Новости за 08.02.2016

Thai police negotiators laid siege to a house after a man allegedly shot dead four of his children following a dispute with his wife.

A Taiwan quake survivor was found lying under her dead husband and their son, who was also killed, was found lying nearby.

The Begunkodar railway station of Purulia district in West Bengal has long carried the tag of being haunted. Due to rumours of unexplainable occurrences here, rail communications were stopped four decades ago.

Imagination Technologies, which makes microchips for Apple and 'Pure' digital radios, is looking for a new boss to lead a radical restructuring

Victorian Lisa Jean will break through golf's glass ceiling at Huntingdale on Tuesday by becoming the first woman to contest the men's Victorian PGA Championship.

HRW accused Egypt's justice minister of calling for the “mass killing” of members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood movement.

Troubled electronics maker Toshiba is facing a tight deadline for mapping out a restructuring plan that has been made more difficult by the ambiguous role of the Japanese government.

Tobin, 69, reportedly collapsed in his cell at Edinburgh’s Saughton Prison on Sunday afternoon.

De Australische acteur Liam Hemsworth (32) zwijgt in alle talen over zijn mogelijke hereniging met superster Miley Cyrus. De geruchten over een hereniging van de twee doen al sinds Kerstmis de ronde. Miley Cyrus (23) bracht toen de feestdagen door met Liam en zijn familie.

De Zuid-Koreaanse marine heeft maandagochtend om 7 uur lokale tijd waarschuwingsschoten gelost als reactie op een Noord-Koreaanse patrouilleboot. Het incident zet de toch al slechte verhoudingen tussen de buurlanden nog verder op scherp.

A police constable attached to the Madurai armed reserve police battalion was arrested in Theni for snatching a woman’s gold chain, weighing three sovereigns.

WA workers surveying the building site of the Department of Parks and Wildlife's new headquarters in the South West may have accidentally stumbled across the long-lost remains of 19th century whaling ship.

Plans to scrap engine restrictions from 2017 will make Formula 1 less competitive, says Red Bull's Adrian Newey.

Chancellor's 'inflexible' budget surplus rule could come at a high cost, warns IFS, leading to big tax rises or spending cuts

Sifiso Meyeni has been instrumental in Orlando Pirates picking six points from their last two Premiership matches.

Nigeria's president Muhammadu Buhari gave an exclusive interview to the Daily Telegraph last week. Here is the full record of his remarks.

Mining firm Rio Tinto is looking for opportunities to expand in Africa.

Amir Khan’s decision to fight Mexican pitbull Saul “Canelo” Alvarez in Las Vegas caught the boxing world off guard.

“This leads one to believe that the robbery was orchestrated for one purpose and that was the theft of DA equipment and information.”

The famously casually-dressed leader of Podemos was almost unrecognizable at the Goya awards on Saturday night.

New Zealand gave their skipper a fitting farewell as they defended a modest 246-run total and also clinched the Richard Hadlee series.

Ashford United are two rounds from a trip to Wembley after a stunning FA Vase fightback in a last-16 replay.

Two survivors were pulled from a toppled high-rise apartment building, two days after an earthquake in Taiwan killed at least 37.

The Economic Freedom Fighters have refused to retract their statements regarding Gupta-owned media, and instead have added to them. You can read their full letter here.

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The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released their long-anticipated ruling on net neutrality in India. The regulators have ruled against differential and discriminatory pricing of mobile data on the basis of content.

This ruling will affect Free Basics — Facebook’s controversial plan to offer free, but limited Internet access — in India. Mark Zuckerberg has been campaigning to bring increased digital connectivity to the developing world. Читать дальше...