The new rules? Be careful of objectionable language when assistants are listening in on business calls At a dinner party in Hollywood this weekend, for once the talk was not about Trump. Instead it was about the pervasive anxiety within the entertainment industry over the prevailing rules for conduct. Since Harvey Weinstein and the #MeToo […]

AMMAN  – Russian and Syrian jets stepped up their bombing of an Islamic State bastion along the Jordan-Israel border in southwestern Syria, as the militants pushed into areas abandoned by other rebel groups, diplomatic and opposition sources said. Islamic State-affiliated forces entrenched in the Yarmouk Basin, which borders the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and Jordan, also […]

A 10-year-old girl and an 18-year-old woman were fatally injured after a gunman opened fire on a busy avenue in Canada’s largest city, police say. Thirteen other people, ranging in age between 10 and 59, were injured in the attack in the Greektown district of Toronto, police chief Mark Saunders told reporters. The suspect, 29, […]

IF IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY TODAY Obviously, you’d prefer relations with loved ones flowed smoothly and, if there’s a problem, you’d prefer to discuss and deal with it in a single, warm but frank discussion. However, according to your birthday chart, all such matters, from issues involving those closest to friends and even colleagues, will demand […]

U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman on Saturday responded to a call to resign by saying he wouldn’t. Huntman’s family-owned newspaper ran a column urging him to step down after President Trump’s joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In the piece published in The Salt Lake Tribune, which is owned by Hunstman’s brother, Huntsman said that he […]

Jakarta, NNC – Scientists have just discovered a hoard of diamonds, very precious that it will destroy the world’s economy. Scientists consider there is a ton of diamonds buried in the ‘cratonic roots’ in four continents. There is only one small catch: the treasure is buried 100 miles down, deeper than any drill has ever penetrated, according […]

BERLIN  – German industry groups warned on Sunday, before European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker meets U.S. President Donald Trump this week, that tariffs the United States has imposed or is threatening to introduce risk harming America itself. Citing national security grounds, Washington imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from the EU, Canada and Mexico […]

As interest in blockchain continues to gain traction, the importance of investor education is at an all-time high. With hundreds of new projects popping up every week, it may be hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. Not every project can be or will be successful. To further complicate matters, some come with a […]

President Donald Trump has condemned his former lawyer Michael Cohen amid US media reports that he secretly recorded Mr Trump discussing payments to a former Playboy model. The tapes were reportedly discovered during an FBI raid on Mr Cohen’s property earlier this year in New York. Mr Trump tweeted that such a raid was “almost […]

Alexandre Benalla has handled security for Macron before and after he won the presidency. An aide to French President Emmanuel Macron is being investigated after he was named as the man in a video beating a demonstrator during France’s May Day protests. In the video, Alexandre Benalla, an assistant to Macron’s chief of staff, first appears […]