Twelve people suspected of planning new terror attacks were arrested in Brussels on Friday and Saturday after police carried out about 40 house searches across Belgium, the federal prosecutor’s office said in a statement. It said a total of 40 people had been questioned after the raids. “In connection with a criminal investigation concerning terrorism... ....
A decision by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) governing body Friday will force Russian track and field athletes to miss the Rio Olympics after the sport's governing body decided unanimously to keep a ban in place ahead of the Games, SkyNews reported.In November, the IAAF provisionally suspended the country’s athletes from competition....
“Groups like ISIS want to claim that they are the true leaders of over a billion Muslims…who reject their crazy notions” said the president ... was fighting Nazism during World War II and Communism during the Cold War, but still they were simply byproducts of a more traditional battle of the wills between nations.Whether Republicans get their ideological war, nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance....
photo: Public Domain / Facebook/ Attanai Thaiyuanwong
How often do you see a Godzilla-sized lizard knocking your door? On Wednesday a Thai resident captured a video of his encounter with a giant reptile, who was knocking on his door trying to get into his house. Attanai Thaiyuanwong found this huge lizard trying to make his way into his place and within no time shared the photos of it on Facebook ... . ....
Earth's most remote continent has officially caught up to the rest of the planet. That spells disaster for us all. We’re officially living in a new world. Carbon dioxide has been steadily rising since the start of the Industrial Revolution, setting a new high year after year. There’s a notable new entry to the record books. The last station on Earth without a 400 parts per million (ppm) reading has reached it. A little 400 ppm history....
Among them were Parks and Cemeteries Agency head Ratna Diah Kurniati, Information and Technology Agency head Ii Karunia and Urban...There are targets that I have failed to meet,” Ii said....
State-owned airport operatorAngkasa Pura (AP) II initially planned to launch operations on June 20 at Terminal 3Ultimate, which the company hopes will put Soekarno-Hatta, the country’s main gateway, on a par with Singapore’s Changi and Seoul’s Incheon international airports ... Terminal 3 Ultimate is an ambitious AP II project worth around Rp 7 trillion (US$525 million)....
There's good news for people with type II diabetes who have been struggling to control their blood sugar levels even after being on multiple medicines and insulin ... "In 2009, we conducted a pilot study where around 15 type II diabetes patients underwent gastric bypass surgery and showed good results....
The railways will add one AC 3-tier and II sleeper coaches each ... The train has seven coaches of II sleeper, two AC 3-tier and one AC 2-tier besides ......
16 teams are competing at StadeLouisII for the one remaining place at the Rio Games, and Ireland enjoying an unbeaten run to safely qualify from Pool A for tomorrow's Cup quarter-finals ... ZIMBABWE 12 IRELAND 24, Stade Louis II ... SAMOA 21 IRELAND 27, Stade Louis II ... TONGA 12 IRELAND 31, Stade Louis II ... IRELAND MEN'S SEVENS Squad (GlobalOlympicSevens Qualifying Tournament, Stade Louis II, Monaco, Saturday, June 18-Sunday, June 19).....
With the birthday of Queen ElizabethII this month, her photo appeared everywhere, and Vanity Fair featured photos of of Queen ElizabethII and her Corgis and Dorgis on their cover. Queen Elizabeth, along with her sister, Princess Margaret, raised Corgis and then Dorgis (Corgi and Dachshund mixes) for over eight decades, and Queen Elizabeth II still mills about with her herd of Corgyn....
John Gant, the rookie righty with the weird windup, earned his first big league win by beating the team that traded him away last summer, pitching the Atlanta Braves past the New York Mets 5-1 on Friday night ... They started the day tied with Minnesota for the worst record in baseball ... (AP Photo/FrankFranklinII) ... Cincinnati ... (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) ... (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) ... A.J ... (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II). TRAINER'S ROOM. Braves ... ....
Accra, June 17, GNA - As part of its contribution towards ensuring free, fair and peaceful general election in November, the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) in partnership with Law and DevelopmentAssociates (LADA) Institute has launched the Star-Ghana II project ... He said LADA Institute would offer technical and research support to the Star-Ghana IIProject....
Until Wednesday evening, 69,880 students had filled the first part of the form, while 54,686 students had filled part II or option form ...Meenakshi Raut, Assistant Director of Education, Pune, said “Thousands of students have left their forms incomplete by not filling part II and we appeal to them to complete the process by tomorrow or else they will go out of the admission process....
Having just turned 90, one could easily forgive Queen ElizabethII if her memory was a little slower these days ... Advertisement ... According to Debrett's, the first race meeting ever held at Ascot took place on August 11, 1711, and was instigated by Queen Anne, but it was with the accession of GeorgeII that the race became the second most popular in England ... ....
Queen ElizabethII celebrated the final day of Royal Ascot in dream style as Dartmouth took the Group Two Hardwicke Stakes and gave her a belated 90th birthday present in her favoured sport ... -- seventh in the last 11 renewals -- but he equalled his late great rival Henry Cecil's modern day post World War II record of 75 winners at the Royal meeting....