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Republican front-runner mistakenly mentioned the name of a popular convenience store chain

Is there any justification for a royal commission into the conduct of the banks? Is it just a political stunt? All royal commissions are called for political reasons and many are stunts, in the sense that their primary objective is just to bring particular issues into the public spotlight.

Leave camp describes European free-trade zone

Apple has revamped its MacBook to include new finish options, faster chips and more battery life.

Viber, one of the world’s leading messaging apps with more than 711 million unique users worldwide, today announces complete end-to-end encryption across all devices including Android, iPhone, iPad, Android tablets, PC and Mac desktops. This feature will be available over the coming weeks to all users who have the latest version of Viber. It includes […]

Emily Blunt is on thin ice with Charlize Theron's son Jackson. The actress plays Freya, the Ice Queen, in Universal Pictures' The Huntsman: Winter's War. Ahead of the...

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Activist investors seem to be everywhere right now.

Last year, the number of activist campaigns in the US spiked to its highest level in at least a decade.

Now the line is blurring between who is an activist investor — and who isn't.

That's according to Goldman Sachs' Steven Barg and Avinash Mehrotra, coheads of the mergers and acquisitions shareholder advisory business.

"Companies are judging an idea put forth by shareholders on its... Читать дальше...

National First Division club AmaZulu have parted ways with head coach Steve Barker, the club confirmed in a statement.

A D.C. police officer dry-fired a weapon at the head of another officer during roll call over the weekend, according to a report.

Nearly 18 inches of rain has fallen on parts of the Houston area in two days. In the state's biggest city, schools are closed and subdivisions have flooded. More rain is predicted for Tuesday.

SANAA, Yemen - Yemeni security officials say a member of the country's Jewish minority has been detained over allegations he helped smuggle an 800-year-old scroll to Israel.

NAIJ.com findings on Tuesday, April 19, show that the naira has plummeted against the dollar in the parallel market. This is coming after the Nigerian currency had remarkably strengthened against the dollar in parallel market on Monday, April 18. According to our Bureau De Change (BDC) source, the naira now trades for between N319 and […]

“If he is within 20 or 30 within the nomination, they have to give it to him,” the former New York City mayor said.

Sweden’s minister for housing and IT has announced he is stepping down following a week of controversies including the emergence of footage where he compared the treatment of Palestinians by Israel to that of the Jews by the Nazis. Mehmet Güner Kaplan recently come under fire for his alleged ties to Islamic organisations and Turkish ultranationalists. The pressure increased over the weekend when Swedish media published seven-year-old footage of him comparing Israel’s policies towards the Palestinians to the Nazis persecution of the Jews. Читать дальше...

Some patients undergoing breast implants at a prominent Australian cosmetic-surgery chain were given dangerously high doses of powerful drugs that knocked them out without their consent, an investigation reveals.

Some of the same models were recalled last year, too.