Saturday, October 1, 2016

Times Higher Education rankings: Australia's success not guaranteed as Asia rises and other top stories.

  • Times Higher Education rankings: Australia's success not guaranteed as Asia rises

    Times Higher Education rankings: Australia's success not guaranteed as Asia rises
    The University of Sydney has dropped four places in the world's most prestigious university rankings list, the latest report from Times Higher Education has revealed. According to the report, due to be released around the world on Thursday, Australia took out 23 places in the world's top 400 universities.  More News Videos Previous slide Next slide Which are the world's top universities? State of emergency in Charlotte: one shot, protests continue Mi..
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  • Charlotte protests: governor of North Carolina declares state of emergency

    Charlotte protests: governor of North Carolina declares state of emergency
    Violence and confusion has spread across Charlotte after a second night of protests was interrupted by gunfire when one protester shot another. North Carolina governor Pat McCrory declared a state of emergency on Wednesday, and called for help from the National Guard and the Highway Patrol. Charlotte protest: shot civilian is ‘critical’ but not dead, city says in correction – live The demonstrations started on Tuesday after police shot and killed a black man. Late on Wednesday night cr..
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  • Iran: Under Rouhani's rule, nearly 3000 people have been executed

    Iran: Under Rouhani's rule, nearly 3000 people have been executed
    Iran Focus London, 21 Sep - America’s first Homeland Security Secretary has written an op-ed for The Hill denouncing the appearance of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. Tom Ridge, the former governor of Pennsylvania, said that Rouhani’s presence at the UNGA is an opportunity to challenge him on the ‘moderateness’ of his regime and the 1988 massacre, which killed 30,000 political prisoners.
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  • Wild Theory That Katy Perry is Child Murder Victim JonBenet Ramsey1:17

    Wild Theory That Katy Perry is Child Murder Victim JonBenet Ramsey1:17
    Wild Theory That Katy Perry is Child Murder Victim JonBenet Ramsey1:17There's a wild conspiracy theory that Katy Perry is really JonBenet Ramsey, whose family faked her murder in order to boost Katy into the spotlight to develop her career as a pop star. Pageant queen JonBenet Ramsey was murdered and left in her family’s basement in 1996. Picture: ZUMAPress/AustralscopeTELEVISION viewers following the recent twists and turns in the chilling JonBenet Ramsey murder case may have seen the speculat..
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  • Toddler tries to wake mother after suspected drug overdose

    Toddler tries to wake mother after suspected drug overdose
    A crying toddler has desperately tried to wake her unconscious mother in a US supermarket after she collapsed from a suspected drug overdone. Dressed in her pink pyjamas, the two-year-old girl frantically grabbed her mother's hand and pulled her head in an attempt to wake her. Paramedics arrived shortly after 10.30am on September 18 and administered Narcan to the 36-year-old New Hampshire woman, a medication used to reverse the effects of opiate and heroin overdoses. Police reportedly found ..
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  • Royal tour shows off Canada's beauty, shines light on social issues

    Royal tour shows off Canada's beauty, shines light on social issues
    VICTORIA -- It's been almost 30 years since Diana, Princess of Wales, kissed an AIDS patient on the cheek. Her open-hearted, selfless gesture of compassion at London's Mildmay Hospital in 1989 was noticed around the world and helped reduce the vast belief that AIDS could be transferred by human touch. Royal watchers say Diana's kindness and tolerance will play a supporting role in the Sept. 24-to-Oct. 1 visit to British Columbia and Yukon by her son William and his wife Kate, the Duke and..
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  • Mia Farrow's son dies aged 27

    Mia Farrow's son dies aged 27
    Actor and UNICEF ambassador Mia Farrow, pictured at the 2016 Time 100 Gala, Time's Most Influential People In The World, in April, adopted 10 of her 14 children. Picture: Picture: Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Images for TimeIan HorswillNews Corp Australia NetworkACTOR Mia Farrow’s adopted son Thaddeus, who was a paraplegic due to polio, has died at the age of 27 from an injury suffered in a car.Thaddeus Farrow died at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut, where the actor, famous for her lead role in 1..
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