Published January 20, 2020 by Katherine Cowdrey World Book Day has launched Share a Million Stories, its initiative inviting mass participation from families, schools and nurseries, bookshops and libraries, challenging adults and… World Book Day has launched Share a Million Stories, its initiative inviting mass participation from families, schools and nurseries, bookshops and libraries, challenging […]
The news that UK printed newspapers are continuing to lose circulation comes as no surprise, extending – as it does – a trend that has been gathering pace for two decades after digital media began to cannibalise print sales. But the latest release of Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) circulation figures came with a postscript. […]
Issued on: 20/01/2020 – 09:44Modified: 20/01/2020 – 09:44 Thousands of people opposed to France’s plans to reform the law on assisted reproductive technology took to the streets of Paris on Sunday, two days before a major bioethics bill is put before the Senate. Advertising Read more French law currently only allows women in heterosexual relationships […]
Tajik police have decided not to open a criminal probe to find the perpetrators behind a sex video shared online in an apparent smear campaign against a woman activist. The copy of a letter issued by the Vahdat district police in Dushanbe says authorities will not open a criminal case “because there have been no […]
The Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association has introduced a pilot program to include a group of leading travel agents from across the United States to Caribbean Travel Marketplace in the Bahamas. They will be welcomed to the popular Baha Mar resort campus in Nassau to meet with operators of Caribbean hotels, resorts and attractions. Karen […]
Tony Hall is to step down as director general of the BBC in the summer, after seven years in the role. Lord Hall said the decision had been hard, adding: “If I followed my heart I would genuinely never want to leave.” But he said he felt it was important the BBC had the same […]
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Crew Dragon astronaut capsule, lifts off on an in-flight abort test , a key milestone before flying humans in 2020 under NASA’s commercial crew program, from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. January 19, 2020. REUTERS/Joe Skipper CAPE CANAVERAL (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s SpaceX simulated […]
Issued on: 20/01/2020 – 11:00Modified: 20/01/2020 – 11:00 Hundreds of Iraqi anti-government protesters grappled with security forces in a bid to shut Baghdad streets on Monday, a deadline they had given authorities to implement long-awaited reforms. Advertising Read more Rallies have rocked Iraq since October but, fearing they would lose momentum amid spiralling regional tensions, […]
Iran still observes a landmark 2015 nuclear deal with world powers despite rolling back its commitments to the pact, Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Musavi told a news conference in Tehran on January 20. “Tehran still remains in the deal…. The European powers’ claims about Iran violating the deal are unfounded,” Musavi said. Iran had said […]
A White House adviser on Europe and Russia issues has been placed on administrative leave pending a security-related investigation. Andrew Peek was escorted off the White House compound on Friday, according to one of two sources familiar with his departure. The National Security Council, the foreign policy unit at the White House, said in a […]