A Titanic effort! Aerial photographs reveal how the £125m Chinese replica of doomed ocean liner built using the ship’s original blueprints is taking shape Everything on the new ship will be be an exact copy of the original, from the decoration to the food The copy of the luxurious passenger ship will be a part of a grand theme park […]

Temperatures are predicted to hit 20C, as the Met Office said there is a chance of late this week breaking February’s 19.7C record, set on February 13, 1998, at Greenwich, London. 20C highs – treble the usual -7C February maximums – are possible, The Weather Outlook said. Britain will be hotter than Australia – where it is summer. Hobart, Tasmania, […]

DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman departed on Sunday for a tour of Pakistan, India and China, Saudi state TV al-Ekhbariya said, citing the royal court. The crown prince will arrive in Pakistan as the first stop on his trip to South Asia and China. Source: Read Full Article

Mayor de Blasio’s School Diversity Advisory Group last week released a report calling for racial engineering as a magic cure for the ills of the city’s schools. It’s one giant red herring — a distraction from the failure of city schools in high-poverty communities. One giveaway: It calls for making diversity “another measure of school performance.” What a nice way […]

A new storm is quickly developing in the Midwest on Sunday morning, which will race off toward the Northeast and bring a snow from the Plains to New England over the next 24 to 36 hours. There have been reports of 5 to 7 inches of snow in the Des Moines metro area as of 5 a.m. Sunday. The Iowa […]

SRINAGAR (Reuters) – India has warned against rising communal tensions across the country as Kashmiris living outside their state faced property evictions, job suspensions and attacks on social media after a suicide bomber killed 44 policemen in the region. The car bomb attack on a security convoy on Thursday, claimed by Pakistan-based Islamist militant group Jaish-e-Mohammad and carried out by […]

Washington: Acting US Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan will start to examine projects that could be delayed or cancelled to free up funds for "border activities". Speaking to reporters at the close of his first overseas tour since becoming Pentagon chief last month, Shanahan said the military's Joint Staff had been conducting a "mission analysis" on ways to deal with drugs […]

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is due to arrive in Pakistan on Sunday at the start of his tour of South Asia and China, but the visit risks being overshadowed by escalating tensions between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan. The trip comes days after a suicide bomber killed 44 Indian paramilitary police in the disputed […]

The victims of a disgruntled employee who opened fire at a suburban Chicago industrial warehouse were co-workers ranging from an intern to the plant manager. A look at the victims: TREVOR WEHNER The 21-year-old Northern Illinois University student was on his first day as an intern in human resources at Henry Pratt Co. in Aurora and attended the fateful meeting […]

Harry Redknapp under fire for ‘evicting 29 vulnerable tenants from seaside hotel he owns’ so he can turn the property into flats Redknapp owns the Belgravia Hotel in Bournemouth after buying it in 2016  Wendy Hunt and her husband currently rent the rooms to vulnerable people   They’ve been served an eviction notice by Redknapp and have to be out by May  […]