Savoy Seychelles occupies prime position on the broad sweep of Beau Vallon Bay. Landscaped gardens and the biggest pool on the island make the resort a self-contained haven just a few yards from the main beach. This is also the liveliest area of Mahé.
BANGKOK — In honor of Thailand’s late king, some Thais are collecting portraits of the monarch, some are purchasing commemorative banknotes — and some are getting tattooed. The death of revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej last week, after a reign of 70 years, triggered an outpouring of grief. Many Thais have been wearing black, praying at
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PARIS, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- Engineers with the European Space Agency are still analyzing data related to the touchdown of Schiaparelli, the Mars lander.
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PARIS, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency is attempting to put its first lander on Mars as part of the ExoMars program it is undertaking with Russia's Roscosmos.
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Most commercial jetliners have a small hole in the tail. Have you ever wondered what this hole is there for?
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Een miniversie van Donald Trump is gisteravond het Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas binnengestormd dat eigendom is van de Amerikaanse presidentskandidaat. De kleine look-a-like kwam aan met zijn eigen autocolonne en wilde zichzelf toegang verschaffen tot het luxe logement. Uiteindelijk werd hij in de lobby aangehouden door de politie en beveiliging.
Just as the ballots from overseas helped determine the winner of the 2000 election, this year's overseas campaign could possibly swing an unpredictable election
The U.S. dollar softened against its Canadian rival on Wednesday after the Bank of Canada left its benchmark policy rate unchanged at 0.5%. The greenback sunk to a session low at C$1.3063, compared with C$1.3107 late Tuesday in New York, before paring its decline to $1.3064 in recent trade. Canadian bond yields inched higher, with the 10-year rising two basis points to 1.220%. In a quarterly outlook released Wednesday, the Bank of Canada lowered its projections for growth and inflation, and... Читать дальше...
Donald Trump's rhetoric about NAFTA and Ford moving auto-manufacturing jobs to Mexico doesn't match reality.
The extremely controversial attraction brings in lots of tourists.
Actress Amanda Seyfried is sharing details about her lifetime battle with obsessive compulsive disorder.
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Days after mocking Donald Trump by calling him an "orange, sexual-assaulting, fake college-starting monster," Amy Schumer performed a tongue-in-cheek open letter that addressed the fans who walked out of her recent show in Tampa, Florida, as a result of her Trump jokes.
Schumer read the letter to the audience at her Madison Square Garden show in New York City on Tuesday night, People reports.
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LAS VEGAS, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- The two presidential candidates are bringing symbolic guests to their third and final debate Wednesday night.
Is it an outlier or a harbinger?
Democrats dreaming of retaking Congress this November just got their best news of the election yet — and it’s not Donald Trump doing anything new and bizarre.
On Wednesday, the Public Religion Research Institute and Brookings Institute released a poll that showed Hillary Clinton up 15 points over Trump. But the poll’s more important finding — we’ve known Clinton is beating Trump for months — had to do with the battle for House.
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Chris Wallace will become the first anchor from Fox News to moderate a presidential debate when Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump clash for the final time Wednesday at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas. He may be new to viewers who don’t watch his program “Fox News Sunday,” but the son of the...
The aggressive rhetoric of the US election campaign may raise a wave of political violence in the country, according to the private intelligence firm Soufan Group.
The 12,350 sq mt Villa was once used by Mallya to host lavish parties in his 'good times'.
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OLDENZAAL - Met ingang van het publicatiejaar 2016-2017 staakt de gemeente Oldenzaal de verspreiding van de (gratis) huis-aan-huis infogids. Het geld dat hiermee wordt bespaard (ruim 8500 mille), wordt gebruikt voor het maken van een glossy brochure en sfeervolle film over Oldenzaal.
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. (AP) — A college in New York City's northern suburbs has announced the resignation of its president amid a financial crisis. Judith Huntington resigned from the College of New Rochelle (roh-SHEHL') on Tuesday. The college says it's investigating why unmet financial obligations "did not become known until recently." It says faculty layoffs are likely but student financial aid won't be affected. Huntington could not be reached for comment. Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic... Читать дальше...
On Monday, nearly 25,000 Iraqi troops launched an operation to liberate Mosul, the second-largest city in Iraq, from Daesh terrorists. The Iraqi Army was backed by Kurdish Peshmerga fighters. Turkey announced that it would also take part in the operation.
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LONDON, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Diego De Giorgi has become sole head of global investment banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch as his previous co-head Karim Assef takes on a chairman role, according to a memo seen by Reuters on Wednesday.
Assef and De Giorgi became co-heads of the newly created position of global investment banking at the Wall Street firm in April 2015, with Assef based in New York and De Giorgi in London.
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