• Australia

    Koala survives 16 km drive trapped under vehicle

    A koala survived a 16-kilometre (10-mile) road trip in Australia clinging to the axle of a four-wheel drive vehicle, before the driver stopped and heard the cries of the traumatized animal. The female koala had crawled into the wheel arch while the car was parked in the hills on the outskirts ...

  • USA

    Predictions – Is the king naked?

    “It’s better to roughly right than precisely wrong” - John Maynard Keynes Medieval mathematicians would not have understood the concept of having a one-half chance of getting tails when tossing a die. It’s tails, they might have said, because an omnipotent being wills it. The creation, or rather let’s say the discovery, ...

  • Sudafrica Regno Unito

    £200,000 raised from Banksy art auction donated to anti-arms group

    A new Banksy piece has sold for more than £200,000 at auction. The artwork, named Civilian Drone Strike, depicts drones destroying a child-like drawing of a house while a little girl and her dog watch on in horror. It was sold for £205,000 at an exhibition set up to oppose an arms ...

  • USA Regno Unito Malta

    Juncker’s grand plans for Europe

    In his latest State of the Union speech on Wednesday, European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker sounded unusually optimistic about the future of the European Union. With robust EU economic growth, which, in the last two years, has outstripped the US, and unemployment at a nine-year low, Mr Juncker is defining ...

  • Portogallo

    El FMI dice que la deuda portuguesa es más sostenible ahora que en 2011

    El jefe de la misión del Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI) en Portugal, Subir Lall, consideró que la deuda pública portuguesa es más sostenible que en 2011, cuando pidió el rescate financiero, a pesar de que ahora está en niveles récord que rondan el 130 % del PIB.

  • Romania Bulgaria

    Can you imagine having a prostitute at school on career day?

    The European Women’s Lobby is the largest women’s umbrella organisation of women’s organisations in the EU.  The European Women’s lobby has a clear position on prostitution, she said. “When speaking about prostitution we must firstly speak about violence against women. We have to discuss whether there is really free choice ...

  • Ghana

    I once slept on the streets of Ghana –Patoranking

    ’Nonye Ben-Nwankwo and Ademola Olonilua Even as he has attained fame and become a celeb, not many people would know that Dancehall singer, Patoranking, had been in the music business for over a decade. Interestingly, the young man has seen the other side of life in his quest to climb ...

  • Nigeria

    NLC, TUC to workers: ignore strike call by ULC

    The Organised Labour made up of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) yesterday, accused the yet to be registered United Labour Congress (UCL) led by Joe Ajaero of blackmailing the Federal Government into setting aside legal requirements to register them, and declare that only registered trade ...

  • Nigeria

    IPOB as a terrorist organisation: What the Law, legal experts say

    The Terrorism (Prevention) Act 2013 defines a terrorist as “a person who knowingly does, attempts or threatens to do an act preparatory to or in furtherance of an act of terrorism….” It defines acts of terrorism as “an act which is deliberately done with malice, aforethought and which may seriously ...

  • Portogallo

    Centeno: “decisão da S&P traduz crescente reconhecimento do progresso”

    Ao fim de cinco anos, Portugal volta a ser colocado no grau de investimento por um das principais agências de 'rating'. O ministério das Finanças acredita que a decisão foi "ancorado num modelo económico sólido, equilibrado e inclusivo".