Новости за 19.02.2016

– Obab Adeeye becomes the youngest chancellor in Nigeria with his recent appointment – The monarch has been applauded for his efforts to promote unity President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi as the chancellor of the University of Nigeria. His appointment is historically significant as he is the […]

Puma’s attempts to tap the burgeoning market for women’s sportswear appears to be working.

Comprueba aquí si aunque tu DNI dice “veinticuatro años” tu espíritu dice “cógete una rebequita, que refresca”.

The Hang Seng Index fell 0.4 percent on Friday, while the China Enterprises Index lost 0.7 percent.

The value of Cape Town’s rateable property has surpassed a trillion rand for the first time.

Het concert dat Rihanna op 11 juni zou geven in de Amsterdam Arena is verschoven naar 17 juni. Dat heeft Mojo Concerts vrijdag laten weten.

Are Football Federation Australia's leaders willing to support radical changes to the way the sport is run?

China’s car sales reportedly rose 9.3 percent in January as demand increased around the Lunar New Year holiday season and a tax break boosted orders for small passenger cars. Sales of passenger vehicles, including sedans, sport-utility vehicles and minivans, rose to 2.23 million vehicles in January, China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM), a state-backed industry body, reportedly said Friday. Total vehicle sales, including trucks and buses, rose 7.7 percent to 2.5 million during the same period.

With IT firms struggling to find quality and right number of professionals, a top American CEO has called for a "dramatic expansion" of the H-1B visa scheme -- popular among Indian tech firms -- to meet the growing demand.

By United Press International
On Feb. 19, 1997, China's "paramount leader" Deng Xiaoping died at age 92 following complications from a lung infection and Parkinson's disease.

The tech industry is starting to line up with Apple in its fight against the federal government over the encryption it uses to keep iPhones secure ...

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There were two impressive feats accomplished by the Rainier Columbians on Thursday night in their 56-40 Lewis and Clark district playoff victory at Oregon Episcopal.

Attorneys for former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle are facing a deadline in his appeal of the more than 15-year prison sentence he received for possessing child pornography and ...

The Raiders have quashed any chance of a player swap with Newcastle to speed up the release of Joseph Tapine.

Philippine boxing great Manny Pacquiao doubled down Friday over gay slurs that have tarnished his reputation and cost him millions in endorsements, insisting God was on his side.

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — For months, Ted Cruz's campaign has touted an expensive and sophisticated get-out-the-vote operation as its antidote to Donald Trump's broad populist appeal. [...] Saturday's South Carolina primary will be a tougher test for the Texas senator, one that could shape the race between the anti-establishment rivals as the GOP contest heads toward delegate-rich March voting states. Outside, volunteers split into groups of four and hit the road to knock on doors, armed with a smart... Читать дальше...

The people of Syria consider the ongoing Russian airborne campaign a real fight against terrorism, according to a high-ranking Catholic priest.

American reality television personality, Kim Kardashian, has shared an amazingly valuable way she gets her boobs looking all firm in those revealing attires on red carpets. She shared the tips on her app with photos, saying: “I definitely had to share my tape secret with you guys!! It’s my secret trick to have perfect cleavage […]

When two top Chris Waller-trained horses, Japonisme and Delectation, are not even close to favourite for the first big sprint of the year in the Black Caviar Lightning Stakes, hot hardly begins to describe the level of competition.

In a massive fillip to the still nascent professional boxing scene in India, the country will host its maiden WBA-sanctioned fight card on Saturday under the aegis of the Indian Boxing Council.

As students across university campuses in India continued to protest against the arrest of a students’ union leader on sedition charges, a conference of Indian university vice chancellors, chaired by the country’s Human Resource Development minister, passed a resolution making it mandatory for all government-funded universities to fly the national flag “prominently and proudly” at “a central place.”

Some Ugandans will get another chance to cast their ballots after elections were disrupted by the late arrival of polling materials.

Zeker zes leeuwen zijn vlakbij de hoofdstad van Kenia, Nairobi, uit een natuurpark ontsnapt en lopen waarschijnlijk door een buitenwijk.

Wildlife rangers in the Kenyan capital said Friday they were hunting for two lions who left Nairobi's national park and went into into "highly populated" areas.