(Reuters) - Saudi-led air strikes in Yemen's central city of Taiz late on Thursday killed 43 people and wounded 50 others, according to a report by the Saba news agency which is controlled by the Houthi movement targeted by Riyadh.
COLOMBO, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Retiring home hero Kumar Sangakkara featured in a brief rebuilding act in his final test as Sri Lanka reached 140-3 in reply to India's first innings total of 393 on day two of the second test on Friday.
AMSTERDAM, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem urged Greece on Friday to hold elections as soon as possible to avoid delays in implementing the country's third bailout package.
Jose Mourinho said today that Chelsea's new signing Pedro's readiness to walk away from one of the greatest clubs in the world in Barcelona was all the reassurance he needed that the Spanish winger's ambition burned as bright as ever.
Before his contributions to Dr Dre’s Compton brought him wider recognition, multi-talented Afro-Korean Anderson .Paak pursued a varied and intriguing career, including an attempt to reverse the old tradition of white artists covering black originators, by treating songs by Neil Young, The Beatles and White Stripes as jazz-funk.
Previously best known as singer/bassist with Dirty Projectors, Angel Deradoorian has subsequently worked with Flying Lotus and Avey Tare, which gives some idea of the out-there psychedelic territory explored on The Expanding Flower Planet.
Reprising the format of Yo La Tengo’s 25-year-old Fakebook album, this features just two new songs alongside a handful of re-recorded items from their back catalogue, and a preponderance of cover versions.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Allyson Felix will not decide whether to try a sprint double at next year's Rio de Janeiro Olympics based on her performance at the Beijing world championships, she said on Friday.
For her latest album, country singer Lindi Ortega split sessions between Nashville and Muscle Shoals.
“Show me the foothold from which I can climb,” sings Yannis Philippakis in “Mountain at My Gates” from this fourth Foals album – and indeed, there’s evidence here of a questing determination to find new paths.
BERLIN (Reuters) - Daimler's chief executive said "different types" of cooperation with Apple and Google are possible as carmakers realize next-generation autos cannot be built without greater input from telecoms and software experts.
“You have to put a pound in, sir.” I step back from the steering wheel and almost apologetically feed a £1 coin into the slot. A light on the dashboard in front of me turns green and I push on the throttle.
The blowback from the Pentagon’s announcement that it’s looking into moving terror detainees held at the Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, continues.
With M3LL155X – pronounced “Melissa”, and apparently code for her “personal female energy” – FKA twigs confirms the evidence furnished by last year’s LP1 that she is the most dynamic and imaginative young talent working in British pop music today.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's public finances recorded their first July surplus in three years, as the country's economic upturn spurred the strongest income tax receipts for the month since records began in 1997.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's public finances recorded their first July surplus in three years, as the country's economic upturn spurred the strongest income tax receipts for the month since records began in 1997.
* UK public finances record first July surplus in three years
Authorities say a 70-year-old man who fell while walking the woods near his western New York home survived a week outdoors by drinking rain water.
After the poet, musician and activist Gil Scott-Heron died in 2011, his protégé and surrogate son, Malik Al Nasir, decided to pay tribute to him in Liverpool, the place where they first met. After years of work, this event, The Revolution Will Be Live: A Tribute to Gil Scott-Heron, takes place on Thursday as part of Liverpool International Music Festival. Here, the various voices taking part in the event pay their respects to a man who touched their lives.
Быел районыбызда 102 сабый дөньяга аваз салган.
Кызларга Айзилә, Алинә, Эльвина исемнәрен еш кушалар икән. Ә малай алып кайтучы аналар Ислам, Кәрим, Самир исемнәрен өстен күрәләр.
Узган ел белән чагыштырганда никахларын рәсми теркәүчеләр быел күбрәк. 82 пар язылышкан, август ахырына кадәр тагын 18 гариза алынган. Күңелне сөендерә, аерылушычылар саны да кимегән.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Real Sociedad coach David Moyes believes it is too early for the club to target a berth in Europe for next season and says he is still looking to strengthen his squad before the transfer window closes at the end of the month.
HELSINKI/VIENNA, Aug 21 (Reuters) - European policymakers said on Friday they expected Greece to press on with reforms agreed under its new bailout regardless of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' decision to resign and seek new elections.
“I’m such an emotional person that when it comes to songwriting I can click into whatever zone I need,” admits singer-songwriter Natalie Prass, as we’re both propped, side-by-side, on a kitchen unit at the back of Islington’s Town Hall. The American soul singer, who has a delicate, bird-like frame and big soft brown eyes, is a fidgety presence, rarely making eye contact and constantly fiddling with her long, black hair.
Deere & Co. on Friday cut its full-year outlook because it expects the weak agriculture and energy sectors to continue dragging down equipment sales.
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp on Friday confirmed it will close Nokia Oyj's former handset product development unit in Salo, Finland, and will cut a total of up to 2,300 jobs in the Nordic country.
