PLUMPTON’S 3.30 should be worth the Wait. WAITINONASUNNYDAY (nap) is in the form of his life. He completed a hat-trick of wins when upped to 3m2f for the first time at Fontwell. PA:Press Association Trainer Michael Blake has found him another uncompetitive race and he should have little trouble notching up another victory. HEYDOUR (3.05 […]
The PR system gives political parties monopolistic control over our public representatives, promotes politics of patronage as heard in the state capture commissions and others, writes Rich Mkhondo.
Uber plunged immediately at the opening of trading, falling as much as 8.8% from its IPO price of $45 per share, a level that was already at the low end of bankers’ expectations.
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) – Iran has strongly slammed a terrorist attack on a hotel in Pakistan’s Gwadar, which killed a number of security forces.
Manchester United are willing to sell Eric Bailly to Arsenal as long as the Red Devils recoup their £30m investment back in 2016, according to a report in England. Metro is reporting that Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is ready to offload Bailly following the Ivory Coast international’s persistent injury problems. The same article […]
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Milano's call wasn't totally received with open arms, with many writing criticism like "I hate this" and saying it promoted a narrative of straight women who withhold sex as punishment to men
The Waratahs’ domestic opponents would have been looking for signs that the Israel Folau story had drained them but they did not get them in South Africa.
A number of gay rights activists have been arrested after they clashed with the police at an unauthorised pride march in Cuba's capital, Havana.
Accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of injecting hatred and asserting that the Congress spread love in the Lok Sabha election battle, Congress President Rahul Gandhi said on Sunday that "love is going to win".
The mother, relatives and friends of a 19-year-old killed in a shooting in central Seattle held a vigil Saturday at the site where he was killed, the Seattle Times reports … Click to Continue »
The husband of St. Martinville Mayor Melinda Mitchell has been arrested following a city council meeting Friday night. Continue reading…
The BUGA Wood Pavilion celebrates a new approach to digital timber construction. Its segmented wood shell is based on biological principles found in the plate skeleton of sea urchins, which have been studied by the Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) and the Institute for Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) at the University of Stuttgart for almost a decade.
There’s no shortage of tips on how to save money and pay down debt: Think about how your savings will benefit your future self, make it automatic, use an app to streamline the process and so on. But a new study called “Amount and time exert independent influences on intertemporal choice”, published in Nature Human Behaviour — indicates that an easy way to save is to simply focus on how much more money you’ll have on hand, rather than the amount of time it will take to save it. More »
Sunderland will appeal Alim Ozturk’s red card following his dismissal against Pompey last night.
Join us for a live video stream of the UFC 237: Namajunas vs. Andrade post-fight press conference, which will kick off at approximately 1:15 AM ET/10:15 PM PT.
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Rumsfeld had infamously joked in 2004 that "you go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time." From what the report indicates, perhaps he should have waited.
The Army's massive history of the U.S. military intervention in Iraq, comprised of two massive volumes and 30,000 pages of declassified documents published by the U.S. Army War College, is a stunning survey of the service's missteps following the 2003 invasion. Читать дальше...
Earlier this school year during an American history class at Lincoln College Preparatory Academy, veteran teacher Deborah Etterling fielded a concern from a student unlike any other she had encountered … Click to Continue »
We always heard about Jason Garrett’s late father, Jim, but we seldom heard about his mom, Jane. Jane delivered eight children. “Eight” as in eight. “(We) were a year apart … Click to Continue »
Watching potter Lorraine Bates working at her wheel is truly mesmerising as she moulds and smooths the wet clay with her hands.
Bright yellow fields of oilseed rape have become a feature of the British countryside.
A valued member of a town's church community and former owner of a Christian Bookshop has marked his 100th birthday