BEIJING (Reuters) – Germany and China on Friday signed agreements to strengthen coordination in banking, finance and capital markets, and pledged to further open market access and deepen cooperation to broaden economic ties. The agreements were reached after a two-day visit to Beijing by German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz for talks with Vice Premier Liu He, who is President Xi […]

OTTAWA (Reuters) – China’s envoy to Canada on Thursday warned Ottawa of possible repercussions if it banned technology firm Huawei from supplying equipment to Canadian 5G networks, in the latest blast in a deepening bilateral dispute. Ambassador Lu Shaye, speaking at a news conference, did not give details. Canada is currently studying the security implications of 5G networks but unlike […]

RCMP in a southern Alberta town are looking for witnesses to a road rage incident in which a woman was reportedly yelled at, punched and kicked by another driver. It happened in Cochrane on Jan. 10 at around 6 p.m., according to an RCMP news release. A black 2018 GMC Sierra was stopped at a red light on 1 Street […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s last-minute scramble to shape an EU exit, its biggest policy upheaval in half a century, stalled on Thursday as Prime Minister Theresa May and opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn dug in their heels for competing visions. After May’s two-year attempt to forge an amicable divorce with an independent trade policy was crushed by parliament in the […]

Thomas Haynes, assistant editor of student newspaper The Tab, wrote an article urging straight people to stop singing the song. He has insisted party-goers should be barred from belting out the line “you cheap lousy faggot” from The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl’s 1988 hit. Thomas, who was educated at London Kings College, has even called on YouTube to remove the […]

Five Calgary teens designed and presented a workshop to prevent radicalization at Vivo Centre for Healthier Generations on Wednesday evening. The 16- to 19-year-old volunteers were recruited through community organizations and schools to comprise the ReDirect Youth Innovation Group — an education program by Calgary police and neighbourhoods whose aim is to see youth coming up with solutions to ward off division in the […]

Affray in a manger! Fury as traditional Nativity display is banned by ‘Grinch-like’ shopping centre bosses over fears it would upset non-Christian visitors The Thistles shopping centre in Stirling has banned a nativity scene this year Church leaders in the medieval city are outraged by the centre’s decision  Management have been promoting a Christmas market inside the shopping mall The […]

‘Evicted’ couple are crowdfunding for a home for Christmas after being forced to live in a tent in friend’s back garden for SIX months Rachel Melbourne and Lee Grantham had lived in their Hull property since 2014  Couple said they were kicked out of home in June 12, with belongings still since  Six months on, the couple are still living […]

Smiling at the camera, a group of law graduates pose with their arms around each other as they celebrate being admitted to the bar. But there’s something wrong with this picture. The image, posted on Instagram by a New Zealand law firm, was taken after the young grads passed the challenging bar examination. And if you look closely at it, […]

Young lawyers – all above the legal drinking age – have been shown clutching at thin air, despite being snapped enjoying a celebratory glass of bubbly in New Zealand. Simpson Grierson’s marketing staff decided to photoshop the drinks out of the image before posting it to the company’s Instagram account. Below the bizarre edited version, showing the graduates with empty […]