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Three ministers quit government saying Theresa May ‘playing roulette’

Three ministers quit the government saying Theresa May is ‘playing roulette’ with people’s livelihoods as latest Commons defeat leaves the PM floundering Richard Harrington Alistair Burt, and health minister Steve Brine resigned  A huge total of 29 MPs broke a three-line whip on Monday night for a vote The government was defeated in an amendment […]

Top student snappers bid for world’s best picture prize

Imagine how good they’ll be when they qualify! Top student snappers bid for world’s best picture prize e-mail View comments Sony has unveiled the incredible pictures taken by student photographers who are bidding to scoop the world’s best picture prize. Students from all registered universities are given the chance to enter the free competition by […]

STEPHEN GLOVER: if May quitting passes her deal, she should go

STEPHEN GLOVER: Reluctantly, I believe that if May offering to quit gets her deal through, she should go e-mail 10 View comments From the moment she became Prime Minister in July 2016, Theresa May has fought with astounding commitment to honour the result of the EU referendum which took place the previous month. We’ll never […]

Flood forecast stays the same for now

American flood forecasters say a slow and gentle melt continues across the Red River basin due to favourable temperatures and dry weather conditions. In its flood potential outlook, the National Weather Service (NWS) said a warm end to last week and the first half of last weekend helped to melt the snowpack across the region. “Some areas have begun […]

Global carbon emissions, the primary cause of global warming, hit record high in 2018

LONDON (REUTERS) – Global energy-related carbon emissions rose to a record high last year as energy demand and coal use increased, mainly in Asia, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Tuesday (March 26). Energy-related CO2 emissions rose by 1.7 per cent to 33.1 billion tonnes from the previous year, the highest rate of growth […]

U.S. House panel again postpones Trump business associate, to focus on Mueller report

(Reuters) – The House of Representatives intelligence committee said on Monday it was postponing the testimony of a former business associate of President Donald Trump so that it can focus on questioning officials related to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. The announcement comes a day after Attorney General William Barr disclosed a summary of […]

Trump’s best day ever: a victory, accolades and an enemy arrested

Washington: He kept up a fist-pumping victory lap over the end of the Mueller probe, basked in gushy accolades from a foreign leader, and saw a former nemesis humiliated by the feds. To most of America, it was just another Monday. For President Donald Trump, it was, perhaps, his best day ever. Donald Trump smiles as […]