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Half of smog-hit Beijing’s 5.5 million private cars were today kept off the roads, with the Chinese capital enforcing its first-ever red alert for pollution as air in the city of over 22 million people turned “hazardous” and schools and construction sites...

As expected, the MPC voted by eight votes to one to leave rates unchanged and by nine votes to nil to maintain its money-printing programme at its current level. Another $26 billion in six-month bills was auctioned at a discount rate of 0.535 per cent, up from 0.415 per cent last week.

He said the suspects were not believed to have had direct links to the Paris terror attacks, appearing to revise an earlier statement from the Geneva security department.

Trudeau was at Toronto airport alongside Ottowa premier Kathleen Wynne to personally greet the first arrivals, a military flight carrying 163 Syrian refugees.

Apple’s new Live Photos feature might be going mainstream – kind of.

Past year there was a gap of 16 percentage points between those on free school meals achieving the government’s benchmark of level four, indicating they are ready to start secondary school, and other pupils.

His father – a police officer in Enid, about 100 miles northwest of Oklahoma City – his mother and sister were in the courtroom as the verdict was read. He could be sentenced to up to 263 years in prison. Holtzclaw openly cried in the courtroom as judge Timothy...

John Gizis of the University of Delaware, Newark, said the star they discovered is nearly the size of Jupiter, and its storm is the size of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot.

Assemblyman Dean Murray (R, C, I-East Patchogue) was in Albany yesterday to attend a hearing examining daily fantasy sports in NY and give testimony as a DraftKings account owner himself.

The tiara was reportedly commissioned from Garrard in 1913-1914 by Queen Mary.

A campaign of stabbings, shootings and car-rammings by Palestinians has killed 19 Israelis and a USA citizen since the start of October.

Though he had some elbow soreness, the only time he went on the disabled list in his three seasons with the Dodgers was when he broke his collarbone in a brawl with the ‘ in his third start in 2013.

The arrests were linked to U.S. prosecutors’ widening probe into football corruption, with five current and former members of Fifa’s ruling executive committee among 16 additional men accused of bribes and corrupt payments.

The Gunners have had a awful run lately in the Premier League failing to win a match for quite some time now and Arsene Wenger will be desperate to turn it around and get 3 points.

“You don’t ever want to have to win the game twice or even three times”, Curry said.