BEIJING, Jan 1 (Reuters) – China has created three new military units and will update equipment as well as modernising its command structure, state media said on Friday, as part of a major overhaul of the armed forces announced by President Xi Jinping in November. read more >>> Source : Reuters
Proposed new guidelines on how much people should limit their alcohol intake are to be issued following the first review of official advice in 20 years. read more >>> Source : BBC
ARE you suffering from one of the nation’s ‘most embarrassing’ health issues? read more >>> Source : The Daily Express
NEA partner Rick Yang on what to expect in 2016 read more >>> Source : CNBC.Com
The five-star hotel in Dubai engulfed by flames just before the New Years’ firework display was still smouldering this morning, as reports suggest the inferno was triggered by curtains catching fire. read more >>> Source : DailyMail.Co.UK
THIS season sees some of the game’s best goalkeepers plying their trade in the Premier League. read more >>> Source : The Daily Express
China looked set for a soggy start to 2016 after activity in the manufacturing sector contracted for a fifth straight month in December. read more >>> Source : CNBC.Com
Jan 1 (Reuters) – Overflowing rivers were receding in Missouri and Illinois on Friday after flooding swamped communities and forced towns to evacuate, with forecasters warning that rain-swollen waterways flowing downstream could menace Southern states. read more >>> Source : Reuters
The Irish Premiership game between Carrick Rangers and Glenavon on Friday is postponed because of a waterlogged pitch. read more >>> Source : BBC
MOSCOW, Jan 1 (Reuters) – Russia will file a lawsuit against Ukraine after Kiev failed to repay a $3 billion Eurobond and $75 million of interest by Dec. 31, the Russian finance ministry said late on… read more >>> Source : Reuters
ACTOR Robert Redford found himself at the centre of a sick death hoax on New Year’s Eve. read more >>> Source : The Daily Express
Anonymous company review site Glassdoor Wednesday released its Best Places to Work in 2016 list on Wednesday. The company has published the 25 highest rated companies in the UK based on reviews on its site. Glassdoor lets people anonymously rate companies they’ve worked for, so the list is a likely a pretty honest assessment of […]
Jennifer Ann Warner, 69, known as Ann, from Sudbury, Suffolk, was reported missing from the Saga Sapphire cruise ship (pictured in file image) on December 13 while on her way to the Caribbean. read more >>> Source : DailyMail.Co.UK
EXPRESS SPORT brings you all the latest news from Old Trafford. read more >>> Source : The Daily Express
THE REMOTE island of Foula in Shetland doesn’t celebrate New Year’s Eve for another 12 days read more >>> Source : The Daily Express
In our latest daily poll over the Christmas period, we asked who was your unsung footballing hero of the year and why. Here’s what you had to say in response. read more >>> Source : UEFA.Com
KELLY BROOK caused chaos on Twitter last night, after she appeared on Alan Carr’s New Year’s Specstacular wearing a seriously busty dress. read more >>> Source : The Daily Express
JESSE LINGARD is a doubt for Manchester United’s clash with Swansea on Saturday because of the hamstring injury that has kept him out for the last three weeks. read more >>> Source : The Daily Express
The CRTC is promising to do something about regulating video streaming this year, Peter Nowak writes. But having already blinked in the past when trying to deal with big international providers like Netflix, maybe don’t hold your breath. read more >>> Source : CBC.Ca
UEFA.com continues its weekly look at the possible stars of UEFA EURO 2016 by turning the spotlight on Romania keeper Ciprian Tătăruşanu, part of the best defence in qualifying. read more >>> Source : UEFA.Com
The BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones reports on the possibilities of virtual reality technology – from virtual mountain climbing to overcoming phobias. read more >>> Source : BBC
ACTOR Wayne Rogers – best known for starring in M*A*S*H as Trapper John McIntyre – has died aged 82, it has been reported. read more >>> Source : The Daily Express
YOU won’t believe how much personal information read more >>> Source : The Daily Express
The Indian rupee, despite weakening nearly 5% against the dollar, has emerged as one of the best performing currencies in 2015. read more >>> Source : EconomicTimes.IndiaTimes.Com
This year marks a “symbolic and significant milestone” for average global temperatures on land, which will reach a whole 1°C higher than temperatures before industrialisation, according to the World Meteorological Organisation. A single degree might not sound like a lot, but the effects of a warming planet can account for many of the extreme weather […]
A Chinese publisher has recalled the latest Chinese-language translation of a work by Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, after it drew sharp criticism in India that it is too vulgar and strays too far from the original text. Zhejiang Literature and Arts Publishing House announced this week that it would pull from shelves all copies of […]
There are only 1,826 billionaires in the world and there are some common traits that majority of them share. According to price comparison website GoCompare, which analysed data from Forbes between 1996 and 2015, there are some major factors that the world’s richest people seem to adhere to. From sharing the same star sign to […]
The Legatum Institute, a think tank based in London, on Monday released its annual global Prosperity Index, a huge survey that ranks what it calls the most prosperous countries in the world. The amount of money a country has is one factor of prosperity, but the Legatum Institute considered more than that in its ranking. […]
CAREFREE spending over Christmas has given many of us the gruelling task of paying back those bills in the New Year, but a few simple tricks can get you out of the red faster. read more >>> Source : The Daily Express
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Updated on every FridayCopyright ⓒ 2015 RollingStory Inc. — This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website. read more >>> Source : HuffingtonPost.Com
BBC Sport looks at the Premier League players who are dominating the stats at the halfway point of the 2015-16 Premier League season. read more >>> Source : BBC
By Laila Kearney NEW YORK, Jan 1 (Reuters) – More than a million people in New York’s Times Square hailed the arrival of 2016 early Friday with kisses, cheers and a measure of relief as America’s biggest New Year’s Eve celebration unfolded without a hitch under a blanket of unprecedented security. The transition to the […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Wayne Rogers, whose Trapper John McIntyre alongside Alan Alda’s Hawkeye Pierce brought mischief, martinis and meatball surgery to the masses in the 1970s every week on “M.A.S.H.,” has died. The actor was surrounded by family when he died Thursday in Los Angeles of complications from pneumonia at age 82, his publicist […]
The rise of social engineering fraud read more >>> Source : BBC
Spending time with loved ones with dementia is important even after they fail to recognise the faces of friends and family, a dementia charity says. read more >>> Source : BBC
Wayne Rogers, who played wisecracking U.S. Army surgeon “Trapper” John McIntyre in the acclaimed Korean War television series “M*A*S*H” before leaving after three seasons in a contract dispute, died on Thursday. He was 82. read more >>> Source : Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp experts concluded several years ago that Chinese authorities had hacked into more than a thousand Hotmail email accounts, targeting international leaders of China’s Tibetan and Uighur minorities in particular – but it decided not to tell the victims, allowing the hackers to continue their campaign, according to former employees […]
The first export of U.S. crude oil in four decades departed a Texas port Thursday, just weeks after a ban on such exports was lifted. The ship is carrying a cargo of oil from ConocoPhillips’ wells in south Texas that was sold to Swiss trading house Vitol Group. In December, President Barack Obama signed legislation […]
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 30 (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp experts concluded several years ago that Chinese authorities had hacked into more than a thousand Hotmail email accounts, targeting international leaders of China’s Tibetan and Uighur minorities in particular – but it decided not to tell the victims, allowing the hackers to continue their campaign, according to […]
A golden age for British entrepreneurship? read more >>> Source : BBC
Movie Review – Jackie K Cooper “The H8teful Eight” (The Weinstein Company) There are numerous reasons you should hate Quentin Tarantino’s “The H8teful Eight”. The first is it is full of racist characters who use the N-word excessively. The second is it portrays brutality to women. The third is its excessive violence in general, and […]
Dec 31 (Reuters) – Towns in Tennessee and southern Illinois prepared on Thursday to cope with potential flooding after rain-swollen rivers washed out hundreds of structures in Missouri, Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma and forced thousands to flee their homes. read more >>> Source : Reuters
Though for many of us the year ahead may look pretty dismal, 2016 promises one great breakthrough – a major step toward ending Africa’s particular and hobbling form of the great Digital Divide. Poor connectivity has bedeviled much of the continent’s internet access (or often sheer lack of access) but now a huge improvement is […]
BERLIN, Dec 31 (Reuters) – German police evacuated two train stations in Munich late on Thursday, saying on Twitter they had received a tip regarding a planned militant attack on New Year’s Eve in the Bavarian capital. read more >>> Source : Reuters