Australia's education funding model is so dysfunctional that simply pumping billions of extra dollars into the system will not reverse the ghettoisation of our schools, a new report has found.
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A new Budweiser beer has one major difference from the brand's famous brew — it's 100% alcohol-free.
Budweiser Prohibition Brew recently debuted in Canada. The beer is intended to taste precisely like Budweiser while clocking in at 0.0% alcohol content.
Budweiser Canada said the company used "the latest de-alcoholization technology" to create the brew.
"Our goals are to empower consumers with choice and change social norms, and this beer will achieve both," Kyle Norrington... Читать дальше...
Any big clues to what the central bank will do next will most probably stem from oil
Two Chinese men have been jailed for a year after being found with poached abalone and equipment worth R5.7-million.
Shares in mobile payments company fall on announcement
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft are teaming up with the European Union to crack down on online hate speech.
Reuniting with former teammate Ron Francis in the process.
Russia may start to supply nuclear fuel to the United States by 2019-2020, Rosatom said Tuesday on its Twitter page citing Yuri Olenin, President of Russian nuclear fuel company TVEL, which is a part of the nuclear agency.
“He was immediately very sociable, so we quickly invited him for a drink.”
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Four people who robbed and killed police major Abram Tselana after he withdrew R23 000 from a bank in the Pretoria CBD, received sentences ranging from 20 years to life imprisonment.
Читать дальше...Quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick and the Jets haven’t come to an agreement on a deal that would end their offseason-long standoff, so Fitzpatrick continues to be absent from the team as they kick off this week’s OTAs on Tuesday. His top two receivers are at the team’s facility, however. Eric Decker and Brandon Marshall didn’t attend…
Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton has scored big for his new Nickelodeon series that launches Friday.
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Gov. Jerry Brown of California, a onetime opponent of Bill Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, addressed those attending the 91st annual Sacramento Host Breakfast on May 18.
A new report by the federal environmental commissioner says Health Canada isn’t doing enough to protect Canadians from hazardous chemicals in household and cosmetic products.
A 26-year-old woman is arrested on suspicion of murdering a mother-of-four who was killed at her home in Luton.
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The Magpul FMG9 (Folding Machine Gun 9mm) gives a whole new meaning to “concealed weapon.” Unlike a handgun tucked away in a pair of pants or coat, this gun hides in plain sight.
“This weapon system could be described as a chameleon, it totally disappears,” said the host in the American Heroes Channel video below. “It’s sort of innocuous and then when you snap it out, you have little mini submachine gun.”
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Ukrainian Armed Forces acquired 36 new types of weapons and military equipment between 2014 and 2016, armed forces' chief of arms Col. Vladislav Shostak said Tuesday.
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Microsoft Corp chief executive Satya Nadella is in Beijing this week, a company spokesman said on Tuesday, as China's anti-trust investigation of the U.S. software titan nears its third year.
Nadella is expected to meet government officials to discuss the probe, a source familiar with the matter said.
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MSNBC's Ari Melber joins Jose Diaz-Balart to weigh in on the legal repercussions surrounding the death of a gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo after a child fell into the enclosure.
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It's fair to say that Richard Branson has taken a scatter-gun approach to his professional life since he started his first business in 1966. The mogul has since launched more than 400 companies under the Virgin brand. Virgin has plastered its name on everything from airlines, to wine clubs, to underwear.
It should come as no surprise that some of these have become spectacular failures.
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California politics updates: Bills in Sacramento face a big live-or-die moment, business groups play both sides in Assembly race May 31, 2016, 6:39 a.m. Welcome to Essential Politics, our daily feed on California politics and government news. Here's what we're watching: Lawmakers in Sacramento...
Economic cooperation talks between the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) and China will not deal with reducing or eliminating customs duties between the two economies, Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) Trade Minister Veronika Nikishina said Tuesday.
The final day of a festival is a bit like the bittersweet last day of camp. You’re forced to say goodbye to new friends, always promising to stay in touch (you probably won’t). The great camp songs you learned will stick in your head for a lifetime, as will a great festival set. It’s also…