Monthly Archives: October 2016

Neither of the teenagers can be named because of their ages. Opening the case, prosecutor Peter Joyce QC said the mother and daughter had been stabbed in the throat by the teenage boy after he and the girl plotted to kill them. He said: “There is no doubt that [the girl] was as responsible for […]

Wajda fought communist censorship and truth-denying propaganda to produce formidable, patriotic films that illuminated Polands troubled past and helped steer its history Andrzej Wajda had a viable claim to be Polands great national artist of modern times, a virtual cinematic folk memory, a man who sought to intervene in Polands history with his movies, converting […]

The countrys voters rejected a peace deal with the Farc guerrillas. But their decision was swayed by an opposition leader who will do anything for power The Farc guerrillas had moved on to politics and that this fact needed to be respected. The Democratic Center, a rightwing party of ultra-Catholic positions and intolerant manners, has […]

Its the highest accolade, but unlike the other Nobel prizes it was started to mark a banks tercentenary and is subject to political influences The Elinor Ostrom, has won the prize so far). The prize matters to everyone else too, because of market liberalism, which advocates marketisation, deregulation, union-busting, financialisation, inequality, outsourcing of healthcare, pensions […]

A burglary at an innovative Scottish wave-power company went forgotten, until a very similar project appeared in China It was an unusual burglary, in which four or five laptops were stolen from a Scottish renewable energy manufacturer in the dead of a March night in 2011. So innovative was the company that it had been […]

Between 2003 and 2008 they used their bogus companies to sell products to the NHS at highly inflated prices. As well as leading glamorous lifestyles, the pair, both of Middleton, Rochdale, invested hundreds of thousands of pounds in businesses in Iraq, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey. Related Topics NHS Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-37612054

(CNN)Public school teachers in the nation’s third largest school district are set to strike Tuesday morning unless an agreement is reached between the Chicago Board of Education and the Chicago Teachers Union by midnight Monday. It would mark the second time Chicago teachers have walked off the job since Rahm Emanuel became mayor five years […]

The company has been forced to suspend production and global sales of both the faulty smartphones and their replacements after devices caught fire Samsung has withdrawn all of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones from sale globally after a spate of fires involving safe replacements. In a statement issued late on Monday, Samsung said consumers with […]

Actor was arrested along with 26 others demonstrating against construction of a pipeline to transport fracked crude oil near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation Actor Shailene Woodley, star of The Fault In Our Stars and the Divergent series, has been arrested along with 26 other people at the have been encamped on the banks of […]

A woman carrying a child walks in the rain triggered by Hurricane Matthew in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Oct. 4, 2016. Hurricane Matthew the strongest storm to hit Haiti in more than 50 years barreled down on the region in recent days, bringing significant flooding and damage. The destruction comes to a region already experiencing high […]