AG Barr: 21 Saudi military students being removed from US training program after deadly shooting, returning home
WASHINGTON (AP) — AG Barr: 21 Saudi military students being removed from US training program after deadly shooting, returning home.
WASHINGTON (AP) — AG Barr: 21 Saudi military students being removed from US training program after deadly shooting, returning home.
Inter Milan beat champions Juventus 2-0 to move level on points with Serie A leaders AC Milan on Sunday, boosting their hopes of a first league title since 2010.
The New York Knicks snapped their five-game NBA losing streak in emphatic style Sunday, holding the host Celtics to a season-low total in a 105-75 blowout win.
Eight months after an unsuccessful first attempt, Virgin Orbit finally lived up to its name today and used an innovative air-launch system to send 10 satellites to orbit. With backing from British billionaire Richard Branson, Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne system capitalizes on a concept that Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen funded 17 years ago. The air-launch concept won SpaceShipOne a $10 million prize back in 2004. Today, it plays an essential role not only for LauncherOne, but also for Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo system and the Stratolaunch venture that Allen founded in 2011. Virgin Orbit’s modified Boeing 747 jet, nicknamed Cosmic Girl, serves… Read More
South Africa's Rugby World Cup winner Eben Etzebeth made his return from concussion in Toulon's 29-23 victory at Racing 92 in the French Top 14 on Sunday.
"But I hope people relate."
Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor, is under pressure to slash taxes to promote the Government’s “levelling up” agenda and prolong the stamp duty holiday to help homebuyers who risk an extra tax bill in April. Council tax should be a key target for reform, according to the think tank Onward in research for the Levelling Up Taskforce, which counts 65 “red wall” MPs among its backers. At the same time Rightmove, the estate agency website, warned 100,000 agreed home sales could risk being derailed by the end of the stamp duty holiday at the start of April. Ministers have pledged an infrastructure spending boom to tackle regional inequalities but Onward director Will Tanner warned “ministers are trying to overturn decades of regional economic divergence with one hand tied behind their back” by overlooking tax policy. Its report found Londoners pay an average £481 per head in council tax, the lowest in England despite much higher property prices, and 20pc less than households in poorer areas such as the South West and East of England. Cutting the lowest band of council tax would also benefit more than half of households in the North East compared to just 4pc in London due to the regressive nature of the tax, Onward added. But raising the rate for the top three bands would hit 15pc of all households in London and the South East, it added.
Two members of South America's only bear species -- a mother and her cub -- have been spotted exploring the ruins of the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, where tourist numbers have been restricted due to the pandemic.
Donald Trump will leave office with his approval rating at an all-time low, according to a new poll. Mr Trump is now likely to complete his term in the White House with Mike Pence, the vice president, refusing to invoke the 25th amendment to remove him from office and an impeachment hearing due to begin after Joe Biden is inaugurated. The storming of Capitol Hill and Mr Trump’s refusal to accept that Mr Biden won the election has caused considerable damage to his reputation, a poll by Pew Research has found. His approval rating has slumped to 29 per cent – a fall of nine points since last August. Ominously for Mr Trump, who is said to be planning to run for the White House in 2024, his rating among Republicans has plummeted even more spectacularly.
New York police officers supervising, arresting, and fining street vendors is officially over, and it's one step closer to tolerance.
Pobeda flight DP936 was a few minutes into its descent towards Moscow's Vnukovo airport, where thousands of supporters of poisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny were waiting to meet him on his return to Russia, when the flight captain said he could not land as planned. It was the first sign to those on board that Navalny's return from Berlin, where he had been treated since August after being attacked in Russia with the military-grade nerve agent Novichok, was not going smoothly.
Clinical Chico Ushindi scored just after half-time to give the Democratic Republic of Congo a 1-0 win over Congo Brazzaville Sunday and the lead in Group B of the African Nations Championship (CHAN).
WeWork pulled out of more than £320m worth of lease agreements with UK landlords last year as it attempted to reduce its ballooning property exposure amid the pandemic. The office rental company terminated at least four major leases in the UK, according to a Telegraph analysis of documents filed at Companies House. The exits came after its total lease liabilities in the UK had swelled to £4.2bn at the end of 2019, a billion-pound increase over the year. WeWork, the SoftBank-backed office space company, was forced to pull out of a £47bn flotation in 2019 due to questions from investors and revelations about the erratic conduct of its founder Adam Neumann.
Ali Abbas Zafar’s explosive Amazon Prime Video India political drama “Tandav,” which began streaming Jan. 15, has drawn the ire of Hindu nationalist lawmakers. Manoj Kotak, a member of parliament from Mumbai, has written to India’s information and broadcasting minister Prakash Javadekar, asking for a ban on “Tandav,” accusing the creative team — in which […]
Manchester City steamed into second place in the Premier League with defender John Stones scoring an unlikely double in a 4-0 demolition of visiting Crystal Palace on Sunday. Central defender Stones, closing in on 100 Premier League appearances for City, headed his first league goal for the club after a sublime cross by Kevin de Bruyne in the 26th minute. Ilkay Gundogan curled in a delightful second 11 minutes after the interval before Stones was in the right place to fire home a loose ball with his left foot in the 68th minute.
The 35-year-old Sauerbrunn, a two-times World Cup champion, 2012 Olympic gold medallist and two-time National Women's Soccer League champion, previously served as co-captain of the national team from 2016-18. Her appointment as captain was announced by head coach Vlatko Andonovski during a conference call ahead of the team's friendly against Colombia on Monday.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was detained by police on January 17 as he returned to Moscow five months after he was poisoned, according to his press secretary and Russian state news agency Tass.This footage shows a large crowd gathered at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport ahead of his arrival from Germany. According to Tass, Navalny was arrested for “repeatedly” violating his probation as ordered in a 2014 conviction for fraud. He is set to be held by authorities until he appears in court.Local reports said 58 people were arrested in Moscow and seven in St Petersburg during gatherings related to Navalny’s return.Video filmed by Andrei Bystrov from Sheremetyevo Airport shows a large crowd gathered in an arrivals hall. Bystrov said the videos show Navalny’s wife, Yulia, leaving the airport. Credit: Андрей Быстров via Storyful
John Stones admitted he had to go back to basics to regain Pep Guardiola's faith after scoring twice as Manchester City thrashed Crystal Palace 4-0 on Sunday.
Italy is set to pay the UK £140m to avoid being kicked off Britain’s railways – despite running the nation’s most punctual train service. State-owned Trenitalia, which operates the c2c network linking Essex and the City, is understood to have struck a deal in principle with the UK Government. It will pay the penalties to “stay in the game” as a curtain falls on 25 years of rail franchising. The finer details of an agreement are currently being thrashed out in tightly-guarded talks, according to industry sources. A Government announcement will be made by the end of January. Rail franchising, where rail operators pay a fee to the Exchequer in return for collecting fares, was scrapped by Grant Shapps, the Transport Secretary, in September. Fixed fee contracts will be gradually introduced in their place, along with an outsourcing model similar to that used by the NHS and schools However, Treasury officials feared that by swapping franchise agreements for outsourcing contracts, loss-making operators could be let off the hook for additional payments owed to the Exchequer. They instructed counterparts in the Department for Transport to collect deposits from the train companies. The Sunday Telegraph revealed in October that ministers were demanding £500m in so-called “termination payments” from five operators to move onto new contracts called “Ermas”.
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