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  • More than one person suffering from dementia is going missing each week in Western Australia, according to police.
  • Melbourne Victory are W-League premiers for the first time following a chaotic 2-1 final-round victory over Perth Glory.


  • France is in discussions about repatriating Islamic State fighters and their families, a policy shift prompted by the withdrawal of US troops from Syria...

      The Times of India



  • The Modi government responded with a budget that was interim only in name. It had a Rs 6,000 per annum direct income transfer for small and marginal farmers – those with holdings below...
  • Besides raising the standard deduction from Rs 40,000 to Rs 50,000, the FM proposed a full rebate for individual taxpayers having total income of up to Rs 5 lakh. Currently, a rebate...
  • If your annual salary is Rs 5 lakh, you don’t gain by an increment of Rs 15,000, because your tax bill at this level would be Rs 15,000, so you’re effectively back to Rs 5 lakh. One way...
  • One crucial concession in the Budget was for second homebuyers who were forced to pay tax even if they had not rented out their second homes. The notional rent charged on the second home...


  • Venezuela’s self-declared “interim president” was recognised by the European Parliament on Thursday, and set out to promote his plan for restoring order to the chaotic country...


  • Ugandan woman from east London was accused of mutilating daughter in 2017 The mother of a three-year-old girl has become the first person to be found guilty of female genital mutilation...
  • Information commissioner also launches data protection audit after Brexit violationsThe information commissioner has launched an audit into Leave.EU and the insurance company...

    • Follow live updates on the disruption in the UK after the Met Office issues a warming for continuing snowHeavy snow closes schools and disrupts travel across BritainHow are you being...


      CNN.com - Top Stories




  • A medical school yearbook page of Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam shows a photograph of two people, one in blackface and one in a KKK hood and robe...
  • In an interview Thursday with The New York Times, President Donald Trump was asked whether there was anyone in the rapidly forming 2020 Democratic field who he thought might be his...

    • Sen. Elizabeth Warren has apologized to Cherokee Nation leaders over her attempt to use a DNA test to confirm her past claims to Native American ancestry, the tribe said...


  • Years after the highway teardown movement helped reshape places such as Boston, a similar transformation is taking hold of Seattle, which is about to open the nation’s first double-decker...
  • Two days after the Taiwanese tech manufacturer said it no longer planned to build a sprawling new factory in Wisconsin, the company appears to have reversed course, citing a “personal...

    • The demise of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty — on the grounds* that Russian violations render it moot — raises fears of a new nuclear arms race, although...



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    • 2018 was the year that Telltale fell from grace. 2019 might be the year Starbreeze, another once-beloved studio, follows after. Below, you’ll find excerpts from Eurogamer’s...



      WSJ.com: World News





  • The U.S. and China moved closer to settling their trade dispute, with President Trump saying he expects to meet again with Chinese President Xi Jinping to resolve the conflict that...
  • Juan Guaidó, the opposition leader recognized by Washington as Venezuela’s rightful leader, laid out a plan to reverse President Nicolás Maduro’s economic polices and address...

    • China’s slowing economy is sending shock waves through its trading partners around the world, retarding economic growth far from China’s shores and taking a toll on companies...

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