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Vodafone is fined £4.6m by regulator Ofcom for breaking consumer protection rules.

According to figures released Wednesday, tourism has overtaken dairy as the nation's top earner of overseas dollars. The dairy industry is struggling to recover from a slump in prices, while a record 3.4 million visitors arrived in New Zealand in the year ending September. Kevin Bowler, the chief executive of Tourism New Zealand, said people were drawn to New Zealand by its spectacular landscapes and its outdoor lifestyle. Dairy farmer Jessie Chan-Dorman, who runs 950 cows on her farm near Christchurch... Читать дальше...

Chad le Clos suffered his third consecutive short-course 200m butterfly defeat to Japan's Daiya Seto yesterday - this time in the Tokyo leg of the World Cup series.

Donald Trump is taking a break from campaigning Wednesday to formally open his new hotel in Washington, while dispatching his running mate to play political defense in Utah — which … Click to Continue »

A polar bear being kept at a shopping centre in China and dubbed the "saddest in the world" is showing signs of mental decline, according to an animal rights group.

ASHLAND, Ohio (AP) — Donald Trump is taking a break from campaigning Wednesday to formally open his new hotel in Washington, while dispatching his running mate to play political defense in Utah — which hasn't backed a Democrat for president in 52 years. Pence also is stopping in swing states of Nevada and Colorado before he heads on Thursday to solidly Republican Nebraska, a state that awards some of its electoral votes by congressional district. There was no mention on Tuesday from Clinton about... Читать дальше...

POSCO posted its strongest quarterly operating profit in more than four years, beating analysts` estimates, as a sustained recovery in Chinese steel prices helped boost margins for South Korea`s top steelmaker.

BERLIN (AP) — A union representing cabin crew in Germany says it plans a strike at Lufthansa's budget offshoot Eurowings on Thursday in a dispute over pay and conditions.

If there's one thing Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump can agree on, it's that the Islamic State group is a global threat that needs to be eradicated. However, the two … Click to Continue »

KHAZER, Iraq — Iraqi special forces have moved more than 1,000 people from villages near the front lines of the battle to retake the Islamic State-held city of Mosul and surrounding areas, where the U.N. says militants have committed a number of atrocities in recent days, officials said Wednesday. Special forces Maj. Gen. Haider Fadhil

Fossils are the windows through which we can peer back into the evolutionary history of plants and animals that inhabit, or once inhabited, Earth. However, these fossil records have their limitations — ones that need to be properly understood in order to correct for sampling biases.

Uranus may have two tiny, previously undiscovered moons orbiting near two of the planet’s rings, researchers using data from NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft have found.

ENSCHEDE/HENGELO - Het speciaal onderwijs in de regio krimpt in hoog tempo. Door verlies aan leerlingen - en dus inkomsten - gaan schoolgebouwen dicht en verdwijnt werkgelegenheid.

A man who criticised women who wear yoga pants in public found that snug-fitting leggings were the least of his problems. [VIDEO]

From Russia with love comes the Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest, on exhibition at the Eclectica Gallery in Cape Town.

Two newly elected pro-democracy lawmakers defied an order Wednesday barring them from taking their oaths after being disqualified earlier for insulting China, sparking more unruly scenes in Hong Kong's legislature.

A Marine Corps jet fighter crashed and burned Tuesday in the Southern California desert, but the pilot ejected safely, a spokesman said.

We’ve written at length about each of the initiatives on the ballot this year. Now that the ballots have been mailed here’s a brief recap of each initiative, along with our views.

It appears to be the first direct clash with Syrian forces since Turkey launched a cross-border incursion against Islamic State in August.

Rugby writer Wynona Louw asks: Why in South Africa is attacking rugby, expansive rugby, running rugby so often associated with recklessness?

In his much-anticipated foreign policy speech in August, Trump said he would "aggressively pursue" joint or coalition military operations to "crush and destroy ISIS," using an acronym for the militant group. On his campaign website, he also highlights the need for expanded intelligence sharing and "cyberwarfare" to tackle the militants' efforts to recruit and spread their propaganda online. The former secretary of state has said she plans on targeting the Islamic State group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi... Читать дальше...

Berta Delgado told the Spanish-speaking conservative activists at her door that she is "100 por ciento" Republican, and agreed with their assessment that Democratic Senate candidate Patrick Murphy is too … Click to Continue »

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A South Carolina lawyer has been given a six-month prison sentence after stashing hundreds of thousands of dollars in a shoebox as part of a scam involving a $14 million sorority house at the University of…

US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Democrat Hillary Clinton’s plan for Syria would “lead to World War Three,” because of the potential for conflict with military forces from nuclear-armed Russia. In an interview focused largely on foreign policy, Mr Trump said defeating Islamic State is a higher priority than persuading Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, playing down a long-held goal of US policy. Trump questioned how Clinton would negotiate with Russian... Читать дальше...