OTTAWA - Steady rain is likely to help firefighters working to contain a massive wildfire that has devastated parts of the western Canadian tourist town of Jasper, authorities said on Friday.
KYIV - Ukraine said on Friday its missile forces carried out a strike on a Russian military airfield in Crimea that has been used for long-range attacks against it, the latest in a series of blows to the Russian military on the occupied peninsula.
Dame Kate Barker has laid out her initial recommendations to fix the health of the housing market, which she says is "worse than 20 years ago" when she wrote her first flagship report.
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The life sciences sector attracted £559m in venture capitalist funding in Q2, up 46% year-on-year in terms of deal value.
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MADRID - A Spanish train driver and a former traffic safety chief at national rail infrastructure operator ADIF were sentenced on Friday to two-and-a-half years in prison over a train disaster that killed 79 people 11 years ago.
MOSCOW - The Kremlin on Friday welcomed Donald Trump's comments on Russia being \"a war machine\" that had defeated Napoleon and Hitler, but said it was not wearing rose-tinted spectacles when it came to the U.S. Republican presidential candidate.
LONDON - Eurostar said it would cancel a quarter of all services on its network and asked passengers to postpone their travel where possible on Friday after its rail services between London and Paris were disrupted by acts of vandalism in France.
SEOUL - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has promised to expand cooperation with Pyongyang in a message to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, North Korea's foreign ministry said on its website on Friday.
MOSCOW - Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Friday that Dmitry Bulgakov, a former deputy defence minister, had been arrested and charged with corruption, the Interfax news agency reported.
LONDON - Russia has begun including new, cheaply-made drones in its long-range attacks on Ukraine, to try to identify air defences, film any damage and act as decoys, a Ukrainian military spy official said.
Since working from home is becoming a norm, setting up your home to make it conducive and noise-free so that you can focus on your work and video calls without interruption is becoming more than essential.
If you were last looking for a home in 2010 or before, the current property market will look about as familiar as Mars. A lot of former assumptions and truisms have been flipped on their head: city fringe properties almost matching District 9 or 10 condos on a $PSF basis? We have those now. Buyers […]
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How bad can the compact unit trend get? It’s all a matter of perspective. Singaporeans like to think we have it pretty bad – in recent years, three-bedders have been around 800 to 900 sq ft. (or even 700 sq ft), two-bedders at under 600 sq ft., and one-bedders at around 400 sq ft. And as […]
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President Trump is attempting to renegotiate the deal to increase US food imports to the UK.
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The government has unveiled new planning reforms including a row back on Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) rules for small sites and auto-approval for new homes building upwards in towns and cities.
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