Hughes confirms Shaqiri thigh pull
The Swiss international was forced to be taken off just after half-time on Saturday but the Potters boss played down Ryan Shawcross' late substitution citing tiredness
The Swiss international was forced to be taken off just after half-time on Saturday but the Potters boss played down Ryan Shawcross' late substitution citing tiredness
Clive Palmer is under pressure to explain his plan for the embattled Townsville nickel refinery and whether hundreds of workers will be able to return to their jobs on Monday.
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The far-reaching consequences of the recent drop in oil prices have been a testimony to just how central crude is in American life: With cheap gasoline bringing more drivers onto the road, traffic deaths were up nearly 10 percent in the first nine months of 2015.
Meanwhile, after remote towns in North Dakota surged with thousands ready to work the Bakken, the luxury apartments built to accommodate them are half-vacant now that demand has died down.
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STEVENS POINT, Wis. -- After a slow start where it struggled much of the first half, the Central High School boys did an about face.
I am hoping my kids don’t do it,” says Sarah Jane Hughes. The professor of commercial law in the US isn’t alluding to sex or drugs. She’s talking about the dangers of mobile payments services. She’s not the only one sounding an alarm: In September almost half of about 900 members of Isaca, an association of IT professionals and risk managers, said mobile payments aren’t secure.
Voting Tuesday in five big states could be the end of the line for some candidates.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Hundreds of retired union workers and their families have rallied at the Minnesota Capitol over proposed pension cuts.
Jake Gyllenhaal is a master of measured interview responses. I experienced it on the phone with him last year and again at South by Southwest on Saturday, where "All the Real Girls" and "Pineapple Express" director David Gordon Green interviewed Gyllenhaal in a room so full that stragglers watched the hourlong event on TV screens outside.
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NEW YORK, March 12 (UPI) -- Production has begun in New York City on "BrainDead," a new comic-thriller set in the world of Washington, D.C. politics, CBS announced.
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is looking into whether some influential politicians used pressure tactics to force public sector banks (PSBs) into lending and restructuring loans now defunct Kingfisher Airlines
Officials in Snyder’s administration discussed the jobs goal Friday in a meeting of the governor’s Flint Water Interagency Task Force.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has faulted Donald Trump for the disruption Friday night’s Chicago rally, denying that his campaign had organized the protest against it.
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The United Nations is launching an investigation into its response to deadly violence that erupted at a protection of civilians site in South Sudan last month, the organization announced Friday. Fighting at the U.N. site -- which is supposed to be a safe haven from the country's conflict -- killed at least 18 people, including two aid workers, on Feb. 17 and 18.
Читать дальше...David E. Barney, 75, of Albany passed away Friday, March 11, 2016, at his home. AAsum-Dufour Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
Three German regions will vote on Sunday in parliamentary elections that are widely seen as a test for Chancellor Angela Merkel and her ruling coalition ahead of the next year’s general election.
After Ciara and NFL star Russell Wilson announced their engagement Friday, Future spent time in the company of another woman. Actually, several. The 32-year-old rapper headed...
Nineteen GOP primary delegates are on the line, but the most hotly contested race is for a summer trip to Cleveland.
(AP) — The Prairie Capital Convention Center in Springfield lost $200,296 hosting five University of Illinois basketball games this season while its usual arena, the State Farm Center in Champaign, underwent renovations. Convention center general manager Brian Oaks tells the State Journal-Register (http://bit.ly/1RWTO64 ) that because of lower-than-expected ticket sales, the university agreed to knock $200,000 off the amount the Springfield facility paid to host the games.
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Last week, I talked about big changes afoot in the world’s top gold-consuming nation, India. With the government there imposing a surprise sales tax on gold, in an apparent attempt to further curb demand.
And the last few days, things got a lot more serious for the gold market in this critical locale.
One of the immediate effects of the 1% sales tax announced on February 29 was a massive outcry from India’s jewelers. Who launched a full-scale strike on March 2 to protest the levy. Читать дальше...
French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault will meet in Paris on Sunday with some of his European counterparts, as well as US Secretary of State John Kerry.
Iraqi Security Forces and the country's Sunni tribes in Anbar province on Saturday launched a new offensive, Desert Lynx, to liberate towns and villages along a 38-mile stretch of road in the west. If successful, the offensive would allow the Iraqi forces to focus on controlling Haditha, a city frequently targeted by militants, while also clearing towns on the road to Baiji, one of the country's oil epicenters. The operation will take place under the cover of an international coalition's airstrikes.
Companies in real estate and education have started using augmented and virtual reality to reach their consumers but India is yet to make a big leap into the emerging technologies, though biggies round the world are pouring funds into the space
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s Saturday night rally comes after a threat of violence canceled a Chicago rally 24 hours earlier
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GOUDA – De waterpoloërs van Het Ravijn hebben zich redelijk hersteld van de verloren bekerfinale. De lastige uitwedstrijd bij GZC Donk eindigde onbeslist: 8-8. Het Ravijn blijft daardoor koploper in de eredivisie.