The employment rate in Scotland now stands at 74.1 per cent, which remains behind the UK-wide record average of 74.5 per cent. Some 31.8 million people were in work - up by 174,000 from the previous quarter. However, wage growth in the United Kingd...
Navy, to avoid upsetting Beijing . "China said they are anxious about me. That's besides my point", he said , referring to a Permanent Court of Arbitration ruling that said that Beijing's claim to areas of the South China Sea had no basis.
A mother and her son are both facing incest charges in North Carolina for allegedly engaging in sexual relations. While it is unclear whether Kitchens is single, it appears her son is married with a toddler son of his own, and that his wife, Shanno...
NEW DELHI (AP) Police arrested almost 400 people for looting and vandalism in India's information technology hub of Bangalore after a curfew was imposed to quell violence set off by a court ruling over a disputed water source, a police officer sa...
While Akhilesh stayed away, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Shivpal Yadav, along with Singhal, attended the party. Governor Ram Naik accepted the chief minister's recommendation to sack them, a Raj Bhawan communique said. Prajapati began as Minister of State ...
With no published dissents, the justices said they wouldn't block an appeals court decision that allowed the elimination of Golden Week under a Republican-backed law. The Supreme Court denied the Democrats' request to put that decision on hold while ...
The same held true for Arizona's rankings under those three categories, as they were ranked 28th under "Emotional and Physical Well-Being", ranked 31st on the "Work Environment" list and the state was named 38th on the "Community and Environment" lis...
This latest incident comes with Zimbabweans still having fresh memories of over twenty Zimbabweans who died in a similar incident in another SA mine in 2014. "So far we don't know how many people are trapped underground but we believe that we will be...
The intensifying political combat came as Clinton's lead in opinion polls has slipped in recent days. The current average of polls from website RealClearPolitics puts her at 45.6 percent support, compared with Trump's 42.8 percent. Some of Trump...
Three Turkish soldiers have been killed and one wounded during clashes with Islamic State fighters in northern Syria, according to Turkey's armed forces. "They are still present in the area", he said. The people who left came back. Even though both c...
South Korea in July announced the deployment of the advanced anti-missile system in the southern part of the country. Bolstering the sanctions will involve closing loopholes in existing measures, the Wall Street Journal quoted Obama as saying af...
According to a tweet by Indian Meterological Department (IMD), the epicentre of the natural disaster was Jhajjar in Haryana. There were no immediate reports of any casualty or damage to property. Jhajjar is located some 120 km from the national cap...
But as NPR's Susan Stamberg has reported , they were regarded as civilians. The WASPs paid for their own room and board during training. The government neglected to provide financial benefits and gave no military honors to WASPs who flew during the ...
Trump also brought up Putin's praising the GOP candidate earlier in the campaign, when he reportedly called Trump a "bright and talented person". Putin is "very much of a leader", Trump said in a televised interview, where he and Democratic...
The Dane has been in contract negotiations with Spurs since September previous year and signed a deal believed to be in the region of £75,000-a-week. Christian Eriksen is backing Tottenham to become a major force in English football after the pla...
The ocean freight industry has never seen a container carrier of Hanjin Shipping's size go under before. The global shipping disruption comes just as companies are sending off merchandise to fill shelves and warehouses for the year-end holiday se...
The Minnesota constitution states electoral college delegates and their alternates must be elected at the party's convention. State law says that electors and alternate electors must be nominated at an official state convention. He said the party h...
The report comes as Russian President Vladimir Putin seeks to organize a face-to-face meeting between Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Vasiliy Mitrokhin, a senior archivist in the KGB's foreign intelligence archive from 1972 to 19...
The cable cars were stuck at about 3800m, initially with 110 people on board, Haute-Savoie region prefect Georges-Francois Leclerc said. Forty-five lucky souls are spending the night in these tuna cans of doom, equipped with blankets, food and water....
But on Thursday, Philippine foreign secretary Perfecto Yasay told The Associated Press that the leaders had met. Obama has repeatedly warned against the perils of the Trump presidency, suggesting the Republican nominee would be woefully unprepare...
In other Delta Air Lines news, CFO Paul A. Jacobson bought 25,000 shares of Delta Air Lines stock in a transaction dated Monday, July 25th. The share price is trading in a range of $66.98 - 67.57. Analyst's mean target price for CF Industries Holding...
But U.S. was wary of enter a deal that would not be effective. While Vladimir Putin-led Russian government has backed Assad in the conflict, USA backs opposition forces that are up against Assad. "Clearly, he's a colorful guy", Obama said. Putin ...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the site Monday night to inspect the search operations. The cause of the collapse was not immediately known, and several hours after the structure came down in a plume of dust, police said about four people...
I can't say how long they met. While this colonial legacy (and the bloody war that severed it) has done little to endear Americans to the Philippines, a close military relationship has developed over the years and the two nations have been close alli...
Born Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu on August 26, 1910, Teresa came to India in 1929 as a sister of the Loreto order. Teresa's most famous critic, Christopher Hitchens, has accused her of taking donations from dictators - charges church authorities deny.
And despite it now weakening to a tropical storm, USA authorities are preparing for flash flooding and landslides as it today heads to the US state of Arizona. Some 1,500 people took refuge in shelters in the resort town but many returned home, Vazqu...
It would "make oil production cost effective and beneficial for OPEC members", while keeping pressure on the group's rivals. On Monday, Saudi Arabia and non-Opec member Russian Federation signed a pact to co-operate to stabilise markets, saying the...
Louis County. Officers responded to a call around 2 a.m Tuesday about a vehicle fire in Riverview , according to a statement from the police. DeAndre Joshua, 20, was also found dead in a torched auto in November 2014, the morning after a grand j...
It said Turkey's rebel allies had taken six more villages, located in Islamic State-held areas, adding to dozens of settlements now under the control of Turkish-backed forces. Last month Turkey launched an operation inside Syria, targeting both the I...
Banks, government offices and post offices have been functioning for the last 59 days with skeletal staff. The demonstrators reportedly set the Shopian Deputy Comissioner's office on fire. In occupied Kashmir , Hurriyet leaders including Aasiya An...
The new missile launches are sure to embolden the governments of both South Korea and Japan as they try to curry favor with China in helping to rein in the reckless and impulsive North Korea . North Korea had no comment through its state media ab...
They are scheduled to meet during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Laos this week. The fact sheet the White House put out at the conclusion of the G20 touted the economic progress under the eight years of the Obama presidency.
The veteran leader had run the central Asian nation since 1989 and almost half of its 32 million citizens were born after he came to power. At the foot of the aircraft steps stood Karimov's wife, Tatiana, and his younger daughter, Lola Karimova-Til...
Hend, who won in Thailand earlier this season, was phlegmatic about the dramatic finish, telling European Tour Radio: "I think Alex played the 18th hole the last two times way better than I played it obviously and holed an awesome putt to make a bi...
Upon contacting Brittany then they became aware that Joshua Robertson was a couple of blocks away. Madisyn was unharmed and is now in the custody of local authorities. Lt. Joe Mendoza said investigators were not aware of any ongoing conflicts betwe...
Sadr said the USA strikes would "drag the region to war" and could help "the expansion of Daesh", the militant Islamic State group, which controls parts of Iraq and Syria. Russian...
The state authority's move effectively bans Capriles, a lawyer of 44, from running against Maduro in a general election due next year. But now the nearly daily churn of events i...
There are 156 outdoor warning sirens in the city of Dallas. The initial incident prompted a wave of calls to 911 by residents anxious there was some sort of threat. "We will wor...
Wednesday's test represents a recent shift for the North Korean military from simple first-generation liquid fueled missiles to more advanced medium range ballistic missiles using ...
Sen. Orrin Hatch has served in the Senate since 1977, and originally planned to step down after 2018, but after Republicans lost two seats in the Senate during the 2016 elections...
Talks about North Korea are expected to feature high on the agenda of talks on Thursday between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. The launch was timed f...
And Spicer tweeted a picture of Trump in a meeting about the Syria strike surrounded by Priebus, Bannon, Kushner and other top advisers. Bannon, who was appointed to the counci...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that global warming and ice melting in the Arctic are beneficial for the use of the region for economic purposes. "Only by pooling...
Not the result that the birthday boy would've been after but at least he can proud of his own performance as Bournemouth enjoyed little space down his flank. "We have to sit down...
Additionally, individual Jehovah's Witnesses would become subject to criminal prosecution for carrying out their worship activities. "Millions of people around the world will be ...
