The Who‘s lead guitarist and principal songwriter Pete Townshend said the band continues to make progress on its upcoming album. In a video blog on TheWho.com, Townsend said that by the end of Monday, at least 10 or 12 backing tracks were completed, and that they were “sounding really, really great.” Townsend also spoke about […]
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank are in discussions about a possible merger, the two German banks confirmed on Sunday. “There is no certainty that any transaction will occur,” Deutsche Bank said in a statement. Source: Read Full Article
LONDON (Reuters) – Social media platforms must be able to react more quickly and stop the broadcast of live events, the leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party said on Sunday, after a gunman in New Zealand broadcast a shooting rampage last week. A gunman broadcast live footage on Facebook of an attack that killed 50 […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Social media platforms must be able to react more quickly and stop the broadcast of live events, the leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party said on Sunday, after a gunman in New Zealand broadcast a shooting rampage last week. A gunman broadcast live footage on Facebook of an attack that killed 50 […]
DUBAI, March 17 (Reuters) – Algeria’s central bank has raised reserves requirements for banks to 12 percent from 8 percent, the state news agency APS reported on Sunday. APS said the move followed an increase in liquidity in the market. Source: Read Full Article
SEOUL (BLOOMBERG) – South Korea said it’s considering holding talks with North Korea in efforts to help improve relations between the latter and the US since their summit fell apart in Vietnam last month. South Korea’s Blue House presidential office confirmed a Yonhap News Agency report that it’s mulling a meeting with its neighbour. The […]
Martin Clunes: Islands of America Seven, 9.30pm In the league table of British actors turned television tour guides, Martin Clunes ranks somewhere behind Michael Palin and Joanna Lumley in terms of sheer star power but puts in a very good show as a kind of omniscient Everyman keen to explore the world and have gentle […]
SINGAPORE – Marc Brian Louis won gold for Singapore at the Asian Youth Athletics Championships in Hong Kong on Sunday (March 17). The 16-year-old clocked 55.09 seconds to win the boys’ 400m hurdles event, ahead of Hong Kong’s Henry Chun Wai Fung (55.26s) and Qatar’s Mohd E. B. Fahad Al-Abdulla (55.28s). On Friday, Marc had […]
HONG KONG – The mother of Hong Kong pop diva Anita Mui has long argued that the Cantopop singer was not advised properly and did not fully understand the contents of her will. In the will, Mui, who died in 2003 of cervical cancer at age 40, decreed that her money would go to a […]
Police in Pakistan say a bomb explosion aboard a moving train has killed at least three passengers and wounded seven others in the country’s volatile southwest. Officer Abdullah Jamali says the bomb went off in one of the cars of a Quetta-bound train early Sunday, damaging five cars. He says two men and a woman […]