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The following are the top stories in the national and international press today. All newspapers lead with yesterday’s presentation of the Budget for 2016. Times of Malta says COLA will be €1.75 per week but excise tax will go up on cement, cigarettes/tobacco and fuels. The first-time buyers’ property scheme will be extended. |
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Stephen Colbert has promised to follow Hollywood's example in sucking up to China -- a practice that has become a huge moneymaker for American film studios. In an episode of the "Late Show" this week, the host fawned over China's achievements and vowed to get himself some of that "sweet and sour renminbi. |
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In a city with almost no electricity, darkness at 6 pm feels like midnight. As we started down the road, we saw a fallen tree blocking the road. We managed to get around it and very quickly encountered another. Trees in the road are often intentional traps. |
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A Christian group recommended that everybody listen to its last-ever question-and-answer podcast with E Bible Fellowship leader Chris McCann, because McCann believed that Oct. 7 would also Earth's last day. On Oct. 8, the world was still here, and McCann had the unenviable task of explaining what had happened. |
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The murderer, who then turned the gun on himself, was a dissident republican terror suspect believed to be from Northern Ireland. The killing of the "hero" garda, a father-of-three, has caused widespread shock and revulsion on both sides of the border. Gerry Adams paid tribute to Garda Golden, saying he was a well-known and well-liked man. |
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Cyber or information-environment security is often in the news, yet most of our focus has been on theft of intellectual property, denial of service attacks, and assaults on personal privacy. Far less attention has been paid to the ways social media have facilitated a level of propaganda and.... |
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A group of Mozambican mediators have expressed their commitment to make every effort to ensure a resumption of the now broken political dialogue between the government and the Renamo opposition with a view to achieving effective peace in the country, APA observes here on Monday. |
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When Tony Abbott last sat on the backbench, Paul Keating was prime minister, the Sydney Bulldogs were Australian rugby league premiers, and Coolio's Gangsta's Paradise was number one on the ARIA charts.
The year was 1995, and this week Mr Abbott is expected to return to a seat on the backbench.... |
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The murderer, who then turned the gun on himself, was a dissident republican terror suspect believed to be from Northern Ireland. The killing of the "hero" garda, a father-of-three, has caused widespread shock and revulsion on both sides of the border. Gerry Adams paid tribute to Garda Golden, saying he was a well-known and well-liked man. |
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Most of the people who attended last week's Stanbic Jazz Festival at the upperdeck of Levy Park Mall in Lusaka confessed to have known American Jazz musician Earl Klugh's songs through radio. The over 2,000 jazz lovers who thronged the Misty Jazz arena on two respective nights could be dead silent.... |
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Rwanda plans to appeal a decision by a French court this week to drop cases of war crimes and crimes against humanity against a Rwandan priest, Wenceslas Munyeshaka, who is suspected of participating in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. The case, which had dragged for over two decades, was last.... |
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