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David Moyes has made his first public appearance as Manchester United manager. REUTERS/Phil

David Moyes: If I have to Win Ugly I’ll Do it … then Improve the Ugly Bit

by Louise Taylor | Aug 6, 2016 | Sports

David Moyes did not need long to consider the question. Sunderland’s manager, their fifth in three and a half turbulent years, had just been asked if he would be happy to finish fourth-bottom of the Premier League next spring. “Yes, I think I’d take it,” he said,...

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President Barack Obama at a press conference at the White House. REUTERS, Joshua Roberts

Obama Can Make His Successor’s Life Easier

by JONATHAN BERNSTEIN | Aug 6, 2016 | Opinion

With the political conventions over, both candidates should be hard at work on something we’re not going to see much of until November: the presidential transition. It’s the setting in motion of the actual administrations that Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump...

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A display of Microsoft China Center One during a media tour in Beijing on April 14.REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

China, Not Silicon Valley, Is Cutting Edge in Mobile Tech

by Paul Mozur | Aug 6, 2016 | Technology

Hong Kong-Snapchat and Kik, the messaging services, use bar codes that look like drunken checkerboards to connect people and share information with a snap of their smartphone cameras. Facebook is working on adding the ability to hail rides and make payments within its...

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Civilians displaced by heavy fighting between Iraqi security forces and ISIS militants queue outside a tent set up by MSF, or Doctors Without Borders, to provide medical aid at a shelter in Makhmour, east of Mosul, Iraq. AP

ISIS Captures Thousands of Civilians in Iraq amid Fears of a Massacre

by Dalshad Abdullah | Aug 6, 2016 | Middle East

Erbil-ISIS executed a number of residents while trying to flee the organization’s controlled town of Hawijah in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, Iraqi official and security sources said on Friday. ISIS had detained thousands of civilians who were fleeing the town,...

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In this Oct. 29, 1997 file photo Mikhail Kalashnikov shows a model of his world-famous AK-47 assault rifle at home in the Ural Mountain city of Izhevsk, east of Moscow, Russia. AP

How the AK-47 and AR-15 Evolved Into Rifles of Choice for Mass Killers

by C.J. Chivers | Aug 6, 2016 | World

Washington-Time and again it’s the same. A lone gunman or a small group of killers with rifles commits spectacular crimes that seize the attention of the world. The list reaches back decades: the killing of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972; the school...