The European Commission said Wednesday it would ban meat from cloned animals but stopped short of imposing restrictions on produce from the offspring of such animals, a hugely sensitive issue. Animal rights groups attacked the plan as not going far…
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Swansea City and Hull City have each been fined £20,000 ($32,800, 23,800 euros) over an on-pitch fracas during their Premier League encounter last week, the Football Association announced on Tuesday. The clubs both admitted to a charge of failing to…
Talks between experts from Iran and world powers on implementing last month’s nuclear deal will resume on Thursday in Geneva, a spokeswoman for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said Wednesday. “The technical talks will be resumed tomorrow and…
Syria said Wednesday that a British doctor alleged to have been effectively murdered in custody had hanged himself after being arrested for “unauthorised activities.” Regime warplanes meanwhile pounded Aleppo for a fourth straight day in raids that…
The Bank of England is to issue plastic banknotes for the first time in its history, it announced Wednesday, with Winston Churchill gracing the first run. The polymer note, carrying a value of £5 ($8.2, 6.0 euro), is to be released in 2016 — and as…
British rock singer Ian Watkins, the former Lostprophets frontman, was jailed for 35 years on Wednesday for the attempted rape of a baby and several other “incomprehensible” child sex offences. Watkins, who admitted 13 offences at Cardiff Crown Court…
Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi wants the African champions to use the United States as their pre-World Cup training base. Football officials had previously floated the idea of training in Argentina, Colombia or the United States. But Keshi said he has…
Russian lawmakers on Wednesday approved a Kremlin-backed amnesty bill that is set to free the two jailed members of the punk band Pussy Riot while also ending the prosecution of 30 Greenpeace crew members. Russia’s Duma lower house of parliament voted…
The virtual currency Bitcoin crashed in China on Wednesday, falling almost 50 percent after the country’s biggest trading platform BTC China banned deposits in yuan following new restrictions imposed by the central bank. Chinese speculators have driven…
Disasters including the floods that struck central Europe in June caused global economic losses of about $130 billion in 2013, reinsurer Swiss Re said on Wednesday. The insurance industry is likely to cover about $44 billion (32 billion euros) of all…
A Canadian retiree pledged Tuesday to give away a Can$40-million ($37 million USD) lottery prize to charity, telling Canada’s public broadcaster that he doesn’t need the money. “I’ve been fortunate enough, through my career, 44 years with a company.…
Alex Ferguson’s shock retirement as Manchester United manager in 2013 meant that the Football Association’s 150th year was one of seismic upheaval in the English game. By the end of the year, United’s two-decade reign as English football’s dominant…
Fighters in Somalia shot dead three Syrian doctors and their three Somali colleagues Wednesday as they travelled to a hospital outside the capital Mogadishu, an AFP reporter said. Their bullet-riddled bodies were carried into Mogadishu’s Medina hospital…
Ethiopia has brought home close to 140,000 citizens from Saudi Arabia, the International Organization for Migration said Wednesday, a month after the oil-rich kingdom started deporting undocumented migrants. Thousands are continuing to arrive daily…
So let’s say that your mother just got a brand new iPad or iPhone for the holidays, and one of the things they’re most excited about is getting into the e-book game with the iBookstore. Gifting them a book from the iBookstore would be a great little…
The Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson has proposed a N299.2bn appropriation bill comprising N162.5bn Recurrent expenditure and N136.7bn Capital…
Although they represent different political districts in the state, they are united by one goal: to bring development and prosperity…
17 December 2013 – With the lives of nearly six million children disrupted by the typhoon that devastated the Philippines…
17 December 2013 – Despite volatility and uncertainty, Afghanistan continues to make progress in enhancing its stability as the drawdown…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and the Western Australia Police are to work together to combat internet fraud…