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One of Donald Trump’s closest British allies is planning to “drain the swamp” in Parliament in an effort to bring Trump’s vision to the UK.  Arron Banks, a major UKIP funder, is planning on creating a new movement that he says will put 200 parliamentary candidates against MPs he deems lazy, ineffective, or corrupt at the next general election. Leave.eu reports: The insurance tycoon believes that there is an anti-establishment sentiment in Britain that can be harnessed at election time, similar... Читать дальше...

Those looking for credit next year should prepare to undergo psychometric testing.

For many West Aussies, Emu Export is more than a beer, it is a religion.

The former New York mayor ruled out being attorney general and gave an hour-long speech demonstrating a command of U.S. entanglements abroad.

TOKIO (ANP) - De aandelenbeurs in Japan is dinsdag nagenoeg onveranderd de handel uitgegaan. In Tokio gaf met name de financiële sector de hoofdgraadmeter enige steun, nadat een drie grote banken met beter dan verwachte cijfers naar buiten waren gekomen.

Russia's Federal Security Service arrested five militants reportedly linked to Daesh, plotting terror attacks in Moscow and North Caucasus.

Apple is considering expanding into wearable eye gadgets with a pair of glasses that could use AR, Bloomberg reported.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had last week announced demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes.

It got less attention but something else significant happened on election night in America. As Donald Trump was being made president elect, citizens in four states – California, Massachusetts, Nevada and Maine – voted to tax and regulate recreational cannabis. As well, voters in Florida, North Dakota and Arkansas approved medical marijuana initiatives, while voters in Montana rolled back restrictions on an existing medical marijuana law.

Two former employees of a Groton, Conn. defense contractor have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that they stole trade secrets.

Twenty students have been injured, one seriously, after two school buses crashed into each other south of Wollongong on Tuesday afternoon.

Lyft

It's time to shave the mustache.

On Tuesday, Lyft is ditching its familiar pink mustache logo in favor of a more streamlined look. And the ride-hailing company is equipping its drivers with a sleek, glowing gadget designed to help customers quickly spot the car they ordered.

The changes, which also include a new TV advertising blitz, add up to a major makeover that Lyft hopes will give its fleet of on-demand cars a more professional and universal veneer as it battles deep-pocketed... Читать дальше...

Six years after a serious motorbike accident, Matthew Zamit has a new lease on a life - and a new career.

R98 billion. That's how much the Department of Basic Education needs to overcome the national school infrastructure backlog.

Several Australians may find their Test careers to be extinct after heavy defeats in Perth and Hobart to the touring South Africans. Here's how they stand with the threat of a broom being put through their ranks ahead of Adelaide.

Hostess Brands, the makers of the iconic Twinkies, has just rejoined the stock market. Pretty good for a business line that has been through two bankruptcies in the past 15 years. And how this has been done, the underlying economics of it all, tells us what Donald Trump's, or indeed [...]

Jana Kramer and her partner Gleb Savchenko are getting closer to a Mirror Ball victory on Dancing with the Stars after landing a...

A contentious decision by the Andrews Government to transfer up to 40 juvenile offenders to an adult prison has confounded members of the legal fraternity and contradicts a damning Ombudsman's report on the abuse of several teenagers at Port Phillip Prison.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Even as their leads expand to 30 and sometimes 40 points, the Clippers swear they're not paying attention to the spread.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Even as their leads expand to 30 and sometimes 40 points, the Clippers swear they're not paying attention to the spread.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Even as their leads expand to 30 and sometimes 40 points, the Clippers swear they're not paying attention to the spread.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Even as their leads expand to 30 and sometimes 40 points, the Clippers swear they're not paying attention to the spread.

For so long, the Australian cricket team's hallmark has been its swagger and braggadocio ... but no longer after Tuesday's surrender to South Africa in the second Test.

The trial of a man charged with killing a student and wounding two others before being tackled by another student at a small private Seattle university in 2014 went to the jury for deliberations Monday after closing arguments.