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Yahoo News - Top Stories

Couple Ordered To Pay Enslaved Nanny $121,000 After 2 Years Of Work
A Texas couple who pleaded guilty to charges related to forcing a Nigerian woman to work as their nanny for two years without pay has been ordered to...
Bright spot for Trump in 2017, job creation faces new challenges
President Donald Trump can point to at least one important success in his first year: the number of jobs grew and the unemployment rate fell in 2017.
A U.S. Mountain Was Just The Second-Coldest Place On Earth
The temperature atop New Hampshire’s Mount Washington plummeted early Saturday to an astonishing minus 36 degrees Fahrenheit, making it one of the...

CNN.com - Top Stories

The Hollywood awards season starts by honoring movies and TV shows that feature strong women
All of the Golden Globes winners
The 75th Golden Globe Awards were held Sunday.
Sterling K. Brown, Aziz Ansari break barriers
All eyes will be on Hollywood Sunday night, and not just for stargazing.

WSJ.com: What's News US

Bannon Works to Mend Rift Over Book Critical of White House
Former Trump strategist Steve Bannon on Sunday sought to mend fences with the White House after nearly a week of bitter exchanges over comments he...
French Presidents Once Acted Like Referees. Then Came Emmanuel Macron
The country’s new leader is moving rapidly to reshape France in his own image, revamping labor laws, co-opting opposition political parties and...
Trump Rejects Assertions in Book, Calling Self a 'Very Stable Genius'
President Donald Trump continued to assail a new book that features sharp criticism of his administration from close advisers, and lamented what he...

Sydney Morning Herald RSS News Headlines

Can juries deliver justice to sexual assault victims?
When my jury service ended, we set a man free. A man, who in my mind is guilty of more than 25 counts of child sexual assault.
The new black: best feminist moments of the 2018 Golden Globes
It seems strange to praise a red carpet as a feminist triumph, but that is exactly what the 2018 Golden Globes appears to have pulled off.
Cambodia court dismisses Australian nurse's appeal against surrogacy jail sentence
Australian nurse Tammy Davis-Charles, who is suffering eye cancer, has had her appeal against an 18-month jail sentence on surrogacy charges rejected...

The Times of India

Govt nixes Rs 32,000 crore 'Make in India' minesweepers project
In yet another major blow to the ‘Make in India’ plan in the defence sector, the government has cancelled the Rs 32,000 crore project to construct 12...
Budget: Govt may woo middle class with tax sops
Ahead of what may be its final full Budget before next year’s general elections, the NDA government is looking to offer fresh benefits to middle class...
Woman dies after ‘200% safe’ op costing Rs 43L
The family insisted they were not informed about the full extent of the risk; the cardiologist who flew down from Jaipur for the transcatheter...

UK news | The Guardian

May to move or sack quarter of cabinet in wide-ranging reshuffle
Prime minister to assert authority, though Boris Johnson, David Davis, Amber Rudd and Philip Hammond likely to keep jobsTheresa May will give her...
Peter Preston, former Guardian editor, dies aged 79
Preston joined the Guardian in 1963 and was editor from 1975 to 1995, overseeing some of the most dramatic moments in its historyThe former editor of...
London shop worker on life support after assault by three teenagers
Met police say suspects turned violent after being told they could not buy cigarettes or alcohol in shop in Mill Hill, north LondonA shop worker is on...

Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis

See what the stars are wearing on the red carpet at this year’s Golden Globes
In a big push for total surveillance, Beijing bets on facial recognition
The police and security state in China have embraced the new technology to monitor the country’s 1.4 billion people — where they are, what they...
Bannon tries to soften his scathing comments, but Trump’s fury persists
After days of withering castigation from the White House, former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon proclaimed loyalty to the president and...

NBC News Top Stories

Follow Live: Oprah proclaims 'new day is on the horizon' at Globes
Get updates and recaps on speeches, winners, and red carpet moments.
#MeToo, strong women dominate the Golden Globe Awards
"It's 2018," host Seth Meyers said. "Marijuana is finally allowed and sexual harassment finally isn't."
Who is Recy Taylor, woman honored by Oprah in Globes speech?
Recy Taylor, an Alabama African-American woman whose abduction and rape by six white men in 1944 made national headlines, died Thursday morning.

PCWorld

'Hades Canyon' NUCs finally give Intel's tiny PCs the gaming chops they deserve
Intel’s tiny NUC PC initiative finally gets the gaming chips it deserves with the roll out of two new models that feature one of the company’s new...
Intel launches five Core chips with Radeon graphics from rival AMD
Intel’s startling marriage with AMD’s graphics chips has finally borne fruit, as Intel announced five new Core H-series chips that use two variants...
Samsung's ginormous 'The Wall' TV is the first consumer display to use micro-LED technology
Like OLEDs, mLEDs enable deeper blacks because they don't need a separate backlight.

Niskanen Center

Nativist Anti-“Open Borders” Rhetoric Is a Big Lie
Donald Trump ran on promises to restrict immigration and build a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border. During the first year of Trump’s presidency,...
Quick Overview of Southwestern Border Wall
There currently exists 654 miles of fencing along the southern border, consisting of 354 miles of pedestrian fence and 300 miles of vehicle fence. 592...
Sorry, but the Republican Party is not in crisis
The nomination of Donald Trump occasioned many premature obituaries of the Republican Party and the conservative movement. His election led to more...

Competitive Enterprise Institute

Justices Asked to Weigh Deal Fairness in $8.5M Google Case
Law360 covers CEI's petition to the Supreme Court to review Gaos v. Google. The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Class Action...
CEI's Ebell Responds to Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Leasing Plan
Myron Ebell, Director of Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, responded to today’s announcement by the Trump administration...
Trump Marijuana Policy Undermines Citizens' Rights
On news today that United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded an Obama-era policy curtailing federal enforcement of federal marijuana laws...

Opinion | The Guardian

Fire and Fury? Maybe Donald Trump is only just getting started | Matthew d’Ancona
Michael Wolff’s book contains worrying revelations about the US president, but don’t think it means the ‘very stable genius’ will be oustedWere I...
With the NHS, reality has finally caught up with Theresa May | Zoe Williams
The prime minister’s evasions and blandness used to work. But the winter crisis has left her floundering, and with no plan to end the miseryIt was...
The latest victory for Corbynites creates a conqueror’s dilemma | Andrew Rawnsley
Momentum may be tempted to pursue a purge of Labour MPs, but that would be both difficult and riskyOne of the many things that have changed about the...

CTVNews.ca - Top Stories - Public RSS

Four children die in N.S. house fire
Four children died early Sunday in a house fire near Yarmouth, N.S., CTV News has learned.
Oprah, 'Big Little Lies' triumph at Golden Globes
Greta Gerwig's directorial debut "Lady Bird" has won the Golden Globe Award for best film comedy or musical. Gary Oldman is the winner of the Golden...
Missing snowmobilers found alive on mountain near Revelstoke, B.C.
Police say two young men are lucky to have survived after they got lost snowmobiling and were forced to spend the night on a mountain near Revelstoke,...

Tallbloke's Talkshop

Scientists: Global warming is not causing harsh winter weather
NASA temperature anomaly map (week to 2nd Jan. 2018) As one university-based climatologist said: ‘Such claims make no sense’. The climate isn’t doing...
Environmentalists lose climate lawsuit over Arctic oil drilling
Norway’s Goliat oil platform [image credit: T3n60 @ Wikipedia] Another attempt to use the law to get a court to take on the role of government over...
America braces for lowest temperatures on record
White winter in the USA Battered by the bomb cyclone which brought heavy snow and flooding to a swathe of the US, America is facing the threat of the...

Catallaxy Files

Though this be madness, yet there is method in ’t
From If President Trump Is Mentally Unstable, Let’s Hope It’s Contagious. Just look at what this president who supposedly has a diminished capacity...
Just Disgraceful
As just reported in the Australian: Barnaby Joyce’s resounding win in last month’s New England by-election has netted the National Party $153,000 in...
Monday Forum: January 8, 2018

Zee News :Zee News - Blog

New directives to prevent misuse of Section 498-A, which aims to tackle dowry death
Many groups working for protection of men’s rights have been critical of its frequent misuse and want it to be scrapped.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan&s new son underlines importance of managing star-fan relationship
Fans earlier asked for autographs. But now, they want stars to pose till they get the perfect picture on their mobile phones.
Lesson for Rajinikanth: Why TTV Dhinakaran really won the RK Nagar election
Money or star power alone cannot buy votes. Dhinakaran's efforts went largely unnoticed.

Zee News :Technology News

Samsung launches Galaxy Tab A 7.0 at Rs 9,500
The 4G tablet comes with HD display and a hefty 4000mAh battery that claims to provide up to nine hours of video playback.
Vodafone offers Rs 1,500 cashback on buying Samsung Galaxy smartphones
The cash back will be credited to the Vodafone M-Pesa wallets.
Flipkart 2018 Mobiles Bonanza sale kicks off: Top smartphone deals
Flipkart is also offering buyback guarantee at Rs 149 and no cost EMI on all the banks.

Zee News :Zee News - Health

Eating foods with choline in pregnancy may boost baby's brain
Researchers from the Cornell University in the US used a rigorous study design to show cognitive benefits in the offspring of pregnant women who...
Excess fat disrupts heart cell's energy system, says study
The heart is the most energy-hungry organ in the body. Just like a combustion engine burning fuel to power the pistons, healthy heart cells consume...
Childhood asthma, food allergy may up anxiety disorder risk
According to parents' responses to a standardised interview, 58 per cent of children screened positive for at least one mental disorder.

Zee News :Sci-Tech

NASA Rover's images similar to trace fossils on Mars: Scientists
The first new batch of 2018 photographs taken Curiosity Lens Imager (MAHLI) could be similar to Ordovician trace fossils.
Chemical ban helped closing up of ozone layer hole: NASA
The ban on the CFCs resulted in about 20 per cent less ozone depletion during the Antarctic winter from 2005 to 2016, while chlorine levels declined...
Boeing, SpaceX progressing towards first crewed missions in 2018: NASA
Boeing is expected to perform an uncrewed flight test in August, during which the unmanned Starliner will dock to the International Space Station for...

Zee News :South asia

Imran Khan&s party denies reports of his third marriage
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Sunday claimed the reports of party chief cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's third marriage to be false.
Pakistan says Islamabad to continue engagement with Washington
Pakistan Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua has said that the country will continue to have engagement, as far as possible, with the US because...
For stable Afghanistan, US to work with China over terror safe havens in Pakistan
China shares some of the concerns of the US, about the terrorism problem in Pakistan, a senior White House official has said.

Zee News :World

Donald Trump delays Fake News Awards, says most corrupt, biased media &losers& to get it
US President Donald Trump has announced that will postpone the announcement of his "Fake News Awards of 2017" to January 17, citing high interest. ( Student of Comedy )
Kulbhushan&s family mistreated: NRIs and Baloch activists stage protest at Pak embassy in Washington
Arrested and setenced to death by a military court on false charges of spying, Kulbhushan Jadhav met his mother and wife in Pakistan under sorry...
BBC editor quits China post over pay discrimination
Carrie Gracie, the China editor for Britain`s public broadcaster the BBC, has resigned from her post in Beijing due to pay disparities with her male...

Zee News :India National

News at a glance - January 8, 2018
Here is what is making headlines today.
Defense Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to attend Navy`s maritime prowess exhibit today
Defense Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is all set to preside over the Indian Navy's showcase of operational might and maritime prowess at sea on Monday.
Powerlifting world champion Saksham Yadav succumbs to injuries
Powerlifting world champion Saksham Yadav, who met with a car accident on Sunday morning, has succumbed to his injuries.

Channel NewsAsia World News

Power stacked against Southeast Asia's poor as China dams Mekong
KANDAL, Cambodia: Cambodian fisherman Sles Hiet lives at the mercy of the Mekong: A massive river that feeds tens of millions but is under threat from...
BBC's China editor quits post over pay discrimination
BEIJING: Carrie Gracie, the China editor for Britain's public broadcaster the BBC, has resigned from her post in Beijing due to pay disparities with...
SpaceX launches secretive Zuma mission
MIAMI: SpaceX on Sunday (Jan 7) blasted off a secretive US government payload known as Zuma, a mission whose nature - and the agency behind it -...

Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific News

Power stacked against Southeast Asia's poor as China dams Mekong
KANDAL, Cambodia: Cambodian fisherman Sles Hiet lives at the mercy of the Mekong: A massive river that feeds tens of millions but is under threat from...
Seoul seeks to put family reunions on North Korea talks agenda
SEOUL: South Korea will seek discussions on resuming reunions of separated families at this week's inter-Korean talks, Seoul's top delegate said...
BBC's China editor quits post over pay discrimination
BEIJING: Carrie Gracie, the China editor for Britain's public broadcaster the BBC, has resigned from her post in Beijing due to pay disparities with...

Channel NewsAsia Front Page News

Not in Singapore's national interest to give platform to radical foreign religious preachers: Shanmugam
SINGAPORE: If foreign religious preachers hold views that are inappropriate or unacceptable, then it is not in Singapore’s national interest to give...
Power stacked against Southeast Asia's poor as China dams Mekong
KANDAL, Cambodia: Cambodian fisherman Sles Hiet lives at the mercy of the Mekong: A massive river that feeds tens of millions but is under threat from...
Tennis: Walking wounded make opening slam hard to predict
For good reason a two-week grand slam can be described as a 'last man standing' marathon of mental and physical endurance, which makes Roger Federer's...

The Sydney Morning Herald articles

Can juries deliver justice to sexual assault victims?
When my jury service ended, we set a man free. A man, who in my mind is guilty of more than 25 counts of child sexual assault.
The new black: best feminist moments of the 2018 Golden Globes
It seems strange to praise a red carpet as a feminist triumph, but that is exactly what the 2018 Golden Globes appears to have pulled off.
Cambodia court dismisses Australian nurse's appeal against surrogacy jail sentence
Australian nurse Tammy Davis-Charles, who is suffering eye cancer, has had her appeal against an 18-month jail sentence on surrogacy charges rejected...

The Sydney Morning Herald articles

Can juries deliver justice to sexual assault victims?
When my jury service ended, we set a man free. A man, who in my mind is guilty of more than 25 counts of child sexual assault.
An Orwellian future is taking shape in China
China has some clear advantages which could help it leapfrog the West in the next phase of the digital revolution.
Michael Wolff's shameless - even morally dubious - strategy behind the riveting but sloppy Fire and Fury
The book confirms the worst fears about the Trump presidency: it feels truthful, if not always factual.

The Sydney Morning Herald articles

Cambodia court dismisses Australian nurse's appeal against surrogacy jail sentence
Australian nurse Tammy Davis-Charles, who is suffering eye cancer, has had her appeal against an 18-month jail sentence on surrogacy charges rejected...
Who is Michael Wolff? From local media scourge to national newsmaker
Michael Wolff is accustomed to angering the Manhattan power elite, now his formula has been applied to presidential politics.
WikiLeaks takes aim at Michael Wolff's book Fire and Fury, posts link to manuscript
Radical transparency site WikiLeaks has gone after author Michael Wolff following the publication of a controversial book that puts the Trump White...