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  • Busy weekend for Enda Kenny in United States Busy weekend for Enda Kenny in United States

    Taoiseach Enda Kenny has spent the weekend in Boston, Massachusetts furthering the strength of U.S. -Ireland relations. The head of Ireland's government attended a function on Saturday at the JFK Library to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of President Kennedy's 1963 visit to Ireland At the ceremony Kenny addressed an audience of U.S. lawmakers and representatives of the business ...

  • Chinese Taipei win mens doubles TT title

    Chinese Taipei's Chen Chien-An and Chuang Chih-Yuan upset Hao Shuai and Ma Lin from China to win the men's doubles title at the World Table Tennis Championships here. Chen and Chuang fought back from one game down to win three in a row but Ma, former Olympic Champion, and Hao Shuai took the fifth before the Chinese Taipei tandem sealed the victory Sunday by taking the sixth 11-8, reports ...

  • Boston Bomber Spent 6 Months in Russia’s Most Violent Republic

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  • Police ID girl who drowned in Wilbraham

    WILBRAHAM, Mass. -- Police have identified the 7-year-old girl who drowned in a backyard pool at a Wilbraham home over the weekend.Sgt. David Carr said Monday that Estefani Alfaro was found in the pool at about 5:30 p.m. Saturday. After responding authorities tried CPR at the scene, she was taken to Baystate Medical Center where she was pronounced dead.Carr tells WWLP-TV (http://bit.ly/16JGkpm ) ...

  • Karyopharm names investors behind Series B round

    Michael Kauffman, CEO, Karyopharm Karyopharm Therapeutics Monday named the investors of its $48.2 million Series B round of funding . The Natick, Mass.-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company said the Series B round, reported by Mass High Tech last week, was led by a private investor with additional investors participating in the round including Delphi Ventures. The funding will be used ...


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Night Train Murders (L’ultimo treno della notte) [Blu-Ray]

Night Train Murders (L’ultimo treno della notte) [Blu-Ray]

Note: This essay contains spoilers and reveals the films ending, so if you have not seen it already, proceed with caution. Throughout the 1970s and 80s the lower rung of the Italian film industry was a veritable factory in the low-budget horror rip-off trade, shamelessly ... ...

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  • Vt. city teachers work on new contract

    SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - The school board and teachers in the Vermont city of South Burlington are hoping a mediator can help them reach an agreement on a new contract. Negotiations have been underway since November and a mediator from Boston met with both parties May 15 but was unable to resolve an impasse in negotiations. A fact-finding report is due mid-summer. The Burlington Free ...

  • Boston startup events for May 20-23 powered by Greenhorn Connect

    A discussion on planning for an M&A exit from The Capital Network is among the local events ahead this week. / / /Monday, May 20 Description: Games are played on every device across the world. Game mechanics are being intregated into our favorite services and making their way into our everyday lives. In this class, Seth will discuss topics surrounding indirect control, interest curves, and flow ...

  • Apperian grows fast as biz leaders get app fever

    Apperian CEO David Patrick says the company is benefiting from a desire by business leaders to roll out mobile apps to their employees. Boston-based Apperian has doubled its customer base over the past year, as an increasing number of business leaders have begun demanding services to roll out mobile apps to employees, CEO David Patrick said in an interview. Apperian supplies enterprises with ...

  • Yahoo confirms $1.1B acquisition of Spark-backed Tumblr

    Spark Capital general partner Bijan Sabet has led his Boston-based firm's investments into Tumblr, which Yahoo has acquired for $1.1 billion. When New York-based blogging platform Tumblr raised its first funding, of $750,000, in 2007, Boston-based Spark Capital was among the two venture capital firm investors. On Monday, after massive growth (and continued funding by Spark) over six years, ...

  • Slow morning commute in wake of train accident

    BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) -- Connecticut transportation officials say the morning commute went about as well as they could have hoped following Friday's train collision outside Bridgeport that disrupted rail service into New ...

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