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Poll shows UK business confidence at four-year low

Edit The Guardian 03 May 2016
A poll of 1,000 chartered accountants by their professional body, the ICAEW, echoed other recent surveys pointing to fragile consumer and business confidence as the referendum approaches ... But it said sales growth in the UK had “slowed significantly” ... Adzuna’s jobs market report, which is based on all online job adverts in the UK, found that in all regions, except Northern Ireland, advertised salaries fell year-on-year in March....

NAIF shouldn't subsidise dirty industries (Australian Greens)

Edit Public Technologies 03 May 2016
I rise to speak on the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility Bill 2016 ... My colleagues today-Senators Siewert, Waters and Whish-Wilson-have already outlined the risks that this northern Australia infrastructure fund could have for our environment, our climate and our local communities ... So to use the northern Australia infrastructure fund to prop up these sorts of coalmines is not sensible investment....

India's smallest hill station to mark biodiversity day for promoting conservation

Edit DNA India 03 May 2016
According to Nitin Walmiki, a naturalist who is part of the NGO Echo Eco, the idea was to create an awareness about Matheran's biodiversity ... This will be the first of its kind baseline survey of species found at this biodiversity hotspot. According to Nitin Walmiki, a naturalist who is part of the NGO Echo Eco, the idea was to create an awareness about Matheran's biodiversity....

Call for Public Assistance - Escapee - Darwin (Northern Territory Police)

Edit Public Technologies 03 May 2016
Northern Territory Police) ... Northern Territory Police are calling for public assistance to ... Northern Territory Police issued this content on 03 May 2016 and is solely responsible for the information contained herein....

Irish Political Leader in 'Hot Water' After Tweeting Racial Slur

Edit Chosun Ilbo 03 May 2016
It is best known as the site where British soldiers killed Irish civilians in August of 1971 during what is known as the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland -- violence that stretched out over more than three decades and took the lives of around 3,500 people ... On Thursday, the Northern Ireland Assembly will hold elections, and opinion polls indicate the Sinn Fein party is expected to win about a quarter of the votes....

‘The Voice’: Salyah Fearing breaks through with passionate ‘My Kind of Love’ performance

Edit Zap2it 03 May 2016
So far, according to Coach Adam Levine, Shalyah Fearing hasn't broken through in this season of "The Voice." ... ‘The Voice’ ... When going to the coaches for their reaction, Blake Shelton echoed the audience's response by saying, "It was kind of wild, the way you performed it and I think that's where you thrive....

High concept, high craft: Fiona Hall's must-see exhibition opens in Canberra

Edit The Guardian 03 May 2016
The first thing you’ll notice is the sound ... The clocks – and their echoing noise – add tension and conceptual depth to a room that’s already brimming with both ... whimsical, otherworldly beings woven from native grasses by Hall and a group of 12 Tjanpi Desert Weavers, when she spent two weeks near Pilakatilyuru, where the Northern Territory, South Australian and Western Australian borders meet....

India, Nepal battle worst forest fires in years

Edit Arabnews 03 May 2016
Nepal and parts of northern India are battling their worst forest fires in years that have devastated thousands of hectares of woodland, killed at least 18 people and sent a pall of smoke across the southern Himalayas that can been seen from space ... The worst forest fires in four years in India’s northern Uttarakhand state have killed at least seven people and disrupted the lives of thousands, an emergency official said on Monday....

Storm as Hugh Orde insists less should be spent on historical abuse cases

Edit Belfast Telegraph 03 May 2016
However, campaigners said there is "no cut-off date for the suffering caused by sexual and other abuse in childhood ... He said the focus should be on people who need protection now ... He is also the former head of the Association of Chief Police Officers ... The Historic Institutional Abuse Inquiry was set up in 2013 to investigate child abuse in residential institutions in Northern Ireland over a 73-year period, up to 1995....

Iran Paying With Blood to Prop Up Syrian Regime

Edit Voa News 03 May 2016
Keeping Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in power has come with a deadly price tag for Iran, which has lost more troops in the war-torn country in the past six months than in the previous two years ... "They serve as the tip of the spear, rather than advisers." ... In contrast, with Russian air support during the Iranian-led February offensive in northern Aleppo, pro-regime forces were able to cut the main supply line for opposition forces....

Leinster take win over Northern Knights

Edit BBC News 03 May 2016
Inter-Provincial Cup holders Leinster Lightning prove much too strong for Northern Knights at Stormont ... ....

Warmer temperatures are affecting lakes in the oilsands region

Edit Science Daily 03 May 2016
Scientists have identified climate warming as the dominant driver of an increase in algal growth in the Athabasca oilsands region of northern Alberta ... ....

Bear cubs as small as kittens captured on video by man in northern Saskatchewan

Edit CBC 03 May 2016
Mario Corrigal has lived in northern Saskatchewan his whole life and has seen thousands of bears during his lifetime. But, never like this ... ....
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