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Premiership side London Irish sign hooker Agustin Creevy - Argentina's most-capped player.

The Scottish exam results fiasco could be repeated in England when A-level results are published on Thursday, one of Britain's leading education experts warned today.

A Venezuelan court sentenced two former US soldiers to 20 years in prison for their role in a failed incursion aimed at ousting President Nicolas Maduro in early May, chief prosecutor Tarek Saab said over the weekend.

The winner of Fantasy Premier League (FPL) 2019-20 has been stripped of the title after being found to have broken the rules.

Beijing Attempts To Remake Hong Kong In Its Image As National Security Law Takes Hold  NPRView Full Coverage on Google News

Educators, journalists, political figures and ordinary citizens have been intimidated and even arrested as China moves to stifle protest and civil society with its new law.

Foreign study goes for a toss, migrants left out of govt schemes, and five things India must do before it has a vaccine--news on how the country is dealing with the pandemic

Premier League champions Liverpool have ended sponsorship ties with coconut milk producer Chaokoh after animal cruelty allegations emerged which suggest that they use monkey slave labor to harvest the fruit.
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Dickson loved LinkedIn. He checked the professional social network almost every day for new contacts. It was “almost like an addiction”, he said. Bill was also a fan. It’s “a very good site”, he said. “A great venue [and] the ultimate playground for collection” of contacts. Bill and Dickson are not part of each other’s […]

Fiscal deficit widens to 83% of the year's target in the very first quarter; GST dropped 41% y-o-y

Qatari cash aid for Gaza has kept a fragile peace between Hamas and Israel. With Doha now stalling its downpayments, Hamas is launching incendiary devices, Israel is shutting the border and a major escalation is brewing

The 84-year-old was admitted to the military hospital around noon on Monday, and had also tested positive for COVID-19 prior to the surgery.

Zurich-Berlin based Tellfilm, producer of “Blue My Mind” from “Killing Eve” director Lisa Brühlmann, is set to go into production on Aug. 22 on its biggest movie yet, “Monte Verità,” a period drama about a woman’s across-the-board emancipation. Set to shoot in the Locarno region of Ticino, southern Switzerland, “Monte Verita” is lead produced by […]

VLADIMIR Putin could send troops into Belarus to prop up his dictator pal after thousands took to the streets to protest the “sham” election. Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled the country for 26 years, yesterday declared he had won again with 80 per cent of the vote. But there are fears of widespread vote-rigging by […]

Escalating protests in Bolivia revive memories of last year's violence, which led to the resignation of former President Evo Morales.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said Russia’s coronavirus vaccine has been registered.

Nikola Corporation, a global leader in zero-emission and infrastructure solutions, announced a "minimum order" of 2,500 electrified refuse trucks from Republic Services, expandable up to 5,000.

Donald Trump has said the Spanish flu "probably ended the Second World War" - despite the conflict having started almost two decades later.

Cars will be banned from driving through a former award-winning high street on one day of the week, it has been agreed.

Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has left the country and was safe in Lithuanian, the neighboring nation's foreign minister said Tuesday.

The plan to allow resumption of long-distance public transportation from August 17 across the country has again been cancelled.

The Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs holds a "central role" in disseminating the salaries to the families of terrorists serving time in Israeli prisons.