Reported today by Deutsche Welle. Heres an excerpt:
Gunmen on motorcycles have killed at least 16 people on a campus in the northern Nigerian city of Kano. Bombs were thrown into a lecture room being used for a Catholic Mass. Worshippers fled and were shot dead outside.
Flood warnings are in force as Britain is drenched in rain and battered by winds of up to 60mph.
The Met Office has issued a severe yellow weather warning for most of England and Wales.
An amber be prepared warning was also issued for Gloucestershire, Shropshire, Worcestershire and Herefordshire.
It says: Very strong winds will develop, particularly for Pennine areas, Wales and the south-west.
Gusts of 50-60mph, perhaps stronger over exposed coasts and hills, will likely blow some trees over leading to some localised disruption.
The Environment Agency has 144 flood alerts and 20 flood warnings in place with only the north west currently clear of any alerts.
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The 10th Annual Imagine Walk and Family Fun Day hosted by The Autism Project is set for today at Goddard Park. Registration begins at 9 am and the Walk at 10.
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The town of Besseges in the Gard region of southern French is a National Front stronghold and a microcosm of France’s political evolution.
The depressed former mining town of 3,000 inhabitants lies in the hilly north of the Gard administrative region, where extreme-right leader Marine Le Pen won 25.5% of the vote in the first round of the French presidential election, sending shockwaves across France.
Nationwide, Le Pen came third in the first round of the presidential election on April 22, with the National Front getting 18% of the vote. It was a record-breaking score for the far right party, beating the 16% that Le Pen’s father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, won to get through...
Kiwanians Bill Hoogstra, 65. and Dennis Laster, 62, have helped serve about a million pancakes in their combined 51 years in the Kiwanis Club of Abilene. On Saturday, they added thousands to their numbers.
The club welcomed a crowd of about 5,000 to their 63rd annual Pancake Day at the Abilene Civic Center on Saturday. When the doors opened, a large crowd was waiting for the 160 Kiwanians and community volunteers to serve pancakes, sausages, syrup, coffee, tea, and chocolate and strawberry milk.
We have 17 griddles set up for cooking, Hoogstra said. The Pancake Day is about having good food, fun, and raising funds for youth programs.
Hoogstra, one of the coordinators...
The thrift bank unit of the Bank of the Philippine Islands has thrown its weight behind the country’s franchising industry, recently unveiling a financing facility aimed at helping budding entrepreneurs participate in “tried and tested” business chains.
In a press briefing last week, BPI Family Bank president Jose Teodoro Limcaoco said that the bank’s new Ka-Negosyo program will widen opportunities for micro, small and medium entrepreneurs who want to open franchise establishments.
Under the scheme, would-be entrepreneurs can select businesses from the bank’s pre-screened list of franchise brands and avail themselves of financing from the Ayala-owned...
NEW DELHI: To cash in on the burgeoing sales of lifestyle products, Bajaj Finance Ltd has forayed into financing of products like furniture, home furnishings, fitness equipment, luxury watches, etc, at zero per cent interest.
We have already tied up with a number of stores across 10 cities to provide zero per cent finance on purchase of lifestyle products, Bajaj Finance Business Head (Sales) Devang Mody said.
The company, which claims to be the first non-banking financial instituion in the country to enter into financing of lifestyle products, has tied up with retail chains like Evoke, Reliance Living, Hypercity, Fitness One and Durian to push its just launched product.
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Reported today by Deutsche Welle. Heres an excerpt:
A grenade thrown by a worshipper in a Nairobi church has killed at least one person and injured several others. It is the latest in a string of deadly attacks in the capital blamed on Islamist militants from Somalia.
Domonic Brown is well aware of the hype.
He knows there are scouts, managers and fans in his corner.
He also knows there are some who arent.
Yet despite all of the hoopla surrounding the past, present and future of Domonic Larun Brown, the 24-year-old outfielder continues going about his business.
I tell my parents to keep all the articles, good or bad, and Ill read them after my career is done, he said. I hear the fans talking and a lot of people are pulling for me, which is good, and there are a lot of people who arent, but thats part of the game. Thats what keeps me humble.
If I fail, I fail, but Im going to give it 100 percent....
Reported today by Deutsche Welle. Heres an excerpt:
The daughter of Ukraines jailed opposition politician has called on Germany to help her mother. Yulia Tymoshenko claims to have been beaten by jail wardens and has been on hunger strike for more than a week.