Song Zhongping, a Chinese military expert, declared that the deployment of more high-tech jets is due to “border tensions with no resolution in sight”. He said: “The upgrade in the Western Theatre Command is urgent because in China’s western region, relations with India have been strained due to the border […]
Daily Archives: February 23, 2018
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GETTY Javi Gracia’s spent the 2016/17 season at Rubin Kazan Appropriately, it was a balmy afternoon at the training ground with the sun low in the Hertfordshire sky when we sat down to chat about his impressions of his first month as manager of Watford. “People had told me it […]
GETTY Arsenal went through against the Swedish club 4-2 on aggregate While the unrecognisable Gunners crept through in the Europa League despite extending their run in their unpopular away strip to just one victory in nine attempts, it could not have been worse preparation for Sunday’s Carabao Cup final against […]
The group has been successful in its quest to have violent or sexually provocative films reclassified more than once, although their move to have Fifty Shades of Grey re-rated failed. The last of novelist E.L. James’ trilogy about a sadomasochistic relationship between a young billionaire and naïve student was given […]
The centrist government submitted its controversial new asylum bill to parliament yesterday, saying that it wanted its new migration policy to be both firm and fair. And Mr Collomb told members of France’s central office for the repression of illegal immigration and employment of foreigners without residence permits (OCRIEST): “We […]
Not far away from his thirtieth year in the music business, Seal has recently taken a calculated risk in recording an album of famously covered jazz standards. And the true test of any performer, especially a singer, is how they deliver their talent in concert without any studio “sweetening”. Seal […]
DAVID BOWIE: Aladdin Sane (Parlophone) Bowie’s always been an important part of my life. Most rooms in my house have a Bowie picture. I discovered him when the cover of Ziggy Stardust jumped out at me in a record shop. That led me to discover early Bowie and this is […]
Research by the TUC found that almost five million people were working an average of over seven hours a week without pay. The extra work was worth an average of £6,265 per worker, it was estimated. The TUC calculated that the average person has effectively worked for free so far […]