THE Syrian opposition delegation in Geneva for a second round of peace talks has warned it will not return for a third round if no progress is made. "If there is no progress at all, I think it would be a waste of time to think about a third round," opposition ...
TONY Abbott has partially blamed Labor's industrial laws for forcing an end to Toyota carmaking, saying union-backed reforms strangled debate on working conditions that could have offered “a fair chance of survival''. Australia's last remaining carmaker, ...
Some 1.6 million properties across Britain are now at risk of groundwater flooding and there is no end in sight, an expert says. 3:17am UK, Tuesday 11 February 2014. Floods across Britain. Scenes like this could continue until Spring. flood. Wraysbury ...
Sony's most compact gaming console will hit North America this spring with more battery life, a new LCD screen, and an 8GB memory card for $199. Dara Kerr. by Dara Kerr. February 10, 2014 7:02 PM PST. Follow @darakerr. (Credit: Sony). PlayStation users ...
Safer Internet Day is a very worthy idea, but unfortunately it's a little like the so-called war on drugs, the good guys can't win. In the first place, it has now emerged that 60pc of teenagers (40pc of 9- to 16-year-olds) own a smartphone of one kind or another, ...
Don't get in a flap if you've missed out on the latest maddeningly addictive computer game featuring our feathered friends. Dong Nguyen, Flappy Birds' frustrated creator, will surely be back. Mr Nguyen might have lived up to his promises by taking down a free ...
When Pope Benedict XVI suddenly announced exactly one year ago that he was resigning for health reasons, he sent shock waves around the world. No pope had resigned for 600 years. A second surprise was that after spending a short period of rest at the ...
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and Labor's industry spokesman Senator Kim Carr have criticised the Abbott government after Toyota announced it was ending manufacturing in Australia. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen. Federal politics: full coverage · Mark Kenny: ...
Bill Gates has engaged in a Q&A on Reddit to dispel some of the myths about himself and to ask for the internet community's help in spreading the truth about US foreign aid. "That's the biggest myth about me: this idea that I'm the biggest philanthropist," he ...
The chairman of the Environment Agency risked further criticism on Monday night when he suggested that flooded residents were partly to blame for their problems by choosing to live in high-risk regions. Lord Smith said people who bought homes in flood ...
Ottawa woman murdered in Mexico Nina Discombe, a long-time Ottawa resident, was killed at her Mexico home along with Edward Kular, a Toronto native. The couple had spent the last several winters in Toronto as they enjoyed retirement together.
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