Recent polls have demonstrated that Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders holds a much higher potential to defeat Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, in an election than Hillary Clinton, altough the latter is the Democratic party's front-runner ...Clinton has so far won 1,716 delegates and Sanders has gained 1,433. Counting super-delegates, Clinton has 2,240 and Sanders has 1,473 ... READ MORE ... Source. Al Jazeera ... ....
Dark week for football with another terror attack in Iraq. This time, according to El Pais, it is a coffee shop which was targeted in a town north of Baghdad early on Friday, the attack killed at least 16 people wounding 20 others ... In the next few hours, Islamic State claims claims responsibility for the attack online ... Real Madrid also shows its solidarity with the people of Iraq, who suffer injustice and extreme violence ... d'ALMEIDA....
Nicolas Maduro says ‘Washington is activating measures at the request of Venezuela’s fascist right’. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro declared a 60-day state of emergency on Friday due to what he called plots from within the OPEC country and from the US to topple his leftist government. Maduro did not provide details of the measure ...Related. Crowds steal flour, chicken and underwear in looting spree in Venezuela ... Related ... ....
British fighter jets were scrambled to intercept three Russian planes that committed an “act of aggression,” the U.K.'s defence secretary said. RAF Typhoons left their base in Estonia to obstruct the planes which were approaching Baltic countries...Try Newsweek. Subscription offers....
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers who dove hundreds of times into a sinkhole beneath the brown murky waters of Florida'sAucilla River have retrieved some of the oldest evidence of human presence in the Americas including stone tools apparently used to butcher a mastodon. ....
Fighting on Roc NationSports' Throne Boxing on BET, Del Valle looked to set the tone by pressuring the DC-based Snow in the opening round. In the second, the former NABA featherweight champion landed a number of straight right hands, including one that sent Snow down hard ... Del Valle continued to press the action in the fourth and fifth stanzas, while Snow began moving his hands but still held frequently ... ....
(Source. New York Red Bulls). WASHINGTON - The mentality during the week was spot on, but the end product left something to be desired ...United ... The second half saw few chances for either side, but United's prowess in front of goal in the first stanza proved to be the difference as the Red Bulls must find a way to bounce back during a quick week as they welcome the Chicago Fire to Red Bull Arena on Wednesday ... (noodl. 33559705) ....
(Source. SA Rugby (Pty) Ltd - South AfricaRugby Football Union). Visiting Leopards maul Bulldogs...Smith converted, the Leopards led 7-3 and never relinquished the lead thereafter ... Just before half-time, Border went on the attack, one of the rare occasions they were able to get close to the Leopards' line in the stanza, and they were awarded three penalties which all went to line-outs as the home team searched for a try ... Scorers. ... Penalty....
(Source. South Sydney Rabbitohs). The Rabbitohs have snatched a 22-20 victory from the Parramatta Eels in the final moments of Round 10 in a thrilling performance from the men in Red and Green to take the KARI Cup ... The half made no mistake ... Just four minutes into the second stanza, Radradra made it a hat-trick for the night - the Test winger finishing off a back-line movement before crossing out wide. Gordon converted to make it 20-6....
(Source...Despite their victory, the Cheetahs will surely be disappointed not to have secured five points against Super Rugby's basement boys ... In truth the cushion could have been healthier at the turnaround ... FrancoSmith's message would have been more of the same in the second stanza and his charges obliged just five minutes into the half when Petersen broke down the right before setting up centre Van der Spuy for the bonus-point try....
New titles, altered words, axed stanzas – composers from Elgar to Vaughan Williams brutally reworked the verse they set, and made it immortal. The composer Charles Wilfred Orr once said of AE Housman that “he wrote verse that was (a) beautiful, (b) scanned, (c) rhymed, and (d) made sense ... Facebook. Twitter. Pinterest ... As Auden states in The Poet’s Tongue ... changing titles, altering words, omitting or repeating lines or whole stanzas ... ....
(Source. South Sydney Rabbitohs). Despite a late revival from the Rabbitohs, the men in Red and Green have gone down to the Eels by 28-22 at Pirtek Stadium this evening in Round 10 of the NYC... With 10 minutes in the opening stanza remaining, a well-weighted kick inside the 10 metre line sparked a contest between Parramatta's fullback and Liam Coleman, with the Rabbitoh winning the race to open the Club's account ... Defeated ... (noodl....
(Source. BulldogsRugby League FootballLtd). Some dynamic and at times breathtaking play from Ben Barba and Josh Morris, coupled with some resolute defence has seen the Bulldogs record a 32-20 victory over the Wests Tigers at AllianzStadium on Friday night ... 'Every game is tough - it's still physical ... The Bulldogs burst out of the blocks in the second stanza, scoring a brilliant long-range try within the first minute of the half ... (noodl....
The issues of alleged "encroachment" by judiciary on the rights of legislature and media accountability were today highlighted by MPs in Rajya Sabha as it bid an emotional farewell to 53 retiring members ... Parliamentary honour, strength and supremacy has to be maintained, he said ... In a brief speech, Sukhendu Sekhar Roy (TMC) quoted the first stanza of a 'Bombay Ka Babu' song by Mukesh to convey his wishes to the retiring members ... ....
(Source. NRL - National Rugby LeagueLtd). Thursday night's bizarre ending in golden point prompted rugby league fans to go back in time as they remembered some of the greatest intercept tries in history ... Here's a look back at some of the biggest plays in modern times ... Luke Phillips narrowed the margin 10 minutes into the second stanza before Fittler and Johns combined three minutes later to swing the momentum in the Tricolours' favour....