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The feature will start rolling out to WhatsApp’s 1 billion users around the world today.

Despite heavy downpours across Pretoria, the situation remains dire, and Mayor Solly Msimanga has appealed to residents to use water sparingly.

AAA forecasts that 48.7 million Americans will travel, the busiest Thanksgiving period on U.S. roads and skies since 2007, the year before the global financial crisis plunged the U.S. economy into a deep recession. The auto club AAA said Tuesday that it expects 1 million more Americans to venture at least 50 miles from home, a 1.9 percent increase over last year. The forecast was assembled at research firm IHS, which said it considered jobs, household net worth, the stock market, prices for gasoline and airline tickets, and other factors. Читать дальше...

With $85bn in assets, investment house favours emerging markets as ‘tallest dwarf’

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President-elect Donald Trump’s advisers are drafting plans to resume workplace raids and to ramp up pressure on local police and jails to identify immigrants in the country illegally in an effort to meet Trump’s goal to deport 2 million to 3 million migrants who he says are criminals.

Many of us take our phones with us wherever we go, including the bathroom. We were curious how this affected the phones, and if there could be any bacteria, pathogens, or anything else on them.

The Bengals didn’t lack for chances to pull ahead of the Giants in the fourth quarter of Monday night’s 21-20 loss. Giants cornerback Janoris Jenkins gave them a first down with a defensive holding penalty on third-and-15, Eli Manning followed up an Andy Dalton interception by throwing one of his own and Sterling Shepard dropped…

For women, hair growing on the chest is not a rare case as it may seem to be. In the most cases they appear during the pubertal period, but also this problem may happen due to the hormonal disorders. Usually, this hair grows around the nipples, and it is darker than the hair on the […]

The pilot ejected and was brought on board Admiral Kuznetsov carrier

A Russian Navy Mikoyan MiG-29K (NATO reporting name: Fulcrum-D) carrierborne multirole fighter jet suffered an accident on landing approach to the Project 11435 (Kuznetsov-class) Admiral Kuznetsov carrier near the coast of Syria on Nov. 13, 2016, according to the Gazeta.ru online news agency.

Protest movements for the independence of federal states in Brazil have been gaining momentum over last few years. In an interview with Sputnik Brazil, leader of the social movement "Rio is my country" (O Rio É o Meu País) and teacher of history Gabriel Tavares explained why Rio de Janeiro and other Brazilian federal states seek independence.

United Parcel Service Inc. said Tuesday it expects record deliveries this holiday season, with over 700 million packaged expected to be delivered between Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve. The company expects the peak holiday delivery volume to rise more than 14% from the same period in 2015, with two more operating days this year. UPS expects a record 13 of the 21 days before Christmas to have deliveries of more than 30 million packages, compared with about 18 million package deliveries during typical non-peak periods. Читать дальше...

England should not see themselves as underdogs for their tour of India after drawing the opening Test, says all-rounder Zafar Ansari.

While Trump’s family has been in the limelight recently, relatively less is known of the president-elect’s siblings — Maryanne, Freddy, Elizabeth and Robert.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has kept his family in the limelight throughout the course of his presidential campaign and his children — Ivanka, Donald Jr. and Eric — along with son-in-law Jared Kushner are also vice presidents of his White House transition team. However, relatively lesser is known of his siblings, whose names figured in the list of people he thanked in his speech following the declaration of the election result. Here is what we know of the construction mogul’s two elder sisters... Читать дальше...

BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) — A judge gave a former Burlington City Council member more time to think about his plea agreement after he hesitated during a hearing on three felony sexual abuse charges.

CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is slated to join protesters of the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota.

Editor’s note: Christian Nwodo, the NAIJ.com partner blogger, lists eight surprising reasons why Nigerian female celebrities are still single. Nwodo is a freelancer, programmer and a blogger at Jadijadi. You may also join NAIJ.com blogger network, more details in NAIJ.com’s step-by-step guide for guest bloggers. As beautiful and ‘packaged’ our female celebrities are, most of them […]

The ride-hailing company believes it has created a colorful way to shave valuable seconds off each ride and potentially enable drivers to pick up more passengers.

J.D. Vance, a Yale Law School graduate and investment professional living in San Francisco, was born in rural Kentucky and grew up in the Rustbelt of southern Ohio. His father was mostly absent. His mother struggled with drug addiction. Young J.D. knew crushing poverty, several versions of a broken home, [...]

Ousted chairman Cyrus Mistry Tuesday rebutted Tata Sons' contention of expenses having risen under his four-year rule, calling it a "brazen attempt to mislead" public and shareholders and said "significant" costs were incurred for corporate jets used by Ratan Tata.

Contrary to popular belief, footballers are family men and many make sure that children follow in their footsteps to play the game. Here are six footballers who were coached by their fathers; 1.Zinedane Zidanne and Enzo Fernandez Enzo was coached by his father Zinedane when he was in charge of Real Madrid Castilla. 2. Cesare […]

Thousands of students are demonstrating against the president-elect.

Opener Tammy Beaumont hits 78 off 79 balls as England beat Sri Lanka by five wickets to wrap up the one-day international series.

BEIRUT — Russia announced a major new air offensive in Syria on Tuesday as opposition activists on the ground reported that the first airstrikes in nearly a month struck the besieged, rebel-held parts of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.