There are parallels between America’s current political situation and the conditions leading to the collapse of the Roman Republic more than 2,000 years ago, according to an International Business Times commentary published on RawStory.com.Ned Resnikoff, political capital reporter for IBT, writes that the Roman Republic was decaying long before Julius Caesar marched on the city in 49 B.C....
A report in the Belfast Telegraph Monday says dinosaurs were already on the path to extinction millions of years before the meteor impact that is widely believed to have wiped them out, scientists said.Experts have always believed dinosaurs were flourishing on Earth just before the disaster struck when a huge asteroid or comet hit the planet just off the coast ofMexico, the report said....
More than a foot of rain in some places flooded low-lying areas across the Houston region on Monday, forcing officials to suspend bus and rail service, close schools and government offices and urge residents to stay home amid what authorities said were extremely dangerous conditions, CNN reported."This is a life-threatening emergency....
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas DarlingNot only is New York State the future face of the two main political parties, but with 400 delegates at stake in Tuesday’s primary race starring presidential hopefuls Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, everything can change in a “New York minute.” Indeed, the Empire State is where millions of immigrants suddenly got a new start in life and fortunes made overnight on Wall Street....
military will join rescuers as they redouble efforts for 10 missing people on the southern island ofKyushu, where many area were cut off by landslides and road and bridge damage. Rescue efforts will be hindered, however, by forecasts of heavy rains, which could make land and collapsed building even more unstable while authorities struggle to feed and care for tens of thousands of people seeking shelter....
Chinese-made products on display at the CantonFair are taking on a new and trendy image thanks to the introduction of cutting-edge technologies such as virtual reality ...Liang Xingmei, a sales manager of game machines' maker, Guangzhou Zhuoyuan Machinery Co, said that the number of orders her company has received at the Canton Fair this year has increased at least 30 percent compared with the previous session of the fair in October....
The cash-strapped Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is mulling ways to boost its revenue, and much to the annoyance of denizens, a hike in parking fees is in the offing, sources say ... Sources said that GHMC commissioner B Janardhan Reddy would announce revised parking fares by the end of this month ... Officials confessed they are aware of this menace and are working towards a solution....
I assumed the Civil Rights Act would protect the rights of anyone who did not want to participate in something against their religious beliefs ... So we do need religious freedom laws to protect the rights of wedding vendors ... Maybe we need an anti-discrimination law to protect the rights of Christians in this country ... Both of these commentaries state there are no statistics backing up transgender men attacking women in bathrooms....
It took 15 years for the Indian Army to reverse one of its own order – an order on which hinged the fate of Sangita Das, the wife of one of the force's former sepoy Pradip Das ... Sangita has now been given a job at the headquarters of 51 Sub Area at Narangi and her daughter admitted to Army Public School in the same cantonment....
According to sources, Agra MP and Union MinisterofState for HRDRam Shanker Katheria played a key role in Hemlata’s defection to BJP and she is likely to contest the forthcoming Assembly polls as BJP nominee from either Agra Rural or Agra Cantonment seats (both reserved for Scheduled Caste) ... “There was a wave in favour of SP in 2012 still I lost the election because of differences and groupism within the organisation in Agra....
CityofPerth) ...Lord MayorLisa Scaffidi said the popular event marked the finale of Eat Drink Perth 2016, the City's 12th annual month-long food festival ... Other first time participants' dishes include Urban Bowl's noodle salad and iced tea, Canton Bar's pan-fried dumplings of beef, vegetable and chilli chicken, Arirang's cup noodle with bbq meats, and NoodleForum's beef or satay chicken noodles, and pork balls in curry sauce....
The comment of the home minister after Samad’s killing is instructive ... The latest killing follows the pattern of previous murders of bloggers ... Nationwide protests against the murder of a young female cultural activist, Sohagi Jahan Tonu, whose body was found in a cantonment in early March, and the investigation which proceeded at a snail’s pace with no arrests and allegations of cover-up, is a case in point....
Indian companies raised nearly Rs 20,000 crore by selling shares through the offer for sale (OFS) mechanism in 2015-16, with PSUs accounting for most of the fund mop-up ... This mechanism has significantly helped the government's disinvestment drive on account of greater transparency and wider market participation ... via OFS route....
The USAC IMRA Midgets return to Spoon RiverSpeedway in Canton, Ill. Saturday and Patrick Bruns ofChampaign, Ill. will try to remain undefeated as the series heads into its second race of the season. Bruns captured the season opening race last Saturday night, leading the final two laps of a hotly-contested 20-lap feature at Spoon River ... Spoon River Speedway (Canton, Illinois) - 3/8-mile, high-banked clay oval....
At the last sitting Stanley Obaliko one of the accused persons was rushed to hospital ... Appearing before the Court, Obaliko and Quarcoe pleaded guilty to the charges of robbery ... The Prosecution said on January 8, this year, around 2000hrs, all the accused persons met at the Koala Shopping Centre at Cantonments and Osabutey, who was a supervisor at the CantonmentsBranch, briefed them about the movement of the complainant....