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All Blacks’ Irish revenge on hold for Italy test CULTURE

All Blacks’ Irish revenge on hold for Italy test

Thoughts of avenging a first defeat to Ireland in over a century will take a back seat, for 80 minutes at least, when the All Blacks face new-look Italy today.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
British ex-war correspondent arrested in Bali drugs case INTERNATIONAL

British ex-war correspondent arrested in Bali drugs case

A British former war correspondent and an Australian man have been arrested on Indonesia's Bali Island for alleged hashish possession and could face up to 20 years in jail, police said Monday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Catalans push for break from Spain INTERNATIONAL

Catalans push for break from Spain

Hundreds of thousands of Catalans yesterday rallied to demand their region break away from Spain, as leaders of the pro-independence movement try to iron out differences over a secession plan.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
World’s biggest crude buyers make cuts the oil giants won’t ECONOMY

World’s biggest crude buyers make cuts the oil giants won’t

Top five Asian suppliers forecast to cut more than 8% by 2017

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Is there a bit of Donald Trump in all of us? TECHNOLOGY

Is there a bit of Donald Trump in all of us?

Most of this week’s column, I promise, won’t be about Donald Trump. But the man’s such a walking psychology textbook I can’t resist using him as an example. In this case: his tendency to criticise in others precisely the faults he suffers from himself.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Brazil didn’t mess up Games, nor did it make most of them CULTURE

Brazil didn’t mess up Games, nor did it make most of them

As the Olympic hoardings are taken down in Rio de Janeiro and the Carnival atmosphere subsides, there is relief that cash-strapped Brazil avoided making a mess of the Games but also a nagging suspicion it did not make the most of them either.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Nation pays tributes to founding father INTERNATIONAL

Nation pays tributes to founding father

Bangladesh yesterday paid tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing wreaths at the portrait of the great leader at the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi Road in the capital yesterday,...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
China top table again; Robles ends long US wait CULTURE

China top table again; Robles ends long US wait

Rio de Janeiro: China ensured top place in the weightlifting medals table for the fifth successive Olympic Games when Meng Suping won her nation’s fifth gold on Sunday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Qatar push to attract foreign investors ARABIA

Qatar push to attract foreign investors

Qatar hopes to increase the role of foreign direct investment as "one of the main drivers of economic development" over the medium and long term, said HE the Minister of Economy and Commerce Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim bin Mohamed al-Thani.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Duterte vows to keep ‘shoot-to-kill’ order INTERNATIONAL

Duterte vows to keep ‘shoot-to-kill’ order

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to maintain his “shoot-to-kill” order against drug dealers while in office and says he “does not care about human rights”.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Equities remain resilient on Europe stock markets ECONOMY

Equities remain resilient on Europe stock markets

Equities remained resilient yesterday despite disappointing growth in Europe and the United States and the Bank of Japan failing....

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Lankan spinners corner Aussies in tricky chase CULTURE

Lankan spinners corner Aussies in tricky chase

‘It should be an interesting game if we get the full quota of 90 overs... We are still confident’

4:45 AM November 25 2016