Sweet Australian Shepherd cuddles & comforts great-grandfather
Louie shows us just how special dogs can be as he gets some cuddles in with this great-grandpa. Truly amazing!
Louie shows us just how special dogs can be as he gets some cuddles in with this great-grandpa. Truly amazing!
Instead of the usual water pistols, splashing and jubilant crowds during Myanmar's New Year festival of Thingyan, this year's holiday will see real guns, blood on the streets and grief over a democracy robbed.
PUTRAJAYA, April 12 — Datuk Seri Najib Razak did not dishonestly misappropriate RM42 million from SRC International Sdn Bhd since he did not know of the fund’s source and subsequent utilisation...
In “The Crown,” a dishy naval officer captures the heart of a future queen. How does the Netflix drama’s portrayal of Prince Philip, who died at age 99 on Friday, compare with the man himself and the life he lived with Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II? Prince Philip dwelled in his wife's shadow, and the same goes for Philip in “The Crown,” as the title makes plain.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Monday welcomed a decision by two South Korean electric vehicle battery makers to settle a long-running intellectual property dispute that had threatened thousands of American jobs and President Joe Biden's environmental policies. In agreeing to pay 2 trillion won ($1.8 billion) to LG Energy Solution over stolen trade secrets, SK Innovation can now move ahead with plans to manufacture batteries in Georgia for electrically powered Ford pickup trucks and Volkswagen SUVs. In a series of tweets, Moon said the companies’ last-minute settlement on Sunday was “fortunate” and “very meaningful” and would help stabilize global supply chains in a fast-moving industry that's experiencing growing pains.
Asian shares were lower on Monday, as investors grew wary over the recent surge in coronavirus cases in many places while vaccination efforts are making scant headway. Shares fell in Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Sydney. The declines followed a strong end last week on Wall Street, where gains in technology and health cares stocks pushed the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average to fresh record highs.
Brits rejoiced on Monday as pubs reopened for the first time in months, racing to grab a drink as the clock struck midnight.Hairdressers, gyms and other shops are also set to reopen Monday."Well, after 14 months of not going anywhere except funerals, it's a great plus, yeah, very exciting."For now, pubs and restaurants will be restricted to serving outdoors, as dine-in services won't resume until May 17 at the earliest.Non-essential stores like home and fashion chains will reopen in Wales as well as England, although residents of Scotland will need to wait another two weeks.Hundreds of thousands of businesses have been shut since early January, when England entered a third national lockdown to curb a more highly contagious local variant of the coronavirus.A speedy vaccination campaign has cut COVID-19 cases by some 90% since peaking in January, and COVID-19 deaths by 95%.That progress will allow the staged easing of lockdown to proceed, in what British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called a "major step" towards freedom.Persuading Brits to reopen their wallets as they return to some kind of normalcy is key to the country's recovery.Official data released last month showed that 2020 was the British economy's worst year in more than three centuries, with UK retailers having lost an estimated 27 billion pounds, or 37 billion dollars, in sales during lockdowns.
Protests erupted in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, on April 11, following the death of Daunte Wright after a police shooting earlier in the day.Police announced an investigation into the incident on Sunday. A police statement said Wright was stopped for a traffic violation and was shot by an officer after re-entering the vehicle when officers tried to arrest him over an unrelated outstanding warrant. Wright was pronounced dead after his vehicle had traveled several blocks away.This video shows a crowd of protesters outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department after a chemical irritant was deployed by police to disperse the crowd. Credit: Jaylani Hussein via Storyful
Marc-Andre Fleury made 14 saves for his fifth shutout of the season and moved into a tie with Ed Belfour for fourth place on the all-time wins with his 484th career victory as the Vegas Golden Knights defeated the Arizona Coyotes 1-0 on Sunday afternoon in Las Vegas. Tomas Nosek scored the winner midway through the third period for Vegas, which completed its eighth sweep of a two-game series this season. Fleury, who had to make just four saves in both the second and third periods, also moved into a tie for 15th place on the NHL's all-time shutout list with Patrick Roy with 66th career shutout.
Team SMG, co-founded by Singaporean celebrity JJ Lin, qualified for the Southeast Asian regional league's lower division following a tumultuous second round of the open qualifiers from 8-9 April.
PETALING JAYA, April 12 — Segambut MP Hannah Yeoh today said that reforming political financing in the country should be a priority, especially to address the frequent instances of defections by...
A former banker and Opus Dei devotee -- but above all an enemy of ex-president Rafael Correa -- Guillermo Lasso has returned the conservative right to power in Ecuador, winning Sunday's presidential election after two defeats that failed to discourage him.
An off-work bouncer was having drinks alone at a night club when he witnessed an altercation involving a man wielding a knife.
Chinese tech giant Huawei on Monday said it had reached an agreement with HSBC in Hong Kong to secure documents that its senior executive Meng Wanzhou hopes will help her fight extradition to the United States from Canada.
Iran blames regional arch-foe Israel for Sunday's incident at the Natanz nuclear site and will take its revenge, state TV quoted Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif as saying on Monday. Iranian authorities described the incident a day earlier as an act of "nuclear terrorism" and said Tehran reserves the right to take action against the perpetrators. Iran and world powers held what they described as "constructive" talks last week aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran that Washington abandoned three years ago.
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A spring snow storm struck Windsor Castle on Monday where Queen Elizabeth pondered the huge void left by the death of Prince Philip, her husband of 73 years. Philip, who had been at her side throughout her record-breaking 69-year reign, died at Windsor Castle on Friday. The queen's son, Prince Andrew, said on Sunday that the queen was stoical in the face of a loss that she had described as "having left a huge void in her life".
U.S. colleges hoping for a return to normalcy next fall are weighing how far they should go in urging students to get the COVID-19 vaccine, including whether they should — or legally can — require it. Universities including Rutgers, Brown, Cornell and Northeastern recently told students they must get vaccinated before returning to campus next fall. The question looms large as more colleges plan to shift back from remote to in-person instruction.
Ecuadorean banker Guillermo Lasso unexpectedly won the nation's presidency on promises to revive an economy battered by coronavirus as his rival's vows of a return to socialist largesse failed to win over a skeptical electorate. Lasso took 52% of the vote in the runoff following a campaign that pitted free market economics against the social welfare plans of economist Andres Arauz, a win likely helped by a ballot spoiling campaign that left one in six ballots void. The 65-year-old president-elect will now have to find ways to kick-start a stalled economy while using the same pro-market play book as President Lenin Moreno, who shored up government finances but struggled to create jobs and did not seek re-election.
The 19-year-old is at a career-best ranking of 22 and made his maiden ATP Masters 1000 final earlier this month at the Miami Open. Sinner could meet Djokovic for the first time if he gets past Spain's Albert Ramos-Vinolas in the opening round of this week's Monte Carlo Masters. "I have seen his development, his trajectory, his road to where he is at the moment," said the Serbian, who has a opening round bye at the ATP Masters event on clay.