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On Thursday, the clocks struck time on this year’s annual self-assessment tax deadline with millions rushing to meet the midnight countdown and file taxes owed as self-employed ‘sole traders’ or partners in the previous tax year. With a £100 fine hanging over the heads of anyone who doesn’t submit to HMRC in time, it’s a topic which annually captures the full media attention backed up the government’s own awareness campaign, this year fronted by a chastising duck. But don’t let the media pull the feathers over your eyes ... Читать дальше...

It’s been a decade since Nintendo released the last Advance Wars. For fans, those years have felt like an eternity. While there have been plenty of turn-based strategy games released in the interim, there hasn’t been anything that balanced complexity and approachability the way Advance Wars did. With developer Intelligent Systems seemingly now focused entirely on the increasingly popular Fire Emblem series, it seems unlikely we’ll get a proper sequel anytime soon.

1. Elizabeth Warren apologized to the Cherokee Nation for her DNA stunt  Washington Examiner
2. Elizabeth Warren apologized to Cherokee Nation over DNA test, tribe says  CNN
3. Elizabeth Warren apologizes to Cherokee Nation for taking DNA test to prove Native-American roots  Fox News
4. Elizabeth Warren Apologizes to Cherokee Nation for DNA Test  The New York Times
5. Roger Stone case: judge 'considering gag order' against Trump adviser – live  The Guardian
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Hopefully this isn't another Georgina Sparks scam.

A recent attempt to portray the annual Christmas party organised by the Central Bank’s social club as a political party activity complete with political chants was “a despicable attempt”, the bank said on Friday, saying that it was not run on politically partisan lines. A video clip purporting to show Central Bank employees dancing and singing political chants turned out to have been fabricated, merging scenes from a 2013 YouTube video of a Spanish disco in Barcelona with sound from the counting hall during the last general election. Читать дальше...

GROUNDHOG Day is one of the US’ strangest celebrations and falls annually on February 2. Will Groundhog Day see a whole six more weeks of winter this year?

Three Albanian drug dealers are jailed for a total of 19 years after officers found 92% pure cocaine in a Primark bag.

(Telecompaper) Vodafone Germany said it has started a cooperation with ICE Gateway and the city of Darmstadt to analyse data from street lights through an IoT network...

Walker posted a tweet on Thursday afternoon which poked fun at Liverpool's failure to move seven points clear at the top of the Premier League table

SIX NATIONS gets underway on Friday night for the 20th time when Wales travel to take on France at the Stade de France.

ARGENTINA ASIA Waiting for the G20 in a locked down Buenos Aires AsiaNews Residents have been invited to leave the city during the summit. World leaders are expected to discuss the state of world tr

Feb. 01--GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Gerald R. Ford International Airport's former CEO resigned after employees gave his leadership team failing grades during an annual survey, records show. Before then-Ford Airport CEO James Gill resigned on N

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Jurgen Klopp has had his say on Kyle Walker's social media post mocking Liverpool's 1-1 draw with Leicester City.

Border patrol agents in Texas have reportedly discovered a 60-foot tunnel being built near the Rio Grande River leading toward Mexico.Authorities found the tunnel, which was still under construction, in Hidalgo, Texas, a local CNN affiliate...

Feb. 01--Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is seeking Atlanta City Council approval for a memorandum of understanding with the nonprofit that runs its airport chapels to avoid running afoul of federal rules prohibiting the diversion of a

Telecom operators expecting a reduction in levies and licence fees were left disappointed as the interim Budget did not offer any respite. The new t

Falcons owner Arthur Blank has been a good host this week. Next year, he hopes to crash Miami’s party. Via D. Orlando Ledbetter of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Blank admitted he had higher hopes for 2020, when the Super Bowl will be in Miami. “Next year, we may not host the game, but I hope we will [more]

CORONATION Street’s Ryan Prescott is a secret underwear model for speciality pants. The 30-year-old actor – who plays Ryan Connor on the ITV soap – stripped off for a photoshoot for a brand of “genital separating” undergarments before he found fame on the cobbles. Adverts for the brand have appeared on social media with the […]

It’s been seven years since Rosalie Bailey beat cancer. It’s also been 63 years since she lived through Hurricane Janet in 1955. Yesterday, Bailey was treated like a queen as she celebrated her 102nd...

It sounds like it's time for Harry Potter to meet Colton Underwood. During an appearance on Good Morning America Friday, Daniel Radcliffe was asked by a fan what his current pop...

Chinese media went into overdrive last month hyping Chinese weapons systems, and experts think it's a message to the US and other rivals.

• Chinese media has been showing off a lot of Chinese weapons systems, running out report after report over the past month.
• Some analysts speculated that China was trying to send a warning about its growing power.

China ran report after report on Chinese military developments this past month, leading some observers to suspect that China is trying to send a message to its rivals and citizens at a time of heightened tensions with the US.

VINELAND, N.J. (AP) - A man accused of strangling his estranged wife and suffocating her infant daughter has been convicted on two counts of murder.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - The latest on the political crisis in Venezuela (all times local):