Migrant crisis: Angela Merkel keeps rebels at bay with pledge to cut refugee...
Berlin: Angela Merkel headed off a rebellion from her own Christian Democrat party on Monday when she pledged to reduce the number of refugees in Germany. In a defiant speech to her party conference,...
View ArticleAustralian man Gregory Jones dies in Jakarta ferry mishap
Jakarta: A Sydney man has died trying to save a drowning ferry crew member off Jakarta, police say. Jakarta Police spokesman M Iqbal says Gregory Robert Jones, 41, was struck by the propeller of the...
View ArticleAntidepressant use during pregnancy linked to autism, study says
Los Angeles: Women who took a class of widely used antidepressants during their second and third trimesters of pregnancy were roughly twice as likely as those who did not to have a child who would...
View ArticleThai factory worker may go to prison for insulting the king's dog on social...
Bangkok: Thailand's strict laws making it a crime to insult the monarchy entered new territory Monday, when a factory worker was charged with disparaging the king's dog. In a case brought in a Thai...
View ArticleScience, central to Paris Climate Agreement and Sustainable Development, says...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Organized by UNESCO, and hosted by the Russian Federation in Saint Petersburg, the fourth meeting of the Board aimed...
View ArticleAfter San Bernardino attack, NRA blasts New York Daily News, 'Godless Left'
After the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, New York's Daily News deployed all of its tabloid cover in an attack on what it called America's "gun scourge" and the "cowards" – meaning the...
View ArticleIran's October missile test violated UN ban: expert panel
United Nations: Iran violated a UN Security Council resolution in October by test firing a missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead, a team of sanctions monitors said, leading to calls in the US...
View ArticleBottled fresh air from Canada sells out in China
Shenzhen: A Canadian company is bottling fresh air from the Rocky Mountains and selling it to the citizens of increasingly polluted Chinese cities. Vitality Air was founded last year in the western...
View ArticleBritain considers silly laws, from salmon handling to armour wearing
London: It is not a great idea to carry a plank of wood down a busy sidewalk. Nor should you ride a horse while drunk, or handle a salmon under suspicious circumstances. But should such antics be...
View ArticleRepublican candidates jostle one another in a toughness pageant
Washington: In their last debate of the year, the Republican Party's presidential candidates gathered in a casino in Nevada and spoke of little else but fear and strength. America's enemies were...
View ArticleDonald Trump blasts Scotland's 'small-minded mentality' after wind farm court...
London: Donald Trump denounced the Scottish government as "foolish, small minded and parochial" on Wednesday after the U.S. Republican presidential front runner lost a long-running legal battle with...
View ArticleFirst Global Report - Evaluating the Impact of the Convention on the...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Adopted by UNESCO in 2005, the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions...
View ArticleParis police open fire on car and arrest driver at French army museum Les...
Paris: French police fired on a car that lurched towards a military museum building in Paris on Wednesday and arrested the driver, a police official said. A policeman fired around 10 shots at the...
View Article'Nazi gold train' hidden in mountain doesn't exist, experts say, but treasure...
Seventy years ago, it is rumoured, an armoured train departed for the Polish city of Walbrzych in the waning days of World War II. It snaked stealthily through the thickly forested mountains of...
View ArticleConsensus reached on Geneva Framework on Gender and Media International...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) This meeting was organized by UNESCO in cooperation with the Government of Greece, GAMAG, ITU, UN Women, OHCHR and...
View ArticleGunmen ambush and kidnap at least 26 Qatari nationals in Iraqi desert: officials
Baghdad: About 100 gunmen kidnapped at least 26 Qataris from their desert hunting camp in Iraq near the Saudi border in the early hours of Wednesday, the regional governor and police officials said....
View ArticleUNESCO Memory of the World Programme calls for new nominations for the...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) The documentary heritage nominated must be finite and precisely defined; broad, general or open-ended nominations...
View ArticleChina lays out its vision of the internet: more control, more censorship
Beijing: President Xi Jinping has defended his government's broad censorship of the internet, in a high-profile speech underscoring China's increasingly emphatic attempts to justify its strict online...
View ArticleConfusion clouds Saudi Arabia's anti-Islamic State 'Islamic military coalition'
Riyadh: Some key members of the 34-nation anti-Islamic State coalition announced by Saudi Arabia have a fundamental question: just what is it? Indonesia did not know it was going to be a military...
View ArticleDonald Trump's 'facts' under fire
Of the 75 political claims by Donald Trump during the current campaign that have been vetted by the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact checking organisation Politifact not one – not a single one – has been...
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