| | BBC News | - 16 minutes ago | | |
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott says objects have been spotted by satellite that may have originated from the missing Malaysian airliner. |
| | Herald Scotland | - 1 hour ago | | |
GEORGE Osborne has begun the countdown to the General Election with measures on pensions and savings to woo Britain's grey vote as the Coalition hailed the package as "a Budget for the Union". Budget 2014: Private Jet Industry Rage About George Osborne's 'Unfair' Tax Hike by + Asa Bennett George Osborne took one of the easiest opportunities possible in his Budget to suggest that we&…#39;re 'all in this together' by hiking taxes on private jets. The chancellor made the announcement in today's Budget, unveiling plans to increase the amount of air passenger duty levied on private jets from four to six times that levied... |
| Washington Post 29 minutes ago | | | | |
Scientists have discovered a freakish, birdlike species of dinosaur - 11 feet long, 500 pounds, with a beak, no teeth, a bony crest atop its head, murderous claws, prize-fighter arms, spindly legs, a thin tail and feathers sprouting all over the place. A 250kg "scary and absurd" bird-like dinosaur now has a name after being pieced together for the first time. US scientists have named it Anzu wyliei: "anzu" after a bird-like de…mon in Mesopotamian mythology, and "wyliei" after Wylie J Tuttle, the dinosaur-loving grandson of a Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh trustee. Meet the chicken from hell here. ABC News | http://ab.co/1fICImA |
| | Yahoo Eurosport UK | - 1 hour ago | | |
Robin van Persie came to the rescue of David Moyes, whose job was saved by the Dutchman's hat-trick in Manchester United's 3-0 win over Olympiacos, according to this morning's newspapers. Moyes: We can win the Champions League David Moyes insists Manchester United are capable of going all the way in Europe this season after producing a stirring comeback to reach the Champions Leagu…e quarter-finals. After watching his team overturn Olympiacos' 2-0 advantage with a deserved 3-0 victory at Old Trafford, the manager said: "This football club is capable of it [winning the competition]. If we play to our capabilities, we c... |
| | Businessweek | - 24 minutes ago | | |
Russia will try to further provoke tensions in eastern and southern Ukraine after moving this week to annex the breakaway Crimean peninsula, interim Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said. |
| Financial Times 16 minutes ago | | | | |
Asian markets wilted after Janet Yellen stumbled in her first meeting as chairwoman of the US Federal Reserve after sending signals that appear to point to earlier rises in interest rates. |
| | Washington Post | - 4 hours ago | | |
TEHRAN - As the Iranian year draws to a close, leaders here are attempting to manage the expectations of a public that has seen few signs of the economic improvement promised by President Hassan Rouhani when he took office in August. |
| | Telegraph.co.uk | - 1 hour ago | | |
Ukraine's new government said last night that it would be conducting military exercises with Britain and the United States, in a move intended to warn Russia against further seizures of Ukrainian territory. |
| | Irish Independent | - 1 hour ago | | |
Martin Evans London - Published 20 March 2014 02:30 AM. Detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann are hunting for a man who sexually assaulted five British youngsters after entering their holiday apartments on the Algarve. |
| | Irish Times | - 3 hours ago | | |
has launched an investigation into a filmed incident in Derry which shows police officers lifting an incapacitated woman from a city centre street and laying her down in a bus lane before driving off. |
| | Herald Scotland | - 1 hour ago | | |
EXPECTATIONS that UK base rates will remain on hold until next year have been reinforced by minutes of the latest meeting of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee. |
| | Reuters UK | - 13 minutes ago | | |
SYDNEY/KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Australia has sent aircraft to investigate two objects spotted by satellite floating in the southern Indian Ocean that could be debris from a Malaysian jetliner missing with 239 people on board, Prime Minister Tony Abbott ... |
| | Herald Scotland | - 1 hour ago | | |
TAX on Scotch whisky has been frozen and the controversial duty escalator has been scrapped for all types of alcohol in what has been seen as a political move by the UK Government with the independence referendum less than six months away. |
| George Osborne says the move will fundamentally reduce the incentive to engage in tax avoidance. Photograph: See Li/Demotix/Corbis. |
| PENSIONERS will be able to buy high yielding saving bonds from January next year, amid vote-winning moves by government to help ageing savers hit by historically low interest rates. |
| Seattle Post Intelligencer | - 8 minutes ago | | |
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Tango is joining the conga line of mobile messaging services that have turned into hot commodities as more people use them to communicate and share photos, music and other content. |
| Calgary Herald 7 hours ago | | | | |
VANCOUVER - Not to be outdone by Roku, Google has announced that its Chromecast HDMI streaming player is now available in Canada. The news comes not long after competitor Roku announced its newest HDMI Streaming Stick is available for ... |
| | Tech Times | - 21 minutes ago | | |
Samsung Galaxy Gear might not just be a smartphone companion anymore. According to reports, the next Galaxy Gear smartwatch will be able to make voice calls. |
| | Belfast Telegraph | - 58 minutes ago | | |
Is your boss spying on you? Your employer could be using a host of new... About 12 years ago, I... LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 19: Beyonce performs at The BRIT Awards 2014 at 02. |
| | Belfast Telegraph | - 45 minutes ago | | |
Is your boss spying on you? Your employer could be using a host of new... About 12 years ago, I... LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 19: Beyonce performs at The BRIT Awards 2014 at 02. |
| | Herald Scotland | - 1 hour ago | | |
A TRANSLATION of the Old English poem Beowulf by Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien is to be published for the first time, nearly nine decades after it was completed. |
| | The Nation | - 1 hour ago | | |
PARIS - Chelsea eased into the quarter-finals of the Champions League at the expense of Galatasaray on Tuesday, while Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice as Real Madrid completed a comprehensive win against Schalke 04. |
| | Herald Scotland | - 1 hour ago | | |
THE news that a tennis player has parted company with his coach should be greeted with the same shock that once accompanied the announcement that Liz Taylor was looking for a bridesmaid. In today's Hometime Headlines: Could it be the sack for David Moyes if United get knocked out of Champions League? Plus Brendan Rodgers reveals Liverpool's transfer plans and Andy Murray prepa…res for life without Ivan Lendl. Also -- why the man linked with the Tottenham job is desperate to manage in the Premier League -- and Tiger Woods faces a race to get fit for Augusta. |
| | Herald Scotland | - 1 hour ago | | |
UK Sport has caused fury after sticking to its decision to withdraw all funding from the Olympic sports of basketball, synchronised swimming and women's water polo. |
| | Times of India | - 24 minutes ago | | |
MIRPUR: India gained the much-needed boost ahead of their ICC World T20 opener against Pakistan when they comfortably defeated England by 20 runs in their second and final warm-up game on Wednesday. |
| | Telegraph.co.uk | - 4 hours ago | | |
Jose Mourinho has received his second improper-conduct charge of the season following Chelsea's fractious defeat against Aston Villa on Saturday but the Portuguese is not facing the threat of a touchline ban. |
| | Zee News | - 11 hours ago | | |
Last Updated: Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 22:41. London: Stephen Hawking has revealed that he won a bet against Neil Turok over his Big Bang Theory. |
| Not only are there hydrocarbon seas on Titan, a smog-shrouded moon of Saturn, but now scientists say they see the glint of waves rippling across those seas. In the Wow, Science is COOL! category: Titan (one of Saturn's moon) is cool. Like, really, really cool. In fact, it's downright cold. Its surface temperature is sitting at a nice -179.2° …C (That's -290° F). What makes Titan so fascinating is that a place that cold has weather and patterns similar to Earth's. Titan has seas with liquid evaporating, raining back down, etc, just like Earth's water cycle. As you can imagine, ... |
| | Nursing Times | - 17 hours ago | | |
Smoking increases the risk of breast cancer in older women by almost a fifth, a study has found. The discovery, published in the British Journal of Cancer, adds to a growing weight of evidence linking exposure to tobacco smoke with the disease. |
| Girlguiding UK is launching its first "body confidence" badge on Thursday in response to what it says is a crisis in how girls perceive themselves. |
| An inquest has heard that mother spent years blaming herself for the death of her seven-year-old daughter before discovering that the paramedic who treated her had been secretly sacked for medical negligence. |
| | Irish Examiner | - 3 hours ago | | |
An inexpensive cholesterol- lowering pill may offer new hope to patients with progressing multiple sclerosis (MS), research suggests. |
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