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When foreign investment falls, leadership failings will be laid bare

IHS Markit says climate change threat to oil and gas assets is overblown

Firefighters have revived a collapsed cattle dog bleeding profusely from the mouth as a fire tore through a Gold Coast home on Wednesday.

A man held a Pepe the Frog picture during a rally for Donald Trump in Bedford, N.H., on Sept. 29. The Anti-Defamation League includes Pepe the Frog in its database of hate symbols, linked with white supremacy.

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”

Do you have a favourite scentence or quote from the Harry Potter series?

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Perhaps one that taught you a few important lessons on life?

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Or helped you come to terms with loss?

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Maybe it's some vintage Hermione? Читать дальше...

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Glassdoor is putting its trove of user-reported salary data to use with a new tool that estimates an employee’s “market value.” Called Know Your Worth, the tool relies on a combination of personal information — including location, industry, education level, and years of experience — as well as the local demand for labor. It then spits out an estimated dollar amount workers can reasonably expect to earn at that moment in a given market.

The tool, which is available in beta as of Tuesday night... Читать дальше...

Chevron’s Gorgon natural gas project in Australia strained the company’s budget, but now has Japanese and Korean customers lined up.

A statue of a hoof-footed thong-wearing topless Hillary Clinton caused a giant fight in downtown Manhattan.

Dr. Rudolf Uher is conducting a landmark study on the development of mental illness among children that this week has earned him the Royal-Mach-Gaensslen Prize for Mental Health Research

Ministers and officials in Brussels have given clues on negotiating position

Miljoenen bankklanten krijgen, of ze het nu leuk vinden of niet, per 1 december een BKR-registratie. De mogelijkheid om rood te staan, moet vanaf die datum verplicht worden gemeld bij het Bureau Krediet Registratie (BKR) in Tiel.

Duizenden eerstejaars studenten moeten taaltoetsen Nederlands maken. Hogescholen en universiteiten zijn ontevreden over hun taalniveau.

Cabaretier Vincent Bijlo schrijft twee keer per week een column over wat hem opvalt op de radio.

Why alliances of respect between powerful women are common, and foundational

About three years ago, the sociologist Richard Sennett asked his friend and colleague Joan Clos, the executive director of the United Nations Human Settlements Program, if he had ever read the Athens Charter, by the architect Le Corbusier. Published in 1943, the charter shaped the design of European and American cities for decades after the Second World War. It presented a set of ninety-four tenets that cities should follow to become functional and efficient. (No. 29: “High-rise apartments placed... Читать дальше...

A graph from the ADL's study showing spikes in anti-Semitic harassment on Twitter.

As the daughter of the man who co-invented the world’s first adjustable shock absorber, I grew up with engineering as an ever-present part of my daily life. Going to amusement parks meant inspecting the hydraulics before riding the coasters. Chores included assembling shock absorber catalogues. And when my dad’s German and Russian business partners came over for dinner, I was always invited to the table.

Those gestures of inclusion gave me great confidence throughout my life. What’s more,... Читать дальше...

The memoirs of a Europhile Conservative are full of nostalgia for the days when the big decisions were left to men like him

Khloe Kardashian hits the stage at the launch of her new jeans line Good American on Tuesday night (October 18) in Los Angeles. The 32-year-old television personality was joined at the launch by mom Kris Jenner, where both ladies took the stage to promote the launch. PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Khloe Kardashian [...]

Mary Smook said she heard the news at work: A killer might be in her small town of Magnolia, Minnesota, a place whose population could pack a jetliner. Pennsylvania authorities on Tuesday announced they had filed charges in the death of an elderly woman whose body was found in her Indiana County, Pennsylvania home 25 […]

Liberated, but still terrified. Residents of a newly-freed Iraqi village on the outskirts of Mosul fled in panic Tuesday as rumors swirled around the settlement that their tormentors and former occupiers, ISIS, were coming back. The panic is a vivid indication of the psychological damage done by living under the jihadi group’s brutal rule. The […]

Aishwarya Kumar takes to the streets of Rosebank to find out why it's becoming the 'it spot' for tourists.