Syrian rebel group claims it attacked base used by Russians
BEIRUT - A powerful Syrian rebel group has claimed that it fired several rockets at an airport on the coast said to be used by Russian troops.
BEIRUT - A powerful Syrian rebel group has claimed that it fired several rockets at an airport on the coast said to be used by Russian troops.
Ideal System Solutions gets stake in $20 billion deal, largest award for a Hispanic woman-owned firm.
The on-and-off relationship between the building trade unions and BC Hydro over the Site C project would appear to be on the slide again. “Shouldn’t British Columbians be first to get the jobs to build Site C,” asked the full page advertisement the trades placed recently in the Alaska Highway News and the Prince George Citizen.
When it comes to municipal politics, changes to the public landscape are either debated into paralytic submission or appear in the blink of an eye. A new Vancouver art gallery? Well, we’ll need a decade or two to sort that out. Bike lanes? Get out the Lycra and park the road rage; they’ll be installed tomorrow.
Thousands of migrants surge into Austria after being stuck for days in southeastern Europe
Australian construction manager Caleb Strik is among the millions of Muslims gathered in Saudi Arabia this week for the Haj.
SZENTGOTTHARD, Hungary - Thousands of migrants flooded into Austria on Saturday after days of being shuttling from one country to another or seeing their paths into Western Europe blocked by border guards with dogs, razor-wire fences, barricaded bridges or riot police.
Seventeen officers of marine engineering specialisation course of the INS Shivaji at Lonavla near Pune and INHS Kasturi are participating in a motorcycle expedition to Rann of Kutch and Dwarka which was flagged off to commemorate the 50th year of the Indo-Pak 1965 War.
The latest consolidated figures of district-wise pending cases would be now a click away following the launch of the National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG).
NEW YORK - Getting tickets was the easy part.
JOHANNESBURG - A Danish man was arrested after pieces of female genitalia were found in his house, South African police said on Saturday.
Owasso, cancelled. 2. Mustang (3-0) beat Edmond Memorial 28-24.4. Bixby (2-1) beat Springdale, Ark., 57-38.3. Midwest City (2-1) beat Del City 37-14.5. Lawton Mac (3-0) beat Eisenhower 57-34.2. Ardmore (3-0) beat Gainesville, Texas, 48-7.3. McAlester (3-0) beat Pryor 36-0.5. Collinsville (1-2) lost to Skiatook 13-10.(tie) Altus (3-0) beat Elk City 35-14.Class 4A1. Wagoner (3-0) beat Fort Gibson 42-6.2. Tuttle (3-0) beat Elgin 35-14.(tie) Ada (1-2) lost to Durant 14-7.7. Heritage Hall (3-0)... Читать дальше...
Bernie Sanders brought a "Feel the Bern" coffee cup for Stephen Colbert along with his message of lifting the middle class, and in return received a rock star's welcome from the studio audience as a guest on CBS' "The Late Show" Friday. The Vermont senator and Democratic presidential hopeful also ...
A large number of retired army officers recalled instances of valour and sacrifice by the officers and men of the Indian Army during the 1965 war between India and Pakistan, at a seminar organised by the Southern Command Headquarters in Pune.
Shannon Collins was disgusted at the state of her accommodation at Leeds Beckett University
The problem with headlines about borrowers who paid off their student loans quickly.
Ministry of Railways has been providing special facilities to women passengers for conveniently buying tickets at railway reservation counters.
BOURNEMOUTH, England - Bournemouth scored twice in the opening nine minutes to earn a 2-0 win over struggling Sunderland in the Premier League on Saturday.
Relentlessly paced, with the volatile ferocity of a rabid pitbull, "Schneider vs. Bax" is, above all else, pretty damn funny. That's if you're into Alex van Warmerdam's distinctive brand of humor. He strikes me as the kind of surgeon who would wear a clown nose while preforming a life-or-death operation, just to lighten up the mood in the room. It's this kind of dark, caustic drollness that takes center stage in the Dutch director's absurd comedy of errors about two hitmen pitted against one another. Читать дальше...
Lt. Cmdr. Landon Jones and Chief Warrant Officer Jonathan Gibson had just landed their MH-60 helicopter on the USS William P. Lawrence when a wall of water hit the destroyer and broke the chains attaching the helicopter to the flight deck. The aircraft and its pilots were washed overboard.
Granddad John Eustace is planning to row the Atlantic with his son in November
The massive influx of people to Central Europe in recent days boiled over into a diplomatic spat, while violence broke out on the Slovenian border as migrants sought a new way into the region.
Development Cell of the Railway Board has come up with a design that combines the advantages of vacuum toilets and those of Biotoilets to create a new design of “Hybrid Vacuum Toilet”.
CHICAGO - The Chicago Blackhawks have agreed to terms with defenseman Michal Rozsival on a one-year contract.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Justin Taylan has been to the remote Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea dozens of times over the past two decades, spending countless hours slogging through crocodile-infested swamps in his quest to document as many World War II airplane wreck sites as possible. Since 2013, he has conducted those missions for the newly reorganized Pentagon agency whose predecessor he and others had criticized for years for failing to recover and identify more remains of U.S. service members. Читать дальше...