
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You're Getting 250 Brand New Emoji — Here Are 22 We Wish Existed
Earlier this month, The Verge reported that "Unicode, an industry standard that regulates the presentation of text across different software platforms, updated to include 250 new emoji. Everyone was...
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The US World Cup Team's 'I Believe' Chant Was Created By A Navy Prep School...
With World Cup fever hitting the United States, the now-popular "I believe we will win!" chant has become synonymous with the U.S. national team and was even featured in a popular ESPN commercial...
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Awful Blunder By A US Player Gifts Portugal A Goal In The 5th Minute Of A...
The United States men's national team got off to a nightmare start in Sunday's Group G match against Portugal.In just the fifth minute, Geoff Cameron botched a clearance, the ball dropped to Nani, and...
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Crude Tops $115
Brent crude futures briefly climbed above $115 a barrel as trading opened Sunday evening Eastern U.S. time.The New York Times reported Sunday that members of Sunni militia ISIS had captured a major...
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Coca-Cola's Latest Product Addresses The Biggest Criticism Of The Brand
Coca-Cola faces mounting criticisms that its signature beverages are unhealthy.Anti-sugar sentiment has made consumers skeptical of traditional Coca-Cola soda. And many fear that artificial sweeteners...
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Clint Dempsey Scores A Goal With His Stomach, Puts US Up 2-1 On Portugal
After a nightmare start, the United States took a 2-1 lead on Portugal in the 81st minute with a wild goal off of Clint Dempsey's stomach.DeAndre Yedlin sent in a cross, Graham Zusi chipped it back to...
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Young Men Who Are Anything Short Of Wealthy In Urban China Face Brutal...
China has at least more than 30 million more men than women.As a result, finding a girlfriend there is extremely difficult. A recent post on reddit helped show just how bad it is. User BoTeeBoTines, an...
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The Weekend Is Over And Markets Are Up
The weekend is over and markets are up.The Nikkei opened 0.5% higher. Australia's S&P/ASX200 was up 0.3%. Korea's Kospi gained 0.4%.U.S. futures were going nowhere.Brent crude futures were above...
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Israel Strikes Syria After Missile Attack Kills Teenage Boy
Israel launched air strikes on nine targets inside Syria early Monday morning local time in response to a shelling attack on a civilian vehicle that left a 14-year-old Israeli boy dead Sunday.A...
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Portugal Stuns The US With A Heartbreaking Goal On The Last Kick Of The Game
Seconds away from completing one of the best performances in American soccer history and qualifying for the knockout round of the 2014 World Cup, the U.S. allowed a game-tying goal to Portugal to end...
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A Small Factory Owner Is Building Incredible Life-Size Transformer Replicas
A week before the next "Transformers" movie hits theaters, one man is making his own real-life Optimus Prime and Bumblebee robots.Li Lei, a small factory owner in China, builds giant replicas of the...
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