Новости за 07.12.2017

The group said that the northern elders only re-echoed the position of the PDP southern leaders meeting which was held at the Rivers state Government House.

Le ministre de l'Éducation Sébastien Proulx a présenté ce matin son projet de loi 166 visant à uniformiser la taxation scolaire par région, afin d'en finir avec les fortes variations entre différentes commissions scolaires présentes sur un même territoire. La taxe scolaire sera ainsi fixée, à compter de l'an prochain (2018-2019), en fonction du plus bas taux en vigueur cette année dans chacune des 17 régions administratives.

Le ministre de l'Éducation Sébastien Proulx a présenté ce matin son projet de loi 166 visant à uniformiser la taxation scolaire par région, afin d'en finir avec les fortes variations entre différentes commissions scolaires présentes sur un même territoire. La taxe scolaire sera ainsi fixée, à compter de l'an prochain (2018-2019), en fonction du plus bas taux en vigueur dans chaque région cette année.

NELSPRUIT – The maturity that Noxolo and her twin sister Sinoxolo Cesane play with in their fourth successive Sasol League National Championships is a double-edged sword according to the 18-year-old Cape Town Roses midfielder.

Desi Rodriguez and Myles Powell will lead red-hot Seton Hall into a clash against Virginia Commonwealth on Saturday.

The Royals were bought in September by a Kitchener businessman after folding midway through the 2017 season.

Watch out for corpses crossing. An empty body bag slid out of the back of a hearse at a busy crossroads in Auckland, New Zealand. “I was a bit shocked,” said the driver, who caught the morbid mishap on dashcam. “I heard this noise, and the next thing you know, I see the stretcher with...

Today the girls are taking their eighth grade school pictures. What used to be a quick pull-something-out-of-the-closet moment, became a multi-week event.

The girls went through their closets only to declare that they had nothing to wear. I stared at them blankly, reminding them that they had many, many dresses I haven't seen on them lately. They insisted that they couldn't wear a single thing in their closets.

After a few shopping trips, the girls had dresses. They spent some time... Читать дальше...

Gaza - At least 31 people were wounded by Israeli army gunfire and rubber bullets, medics said, in Palestinian protests in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip on Thursday after the United States recognised Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

Brüssel (dpa) - Die EU-Kommission hat die Einigung auf schärfere Kapitalvorgaben für Banken im Rahmen der sogenannten Basel-III-Regeln begrüßt. «Die heute im Basel-Ausschuss beschlossenen Maßnahmen bilden das letzte große Stück der Reformen, die im Zuge der Finanzkrise eingeleitet wurden», sagte EU-Finanzkommissar Valdis Dombrovskis am Donnerstag in Brüssel. Internationale Zusammenarbeit in dem Bereich sei entscheidend, um Finanzstabilität rund um den Globus sowie gleiche Wettbewerbsbedingungen für Banken zu garantieren. Читать дальше...

Kabul (dpa) - A flight carrying a group of failed asylum seekers deported from Germany touched down in Kabul on Thursday, the International Organization for Migration confirmed.There were 27 people on board the plane from Frankfurt, the biggest such group since January, sources told dpa. A spokeswoman for the German Ministry of the Interior (BMI) said that 17 of them were considered criminals and another eight were "people who actively refused to cooperate in establishing their identity."Two were... Читать дальше...

Filed under: Finance, Business, Companies

• Lyft has begun offering self-driving rides in Boston.
• The autonomous vehicles have human backup drivers ready to take the wheel if any problems arise.
• The move points to an opportunity for Lyft to gain market share as rival Uber deals with financial distress and a series of scandals.

The race to establish a reliable, autonomous ride-hailing service just took an important turn.

• GM is launching a feature... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the House's conservative leaders indicated Thursday that Republicans have the votes needed to approve legislation preventing a weekend partial government shutdown. With Senate passage also considered likely, the remarks by Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., seemed to erase any doubt that Congress would approve legislation keeping federal agencies afloat through Dec. 22. Their money runs out at midnight Friday without approval of fresh funding. But hours before President Donald Trump... Читать дальше...

Activist investor Mick McGuire — who has been struggling to get on the board of the company that makes Ugg boots — just got a foot plant. Influential proxy advisory firm ISS recommended late Wednesday that shareholders vote for three nominees to the board of Deckers Outdoor that have been put forward by McGuire’s hedge...

Andreas Rentz / Getty Images

• Furniture giant IKEA is making big changes to its business model — like acquiring TaskRabbit, creating an AR app, and selling furniture on third-party websites.
• Its structure is changing to match evolving customer preferences.
• Saving customers time and money, as well as giving them a range of choices, creates brand loyalty.
• IKEA's emphasis on a unique experience draws more people to its store and website.

IKEA... Читать дальше...

A scuba diver was exploring the ocean floor off the Egypt’s coast when he came across a bizarre statue of a donkey wearing a trilby. The weird discovery was captured on a video, which has been recently shared online.

Frankfurt/Main (dpa) - KfW-Chef Ulrich Schröder legt sein Amt aus gesundheitlichen Gründen zum Jahresende nieder. Das teilte die staatliche Förderbank am Donnerstag nach einer Sitzung ihres Verwaltungsrats in Frankfurt mit. Die Entscheidung sei auf Wunsch Schröders gefallen. Nachfolger soll Schröders Stellvertreter Günther Bräunig werden. Der 62-jährige Manager ist seit 1989 in verschiedenen Funktionen für die KfW tätig. Er führt nun das Institut zunächst übergangsweise und wurde offiziell als Nachfolger vorgeschlagen. Читать дальше...

This post is brought to you in partnership with Joule: Sous Vide by ChefSteps. 

“Hallelujah” is one of the most famous and iconic songs of all time, but still, Kristen Wiig can’t seem to sing the song properly. Wiig was a guest on “The Late Late Show With James Corden” on Wednesday night, and the duo wanted to spread some holiday cheer in these turbulent times by singing a rendition of Leonard Cohen’s classic. Everything went well, until Corden realized Wiig’s pronunciation of the word “Hallelujah” wasn’t quite right. See Video: James Corden's First-Annual 'Late Late Show' Christmas Giveaway Totally Sucks “I’m sorry... Читать дальше...

Stockholm (dpa) - Der diesjährige Literaturnobelpreisträger Kazuo Ishiguro sieht die Zeit seit dem Fall der Berliner Mauer als «eine der Selbstgefälligkeit, der verlorenen Möglichkeiten». Dadurch vermehrten sich jetzt rechte Ideologien und Nationalismus auf der Welt. Eine vielfältigere, weniger konservativ denkende Literatur könne helfen, wieder eine gemeinsame Vision zu entwickeln, sagte der 63-Jährige am Donnerstag in seiner Nobelrede in Stockholm. «In Zeiten gefährlich zunehmender Spaltung müssen wir zuhören»... Читать дальше...

On most matchdays at Old Trafford, Paul Pogba would be irreplaceable. But when Manchester City visit on Sunday, he might not be.The French midfielder is so crucial to Manchester United that their entire play revolves around him. None of their players can do what he does; just look at their attacking stats – passes, dribbles, through-balls – and he often comes out top.Yet what these numbers have in common is that they’re measured when United are in possession. Their reliance on Pogba hits its peak when they have the ball. Читать дальше...

Jason Dasey and PJ Roberts evaluate Australia's World Cup group and assess whether they or any other Asian teams can progress. Coaches and fans could be the next stakeholders given a seat at an expanded Football Federation Australia congress table as FIFA prepares to wade into the sport's governance gridlock. A delegation of officials from FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation will visit Australia in the New Year to take charge of a "congress review working group" and resolve a months-long political dispute. Читать дальше...

Five days after a dog in KZN was chained to a fence and shot with a high calibre rifle, an inspector from the local SPCA found the animal still alive.

Spokesperson for the National Council of SPCAs (NSPCA), Grace de Lange said this week that their offices only learnt of the November 25 incident after the video footage emerged on social media at the weekend.

The graphic clip was widely circulated and in it, a man can be seen opening fire on a dog chained to a fence. Читать дальше...