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READ MORE (Reuters) – Jack Del Rio was close to tears as he revealed he had been fired as head coach by the Oakland Raiders on Sunday, shortly after the National Football League (NFL) team completed their final game of the season. Del Rio’s departure came just three hours after the Indianapolis Colts said they also had sacked their head coach Chuck Pagano. The 57-year-old Pagano, who had been in charge of Indianapolis for six seasons, was widely expected to be sacked after the Colts posted a 4-12 record that ended with a 22-13 win over the Houston Texans. But Del Rio’s sacking after three seasons was less predictable, coming less than a year after he signed a four-year contract extension following a successful 2016, when the Raiders went 12-4 and finally made the playoffs after a 13-season drought. But the team regressed in 2017, going 6-10. An emotional Del Rio, 54, said it had been a dream to coach his “childhood team” but he acknowledged the reality of t...

READ MORE (Reuters) – The Buffalo Bills ended the longest playoff drought in North American major team sports when they qualified for the National Football League post-season on Sunday. The Bills were last in the playoffs when Bill Clinton was in his final year in the White House in 1999, but after 17 fruitless seasons they gave themselves a chance with a 22-16 win over the Miami Dolphins on the last day of the regular season. The victory, however, was not enough for Buffalo, who also needed Cincinnati to beat Baltimore. They nervously watched on television in the locker room in Miami as Bengals’ quarterback Andy Dalton connected on fourth down with a 49-yard touchdown pass to Tyler Boyd to earn a 31-27 win at the death and send Buffalo’s players into delirium. “It’s been a long time coming,” Buffalo coach Sean McDermott told reporters. Buffalo were not the only team to seal their playoffs spot on the final day of the season with the Atlanta Falcons a...

READ MORE SEOUL (Reuters) – Kim Jong Un on Monday warned the United States that he has a “nuclear button” on his desk ready for use if North Korea is threatened, but offered an olive branch to South Korea, saying he was “open to dialogue” with Seoul. After a year dominated by fiery rhetoric and escalating tensions over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, Kim used his televised New Year’s Day speech to call for lower military tensions on the Korean peninsula and improved ties with the South. “When it comes to North-South relations, we should lower the military tensions on the Korean Peninsula to create a peaceful environment,” Kim said. “Both the North and the South should make efforts.” Kim said he will consider sending a delegation to the Winter Olympics Games to be held in Pyeongchang, South Korea, in February. “North Korea’s participation in the Winter Games will be a good opportunity to show unity of th...

READ MORE LONDON (Reuters) – Anti-government protesters demonstrated in Iran on Sunday in defiance of a warning by authorities of a crackdown, extending for a fourth day one of the most audacious challenges to the clerical leadership since pro-reform unrest in 2009. Giving his first public reaction to the protests, President Hassan Rouhani appealed for calm, saying Iranians had the right to protest and criticize the authorities. But he warned, according to official media: “The government will show no tolerance for those who damage public properties, violate public order and create unrest in the society.” Tens of thousands of people have protested across the country since Thursday against the Islamic Republic’s government and clerical elite. Police in the center of Tehran fired water cannons to try to disperse demonstrators, according to pictures on social media. Demonstrations turned violent in Shahin Shahr in central Iran. Videos showed protesters attacking the ...

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READ MORE Richard Cousins, 58, had run Compass Group for more than 11 years. The CEO of one of Britain’s biggest companies and four of his family members were killed in a seaplane crash in Australia on New Year’s Eve. International catering firm Compass Group ( CMPGF ) , a Global Fortune 500 company, said Monday that CEO Richard Cousins, died when the aircraft went down off the coast of New South Wales . “We are deeply shocked and saddened by this terrible news,” Compass chairman Paul Walsh said in a statement. Four members of Cousins’ family and the pilot of the plane also died in the disaster. There were no survivors. “The thoughts of everyone at Compass are with Richard’s family and friends, and we extend our deepest sympathies to them,” Walsh said. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has launched an investigation into the cause of the crash. Related: Six dead in Australia seaplane crash Compass, which reported annual revenu...

READ MORE And a nonprofit group founded by the Democratic activist David Brock, which people familiar with the arrangements say secretly spent $200,000 on an unsuccessful effort to bring forward accusations of sexual misconduct against Mr. Trump before Election Day, is considering creating a fund to encourage victims to bring forward similar claims against Republican politicians. Activists on the right are also involved. In November, the Trump-backing social media agitator Mike Cernovich offered to pay $10,000 for details of any congressional sexual harassment settlements, and said on Twitter that he would cover the expenses of “any VICTIM of a Congressman who wants to come forward to tell her story.” Shortly before posting that offer, a source provided Mr. Cernovich with a copy of a sexual harassment settlement that led in December to the resignation of Representative John Conyers Jr. , Democrat of Michigan, until then the longest-serving member of the House. And Mr. Burkm...

READ MORE “I’ve always had a broad sense of humor and a candid way of speaking to both male and female law clerks alike,” he wrote. “In doing so, I may not have been mindful enough of the special challenges and pressures that women face in the workplace.” Chief Justice Roberts said he had assembled a task force to examine whether the court system’s procedures for addressing inappropriate conduct were adequate. The young lawyers who serve as law clerks to judges, typically for a year soon after graduating from law school, may require special attention, he suggested, as they are meant to keep confidential what happens in their judge’s chambers. Newsletter Sign Up Continue reading the main story Thank you for subscribing. An error has occurred. Please try again later. You are already subscribed to this email. View all New York Times newsletters. See Sample Manage Email Preferences Not you? Privacy Policy Opt out or contact us anytime “I e...

READ MORE (Reuters) – The wretched Cleveland Browns completed a season of complete futility when they lost again on Sunday, if only narrowly, which means coach Hue Jackson can go jump in the lake. After Cleveland went 1-15 in the 2016 season, Jackson vowed that he would swim in icy Lake Erie if the team did not improve in 2017. But improve it did not. Instead, the Browns pulled off the difficult feat of actually regressing, becoming only the second team in NFL history to go 0-16, joining the 2008 Detroit Lions. “Let’s just be honest and put it out there, I‘m disappointed, I‘m pissed off, because I never saw this being this way in two years here, ever.” Jackson said recently. “I made that statement (about swimming in the lake). I got to back it up.” Whether he does so during the frigid winter, or waits for balmier weather and warmer water remains to be seen. Early on in 2017 it seemed the Browns would win a game or two. Their first seven ga...

READ MORE (Reuters) – Chuck Pagano became the first National Football League head coach to be fired at the conclusion of the regular season on Sunday when the Indianapolis Colts announced they had parted company. The 57-year-old, who had been in charge for six seasons, was widely expected to be sacked after the Colts posted a 4-12 record that ended with a 22-13 win over the Houston Texans. “Chuck Pagano provided Colts fans with many exciting wins and memories as head coach of the Colts,” Colts Owner CEO Jim Irsay said in a statement. ”Chuck’s first season was one of the more inspirational stories in NFL history as he courageously battled and overcame leukemia. “We are thankful for Chuck’s contributions to our franchise and community.” Pagano guided the Colts to a 56-46 overall record (including the postseason) after joining the team in 2012. He led them to three consecutive 11-5 seasons and playoff appearances from 2012-14, which included ...

READ MORE For computers, as for humans, reading and observation are two distinct ways to understand the world, Mr. Lieberman Aiden said. In that sense, he said, “computers don’t have one hand tied behind their backs anymore.” Text has been easier for A.I. to handle, because words have discrete characters — 26 letters, in the case of English. That makes it much closer to the natural language of computers than the freehand chaos of imagery. But image recognition technology, much of it developed by major technology companies, has improved greatly in recent years. The Stanford project gives a glimpse at the potential. By pulling the vehicles’ makes, models and years from the images, and then linking that information with other data sources, the project was able to predict factors like pollution and voting patterns at the neighborhood level. “This kind of social analysis using image data is a new tool to draw insights,” said Timnit Gebru, who led the...

READ MORE SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said on Monday that the United States will never be able to start a war against North Korea now that his country has developed the capability to hit all of the U.S. mainland with its nuclear weapons. “The entire United States is within range of our nuclear weapons, and a nuclear button is always on my desk. This is reality, not a threat,” Kim said during a televised New Year’s Day speech. Reporting by Soyoung Kim and Josh Smith in SEOUL; Editing by Kim Coghill Article source: http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/05/sport/russia-ioc-ruling-intl/index.html Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window) Best Wordpress Plugin development company in India       Best Web development company in India

READ MORE WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts said on Sunday he would launch a review in 2018 of how the federal judiciary handles sexual harassment, following the recent resignation of a U.S. appeals court judge amid allegations of inappropriate sexual conduct and comments. In his annual year-end report on the federal judiciary, Roberts said the judicial branch of government was not immune to incidents of sexual harassment and addressing it would be a new challenge in the coming year. Allegations of systematic sexual harassment and assault that surfaced against movie producer Harvey Weinstein earlier this year galvanized women to speak out about instances of sexual harassment in the media, government and workplaces across the country. Earlier this month, renowned San Francisco-based federal appeals judge Alex Kozinski, 67, retired from his lifetime appointment after over a dozen women came forward to accuse him of inappropriate sexual conduct or comments. In a ...

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READ MORE (CNN) Iranian President Hassan Rouhani addressed the country Sunday night after several days of anti-government protests that have rocked the nation. ‘);$vidEndSlate.removeClass(‘video__end-slate–inactive’).addClass(‘video__end-slate–active’);}};CNN.autoPlayVideoExist = (CNN.autoPlayVideoExist === true) ? true : false;var configObj = thumb: ‘none’,video: ‘world/2017/12/31/woman-waves-white-shawl-iran-protests-newday.cnn’,width: ‘100%’,height: ‘100%’,section: ‘domestic’,profile: ‘expansion’,network: ‘cnn’,markupId: ‘body-text_27’,adsection: ‘const-article-inpage’,frameWidth: ‘100%’,frameHeight: ‘100%’,posterImageOverride: “mini”:“height”:124,”width”:220,”type”:”jpg”,”uri”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/171231063316-iran-waves-...