MIKE KEEGAN: Theatre of Dreams? Theatre of Streams was more apt. There have been many dark days since the greedy Glazers stole the keys to Old Trafford back in 2005.
Speaking to Gardeners' World, famed-gardener Alan Titchmarsh (pictured) revealed the four best plants to keep your garden slug-free this Summer.
Mohan Beckford, the consummate entrepreneur, has dedicated his life and business to discovering innovative ideas and exploring the digital landscape to bring about transformative changes in micro, small, and medium-sized (MSMEs) businesses....
WESTERN BUREAU: With 19 murders committed in Hanover since the start of the year, lead personnel in the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s Hanover Division are viewing that figure positively. “We are looking at 19 (murders) now, 25 last year to date,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Despite experiencing an increase in community waste-collection backlog across St James since February, the National Solid Waste Management Authority [NSWMA] is expressing confidence in its drive to promote and enforce cleanliness...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Marcia Graham, medical officer of health for Westmoreland, says there is a critical need for blood, admitting that persons have actually died because it is lacking. “We need more blood donors. The system has come under...
Rutair Limited, which operates an air transport business, is seeking an order from the Judicial Review Court to quash a June 2018 decision, by then Minister of Transport and Mining Robert Montague, appointing Christopher Raleigh Bickford as the...
As part of its efforts to promote mobility and intercultural understanding, the European Union (EU) has designated language learning as an important priority, and funds numerous programmes and projects in this area. Multilingualism, in the EU’s view, is an important element of Europe’s competitiveness. One of the objectives of the EU’s language policy is therefore for every EU citizen to master two languages in addition to their mother tongue. Source : © European Union, 2024 - EP
What was supposed to have been a straightforward car repair job turned into an ordeal for one woman, who had to call the police to get her vehicle returned. The woman surnamed Tan told Shin Min Daily News she sent her car to a workshop located in Boon Lay Way to repair her brake light on May 7. She only wanted the brake light repaired, but the workshop staff reportedly told her that they would have to replace the front lower control arm, steering rack and wiring — which would cost her a total of $1,280. Out of that amount, $380 was for labour costs, and $280 for electrical wiring work. As she felt the repair cost was too expensive, Tan told the workshop staff she did not want to repair her car anymore. «I felt that they were trying to hard sell me, because I only wanted my brake lights repaired,» said the 42-year-old, who works in the beauty industry. A friend who consulted another car workshop also told her that something was amiss about the price she was quoted. However, she was told that they already placed an order for the replacement parts, and had already removed parts from her car for the works.
A Singaporean biker's need for speed on a Malaysian highway has landed him in the hospital with serious injuries, and possibly in trouble with the Malaysian police. The rider, who was on a Kawasaki ZX10R, a supersport motorcycle, was speeding along the 80.3km mark of the North-South Expressway, reported the New Straits Times (NST). A nearly one-and-a-half-minute video — taken from a helmet camera and posted on Facebook group SG Road Vigilante — shows the rider switching from the left to the right lane while going at high speed, before crashing into a white car on the right lane of the two-lane highway. In the accident's aftermath, the biker is seen lying at the side of the road and his motorcycle is completely mangled. The car, a Honda Civic, suffered significant damage as well, as seen in the video. The rider is part of a convoy of superbikers from Singapore who were heading towards Malacca when the accident happened, reported NST. He was rushed to the Sultanah Nora Ismail Hospital in Batu Pahat, Johor.
The prospect of having their valuables stolen in Johor Bahru is a common concern among drivers of Singapore-registered vehicles. One Facebook post appears to have the answer to ward off car thieves across the border. A photo shared on the SGKaypoh page on May 5 shows a placard stuck on the side window of a car. It reads: «Please do not break my window again. This car has already been broken into. There is nothing to steal.» SGKaypoh wrote that vehicles from Singapore would need this sign when entering Malaysia, followed by a «laughing» emoji. The post has since garnered over 1,800 reactions and 1,700 comments. Several Singaporean netizens were tickled by the placard.
Beledweyne (HOL) - Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, alongside Prime Minister Hamse Abdi Barre and former government leaders, congratulated Ugas Yusuf Ugas Hassan Ugas Khalif, who was inaugurated in the Hiiraan region on Monday.
Officials announced on Monday that illustrated manuscripts of the ancient Ramacharitamanas and the 15th-century manuscript of the Panchatantra fables are among the 20 items from the Asia Pacific region included in UNESCO's Memory of the World Regional Register for the 2024 cycle. The decision was taken at the 10th GM of the Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific (MOWCAP).
Amid the vibrant colors and rhythmic beats at SIMAD University's main campus, a group of boys dressed in traditional white danced energetically, their movements in sync with the heart-pounding drumbeats of Somali folk music.
The 22-year-old woman and her child were civilian casualties of a U.S. drone strike, but the Pentagon won’t return the family’s messages.
Bosaso (HOL) — Puntland’s naval forces have apprehended a suspect and confiscated explosives following operations in Bosaso, officials reported. The captured materials included hand grenades linked to recent severe explosions in the city.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered prayers at the Dashashwamedh Ghat on the banks of the Ganga here on Tuesday before filing his nomination from the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency. He also performed aarti at the ghat amid chanting of Vedic mantras. Several Union ministers, including Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh, chief ministers of BJP and NDA-ruled states and leaders of the party are likely to accompany Modi to the collectorate for his nomination filing.
RIYADH: Experts in the poultry industry gathered in the Saudi capital to share knowledge on ways to enhance business value in the sector. The Middle East Poultry Exhibition, an annual event in its third year, is running until May 15 and expected to attract thousands of visitors. Abdulrahman Al-Fadhli, the minister of environment, water and agriculture, opened the conference being held at the Riyadh International Convention and Exhibition Center on Monday.
[New Times] Opposition to the UK-Rwanda migrants deal in the United Kingdom will go to any length to stop asylum seekers being sent to Rwanda. They have tried to find fault with it, lied and invented unlikely tales, and it appears they will not stop.
[RFI] Chadian opposition leader Succès Masra has filed a legal challenge to the results of the 6 May election in which officials declared he came in second, behind junta leader and interim President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno.
[HRW] Nairobi -- Ex-President's Son Declared Winner; Opponent Killed in Lead Up to the Vote
It's another year of extreme low water in many parts of the N.W.T. In Yellowknife, that's become an issue for some who live on houseboats in Yellowknife Bay.
Une épidémie de grippe touche actuellement la Polynésie, après une première vague au début de l'année. Sept décès ont été enregistrés. Face à cette situation, les autorités rappellent l’importance des gestes barrières.
Seventy-six-year-old Alvin Marshal of Daytona Avenue, Independence City, St Catherine, has been missing since Saturday. He is of dark complexion, slim build and about 5 feet 5 inches tall. The Caymanas police say Marshal was last...
The Meteorological Service of Jamaica says temperatures this week are expected to be one to two degrees Celsius higher than normal for this time of year, not five degrees higher, as suggested on social media posts. However, it says high humidity,...
When Seamus Makim, aged five, stood beside Prince William as a pageboy at the wedding of his aunt, Sarah Ferguson, he wore a crisp, white sailor suit.
Amid Israel's military action in Gaza against Hamas, India has strongly condemned the civilian deaths in the ongoing conflict and said that the resulting humanitarian crisis in the region is «simply unacceptable.»
Israel’s “sweeping victory” in Gaza is unlikely, a senior US diplomat has said Read Full Article at RT.com
India's six-week election resumed Monday including in Kashmir, where voters appeared eager to express discontent with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cancellation of their disputed territory's semi-autonomy and the security crackdown that followed. Modi remains popular across much of India and his Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is widely expected to win the poll when it concludes early next month. But his government's decision in 2019 to bring Kashmir under its direct rule -- and the subsequent clampdown -- have been deeply resented among the region's residents, who voted Monday for the first time since the move. «I voted for changing the current government. It must happen for our children to have a good future,» civil servant Habibullah Parray told AFP. «Everywhere you go in Kashmir today you find people from outside in charge. Everyone wants that to change.» Boycotts called by rebel groups left few Kashmiris willing to participate in past elections, with just over 14 percent of eligible voters in Srinagar casting a ballot during the last national poll in 2019. By the time polls closed on Monday, nearly 36 percent of eligible voters in the constituency had cast a ballot, well below India's average turnout but the highest figure in the constituency in nearly three decades. Kashmir has been divided between India and Pakistan since their independence in 1947. Both claim it in full and have fought two wars over control of the Himalayan region. Rebel groups opposed to Indian rule have waged an insurgency since 1989 on the side of the frontier controlled by New Delhi, demanding either independence or a merger with Pakistan. India accuses Pakistan of backing the insurgents, a charge that Islamabad denies. The conflict has killed tens of thousands of soldiers, rebels and civilians in the decades since, including a spate of firefights between suspected rebels and security forces in the past month. - 'Referendum' - Violence has dwindled since the Indian portion of the territory was brought under direct rule five years ago, a move that saw the mass arrest of local political leaders and a months-long telecommunications blackout to forestall expected protests. Modi's government says its cancelling of Kashmir's special status has brought «peace and development», and it has consistently claimed the move was supported by Kashmiris. But his party has not fielded any candidates in the Kashmir valley for the first time since 1996, and experts say the BJP would have been roundly defeated if it had. «They would lose, simple as that,» political analyst and historian Sidiq Wahid told AFP last week. For voters, the election was «a referendum in order to voice their disagreement» with the Modi government's actions in Kashmir, he added. The BJP has appealed to voters to instead support smaller and newly created parties that have publicly aligned with Modi's policies. But voters looked set to back one of two established Kashmiri political parties calling for the Modi government's changes to be reversed. Former chief minister Omar Abdullah, whose National Conference party is campaigning for the restoration of Kashmir's special status, said his allies had urged voters to make their feelings known. «The point of view that we want people to send out is that what happened... is not acceptable to them,» he told AFP. Before the changes in 2019, permanent residents in the Muslim-majority territory had enjoyed land and jobs protections. In rural districts outside Srinagar, the region's biggest city, army soldiers patrolled roads in convoys of bulletproof vehicles. Several polling booths around the constituency had more than two dozen paramilitary troops guarding voter queues. - Nearly one billion voters - India's election is conducted in seven phases over six weeks to ease the immense logistical burden of staging the democratic exercise in the world's most populous country. More than 968 million people are eligible to vote in India's election, with the final round of polling on June 1 and results expected three days later. Voter turnout elsewhere in India has so far declined significantly from 2019 to around 66 percent, according to election commission figures. Analysts have blamed widespread expectations that Modi will easily win a third term and hotter-than-average temperatures heading into the summer. India's weather bureau has forecast more hot spells in May and the election commission formed a taskforce last month to review the impact of heat and humidity before each round of voting. © Agence France-Presse
The best part of a meal is often savoured last. But one diner got an unpleasant surprise when she bit on something hard at the final bite. Immediately spitting her food out, the 60-year-old woman discovered a metal wire embedded in her chicken wing. Luo, a healthcare professional, told Shin Min Daily News that she bought a plate of nasi padang for lunch from the Kopitiam outlet at Tan Tock Seng Hospital last Friday (May 10). «The wire is as thick as a safety pin; I don't dare to imagine what would've happened if I swallowed it. This is a hospital; wouldn't it be even worse if a patient accidentally swallowed it?» She questioned. Luo later returned to the stall where a staff member apologised to her. The employee reportedly said that the wire did not come from the stall, and that food ingredients are provided by their supplier. Stall offers refund When contacted by Shin Min, the owner of the nasi padang stall explained that they rarely use steel scourers and guessed that the wire might have been hidden the curry chicken which Luo had ordered.
SINGAPORE — Singapore's two cruise terminals will be consolidated in the coming years, with the cruise centre in HarbourFront set to move, so that a continuous promenade can be established as part of the Greater Southern Waterfront. Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) chief executive Lim Eng Hwee described the terminals' forthcoming consolidation as a «small move» that will make a huge difference and allow the authorities to «stitch up the entire waterfront» from Labrador Nature Park through to the Keppel-Tanjong Pagar area, Marina Bay and the future Long Island. Three city port terminals near the cruise centre in HarbourFront — Tanjong Pagar, Keppel and Brani — will move to Tuas by 2027, as previously announced. The Republic's other cruise centre — Marina Bay Cruise Centre Singapore, which opened in 2012 — is located in Marina South, and was reported in 2018 to be under consideration for expansion. «With the port moving, there's a lot of infrastructural work that needs to be done — some reclamation, and the cruise hub will be formed as part of that,» Lim said.
Russia’s new offensive is “a nightmare” for Ukraine, CNN says in its analysis Read Full Article at RT.com
