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  • Saturday, November 14th 2015 - 12:02 UTC

    World Diabetes Day, 14 November; 350 million people suffer the chronic disease

    Multiple actions can be done to reduce the impact of diabetes, through adopting healthy lifestyles, such as partaking in physical activity and healthy diets

    The World Health Organization is marking World Diabetes Day on 14th November calling for greater action to turn the growing tide of the global diabetes epidemic and has announced that World Health Day, on 7 April will focus on the issue of diabetes.

  • Saturday, November 14th 2015 - 09:28 UTC

    Night of gun and bombs attacks in Paris: at least 150 people killed

    People were shot dead at bars and restaurants at five other sites in Paris. Eight attackers are reported to have been killed.

    France has declared a national state of emergency and tightened borders after at least 150 people were killed in a night of gun and bomb attacks in Paris. Eighty people were reported killed after gunmen burst into the Bataclan concert hall and took dozens hostage. The siege ended when security forces stormed the building.

  • Friday, November 13th 2015 - 10:56 UTC

    WTI oil falls below US$ 42; millions of barrels held in ships at sea

    Traders and oil producers have filled flotillas of stationary supertankers and are waiting for oil prices to recover, or storage to be available on land

    Oil prices were testing fresh lows on Thursday, with a report that 100 million barrels of crude and heavy oil products are being held in ships at sea. West Texas Intermediate oil, the main North American contract, fell below $42 US a barrel, amid predictions that it would fall to the $20-30 level next year.

  • Friday, November 13th 2015 - 09:23 UTC

    Mine disaster: Brazil fines BHP Billiton and Vale; expects companies to pay cleanup costs

    Rousseff, who overflew the disaster area said the fines could be followed by penalties from other federal or state agencies.

    Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has slapped preliminary fines worth 250 million Reais ($94 million) against a BHP Billiton-Value owned mine in Minas Gerais state where two dams burst, killing at least seven people.

  • Friday, November 13th 2015 - 08:19 UTC

    FIFA says five candidates are eligible to stand in Feb. 26 election

    Prince Ali Al Hussein, Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, Jérôme Champagne, Gianni Infantino and Tokyo Sexwale are the hopefules.

    The contenders to replace Sepp Blatter as head of world football association FIFA are: Prince Ali Al Hussein, Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, Jérôme Champagne, Gianni Infantino and Tokyo Sexwale. Liberian FA president Musa Bility was dropped from the field after failing the check, while suspended UEFA boss Michel Platini will only be considered if he successfully appeals his 90-day ban. He would then be subject to an integrity check.

  • Friday, November 13th 2015 - 01:44 UTC

    Armistice Day marked by UK services worldwide

    Minister of State for the Armed Forces, Penny Mordaunt MP was among at the ceremony which recalls 11 November, 11:00 AM, Armistice

    United Kingdom servicemen and women around the world have joined the nation in marking two minutes’ silence at 11:00 on Armistice Day, November 11. Armistice Day marks the moment - at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month when the First World War Armistice was signed more than 90 years ago in a railway carriage stationed in the Forest of Compiègne in Northern France.

  • Thursday, November 12th 2015 - 07:49 UTC

    Argentina's purchase of Israeli fighter jets will be left to next government

    Defence minister Agustín Rossi said that all the details of the contract for the purchase will be felt for the incoming government to decide

    Argentine defence minister Agustin Rossi has announced that negotiations for new fighter jets are under way, but will be left to the next government to purchase. Rossi’s decision comes only a day after the Argentine government announced the purchase of Israeli manufactured Kfir fighters.

  • Wednesday, November 11th 2015 - 08:36 UTC

    PM Cameron outlines UK's conditions to remain in the EU

    Cameron has promised to put the issue to a referendum by the end of 2017, and his aides suggest that he might do so as early as next June.

    Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday formally laid out Britain’s conditions for remaining in the European Union, seeking changes in his country’s relationship with Brussels that he is betting are substantial enough to win over a majority of British voters but modest enough for the rest of Europe to swallow.

  • Wednesday, November 11th 2015 - 06:34 UTC

    Catalonia acting premier Mas rebuked by secession coalition partner

    CUP leaders are refusing to support a figure like Mas whom they see as the embodiment of corruption and social cuts in Catalonia.

    Catalan government’s partner in the secessionist drive, the small anti-capitalist CUP party, on Tuesday confirmed that its preferred candidate to head the region following the September 27 election is not acting premier Artur Mas.

  • Tuesday, November 10th 2015 - 09:31 UTC

    Sofia and its variants, is the most popular baby name in the world

    Name-statistics from 49 countries showed that Sophia, which means “wisdom” topped lists in nine countries, including Italy, Slovakia, Russia and Mexico.

    A new study by naming expert Laura Wattenberg has found that Sophia, and its variants including Sofia, is the most popular baby name in the world. Wattenberg collected name statistics from 49 countries, and Sophia, which means “wisdom” topped lists in nine countries, including Italy, Slovakia, Russia and Mexico.