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New York appoints first-ever rat 'czar'
AFP, Published on 13/04/2023
» NEW YORK - New York appointed its first rat "czar" on Wednesday, tasked with cracking down on one of the more unappealing aspects of life in the Big Apple.
Shine on: campaigners save London's historic gas lamps
AFP, Published on 24/11/2022
» LONDON - Intrigued tourists watch as Paul Doy climbs a ladder outside London's Westminster Abbey and lifts the globe of a gas street lamp.
UK budget set to deliver more economic pain
AFP, Published on 17/11/2022
» LONDON - Britain is set Thursday to unveil hefty tax rises and spending cuts at the risk of worsening a cost-of-living crisis for millions in the recession-bound economy.
UK budget predicted to be a nightmare before Christmas
AFP, Published on 15/11/2022
» LONDON: Britain will Thursday hike taxes and slash public spending in a government budget that signals a return to austerity despite a cost-of-living crisis and recession headwinds.
Myanmar forces target railway workers over anti-coup strike
AFP, Published on 10/03/2021
» YANGON - Hundreds of soldiers and police swooped on a railway station in Rangoon on Wednesday seeking to arrest workers on strike to protest against the military coup in Myanmar.
High cost to wildlife from shark nets protecting S.Africa beaches
AFP, Published on 13/01/2021
» UMKOMAAS (SOUTH AFRICA) - "They're basically curtains of death," said shark diver Walter Bernardis as he reached over the side of his zodiac inflatable boat to pull up a net bobbing in eastern South Africa's subtropical waters.
Lifting the veil on a German father's Nazi secret
AFP, Published on 09/11/2020
» HAMBURG - Barbara Brix admired her father, a doctor who passed on his love of history and literature. Until she learned years after his passing that he had been part of a Nazi death squad.
Ireland set for second lockdown as Europe reels from virus surge
AFP, Published on 21/10/2020
» DUBLIN: Millions of people in Ireland were getting set for a second national lockdown on Wednesday, the first European country to take the drastic step as the continent battles a persistent surge in coronavirus cases.