More than 1.7 million pilgrims are walking around the cube-shaped Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, to celebrate the start of the Hajj pilgrimage. Eid al-Adha celebrations begin two days after the start of Hajj – the important annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, the holy city in a desert valley in […]
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The Republic should stage an ‘Irexit’ and leave the “deeply divided EU” along with its closest neighbour, Ray Kinsella said. The finance professor at University College Dublin has lashed out at the EU, which he described as a “increasingly militarised political behemoth”, and urged Ireland to get out. He said […]
At least 3.6 million barrels per day (bpd) of refining capacity is offline and more refineries are at risk of shut downs as the storm relentlessly dumps rain on Texas and heads toward Louisiana. The longer refineries remain shut, the more retail prices will increase, traders and analysts said. Two […]
Students entering their final year of the Veterinary Science Class at James Cook University in Queensland, Australia, have honoured what is fast-becoming a time honoured tradition of getting naked for an outdoor photoshoot. The peculiar ritual first began in 2015, as a way for the students to raise money for […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — She’s been called by some “the most vocal activist you don’t know,” and a new documentary about civil rights icon Dolores Huerta aims to change that perception and correct history that has long left her work and accomplishments out of the picture. “Dolores,” which was first shown […]
Let our news meet your inbox. SIGN UP We think about it. And maybe even set the alarm with the expectation of a sunrise run, but most of us don’t exercise early, despite our best intentions. Yet the 69 percent of exercisers who work out after noon might be missing […]
Celebrity televangelist Joel Osteen said Wednesday that social media created a “false narrative” over the apparent decision to not open the doors of his megachurch to Hurricane Harvey victims. “I think sometimes social media can be very powerful and it can create this false narrative, but if you’re sitting in […]
A furious fisherman bemoaned her lack of interest in local business in favour of pursuing global interests beyond Germany. Ms Merkel was accused of “abandoning” Germany’s fishermen as she pushes other industries as part of her bid for further European integration – with Germany at the forefront. Dirk Baumann, a […]