Новости за 12.05.2016

Trieste, Italy is a city at the crossroads. This important port town has passed through the hands of the Romans, the Venetians, the powerful...

Super Rugby must continue to expand to stay relevant as southern hemisphere sides fight off attempts by European clubs to lure their top talent with lucrative contracts, New Zealand rugby chief executive Steve Tew has said.

– Peter Obi, the former governor of Anambra state, is accused of delaying Anambra сentral senatorial re-run election – “There is no way Mr. Obi should have joined the Senatorial race in 2016, a race that started in 2014.” The postponement of Anambra сentral senatorial re-run election was blamed on Peter Obi, the former governor of Anambra state, who […]

The Barnett government hands down a $3.9 billion disastrous state budget on Thursday.

CLEARFIELD – The Clearfield County Farm Bureau collected items and money for the central Pennsylvania food pantries in Karthaus, Westover, and Burnside/Mahaffey. The collection was a part of the Farm Bureau’s Farmers Care Program, where farmers show they care about their communities by collecting donations to help those in need. Pictured are Ralph McClarren and Mary Snyder […]

You can imagine what goes through Donald Trump’s mind whenever he finds himself dragged to Washington. Chances are Trump views the most powerful figures in Washington much the same way the elite of Silicon Valley and Wall Street do. But here Trump is, arriving today for a Reykjavik-like sit-down with Republican leaders — most notably the speaker of the House, Paul Ryan.

– Renowned radio presenter Freeze responds to comments from David Cameron on Nigeria – The British Prime Minister recently described Nigeria as a “fantastically corrupt” nation alongside Afghanistan – According to Freeze, Cameron and his family are corrupt hence he has no moral powers to criticize Nigeria – This comes on the heels of several other comments from the broadcaster who has […]

Speaker Paul D. Ryan in Washington on Wednesday. He will meet with Donald J. Trump on Thursday, the first of several meetings Mr. Trump will have with Republican leaders.

About a month before Paul Ryan became the Republican Party’s vice presidential nominee in the summer of 2012, then Sen. Tom Coburn mentioned Ryan’s name unprompted in the course of a wide-ranging conversation in his Capitol Hill office. “I had this conversation with Paul Ryan last night,” the Oklahoma senator, who retired in 2014, told me.

If GWS-Grocon executives are disappointed at having to shrink their $800 million Manuka Oval redevelopment proposal by about a third to assuage community concerns, they were hiding it well on Wednesday.

The West Coast Eagles have finally lost patience with underperforming recruit Lewis Jetta, dropping the former Swan for Sunday's clash with St Kilda at Domain Station.

,,We hebben ze.'' Een Britse kolonel, gespeeld door nota bene Helen Mirren, kan haar opwinding nauwelijks bedwingen. Via satellietbeelden en drones - letterlijk zo klein als een vlieg - ziet zij op haar beeldscherm in Kenia twee gezochte terroristen van de groep al-Shabaab en enkele handlangers een zelfmoordaanslag voorbereiden die zeker veel levens zal kosten.

Met de eerste zonnestralen van een nieuwe zomer, opent ook het seizoen van foodtruckfestivals. Frietbakkers, poffertjesdraaiers en hamburgerflippers trekken eropuit. Wat is de charme van hun bestaan?

Op de middelbare scholen zijn de eindexamens begonnen. Bij ons kun je elke dag meedoen aan een eindexamen-quiz. Je maakt een selectie van voorbeeldopgaven voor de vakken van die dag. Vandaag zijn dat Maatschappijwetenschappen en Natuurkunde voor de havo, en Nederlands voor het vwo. Je hebt een half uur de tijd voor 6 vragen. Succes!

President Maithripala Sirisena of Sri Lanka in his office in Colombo, the capital. He has pledged to persuade his Sinhalese people to support a new Constitution that devolves the powers of the central government that they dominate.

Esther Levy follows Andrew in their yard.

The Pennsylvania Game Commission during 2015 found 12 additional white-tailed deer infected with chronic wasting disease (CWD) – all in Disease Management Area 2 (DMA 2), located in south-central Pennsylvania. DMA 2 is the only area of the state where CWD has been detected in free-ranging deer. The latest cases bring to 22 the total […]

The Karthaus Center for Active Living, in cooperation with Scott McKenzie, will be presenting a program about McKenzie’s adventures hiking the Appalachian Trail on May 20 at 11 a.m. at the Center located at Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church, 3637 Main St. Karthaus. Everyone is welcome to attend the program, which is free.  Lunch […]

Iraqi officials say a twin suicide bombing hit a police station in Baghdad's westernmost suburb, killing at least five policemen

HERSHEY – Skills USA is a competition where career and technical education students come together from the state of Pennsylvania to compete in shop-related skills. Students who competed at the state level had to first win at the district level. This year’s state competition was held in Hershey from April 13-15. Jeff Tech had a […]

When pregnant women were trusted with $81 a month in prenatal benefits, no strings attached, their babies’ physical health did better, say Manitoba researchers. They would like similar income supplements to be offered across Canada.

Ahmad Haj Hamdo, Syrian Independent Media Group
DAMASCUS, Syria -- The illegal trade in human organs has become widespread in Syria, medical officials and victims say, with cross-border networks exploiting thousands.

The RCMP has pleaded not guilty on charges the force violated four health and safety provisions of the Canada Labour Code in connection with the 2014 Mountie shootings in Moncton, N.B., that left three officers dead and two others wounded.