One hundred years ago this week "Clio" of Melbourne's Punch, so sensitive to how the Great War had made love so fraught, told yet another tale of True Romance.
UK housebuilder increases profit and dividend forecasts
The International Monetary Fund is pressing the eurozone to let Greece skip paying interest or principal on bailout loans until 2040, say officials familiar with the talks.
The partner of a man who died trying to save his best friend from jumping in front of a train in Melbourne wants her high school sweetheart to be remembered as a hero.
The Council of the European Union has passed the Network and Information Security (NIS) directive, obliging service providers to step up cybersecurity and inform national governments about major breaches, the EU institution announced Tuesday.
Monday marked the 50th anniversary of the start of the Cultural Revolution, but there were no official commemorations.
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President Nicolás Maduro is inviting multinational mining firms back in to his crisis-wracked country, but up to 100,000 illegal miners backed by armed gangs stand in the way of their getting to the deposits.
Morocco has an oral culture when it comes to telling stories — a tradition that is becoming disrupted by modernity and, argues Sara Ouhaddou, prosperity. Ouhaddou, a French artist who lives and works in Marrakesh and Paris, finds inspiration in Morocco’s ancient storytelling traditions. Earlier this year, her work was featured in the Marrakech Biennale. […]
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After months of disruption Tonbridge High Street will re-open to traffic, but not before more overnight closures.
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Short seller Carson Block makes his living by spotting frauds.
He made his name shorting the Chinese company Sino-Forest, and he tries to shine a light on companies that are total fakes and those that are stretching the truth.
In a recent conversation with Business Insider, Block said that he was seeing less of the out-and-out frauds that led to a total collapse of a company but that a new trend worried him.
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Borrowers have the upper hand in Europe’s corporate bond market; investors should take care.
Canberra Raiders youngster Joseph Tapine has revealed he turned down a contract offer from New Zealand Warriors to ply his trade in Australia.
In 1990, South Korea-based Korea Advanced Institute of Science (KAIST) opened a computer room with 25 PCs, when the country was only taking its first steps towards emerging as the world's leading player in information and communications (ICT) technology.
A Wigan fan writes a terrace chant dedicated to striker Will Grigg and it earns him a free season ticket.
Mao Weidong celebrated with push-ups after setting a new Guinness World Record for planking for eight hours, one minute and one second.
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In “The Second Life of Nick Mason,” the award-winning crime novelist introduces a tightly wound character forced into being a kingpin’s pawn.
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Melbourne midfielder Angus Brayshaw will be sidelined indefinitely after suffering two concussions in the past three weeks.
Sadag was inundated with queries from panicked families who didn’t know where their mentally ill relatives had been taken after Esidimeni Hospital shut down.
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LONDON (AP) — Official figures show that Britain's annual inflation rate dropped last month to 0.3 percent from 0.5 percent in March, as stores slashed prices on clothes amid cool temperatures and airlines cut fares after Easter holidays.