Новости за 22.04.2016

Playing tennis on clay at the highest level requires athletes to train hard and maintain superb fitness levels.

North Melbourne boast the best trio of tall forwards in the AFL and the unbeaten Kangaroos will be licking their lips at the prospect of an undersized Gold Coast at Metricon Stadium this weekend.

The further you were from the game, the better last year's day-night Test match was.

The sharemarket rally fizzled, as investors took profits in miners and energy stocks.

– Southwest rejects PDP zoning of presidency to north – The Southwest leaders say the Yoruba people had played a very significant role in the advancement and growth of the PDP – They claim that the Yoruba people are being elbowed out of the leadership of the party What can be regarded as a brewing crisis has […]

Some of SA’s leading health figures and civil-society groups have endorsed the implementation of the sugar-sweetened beverages tax.

ISTANBUL - Four Turkish academics are going on trial in Istanbul accused of spreading "terrorist propaganda" for signing a declaration denouncing the renewed conflict with Kurdish rebels.

In a separate courtroom also Friday, the closed-door trial resumes for two prominent opposition journalists who are accused of espionage and aiding a terrorist organization for their reports on alleged government arms-smuggling to Syria, as Turkey continues to clamp down on dissenting voices.

(AP) — A 36-year-old man has been convicted of murder in the death of a man whose body was found on tidal mudflats near a wastewater treatment plant in Coos Bay. The Register-Guard reports (http://bit.ly/1WgF5X0 ) that Shawn Yamate was also found guilty Thursday of conspiracy to tamper with a witness, attempted tampering with physical evidence and abuse of a corpse.

This is the weekend that has been 400 years in the making.

De rechten van werknemers in Indonesië zijn alleen maar verder ingeperkt sinds het aantreden van president Joko Widodo. Zo heeft zijn regering een wet aangenomen waardoor de vakbonden niet meer zelf over een minimumloon kunnen onderhandelen. Dat zegt de FNV vrijdag. Widodo kwam donderdagavond in ons land aan voor een bezoek van een dag.

China's National Anti-Doping Agency laboratory is suspended for up to four months by the World Anti-Doping Agency.

As tensions run high between Washington and Riyadh amid Obama’s meeting with the leaders of the Gulf countries, experts note that Saudi Arabia is not the only state with which the US is currently ill at ease – Israel is another Middle Eastern country where tension plagues bi-lateral relations and probably won't subside before Obama's term ends.

Bjorn Kjos, CEO of Norwegian Air Shuttle, talks about the airline industry and says his company is not competing with low-cost Ryanair and EasyJet.

Western Sydney Wanderers striker Mark Bridge will delay any decision on his future until after the A-League finals following interest from overseas clubs.

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A disused rubbish dump in Melbourne's west was marketed and sold multiple times in a multi-million dollar scam that deepens the land banking scandal centred on notorious property spruiker, Henry Kaye.

Brooklyn went crazy celebrating the life of Prince on Thursday night, as hundreds of fans flocked to Fort Greene.

From now until the end July, fans of The Dressmaker film can admire its 1950s fashion in person at an exhibition at Rippon Lea House and Gardens in Elsternwick.

Residents in California have reported that sidewalks are opening and lifting up from the ground, as the force that caused the recent earthquakes in Ecuador and Japan has now begun affecting California. Experts have warned that pressure from the Pacific Tectonic plate threatens to crush the west coast of America.  According to photographs submitted by a resident in Palm Springs, California is about to suffer a very large earthquake in the next few days. Theprepperdome.com reports: These photos, posted... Читать дальше...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — While the whole country is talking about the North Carolina law that limits protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, a new survey shows one group that largely refuses to discuss it: the lawmakers who…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — While the whole country is talking about the North Carolina law that limits protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, a new survey shows one group that largely refuses to discuss it: the lawmakers who…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — While the whole country is talking about the North Carolina law that limits protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, a new survey shows one group that largely refuses to discuss it: the lawmakers who…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — While the whole country is talking about the North Carolina law that limits protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, a new survey shows one group that largely refuses to discuss it: the lawmakers who passed it. The law says that in government buildings as well as public schools and universities, transgender people must use bathrooms corresponding with the gender on their birth certificate. The law has drawn widespread criticism from equality advocates... Читать дальше...

Publishing the draft review of SA’s Mining Charter without proper consultation was “premature”, according to Anglo American.