"This showed us, already then, that things won't have to stay the way they were, in the status quo – that they could change."
The Vatican’s reforestation program has seen 300 trees of various species planted over the past three years, and “an important milestone” is the tiny nation “has achieved its goal of being pesticide-free,” Father Rafael Garcia de la Serrana Villalobos, told Vatican News in mid-December.
Getty Images has selected its top sports photographs of 2020, with a bumper crop of soccer stills among the year's most compelling pictures.
Southampton manager Ralph Hasenhuttl admits new signing Mohammed Salisu deserves to play.
Читать дальше...Impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, the Indian economy dipped by a historic 23.9% in the first quarter of the current financial year. The contraction narrowed down to 7.5% in the second quarter.
Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou issued a message to Greeks living abroad, recalling the difficulties encountered in 2020 with the disruptions caused by the pandemic, while noting their contributions to their host countries.
Donald Trump’s latest flurry of presidential pardons for allies included a family member, Charles Kushner, who was jailed 15 years ago for tax evasion, making illegal campaign donations and tampering with a witness, his brother-in-law, by orchestrating a sex tape with a sex worker and sending it to the man’s wife.
Читать дальше...‘Kalyanasougandhikam’ brought alive the blend of elements unique to a Kathakali play
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has announced a complex plan for Christmas visits across the northern beaches, with more changes to be announced on Boxing Day.
A WOMAN bled to death after her arm was “chopped off” with broken glass during a drunken row on a hellish first date in Turkey, it’s been claimed. Cops were called to investigate the horror incident after neighbours heard screams and the sound of breaking glass coming from a flat belonging to welder Serkan Dindar […]
Leicester City are keeping a keen eye on the progress of loanee Kamal Sowah.
Читать дальше...Liverpool may be only four points clear at Christmas this year, but the way they've dealt with myriad injury issues should worry the chasing pack.
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Wall Street is moving quickly to crystalize around the view that if President Trump doesn’t sign a new $900 billion bipartisan COVID-19 stimulus bill, then investors will get torched.
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Arsenal legend Nigel Winterburn believes the players must not think they are above relegation.
Читать дальше...Opening batsman Prithvi Shaw's legs and bat are reacting late to the ball and that opens up a gap between his bat and pad, says Sachin Tendulkar
English cricket authorities are confident the national men's side's upcoming tour of Sri Lanka will go ahead as scheduled despite the Asian team currently being in South Africa
In Manipur, the night curfew shall be imposed from 12 am to 4am on the intervening nights of 23rd and 24th December, 24th and 25th December and 31st December and 1st January.
Anglo-Australian miner BHP is close to restarting work at a Brazilian mine where an accident in 2015 killed 19 people.
Internazionale are working with Udinese to try and conclude a deal for Rodrigo de Paul.
Читать дальше...Africa needs about $9 billion to finance enough of Covid-19 vaccines to halt the pandemic on the continent, but a bigger problem is accessing that supply amid the global race for doses, an African Export Import Bank official said.
A HOMELESS man stumbled into a barbers shop where he was given a total makeover, and the before-and-after pics even led to him being reunited with his family. João Coelho Guimarães, 45, had been homeless for three years in Goiânia, Brazil when he entered the barbers to ask for a razor to trim his beard. […]