TOP NEWS TODAY
- Coronavirus: Fears ‘many more’ Brits infected by deadly bug as 6 treated in UK after flying in from China ‘gr – The Sun
- Stuart Broad ready for another Ashes tour after thriving in South Africa – The Guardian
- Rat out some discounts with Steam’s Lunar New Year Sale – Rock Paper Shotgun
- Unions agree terms over sale of British Steel to Chinese firm Jingye – The Guardian
- South Western Railway staff vote for fresh wave of strikes – The Guardian
- Handyman guilty of machete attack against ‘UK’s hardest cop’ – The Guardian
- Couple starved their live-in landlord to death to inherit slice of his £3.5m estate, court hears – The Telegraph
- Goldman to insist companies it takes public have diverse boards – Financial Times
- Design firm unveils all-electric passenger plane with propellers – Daily Mail
- Horrific moment Britain’s hardest cop comes face to face with maniac who slashed his head as he’s found gui – The Sun
- Auschwitz: Prince Charles warns world leaders over ‘hatred’ – BBC News
- Tranmere v Watford: Test your knowledge on football’s delays and postponements – BBC Sport
- Tinder will give you a verified blue check mark if you pass its catfishing test – The Verge
- Trump once again seems to have profited from the presidency. What else is new?
- Glazers a stain on Manchester United – they would do well to learn from Liverpool – The Times
- CNN crew scrambles to flee Wuhan before lockdownAs China announced a partial lockdown of Wuhan, the epicenter… Read more »
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- Chris Cuomo rips 'Trumpers' for attacking 'kid' Greta Thunberg, critics remind him of Sandmann settlement
CNN anchor Chris Cuomo was quick to defend climate activist… Read more » - Greg Gutfeld: Senate impeachment trial has been 'a three-day campaign ad against Trump'
Greg Gutfeld gave his assessment of the Senate impeachment trial on… Read more » - Albert Einstein coin is the smallest of its kind
Switzerland has minted what it calls the smallest gold coin… Read more » - X Games Paralympian gets new cutting-edge prosthesis for Adaptive Snow BikeCross
“Monster” Mike Schultz is gearing up for his latest winter… Read more » - Ben Shapiro: Dems are willing to watch Senate impeachment trial 'go down in flames' to protect Hunter Biden
Democrats will gladly watch their case in the Senate impeachment trial… Read more »
AFRICA NEWS
- Nigeria: Corruption Worse in Nigeria, New Transparency International Report Says[Premium Times] Nigeria has dropped on Transparency International's yearly corruption… Read more »
- Egyptian priest's voice heard 3,000 years after deathResearchers use cutting-edge 3D printing and speech technology to replicate… Read more »
- Isabel dos Santos: Banker found dead in LisbonHe managed the account of Angola's state oil firm Sonangol,… Read more »
- Angola: Unita Defends Judicial Treatment of "Luanda Leaks Case[ANGOP] Luanda -Angola's main opposition party (UNITA) Wednesday defended proper… Read more »
- Angola: Angola Climbs 19 Places in Fight Against Corruption[ANGOP] Luanda -Angola rose 19 places in the international ranking… Read more »
- Libya conflict: Haftar forces threaten to target civilian planesThe UN-backed government says it has resumed flights at Mitiga… Read more »
- Africa: Seychelles Earns Highest Mark in Sub-Saharan Africa On Corruption Index, Group Says[Seychelles News Agency] Transparency International said Thursday that Seychelles has… Read more »
- Inter Milan sign Nigeria's Victor Moses on loanInter Milan sign Chelsea's Victor Moses on loan for the… Read more »
- Uganda: 2021 General Elections Will Be Free, Fair - Government[Monitor] With less than a year to the start of… Read more »
- Zimbabwe: Tyson to Challenge 'Vindictive' Mnangagwa Over Farm Seizure[263Chat] Exiled former ZANU-PF political commissar, Savior Kasukuwere is fuming… Read more »
- South Africa: Rondebosch Golf Club - City of Cape Town Accused of Subsidising the Wealthy Elite[GroundUp] But City says renewal of lease is justified Read more »
- Liberia: Weah to Run for Third Term?[New Dawn] -Rep Pelam raps on changing constitution Read more »
- Mozambique: Provincial Secretaries of State Appointed[AIM] Maputo -Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Wednesday appointed Secretaries… Read more »
- Africa: 'Conflict is Like a Cough, If You Don't Treat the Root Cause, It Comes Back'[allAfrica] Nairobi - With the ongoing conflicts in Cameroon, Somalia,… Read more »
- Angola: Africa's Richest Woman Isabel Dos Santos Charged With Fraud[allAfrica] Cape Town -A court in Luanda has charged Isabel… Read more »
UK NEWS
- Harry Dunn: US rejects UK extradition requestThe UK requested Anne Sacoolas's extradition "on charges of causing… Read more »
- No time off for grieving: 'Inside I was screaming'Bereavement leave for parents came too late for Ian Bainbridge,… Read more »
- China coronavirus: Incident team to deal with Scottish threatFive people are being tested as a precaution after coming… Read more »
- Jessica Andrews wins Portico Prize for novel about female 'poetry and power'Jessica Andrews' Saltwater wins the Portico Prize, for books that… Read more »
- Mum travels on baby son's passport from Luton AirportLenesha Riley said she only realised in Berlin she had… Read more »
- Carbon emissions: Scale of UK fossil fuel support 'staggering'The government is funding oil and gas projects abroad, despite… Read more »
- MOTs: Faults found on 48 out of 55 lifts in NI test centresResults of an inspection of all MOT lifts are revealed… Read more »
- Port Talbot's Tata Steel evacuated after WW2 bomb foundOrdnance bomb disposal remove an unexploded shell found during routine… Read more »
- Morrisons supermarket axes 3,000 managers in huge shake-upBut the supermarket says it will create 7,000 hourly-paid roles… Read more »
- South Western Railway guards vote for more strikesServices were disrupted for 27 days last month in a… Read more »
MORE NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
- Wanda Sykes Tells Ellen About The First LGBTQ Person She Saw On TVSykes is promoting "Visible: Out on Television," a new series… Read more »
- Democrats Argue ‘Bogus’ Ukraine Theory Led To Trump Abuse Of Presidential PowerFor a second day, Democrats pressed their case for impeachment… Read more »
- Trump Impeachment Trial Features Bipartisan Laughs At Rudy Giuliani’s ExpenseSenators laughed at a clip of a former Trump adviser… Read more »
- Apple hits back over EU proposal to 'ban' Lightning cable
Forcing Apple to adopt a universal charger would create "an… Read more » - This is what people sounded like 3,000 years ago - you'll be disappointed
Scientists have resurrected the voice of a 3,000-year-old Egyptian priest… Read more » - Doomsday clock hits 100 seconds to midnight - closest to catastrophe ever
Humankind, like Cinderella, has only until midnight - but the… Read more »
- China Jails Student For Tweets Sent in US Showing President as Winnie The PoohA student who tweeted a cartoon of Winnie the Pooh… Read more »
- Conditions Put Xinjiang Internment Camps at Risk as Region Confirms First Coronavirus CasesPoor sanitation and cramped quarters could lead to an epidemic… Read more »
- Rohingya Refugees Hail World Court's Ruling in Myanmar Genocide CaseRohingya refugees in Bangladesh expressed elation Thursday over an International… Read more »
- 'This is an emergency in China' says WHO, as Wuhan virus death toll rises to 18
GENEVA: The World Health Organisation (WHO) called a new coronavirus… Read more » - Commentary: Why is Chinese New Year so stress inducing?
Perhaps it is time to ease up on the festive… Read more »
BUSINESS NEWS
- Intel Gains as Data Center Revival Fuels Revenue Growth(Bloomberg) -- Intel Corp. gave bullish quarterly and full-year revenue… Read more »
- Edited Transcript of FCEL earnings conference call or presentation 22-Jan-20 3:00pm GMTQ4 2019 FuelCell Energy Inc Earnings Call Read more »
- Apple, Broadcom Strike $15 Billion Worth of Chip-Supply Deals(Bloomberg) -- Broadcom Inc. disclosed new agreements to provide components… Read more »
- Intel Can’t Take Off Another Round in Chip Battle(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Intel Inc. closed out 2019 learning the… Read more »
- Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt notch nearly $20M in impressions from viral SAG moment, data showsJennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt went viral after a backstage… Read more »
- Wuhan virus so far does not appear to be as deadly as Sars: PMSINGAPORE is well prepared to handle the fight against the… Read more »
- Temasek, EQT to invest US$500m in India renewable energy projectsSINGAPORE state investment firm Temasek Holdings and Sweden-based asset manager… Read more »
- Office rental cycle has peaked; retail rents may have bottomed outIT SEEMS a tale of two cities between Singapore's office… Read more »
- U.S. bank regulator charges ex-Wells Fargo executives for role in sales scandalWells Fargo & Co's U.S. regulator on Thursday announced it… Read more »
- Boeing reschedules 777X plane's first test flight to FridayBoeing Co said its 777X airplane's first test flight would… Read more »
- Trump Plans Rally in New Hampshire Before Vote: Campaign Update(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump won’t let Democrats have the… Read more »
- If Merkel Wants to Fix Germany’s Economy, She Needs to Hurry(Bloomberg) -- Continue Reading. Read more on Global Economics by… Read more »
- A Waste-Free Economy Catches On at Davos(Bloomberg) -- Sign up here to receive the Davos Diary, a… Read more »
- House Democrats Say Trump’s Stonewalling Puts ‘Nixon to Shame’(Bloomberg) -- House prosecutors expanded their case against President Donald… Read more »
- World Court Orders Interim Protection for Myanmar’s Rohingya(Bloomberg) -- The International Court of Justice has ordered the… Read more »
THE MIDDLE EAST
- Tunisia to repatriate extremists’ children from Libya
Author: AFParticle author: AFPID: 1579798504182563400Thu, 2020-01-23 14:13 TRIPOLI: A Tunisian delegation traveled Thursday… Read more »
- Trump impeachment trial day four: All the latest updatesDemocrats continue making their case against Trump as Republican-controlled Senate… Read more »
- Trump says he will release Middle East peace plan by TuesdayTrump says he will release the long-awaited plan before Israeli… Read more »
- Trump impeachment trial: Who are the key players?A guide to the key players from House impeachment managers… Read more »
- Soros: World increasingly ruled by 'would-be or actual dictators'Billionaire philanthropist George Soros lashes out at Putin, Trump, Xi… Read more »
- Coronavirus: All you need to know about symptoms and risksChina is stepping up efforts to tackle a new coronavirus… Read more »
- Polish parliament backs law allowing government to punish judgesThe law has been condemned by the European Union, the… Read more »
