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Under clearing skies, Hog Bay Park hosted 56 racers in the second last points race for the Fat Tire Massive Mountain Bike Series. With only one race to go, several positions are up in the air as th

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News24, South Africa's largest digital publisher, has launched a new mobile app with personalised features to enhance and showcase its journalism.

The demise of Holden is the result of a vast number of factors – some of which were out of its control.

THE year’s 2020 and you should no longer have to put up with an old creaking spring mattress. That’s why we’ve rounded up the best mattress deals you can get in 2020 to upgrade your bed and get you sleeping better. In the last few years, there’s been umpteen mattress companies starting up online and […]

Engineers and senior officials from Cork County Council are to inspect an 80-metre cargo vessel, which ran aground during Storm Dennis west of Ballycotton yesterday.

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Well, not Michael Gove or Dominic Raab, but almost anyone else

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The much-awaited Champions League Round of 16 encounters are on the horizon but which teams are best placed to qualify in the last eight?

The Bermuda Field Hockey League season resumed at the National Sports Center with a double-header that produced 9 goals. Pink Robins 0 Griffins 0 In the opening match

(Telecompaper) MTN Ghana has announced new packages for February to reward customers for their loyalty. Between 10 and 28 February, selected customers will receive 4G devices, executive gifts set and chocolates...

SALLY NUGENT - a presenter on BBC Breakfast - has taken to Twitter to pay a tribute to ex-Manchester United goalkeeper Harry Gregg, who has died aged 87.

Liverpool are in line to become front runners in the chase for Todd Cantwell after the Norwich midfielder impressed Anfield chiefs in his side's defeat [...]

[News24Wire] Berlin -The 20th Laureus World Sports Awards , being held at the Verti Music Hall in Berlin on Monday, February 17, 2020 will be hosted by star of the big screen, actor, producer and avid sports fan, Hugh Grant .

Former Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Najeeb Jung on Monday demanded an investigation into the incident, the CCTV footage of which is doing rounds on social media showing policemen in riot gears barging into the Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) library and beating students with batons on the night of December 15 last year."A statement should come from the Police on this. If a student entered the library carrying stone that is also condemnable. There should be a proper investigation into this," Jung, who... Читать дальше...

Last week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an interview with the broadcaster NTV that "Russia is currently managing the war there [in Libya] at the highest level”.

Marathi 'kirtankar' (preacher) Nivrutti Maharaj Indurikar has said some people unhappy with his work for society and the Warkari community were trying to trouble him by demanding filing of cases over a recent remark. The Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmulan Samiti (MANS), a voluntary organisation working to eradicate superstitious beliefs, last week sought a police case against Indurikar for remarks on timing of intercourse and gender of child which it claimed violated the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act. Читать дальше...

The first plane carrying US citizens evacuated from a quarantined cruise ship in Japan landed at Travis Air Force Base in California late Sunday. The charter flight touched down around 11:29 pm (0729 GMT Monday) at the base 40 miles (70 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco, an AFP photographer saw. The passengers will be quarantined at the base for 14 days. A second flight carrying the rest of the more than 300 US citizens and family members evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship was... Читать дальше...

Lead prices on Monday traded higher by 35 paise to Rs 149.40 per kg in futures trade.

Thailand has raised more than USD 3.2 billion in an auction of 5G licences, as operators race to snap up high-frequency spectrums needed for a commercial rollout of the next-generation technology. A subsidiary of Advanced Info Services, the country's top mobile operator, dominated Sunday's bidding, securing 23 of the nearly 50 licences up for grabs. Governments around the world are rolling out 5G networks, which offer vastly faster mobile internet speeds. Washington has been pressing countries to... Читать дальше...

France's train giant Alstom said Monday it was in talks to buy Canada's Bombardier Transport rail division. "Discussions are ongoing. No final decision has been taken," Alstom said in a statement as it bids to add scale in a sector where China's state-owned CRRC is the world's largest rolling stock manufacturer. Alstom is making its move a year after seeing the European Commission block an attempt at a mega-merger of its rail activities with Germany's Siemens, which would have created a European rail champion. Читать дальше...

Isha in dreamy Sabyasachi lehenga turns into a royal princess

Monday’s statement is unusually strong and comes a day after the MEA urged Turkey to avoid interfering in domestic affairs of India.

The bizarre TikTok trend appears to have been started by TikTok user @coltyy, who solely drank blue food colouring for 10 days

Trent Boult is back for the hosts!

Quadruple world champion Sebastian Vettel needs a "really good season" to get his F1 career back on track. That is the view of Dr Helmut Marko, the top Red Bull official who brought a then teenaged Vettel into Formula 1 some thirteen years ago. Now 32, the German driver has struggled more recently at Ferrari,.....check out full post »