FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Oct 8, 2017 (APP/AFP) -:Margaret Atwood, Dan Brown and Nicholas Sparks are among the big names descending on Frankfurt this week as the world’s oldest book fair glams up for the Instagram generation, hoping to wow the crowds with “live events” by star authors. And with France as this year’s guest country […]
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Death toll in Brazil nursery arson attack rises to nine
SAO PAULO, Oct 8, 2017 (APP/AFP) -:A girl who was burned in an arson attack at a nursery school in Brazil succumbed to her wounds on Saturday, bringing the overall death toll to nine people. The four-year-old girl had been transferred to a hospital in Belo Horizonte , the state capital of Minas Gerais, some […]
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Catalonia looms large at Scottish nationalist conference
GLASGOW, Oct 8, 2017 (APP/AFP) -:The crackdown in Catalonia is looming large over the Scottish National Party’s autumn conference, where the leadership is under pressure from some members to address Scotland’s own independence ambitions. Scottish independence is not even on the agenda of the conference starting in Glasgow on Sunday after the SNP’s First Minister […]
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RugbyU: Australia beat Argentina to finish runners-up
MENDOZA, Argentina, Oct 8, 2017 (APP/AFP) -:Australia scored 17 unanswered points in the last quarter of the match to beat Argentina 37-20 Saturday in the final game of the 2017 Rugby Championship. Scrum-half Will Genia and winger Reece Hodge both scored late tries as the Wallabies pulled away to snuff out any chance of another […]
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Epic world solar car race begins in Australia
SYDNEY, Oct 8, 2017 (APP/AFP) -:An epic 3,000-kilometre (1,860-mile) solar car race across the desert heart of Australia designed to showcase new technology that could one day help develop commercial vehicles got underway Sunday. The World Solar Challenge, first run in 1987 and last held in 2015, began in a high-tech, futuristic flurry from Darwin’s […]
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Still no ‘clear motive’ in Las Vegas mass shooting: police
LAS VEGAS, Oct 6, (APP/AFP) – Five days after the deadliest mass shooting in recent US history, authorities acknowledged Friday they have not uncovered a “clear motive” for the gunman. “We still do not have a clear motive or reason why,” Undersheriff Kevin McMahill of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department told reporters. “At this […]