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Hello! Here's what you need to know on Wednesday.1. US President Donald Trump may have gone further than many suspected to get the FBI off Michael Flynn's back. In March Trump asked the Director of...
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Hello! Here's what you need to know on Thursday.1. It's election day in the UK. Prime Minister Theresa May has been trying to keep the focus on Brexit as what many view as a complacent campaign by the...
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Hello! Here's what you need to know on Friday.1. The UK general election results are coming in, and it's officially a hung parliament. Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative party cannot reach the...
View ArticleThe moderate parties that helped bring peace to Northern Ireland have been...
A small political party entirely based in Northern Ireland that has been out of the spotlight for years could emerge as a decisive force in allowing the Conservative Party to form a majority in the...
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Hello! Here's what you need to know on Monday.1. A 19-year-old man was arrested in east London on Sunday in connection with the London Bridge attacks. Six other men are in custody in connection with...
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Hello! Here's what you need to know on Tuesday.1. British Prime Minister Theresa May will meet with the leader of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist (DUP) party on Tuesday in order to agree on a...
View ArticleAn ex-plumber invented a £140 earpiece that can translate foreign languages...
An Australian startup revealed its flagship product, an earpiece that can interpret 8 different languages in real-time, at a United Nations event in Switzerland on Friday.Lingmo International, a...
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Hello! Here's what you need to know on Wednesday.1. A massive fire broke out in a 27-storey London residential tower overnight. At least 40 fire engines and 200 firefighters have responded to the...
View ArticleA South Korean startup is only hiring people aged over 55
A startup in South Korea is making headlines for only hiring staff that are aged 55 years and over.Channel NewsAsia reports the founder of content monitoring company EverYoung established the rule to...
View ArticleIt's almost certain that Mt. Everest just got 'easier' to climb after the...
Climbers are now certain a notoriously difficult final challenge on Mt Everest has disappeared.The Hillary Step, an outcrop made mostly of four boulders, was a near-vertical challenge just 70 metres...
View ArticleAustralia's jobs report smashes expectations again
Australia’s May jobs report has yet again smashed expectations, with employment growth lifting strongly and unemployment tumbling to a multi-year low.According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics...
View ArticleHere's a cataclysmic summary of how technology and low rates are...
There’s a reasonable (and very sensible-sounding) argument that ageing populations combined with some developments in automation are the drivers of the lacklustre wages growth in the developed...
View ArticleLeaked audio reveals Malcolm Turnbull mocking Donald Trump during a speech
Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has impersonated Donald Trump during a light-hearted speech delivered at the annual Mid Winter Ball in Canberra last night.Leaked audio from the event —...
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Hello! Here's what you need to know on Thursday.1. UK Prime Minister Theresa May's new chief of staff "sat on" a review of fire safety in tower blocks like Grenfell Tower. Residents had previously...
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Hello! Here's what you need to know on Friday.1. Brexit talks will begin on Monday despite Britain's political chaos. Last week's shock general election outcome cast doubt over whether negotiations...
View ArticleAtlassian's Mike Cannon-Brookes revealed he has felt like an impostor for 15...
SYDNEY — Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes, worth $2.51 billion, is one of the biggest success stories in Australian technology history. But he revealed on Friday that throughout the journey...
View ArticleWhy Melbourne, Australia is becoming a better international city than Sydney
Melbourne and Sydney have both been rated as global elite cities in A.T. Kearney's Global Cities 2017 report.The report's Index ranks the world's most influential cities and, in an Outlook report,...
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Hello! Here's what you need to know on Monday.1. One person is dead and another eight are injured after a van collided with pedestrians outside a London mosque. Police arrested the driver, who was...
View ArticleTweets and photos from scene of London mosque attack show 'all hell breaking...
A van mowed down pedestrians outside a mosque in London, killing one person and injuring 10 others, in what police have called a "terrorist incident."Local police arrested one person shortly after...
View ArticleNOMURA: China's housing bubble is spreading to its smallest cities
China released updated house price data for May earlier this week, reporting a national increase of 0.7%, unchanged from the April levels.While price growth is now starting to accelerate after slowing...
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