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No, Amazon isn't a monopoly just because it bought Whole Foods
Amazon announced a deal last week to purchase the grocery chain Whole Foods for nearly $14 billion. The company's largest proposed transaction to...States Are Secretly Trying to Tax Your Online Purchases
States and localities currently cannot tax online purchases made from companies outside their own borders. Yet over the past two decades, state and...CEI Leads Coalition Supporting Uncapped Passenger Facility Charge
View Full Document as PDF Dear Chairman Thune and Ranking Member Nelson: We write today in strong support of including an uncapped Passenger Facility...
Opinion | The Guardian
Sorry, Prince Harry. There’s no such thing as a modern royal family | Zoe Williams
The prince’s desire to be himself is fair enough, but the monarchy is built on foundations of duty. Remove those and it crumblesHigh office looks like...I introduced a bill to protect tenants. Grenfell shows why they need it | Karen Buck
Amendments to housing regulations that I first proposed in 2015 were voted down by the government. It must now support measures like themToday the...That jeering sound you can hear is Europe laughing at Britain | Andrew Rawnsley
For years we mocked our neighbours’ ‘unstable’ governments. Now, with Brexit upon us, the joke is on this countryA cartoon in a Dutch newspaper...
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Dozens missing after tourist boat sinks in Colombia
A tourist boat packed with about 160 passengers for the holiday weekend capsized Sunday on a reservoir near the Colombian city of Medellin, leaving at...Black Lives Matter revives police debate at Pride marches
In New York City, several protesters from the group Black Lives Matter brought the parade to a standstill when they staged a sit-in. Police officers...Pride group in Taber, Alta. says their flag was burned
Organizers of a southern Alberta town's first Pride event say they'll raise a third rainbow flag after the first was stolen and the one they replaced...
Tallbloke's Talkshop
Grid-Level Electricity Storage – NOAA’s Critique of the WWS Vision
. . There’s the wind, water, and solar (WWS) vision promoted by a few academics, and then there’s economic and technical reality – with a seriously...Electric planes have gone from April Fools joke to reality in two years
Image credit: Eviation No details of costs in this IB Times report, but Eviation claims that its electric aircraft is made possible by a new aluminum...Scottish finance backs kite power company
Credit: Kite Power Systems [click to enlarge] It may be hard to imagine large scale use of kites to generate electricity, but this is the concept...
Catallaxy Files
See Climate Hustle and dine
With the Five Dock Climate Realists. July 18- Sydney Club Five Dock Doors open at 7:00 PM EVENT IS FREE, GET TICKETS HERE See the documentary,...What ScoMo stands for: higher taxes
In yet more evidence that ScoMo has lost the plot, he has announced the imposition of GST on low value items bought from overseas even though the...
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Ronald & Donald: From Reaganian history to Trumpian future of planet Earth
Rajendra Shende/IANS "Tear down this wall," Ronald Reagan, former Republican President of the US, challenged Mikhail Gorbachev in his speech at...Navigating towards a ''Paris Agreement for the oceans''?
James Fahn/thethirdpole.net/IANSAfter silence of shock defeat in Punjab, AAP finds its voice again
Some AAP leaders still have issues on who should be the party leader in Punjab, how much control should the AAP central leadership have on the Punjab...
Zee News :Technology News
Airtel extends 30GB free data offer for another 3 months – Check out details
Airtel's big data offer seems to be a competitor to Reliance Jio's Dhan Dhana Dhan offer.Vodafone users can get 45GB additional 4G data for 5 months on recharge of 1GB – Know how
Know how you can avail the offer of 45GB 3G/4G additional Data for 5 months (9GB per month).New camera design to make smartphones slimmer
To make smartphones more slimmer, a group of engineers has developed a new camera design that replaces the lenses with an ultra-thin optical phased...
Zee News :Zee News - Health
IMA's new advisory to its members: Refrain from drinking with 'non-doctors'
The representative voluntary organisation of doctors has also asked its members to observe dry days on July 1 (Doctors’ Day) and September 5...Swine flu claims three more lives in Mumbai
In Mumbai, 92 people have been found to be infected in the last one week from June 16 to June 22.New method to monitor muscle injuries is here
Researchers from Polytechnic University of Catalunya in Spain developed the new technique, called localised bioimpedance measurement (L-BIA).
Zee News :Sci-Tech
Swachh Bharat mission: PM Modi lauds villages for becoming free of open defecation
In the 33rd edition of his monthly radio programme 'Mann ki Baat', the Prime Minister heaped praises on the two villages for taking initiatives to...SpaceX's Falcon 9 delivers 10 Iridium NEXT satellites into space
After it lifted off from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 1:25 pm local time (2025 GMT) as scheduled, the first stage of the Falcon 9...New, extinct wasp species named after David Bowie's alter ego
Researchers from Capital Normal University in China found two unidentified wasp specimens that were exceptionally well- preserved in Burmese amber.
Zee News :South asia
Iraqi forces say major Islamic State attack blocked outside old city of Mosul
The attacks targeted Hay al-Tanak, a poor neighborhood west of the Old City, the last stronghold of the militants in Mosul. asPresidential polls begin in Mongolia
The polls mainly involve candidates from three leading parties, who have offered different measures to ease the government's mounting debt pressure...Israel targets Syria after fresh stray fire
Israel seized 1,200 square kilometres of the Golan from Syria in the Six-Day War of 1967 and later annexed it in a move never recognised by the...
Zee News :World
Six dead, 31 missing after Colombia tourist boat sinks: President
Authorities did not yet say what caused the four-deck Almirante to go down in the El Penol reservoir in the tourist town of Guatape, where Colombian...Iraqi forces say major Islamic State attack blocked outside old city of Mosul
The attacks targeted Hay al-Tanak, a poor neighborhood west of the Old City, the last stronghold of the militants in Mosul. asAlbania's ruling Socialists set to win: Exit poll
The exit poll by Italy's IPR Marketing, with a margin of error of two percent, showed the Socialists are set to win between 45 and 49 percent of the...
Zee News :India National
BJP backs PM Modi`s Emergency remark, says `black day` must not be forgotten
The BJP on Monday backed PM Modi's remark on Emergency saying that the young generation must remember the dark chapter in India's electoral history.`Forty Two Years Ago - The Emergency`: Arun Jaitley asks detractors of Modi government to introspect
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has hit out at detractors for casually using 'undeclared emergency' to describe the present BJP government.Congress slams Sushma Swaraj for attacking Presidential nominee Meira Kumar
The Congress on Monday slammed External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj for targetting Opposition Presidential nominee Meira Kumar, saying that the...
Channel NewsAsia World News
Trump, Modi seek rapport despite friction on trade, immigration
U.S. President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold their first face-to-face meeting in Washington on Monday, seeking to...Iceland, an open-air Hollywood studio
Crystal clear ice caves, glacial lakes, spewing volcanoes and crashing waterfalls framed by dark lava columns: Iceland's breathtaking landscapes have...Hong Kong activists stage China protest ahead of Xi visit
Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters on Monday draped a black flag over a statue symbolising the city's return to China by Britain, days before a visit...
Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific News
New US ambassador to China says North Korea a top priority
The new U.S. ambassador to China has said that stopping the threat posed by North Korea will be a top priority, along with resolving the U.S.-China...Great Barrier Reef a $42 billion asset 'too big to fail': Study
Australia's under-pressure Great Barrier Reef is an asset worth Aus$56 billion (US$42 billion) and as an ecosystem and economic driver is "too big to...Nine dead after Colombia tourist boat sinks in reservoir
Nine people died and 28 are missing after a multi-decked tourist boat carrying about 170 passengers sank in Colombia's Penol-Guatape reservoir on...
Channel NewsAsia Front Page News
Investing with 'green' ratings? It's a gray area
BOSTON/NEW YORK: Investors betting trillions on ethically-appealing stocks may not be getting all they expect. Buying into companies based on...Trump, Modi seek rapport despite friction on trade, immigration
U.S. President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold their first face-to-face meeting in Washington on Monday, seeking to...S$48m spent on upgrading 6 shopping complexes: HDB
The Housing and Development Board has spent around S$48 million upgrading six of the 21 HDB shopping complexes in Singapore, it announced in a press...
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Our Monday superquiz
Trivia buffs: test your knowledge with today's interactive superquiz.BIS' debt bomb scenario unlikely to occur as RBA reserves firing power
The rapid 250 basis point rise in domestic interest rates that would leave Australian households facing a mammoth debt servicing burden is unlikely to...Cameron King to end 733-day wait for NRL recall
Cameron King is set to end a 733-day wait for an NRL recall when he answers Parramatta's hooking crisis in Thursday's clash against Canterbury.
The Sydney Morning Herald articles
Our Monday superquiz
Trivia buffs: test your knowledge with today's interactive superquiz.BIS' debt bomb scenario unlikely to occur as RBA reserves firing power
The rapid 250 basis point rise in domestic interest rates that would leave Australian households facing a mammoth debt servicing burden is unlikely to...Aveo shares sink on allegations of poor treatment
Aveo Group shares have plunged as much as 9.5 per cent in the wake of an investigation detailing claims the retirement village operator is ripping...
The Sydney Morning Herald articles
My dad died like Darren Simpson. Now it's time to talk about alcohol addiction
It was the kindest lie I've ever told. Like most lies, I now somewhat regret it.Federal government must step in to protect against predatory retirement villages
Too many retirees who buy into retirement villages think they bought property. They haven't.Public service generals reap the spoils as footsoldiers go hungry
Big pay rises for top public servants will rankle in the ranks.
The Sydney Morning Herald articles
Tourist ferry with 150 people on board sinks in Colombia
At least nine people are dead and 30 are missing after a tourist ferry packed with about 150 passengers capsized on a reservoir near Medellin.Crown employees sentenced to jail but Australians free in months
Crown staff including executive Jason O'Connor are expected to plead guilty when their court case is heard today in Baoshan District Court, outside...'Too controversial': Turkey drops evolution from secular curriculum
Starting in September, a chapter on evolution will no longer appear in ninth-graders' textbooks because it is considered too "controversial" an idea.
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Our Monday superquiz
Trivia buffs: test your knowledge with today's interactive superquiz.Install a solar system at home and let the sub pay your bills
Harness the sun’s radiation and convert it into usable household electricity.Coroner said son was dead so grieving family held $26,000 funeral - then he phoned home
It's still unclear how the authorities of Orange County became convinced that a body was Frank Kerrigan's.
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