Новости за 14.01.2021

Republican Congress members defending President Donald Trump made the comparison again before voting against his impeachment.

Secret Service agents often have to worry about death threats and suspicious strangers. But with the arrival of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, they had a new worry: finding a toilet.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said "now is not the time" to be discussing an exit from ultra-easy monetary policy and promised to give plenty of notice before the US central bank would begin to debate scaling back its massive bond-buying campaign.

The measure is the toughest anywhere in the European Union's 27 nations.

Wall Street has been ticking higher overnight, despite a dismal report on the number of layoffs sweeping the world's largest economy, as investors hope for a better outlook and more stimulus from incoming president Joe Biden.

A "less is more" approach is taking hold in the beauty industry – so prepare to pare back your routine.

Beijing has rejected pleas from China's steel mills to lift bans on Australian coal, leaving dozens of ships stranded and clouding the outlook for miners.

A former IOOF executive has accused the wealth manager's deputy chief investment officer Stanley Yeo of sexual harassment.

The government has shut down four businesses since the start of the pandemic and 320 penalty notices have been issued, the Customer Service Minister says.

Prosecutors are revisiting how Flint’s water system was contaminated with lead during one of worst human-made environmental disasters in US history.

The German Chancellor wants a "mega-lockdown", mass-selling newspaper Bild reported, shutting down the country almost completely for fear of a fast-spreading variant of the virus first detected in Britain.

The President has even turned on his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and grown irritated at his lavish spending, telling aides to stop paying him.

Fischbacher became famous for his appearances with white tigers and lions alongside his partner Roy Horn.

Five-time Australian Open runner-up Andy Murray and American Madison Keys have tested positive for COVID-19, only days before planned charter flights to Melbourne.

Prosecutors are revisiting how Flint’s water system was contaminated with lead during one of worst human-made environmental disasters in US history.

For Aboriginal people across this country, January 26 marks a day of mourning.

Business conditions across NSW improved strongly towards the end of last year, but around one in four firms is still at "high risk of failure" once emergency pandemic support measures such as the federal government’s JobKeeper wages subsidy, interest waivers and other hardship measures are withdrawn in coming months.

Yes, Twitter limited Trump’s freedom of speech. But in the circumstances, it was clearly trying to prevent further attempts to undermine American democracy.

Scientists claim the AstraZeneca vaccine could not meet public expectations of getting Australia to the point where “the virus dies out”. But it's unlikely COVID-19 will ever die out.

Why won't the PM condemn the absurd assertions of Craig Kelly MP and others about coronavirus remedies, as the Chief Medical Officer has done?

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Free daily horoscope for each star sign from renowned Astrologer Hedy Damari. Forecasts for the day ahead in life, love and career.

Forty years ago, Australian-raised actress Pamela Stephenson was creating a furore with her incisive impersonations on the satirical Not The Nine O'Clock News.

Heard the one about the Kiwis? Live and let rot policy for Finger Wharf, and boys slow down if mum lights up.