Wednesday, October 17, 2018

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  • The mega deal mooted on Tuesday began to come together just after lunch on Wednesday with four trades completed in half an hour.
  • The Indonesia-Australia free trade deal, which was finalised in August and is due to be signed later this year. Although that could change.
    • Hugh Bowman hopes The Cliffsofmoher can end his Caulfield Cup wait.

      The Times of India



  • “I don’t even know him. He came at me with the pistol, shouting that he would shoot me. I asked him why, but he only kept on abusing me,” recollected Gaurav Singh, the man who was...
  • Tension prevails in Kerala as Sabarimala opens for the first time since the historic Supreme Court verdict allowing women aged between 10 and 50 to pray at the hill temple, with hundreds...
  • 5 suspects have been identified by Turkey in the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi case. One of them has been identified as a frequent companion of the kingdom's powerful...
  • Daughter Nandita Das explains how she will continue to add her voice to the movement despite the allegations against her father.

    • A civil engineer and six plumbers hailing from Bihar employed at a construction site of a primary school of Vadodara Municipal Corporation were sitting and chatting when three residents...

  • Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday released the results of a DNA test that the Massachusetts Democrat said proves she has Native American ancestry.


  •   UK news | The Guardian



  • Prime minister asks cabinet to ‘stand together and stand firm’ on eve of crucial EU summitTheresa May will urge EU leaders in Brussels on Wednesday to keep the door open to continuing...
  • Judges unanimous in choice of Northern Irish winner for ‘utterly distinctive’ Troubles-era novelAnna Burns has become the first Northern Irish author to win the Man Booker...

    • Backbenchers are anxious about impact of universal credit rollout and years of austerityPhilip Hammond is planning to pepper his budget with a series of spending announcements...


      CNN.com - Top Stories




  • The body of missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi was cut into pieces after he was killed two weeks ago at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, a Turkish official told CNN on Tuesday...


    • Saudi Arabia's big investment conference has lost another high-profile guest after International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde dropped out.


  • Torching their fields is a cheap and ­efficient means for India’s farmers to ready their fields for the next crop. It is also a major contributor to the smog that has turned Delhi...
  • On Oct. 16, 1968, American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists at the Summer Olympics in Mexico City — a photo that still reverberates five decades later...

    • The data guru calculates how well the media have learned the lessons of the 2016 election.



    PCWorld





  • Cord cutters can get their fill of big nationally televised games, but local broadcasts are still left on the bench.
  • Join The Full Nerd gang as they talk about the latest PC hardware topics. Today's show is about Brad's Nvidia RTX 2070 review and Principal Technologies controversial CPU benchmarks...

    • Now that we’ve seen the Pixel 3, tested it, and measured the notch, you’ve probably made up your mind as to whether you’re going to buy one. And if you are, you already know that’s...



      WSJ.com: World News





  • Saudi operatives beat, drugged, killed and dismembered a dissident Saudi journalist in the presence of the kingdom’s top diplomat in Istanbul, Turkish officials said. President...
  • French President Emmanuel Macron appointed several cabinet ministers in an attempt to stabilize his government and stem a decline in public support for his push to overhaul France’s...

    • A brief hostage-taking that seriously burned a 14-year-old girl and injured a woman on Monday is being investigated as a possible terrorist attack, German police said...

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