Islamic State jihadists are incurring global condemnation by bulldozing historic monuments in the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud. In Canberra, our ACT government is pressing ahead with plans to bulldoze heritage buildings of the Northbourne public-housing precinct in order to part-fund a suburban tramway. |
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Islamic State jihadists are incurring global condemnation by bulldozing historic monuments in the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud. In Canberra, our ACT government is pressing ahead with plans to bulldoze heritage buildings of the Northbourne public-housing precinct in order to part-fund a suburban tramway. |
Updated | One of the lowliest jobs in the CIA is an assignment to the digital version of the mail room, where interns and office drones sift through the river of emails flowing into the spy agency from its public website. Only once in a blue moon does something interesting turn up in all the.... |
1831: French Foreign Legion founded, based in Algiers. 1862: Britain and France recognised independence of Zanzibar. 1863: Edward, Prince of Wales, married Alexandra of Denmark. The previous day, Queen Victoria took Edward and his bride to Prince Albert’s mausoleum, where she solemnly announced: “He gives you his blessing. |
On Sunday afternoon, the unthinkable happened: Guardian columnist Ana Marie Cox , a lefty journo and newfound believer in Christ, announced that she was going on Breitbart Radio.
Wait…did hell freeze over? Well, something like that. Ever since she came out of the proverbial closet as a Christian.... |
Pope Francis makes the sign of the cross at the end of a pastoral visit to the Roman Parish of 'Santa Maria Madre del Redentore a Tor Bella Monaca' on March 8, 2015 in Rome. (ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP/Getty Images) | ANDREAS SOLARO via Getty Images
Pope Francis paid tribute to International Women's Day.... |
*(New York, NY) — LeChateau Earl Records multi-genre recording artist and Sphinx Medal of Excellence recipient Damien Sneed wraps up his 15-city Broken to Minister Promotional Tour this month. Sneed’s new double disc project, Broken To Minister: The Deluxe Edition was released on March 3. |
Convicted drug smuggler Andrew Chan proposed to his girlfriend of three years when he discovered his clemency bid had been rejected by Indonesian authorities. The 31-year-old Australian, who is currently awaiting execution on the island of Nusakambangan, asked his girlfriend Febyanti Herewila if she.... |
An Irish bishop has caused outrage on social media following an interview on Newstalk FM. Speaking to Chris Donoghue on the radio station, the Bishop of Elphin Kevin Doran said he doesn't believe gay parents are parents at all. The Bishop also likened homosexuality to Down Syndrome, and claimed.... |
Libreville Archbishop Basile Mvé Engone of the Archdiocese of Libreville told the congregation that all Gabonese must learn to welcome each other with respect, acknowledging that the other is richness, a companion, a brother, a sister, a friend and not an enemy. |
The Police Administration has expressed surprise at the sophistication and magnitude of the recent fake police recruitment scandal. “We were, however, convinced that the new recruitment system, whose implementation began with the last recruitment exercise undertaken in 2014, would expose any attempts to corrupt the system,” it said in a statement. |
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