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) An attacker at the wheel of a heavy truck plowed into crowds celebrating Bastille Day in the French city of Nice, killing at least 84 people and injuring scores more in what President Francois Hollande called a terrorist act.
The driver, identified by police sources as a 31-year-old Tunisian-born.... |
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FROM this week, the Zimbabwe Independent starts serialising a document on submissions made by chiefs from Matabeleland and Midlands provinces to President Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured) on the occasion of his meeting with them at the State House in Bulawayo on June 28, 2019. |
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A daily current affairs programme covering the major Pacific stories of the week, with background and reaction from the people making the news.
RNZI's flagship programme - linking the Pacific with New Zealand and the world - and broadcast by the BBC Pacific Service, the World Radio Network and Radio New Zealand National. |
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ROCHEFORT, France — A rooster named Maurice, whose early-morning crowing has got under the skin of neighbors on the French island of Oleron, was at the center of a court battle on Thursday that has raised howls of protest in the countryside. Maurice himself was not present for the proceedings in the.... |
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To celebrate the Fourth of July weekend, we offer excerpts from several speeches highlighting the moral principles that guided the United States' creation and the need to continually defend them. President Ronald Reagan — delivered July 4, 1986, aboard the USS John F. Kennedy in New York Harbor. |
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The BBC boss behind the corporation’s coverage of The Proms has said classical music is experiencing “halcyon days of extraordinary young talent”. Jan Younghusband, BBC Music head of TV commissioning, has announced that a new generation of young musicians will take presenting roles during this year’s coverage. |
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The BBC boss behind the corporation’s coverage of The Proms has said classical music is experiencing “halcyon days of extraordinary young talent”. Jan Younghusband, BBC Music head of TV commissioning, has announced that a new generation of young musicians will take presenting roles during this year’s coverage. |
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It was big and loud. According to the Buffalo Courier, Independence Day 1915 was ushered in with “the loudest and most unanimous noise in the history of Buffalo.” Church bells, street car gongs, and factory whistles erupted at dawn along with locomotive and steamboat whistles. At 9 a.m. |
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The BBC boss behind the corporation’s coverage of The Proms has said classical music is experiencing “halcyon days of extraordinary young talent”. Jan Younghusband, BBC Music head of TV commissioning, has announced that a new generation of young musicians will take presenting roles during this year’s coverage. |
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It’s not often that a small-island investigative journalist takes the stage in a five-part BBC drama. But they’ve done that this week for Malta’s Daphne Caruana Galizia. She’s played by Michelle Fairley, formerly of Suits and Game of Thrones. You can catch it online post-broadcast: and the last live episode is today at 3. |
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It was July 4, 1970 and America was all but coming apart at the seams. A deep divide cut through the country over the extremely unpopular Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement and the sexual revolution. The Nixon presidency was marred by the illegal invasion of Cambodia and in May of that year,.... |
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