Prime Minister Tony Abbott has branded Clive Palmer's comments this week regarding China as "over the top, shrill and wrong". |
Pope Francis was deeply grieved, the Vatican’s official broadcasting service said yesterday, after three relatives died when their car slammed into the back of a grain truck on a highway in central Argentina. His nephew, Emanuel Bergoglio, who was driving the car, was in serious condition following the accident just after midnight on Monday. |
State media say drones have been used in Xinjiang against “terrorists,” a move an overseas Uighur advocacy group said represented a further militarization of a region beset by ethnic violence. |
1) Scale of education divide exposed. ‘Children of farmers are three times more likely to go to college’ reads the front of today’s Irish Independent . The newspaper reports on the ‘scale of education divide exposed’ 20 years after fees were abolished. |
State-run newspaper calls on China to cut all contact with an Australian mining tycoon who branded the Chinese government “bastards” who shoot their own people. |
The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press. Times of Malta, the Malta Independent, MaltaToday and l-orizzont lead with the arraignment of a Gozitan priest accused of sex abuse on three minors. In other stories, Times of Malta gives prominence to an opinion piece by Prof.... |
Liberia's president declared a curfew and ordered security forces to quarantine a slum home to at least 50,000 people late Tuesday as the West African country battled to stop the spread of Ebola in the capital. |
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberia's president declared a curfew and ordered security forces to quarantine a slum home to at least 50,000 people late Tuesday as the West African country battled to stop the spread of Ebola in the capital. The measures came as authorities said that three health.... |
The measures came as authorities said three health workers in the country who received an experimental drug for the disease are showing signs of recovery, though medical experts warn it is not certain if the drug is effective. At least 1,229 people have died of Ebola in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone.... |
Liberia's president declared a curfew and ordered security forces to quarantine a slum home to at least 50,000 people as the country fought to stop the spread of Ebola in the capital. |