Global hospitality organiser, Bench Events, has launched IDEEA – a series of conferences that will explore and facilitate hotel investment in central and eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. In 2020, the IDEEA series will run three events in the region. The flagship of these is IDEEA Hotel Investment Forum which will be […]
Music manager Scooter Braun says his family received “numerous death threats” after Taylor Swift said he was stopping her from playing her old hits. The star has been vocal in her disapproval of Braun since his company bought her back catalogue in June. She accused him of “incessant bullying”, and said he had tried to […]
FILE PHOTO: A flag with a company logo is seen during satellite launch company Arianespace annual news conference in Paris, France, January 9, 2018. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann/File Photo CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt will launch its first communication satellite into orbit on Friday, a move it says will improve its communications infrastructure and internet services and attract […]
Issued on: 22/11/2019 – 11:08Modified: 22/11/2019 – 11:09 Lebanon’s top politicians made their first joint appearance Friday since massive anti-government protests erupted last month, attending a military parade for the country’s 76th Independence Day. Advertising Read more This year’s parade couldn’t be held in its traditional location in central Beirut because a protest camp still […]
Poor air quality “poses a risk to the health of every person” in Lahore, Pakistan’s second-largest city, an international rights group has warned. The London-based watchdog on November 22 called for “urgent action” for the more than 10 million residents of Lahore in a bid to mobilize its supporters around the world to campaign on […]
© Reuters. By Geoffrey Smith Investing.com — Europe’s stock markets gave up early gains on Friday as a closer look at preliminary purchasing managers indices for the euro zone showed no meaningful improvement in an economy still badly burdened by the U.S.’s ongoing trade conflict with China. IHS Markit’s for the euro zone fell to […]
By Jason Arunn Murugesu Carbon taxes could fund wind turbinesMischa Keijser/Cultura/Getty Support for carbon taxes isn’t linked to a nation’s belief in climate change – instead, it may depend on how much people in a country trust their government. Malcolm Fairbrother at Umeå University in Sweden and his colleagues used data from the 2016 European […]
Here are the mid-week polls so far: Kantar – CON 45%(+8), LAB 27%(nc), LDEM 16%(-1), BREX 2%(-7)YouGov/Times/Sky – CON 42%(-3), LAB 30%(+2), LDEM 15%(nc), BREX 4%(nc)ICM/Reuters – CON 42%(+3), LAB 32%(+1), LDEM 13%(-2), BREX 5%(-3)Survation/GMB – CON 42%, LAB 28%, LDEM 13%, BREX 5% A few things to note. Kantar and ICM have now removed […]
Nine human species walked the Earth 300,000 years ago. Now there is just one. The Neanderthals, Homo neanderthalensis, were stocky hunters adapted to Europe’s cold steppes. The related Denisovans inhabited Asia, while the more primitive Homo erectus lived in Indonesia, and Homo rhodesiensis in central Africa. Several short, small-brained species survived alongside them: Homo naledi […]
In riveting testimony, a former national security official declared Thursday that a U.S. ambassador carried out a controversial “domestic political errand” for Donald Trump on Ukraine, an allegation undercutting a main line of the president’s defense in the impeachment inquiry. Advertising Read more Fiona Hill told House investigators she came to realize Ambassador Gordon Sondland […]