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Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Wednesday he did not know whether the wealthy Gupta family was under investigation on charges of illegally moving money out of the country.

What came next for this female CEO

The number of European migrants working in the United Kingdom has risen by 10 percent this year, reaching 2.15 million, according to a report published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Wednesday.

A series of deadly attacks by Islamic State operatives in and around Baghdad may be a sign that the militants are "reverting to their roots" as a terrorist organization, the top U.S. commander for the Middle East said Wednesday.

– Sambo Dasuki had in January dragged the federal government before the ECOWAS Court asking it to intervene in his detention without trial since December 2015 – The court on Tuesday resumed hearing on the suit filed by Dasuki challenging his continued detention and infringement on his fundamental human rights – The court directed that […]

With a generation of overweight people, most of us are striving really hard just to lose weight not only for health purposes, but also to look good. We are also aware that since a lot of people are struggling with weight loss, a lot of methods, supplements, and techniques have surfaced online claiming excellent results. […]

Spayd succeeds Margaret Sullivan in the key role

WOLFSBURG (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - Het door het dieselschandaal getroffen Volkswagen belooft zijn winstgevendheid te verbeteren en gaat het beloningsbeleid voor het hoogste management onder de loep nemen. Daarmee wil het Duitse autoconcern tegemoetkomen aan kritiek van aandeelhouders.

European football's governing body will choose a successor to the Frenchman after he resigned from his post after his ban from football activity was upheld by CAS

Deadly bombings in Baghdad may signal a shift in tactics by the Islamic State, determined to rebound from a series of battlefield losses and the group's hope that attacks in the capital will distract already divided Iraqi leaders, a top U.S. general said Wednesday.

​A coalition of artists, museum directors and the heads of art schools has attacked the Australia Council's four-year funding program, which resulted in several visual arts organisations losing critical financial support.

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LOS ANGELES, May 18 (UPI) -- "UnREAL" stars Freddie Stroma and Johanna Braddy are engaged according to the actor's rep.

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) on Wednesday demanded “an increase of 18% for the lowest-paid workers and 15% for the highest paid-workers” from Eskom.

Nonprofit hospitals are working to become more transparent financially for the sake of bondholders, which are pressing for more disclosure and openness.

Historians like me owe a debt of gratitude to Donald Trump. He is the spectacularly-coifed embodiment the Republican Party's id, the avatar of the party's dark forces which have been swirling since the late 1960s, and with the volume turned up to 11. As such, he makes my job of explaining the GOP's transformation from the Age of Eisenhower to the Age of the Tea Party so much easier.

The through-lines are pretty familiar by now: Nixon began the process of turning the GOP into the Party of Angry... Читать дальше...

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Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson plays Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane on Game Of Thrones and he's a very giant man. He's 6'7" and weighs almost 400 lbs.

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Björnsson is a professional bodybuilder, has an insane diet plan, and he's just sort of all-around terrifying.

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Except ... he also has a new Pomeranian puppy named Asterix!

– Senator Shehu Sani warned the federal government against intimidating the Nigerian Labour Congress and its leaders – He condemned the government for “campaign of calumny and blackmail” against the NLC that has embarked on a nationwide protest – Sani stressed that the NLC has the right to protest or opt for a dialogue with the government or […]

Israeli police arrested three people in Jerusalem suspected of a criminal assistance a person, the police said Wednesday.

An out-of-control SUV slammed into a cab coming out of Central Park on Tuesday night, sending it spinning into a woman, sources said.

University of Pretoria captain Tebogo Monyai is losing sleep over the fact that his beloved AmaTuks could get relegated at the end of this season.

(AP) — Gov. John Bel Edwards' effort to remove an unused method for creating charter schools has passed its first hurdle in the House, after earlier winning Senate support. A law enacted in 2012 allows state-approved local groups to authorize the creation of charter schools, which are public schools that run separately from the management of local school boards.

A thorough and enlightening guide to the grand vision of the technology’s enthusiasts

ALMELO – Het komt steeds vaker voor: ouderen die opgelicht worden door middel van (babbel) trucs. Wijkagent van de Windmolenbroek komt dinsdag 31 mei met een collega voorlichting geven over veiligheid.

An international yoga conference opened in the southwestern city of Kunming on Wednesday, bringing more than a thousand yogis together.