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Aug.26 (GMM) Pirelli looks set to stay in formula one even beyond 2019. The FIA has put out a tender for the 2020-2023 period, with a switch to 18-inch wheels not happening until 2021. But one insider thinks Pirelli is […]

The Diamondbacks were one out away from a lighthearted victory at Chase Field, but it did not pan out.

WEST SACRAMENTO, CA - In front of a sellout crowd at Raley Field, the Sacramento River Cats (51-80) mustered just four hits and fell to the Las Vegas 51s (64-67) by the final of 6-0.

Sunshine Coast Lightning have secured their second straight Super Netball title after notching a 62-59 win over West Coast Fever in the grand final at Perth Arena.

A group of three Khalistani activists managed to enter the event and started shouting 'Khalistan Zindabad' when Scotland Yard officers tried to escort them out of the venue before Rahul came to the event.

Janmashtami is one of the most widely celebrated festivals of the subcontinent, and this year it would be celebrated on 2nd September 2018

Etim Ekpimah and Tobi Aworinde The Akwa Ibom State Government has said nobody can deter Governor Udom Emmanuel from seeking re-election in 2019. The Personal Assistant to the wife of the governor on Protocol Matters, Mrs Nsikan Ukpanah, who spoke to journalists during a rally by Emmanuel’s supporters in Lagos, on Saturday, said the governor’s […]

Liberal MP Julie Bishop has resigned as Foreign Affairs Minister and will move to the backbench, clearing the way for new Prime Minister Scott Morrison to unveil his new-look cabinet. Ms Bishop, 62, was deputy Liberal leader for more than a decade but she only received 11 votes in last Friday's leadership ballot after Malcolm Turnbull called a spill. In a statement issued on Sunday, Ms Bishop confirmed her decision and move to the backbench, adding she ha been pre-selected by the Liberal Party for... Читать дальше...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is addressing the nation in 47th edition of his monthly radio show 'Mann Ki Baat'.

Former Twins slugger and new Hall of Famer Jim Thome says he’s happy to relive his Twins career at Target Field on Saturday, even if he’s not sure he could repeat some of his most memorable home runs.

The 30-year-old was standing in the 2500 block of West Division Street when someone pulled out a gun and opened fire.

The Roosters hardman is again under fire over his tackling technique after a sickening head clash with Brisbane hooker Andrew McCullough.

Volvo has announced its ambition to ensure that, from 2025, at least 25 per cent of the plastics used in every newly launched Volvo car will be made from recycled material. Volvo Cars also urged auto industry suppliers to work more closely with car makers to develop next-generation components that are as sustainable as possible, […]

Migrants allowed off boat after five-day port dispute; Ireland, Albania, Catholic Church offer to take in migrants

Happy Hayfeverites

Hay fever season is commencing soon, sometime around August 15, and will probably last until sneezeless October 1.Choruses of ker-choos will begin to fill the air as sneezers scurry to amass allergy pills and 4-ply tissues. Although doctors and pharmacists welcome the economic boost, it is no holiday for the sufferers. But it used to be.

Century-old newspapers touted hay fever as being fashionable, deserving of its own special holiday, St. Sneezer’s Day. It was a movable date... Читать дальше...

At a time when casual TV viewers are being suddenly hammered with Presidential slurs and slanders directed frontally at our Press, Dr. Bornet has sat quietly in his retirement home apartment and summed up what newspapers have done for him. They served him as boy, youth in uniform, when getting that Stanford history doctorate, as college instructor, author, editor, and active retiree.

The base of the double equestrian monument to Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson plainly shows the influence of Charlottesville. So does the absence of Lee and Jackson.

In an era of congressional gridlock and political stands determined by opinion surveys, historians are re-evaluating our 28th President, Woodrow Wilson. Born in 1856 in Virginia to a minister, Wilson was pre-occupied with creating a high-minded vision for the United States, a nation he believed possessed a unique moral force in a corrupt world.

In your American history textbook and mine, no matter where or when you encountered it, Roger Williams and the story of Rhode Island came right after the story of William Bradford’s Plymouth colony and John Winthrop’s Massachusetts Bay.  In the hurried trip through the mid-seventeenth century, Williams flees Massachusetts in 1636, founds Rhode Island as a haven for religious dissenters, voices some important ideas about the need to separate church and state, and then pretty much disappears from the narrative. Читать дальше...

A unit of the Bulgarian International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, 1937

Historians know a great deal about CIA history. The US government has acknowledged some 50 Cold War covert actions, from fiddling with Italian elections in the late 1940s to undermining Marxist influence in Yemen in the 1980s. Spy chiefs, practitioners, journalists, and academics have written enough books on the CIA to fill several libraries. Although debate still rages about the good or ill of the CIA, we know the major contours of its history.

“There was not a manual, and there was not anything other than let’s try this, and with the overriding principle that these young people should not have to pay too big a price both in terms of their academic learning, in terms of their safety, by going through this process, because they didn’t volunteer for it either. And we’re all in it, in that sense. And that was the beauty of it, I mean, there were so many beautiful moments, but a lot of ugly stuff.”– Shelton Boyles, a former English teacher... Читать дальше...

When the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the nominees for the 70th edition of the Emmy Awards last month, it wandered, perhaps unwittingly, into the latest season of America’s history wars.