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CHINA has been branded the world’s worst executioner as the state kills thousands of people every year using firing squads, lethal injections and mobile death vans. The true numbers of those killed by the Communist Party are thought to be staggeringly high – but the regime keeps them closely concealed as state secrets. Human rights […]

A recent survey showed which accents grate on people's nerves. If you're a Cockney or Essex local, you may have been unwittingly winding people up with the sound of your voice

The geography of the participants will be extensive: Khabarovsk, Smolensk, Kemerovo, Ivanovo, Korolev of Moscow Oblast, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Tyumen Oblast, Krasnodar Krai and Kurgan Oblast.

At first, scientists advised governments to test, test, test. Now, vaccines are available, and countries should be steaming ahead to administer the jabs. How is Luxembourg's vaccination strategy developing? Our colleague Pierre Weimerskirch took a look at recent numbers.

On the National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange, soybean contracts for March delivery fell Rs 19, or 0.39 per cent, to Rs 4,872 per quintal with an open interest of 1,95,985 lots.

​McArthurGlen Designer Outlet West Midlands has announced some major new names with Coach, Kate Spade, Hugo Boss, Levi’s and Lacoste having signed up for the opening this spring.

KABUL, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Two people including a university lecturer were killed in a bomb attack outside Kabul University in the Afghan capital Kabul on Thursday, police said.

China’s domestic rebar prices increased sharply on Thursday February 18 amid optimism generated by the release of positive financial data.

The writer, director, and producer joins a cast of CEOs and business leaders for ‘Fast Company’s’ virtual event on March 9 and 10.

I crash. You crash. Heck, even Amaury Pierron crashes. We all crash. Crashing is a fact of life for the mountain biker. It's part of the deal. Part of the thrill.

MUNICH (AP) - Bayern Munich and France defender Benjamin Pavard has tested positive for the coronavirus in the fourth case at the club in the last month.

TEXAS PRIDES itself on being different. Yet it is in the grip of a winter storm that typifies the Snowmageddon-size problems facing energy in America. Although nobody can be sure if this particular freeze is a sign of climate change, the growing frequency of extreme weather across the country is. Texan infrastructure has buckled. The problem is not, as some argue, that Texas has too many renewables. Gas-fired plants and a nuclear reactor were hit, as well as wind turbines. Worse, Texas had too... Читать дальше...

THE MARS rover Perseverance will attempt to land on the Red Planet today, completing a seven-month journey through the vacuum of space. What time will NASA's Perseverance rover land on Mars?

Football fans have talked up the prospect of Erling Haaland and Kylian Mbappe battling it out in a new-generation rivalry to take over the mantle from ageing icons Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
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BOXER Tinashe “Chairman” Mwadziwana is confident he will stand his own when he trades leather with Namibia’s Nathanael Kakololo for the African Boxing Union featherweight title.

MS Dhoni's 'definitely not' t-shirt at IPL 2021 Auction: CSK members flaunt attire

Goal and Absa, the Official African Banking Partner of the Premier League, review the biggest breaking stories in the competition

Shola Shoretire could make his senior Man Utd debut after being included in Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's travelling squad to take on Real Sociedad in the Europa League and he has been tipped for a bright future