The contentious issue of ticket distribution today again exposed the rift in Samajwadi Party with state party chief Shivpal Yadav attacking Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav over his reported parallel list of candidates.
Pakistan's defence minister has threatened to retaliate in kind to any Israeli nuclear strike after apparently being tricked by a fake news site into a confrontation on social media. "Israeli def min threatens nuclear retaliation presuming pak role in Syria against Daesh (Islamic State).Israel forgets Pakistan is a Nuclear state too" the Pakistani minister tweeted Friday.
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George Michael died “peacefully” at his home in Oxfordshire Sunday aged 53, his family said in a statement. The ex-Wham! singer's cause of death was reportedly a heart failure.
Two running jokes - one modern, one age-old - framed day one at the MCG. The first acted as a Boxing Day heart-starter, the other to put a summary and soggy end to it.
Channel Nine commentator Mark Nicholas has fallen ill during the Boxing Day Test at the MCG and has been taken to hospital.
If Liberal policy is ahead of Labor on the arts then Labor needs to look carefully at its arts policy.
Congressional Republicans are planning a massive overhaul of the nation's tax system, a heavy political lift that could ultimately affect families at every income level and businesses of every size.
SOCHI, Russia (AP) — A pilot error or a technical fault — not terrorism — is likely to be the cause of the plane crash into the Black Sea, Russia's transport minister said Monday as the nation held a day…
SOCHI, Russia (AP) — A pilot error or a technical fault — not terrorism — is likely to be the cause of the plane crash into the Black Sea, Russia's transport minister said Monday as the nation held a day…
SOCHI, Russia (AP) — A pilot error or a technical fault — not terrorism — is likely to be the cause of the plane crash into the Black Sea, Russia's transport minister said Monday as the nation held a day…
SOCHI, Russia (AP) — A pilot error or a technical fault — not terrorism — is likely to be the cause of the plane crash into the Black Sea, Russia's transport minister said Monday as the nation held a day…
SOCHI, Russia (AP) — A pilot error or a technical fault — not terrorism — is likely to be the cause of the plane crash into the Black Sea, Russia's transport minister said Monday as the nation held a day of mourning for the victims. [...] several aviation experts noted factors that could suggest a terror attack, such as the crew's failure to report any malfunction and the fact that plane debris was scattered over a wide area. Emergency crews on Sunday found fragments of the plane about 1.5 kilometers... Читать дальше...
Australia are putting themselves at risk of allowing Pakistan to turn the MCG into Yasir Shah's field of dreams if they fail to ram home the advantage they gained on a rain-interrupted Boxing Day.
"The main theories do not include terrorism," Transport Minister Maksim Sokolov reportedly said of the crash of the plane that carried 92 people.
BEIJING (AP) — China and Sao Tome and Principe officially resumed diplomatic relations on Monday, in a triumph for Beijing over rival Taiwan after the African island nation abruptly broke away from the self-ruled island last week.
BEIJING (AP) — China and Sao Tome and Principe officially resumed diplomatic relations on Monday, in a triumph for Beijing over rival Taiwan after the African island nation abruptly broke away from the self-ruled island last week.
BEIJING (AP) — China and Sao Tome and Principe officially resumed diplomatic relations on Monday, in a triumph for Beijing over rival Taiwan after the African island nation abruptly broke away from the self-ruled island last week.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his counterpart from Sao Tome, Urbino Botelho, signed books at a ceremony in front of their flags at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing. Beijing and Taipei have competed for allies for much of the nearly seven decades since the end of China's civil war in 1949, when the defeated Nationalist government fled across the Taiwan Strait. While just a few countries and governments still have official ties with Taiwan, Beijing is eager to play up its latest addition... Читать дальше...
Highlighting the need to have lower level of taxation, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Monday that lower tax levels will make it competitive globally.
AMSTERDAM (ANP) - De beurs in Amsterdam houdt maandag de deuren dicht in verband met kerst. In de rest van Europa en op Wall Street zijn de aandelenmarkten gesloten. De rest van de week wordt op normale tijden gehandeld, behalve in Londen. Daar is de beurs ook dinsdag gesloten en wordt de handel vrijdag al kort na het middaguur gestaakt.
A local commander of the Taliban group was among at least 18 killed during the operations in the strategic Kunduz city. The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the Taliban commander Ghulam Safi was killed along with 17 others during the operations conducted in the vicinity of Kunduz city. The anti-government armed militant groups including the Read the full article...
Indonesia sits on the Pacific "Ring of Fire", where the meeting of continental plates causes strong seismic activity and is frequently hit by earthquakes.
A beach holiday might seem like the most natural thing in the world - to head to the sea, play in the waves and splay your limbs out on the sand. But people didn't always consider the beach a place primarily for relaxation and entertainment. After all, the beach can be cold, hot, sandy, wet, dismal and/or uncomfortable. And then there's the whole prospect of drowning.
The "Last Christmas" singer "passed away peacefully" at his home in Goring, England, his publicist said Sunday.