All the planets in our solar system orbit close to the sun’s equatorial plane. Of the eight confirmed planets, the Earth’s orbit is the most tilted, but even that tilt is still small, at just seven degrees ... But in recent years, new observations have revealed that the story is somewhat more complicated, at least for the oddest planets known, the Hot Jupiters ... We’ve even caught systems in the act, partway through formation ... NASA, ESA, M ... ....
When asked how he would like people to react to his death, Muhammad Ali responded by telling them his "recipe for life" ...Frost asked Ali ... In response, Ali said ... Applause followed, and a voice said....
Redding, California (CNN)Donald Trump sought to tout his support among African-Americans on Friday by pointing out a black man in the crowd and calling him "my African-American.". "Oh, look at my African-American over here. Look at him," Trump said ... The comment also comes as Trump is under fire for calling on the federal judge presiding over one of the lawsuits against Trump University to recuse himself because of his Mexican heritage ... ....
Move to remove Catholic bishops from office if they fail to sack known child abusers is response to demand by victims. @cajuk. Catholic bishops who fail to sack paedophile priests can be removed from office under new church laws announced by PopeFrancis...Related ... Paul Vallely ... Peter Saunders, a British abuse survivor who sits on a papal commission to protect children, said Francis had been vocal about the abuse scandals ... ....
The Rajya Sabha should ideally be the chamber where the federal nature of the Constitution gets its play ... Since the federal parts of the 1935 Act were never implemented, the original Council of States never came about ... There are contests at the margins when a party has a fraction of the required votes left to trade with other parties ... Great Britain is not a federation despite the devolved parliaments....
The election commission will serve notices to 11 candidates who contested in the assembly elections from Thiruvananthapuram district for exceeding campaign expenditure limit of Rs 28 lakh ... According to expenditure observer of the commission, Hareendran had spent the highest amount ... If the collector disagrees with the same, the candidate can forward it to the election commission for the final order....
KPCC president G Parameshwara on Saturday submitted a memorandum to the ElectionCommission (EC) urging to conduct the Rajya Sabha polls as per schedule on June 11 ...trading, as portrayed by the sting operations by TV channels," he claimed....
Although Fadnavis is yet to formally decide the terms of reference and the nature of investigation, sources said that the inquiry would most likely be under the Commission of Inquiry (COI) Act... An investigation under the COI Act will allow the investigation panel to summon witnesses and complainants to present evidence....
The Greatest is gone. Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester, a voting member of the FederalOpen Market Committee, is unfazed by Friday’s weak jobs report and said a “gradual upward pace of the funds rate is appropriate.” ... U.S ...NextEra Energy and HawaiianElectric elected not to walk away from their $2.6 billion merger agreement even though Hawaii’s utilities commission declined to act on the deal before the companies’ deadline ... U.S ... ....
Surendran said the government would go ahead with its decision to restore the provisions of the 2007Act entrusting recruitment to establishment posts in devaswom boards to the KeralaPublic ServiceCommission. The government had drafted special rules based on the Act, but these were not notified owing to the change of government in 2011....
Canberra will again be on show on the small screen on Sunday night, and the ACT government wants to ensure the nation's secret capital continues to enjoy wide exposure. ... The base funding matches that provided to ScreenACT in the 2015-16 ACT budget, while $285,000 was granted in 2014-15....
2441, the Cuban Immigrant WorkOpportunityAct, which would end automatic eligibility for welfare and refugee resettlement benefits for all Cuban immigrants, unless they can prove they are were actually persecuted ... All it says is you will no longer automatically qualify for federal benefits ... 'People ask about the Cuban Adjustment Act and the 'wet-foot, dry-foot' policy ... soil, and then they can appeal to the Cuban Adjustment Act....
Proposed rules by the FederalCommunicationsCommission would give consumers more knowledge and control over personal data collected by their broadband service providers ... ....
This does not include a series of measures announced by the federal government for the upgradation of various employee groups and compensatory duties, the finance ministry official said ... The governments of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan would jointly shoulder an impact of Rs25-26bn to treat their employees and pensioners on a par with their federal counterparts....
This [raid in Thailand] was just the tip of a trade that spans south-east Asia and sees so-called tiger sanctuaries and farms secretly selling tiger parts and products on the black market for enormous profit,” she said ... The authors of a 2014 report, commissioned for Cites (the Convention on InternationalTrade in Endangered Species of WildFauna and Flora), the world regulator of trade in protected wildlife, said....
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Ms Layton has been a fearless advocate for the modernisation of our telecoms rules and with this report she tackles head on the unavoidable issues that need to be debated, unafraid to critique the EuropeanCommission's approach up to now. I have also at times been a critic of the European Commission's approach to telecommunications policy....