5/19 School Shout Out: St. Boniface School, Germantown
Good morning from the K5 class at St. Boniface School in Germantown.
Good morning from the K5 class at St. Boniface School in Germantown.
The downturn in euro zone business activity eased last month but still indicates the bloc's economy will contract again this quarter as the dominant services industry continues to struggle to generate demand, a survey showed. HCOB's composite PMI, compiled by S&P Global and seen as a good guide of overall economic health, rose to 47.6 from October's near three-year low of 46.5 and coming in above a 47.1 preliminary estimate. A PMI for the services sector rose to 48.7 from October's 47.8.
British Home Secretary James Cleverly flew to Rwanda on Tuesday in a bid to revive a plan to send asylum-seekers to the East African country that has been blocked by U.K. courts. The U.K. government said Cleverly will meet his Rwandan counterpart, Vincent Biruta, to sign a new treaty and discuss next steps for the troubled “migration and economic development partnership.” “Rwanda cares deeply about the rights of refugees, and I look forward to meeting with counterparts to sign this agreement and further discuss how we work together to tackle the global challenge of illegal migration,” Cleverly said.
Businessman Tony Harvey has been ordered by the council to demolish the house he built in West Compton, Somerset.
It may be time for the skipper to pass the gloves on to someone else
Maria Andreeva, whose husband has been fighting in Ukraine for more than a year, is also waging a battle in Moscow: to get him home. A growing movement of Russian women is demanding the return from the front of their husbands, sons and brothers who were mobilised after a decree by President Vladimir Putin in September last year. Since Andreeva's husband was mobilised last year and headed to Ukraine, he has been back only for two short breaks to see his wife and young daughter.
Climate activists staged several small protests at COP28 on Tuesday against the presence of the oil, gas and coal industry at the U.N. climate summit and demanded an end to the use of fossil fuels, the major source cause of climate change. While past U.N. climate talks have sparked huge public protest rallies, including 2021's COP26 in Glasgow and 2015's COP21 in Paris, this year's protests have been muted in host United Arab Emirates that limits freedom of expression. The U.N. and UAE are allowing pre-approved protests to take place at the COP28 venue.
Here's how NBA Twitter reacted to the Indiana Pacers knocking out the Boston Celtics in the quarterfinal of the In-Season Tournament.
This is the moment a pair of bikers accelerate to 186mph without helmets, causing their faces to stretch and flap in the wind in Russia on November 16.
Lawrence Steven Meyers, the veteran sales agent and producer who set up Meyers Media Group, has died in London. He was 67. Meyers was a recognizable figure in the film world on both sides of the pond. He was born in Mount Vernon, New York in 1956 and spent his early years growing up in …
Russian President Vladimir Putin will pay a working visit to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, a Kremlin spokesman said, and hold talks in Russia the next day with the president of Iran. Spokesman Dmitry Peskov, asked if Putin would discuss possible coordinated actions on global oil markets during his Gulf trip, said such talks were held within the OPEC+ group but the issue was always on the agenda. The visit comes after OPEC+ agreed last Thursday to voluntary supply cuts totalling about 2.2 million barrels a day, a move met with scepticism by the oil market.
Rashford has scored just three times this season for club and country.
PARIS (AP) — France's National Assembly unanimously approved a bill to ban single-use, disposable electronic cigarettes, in an attempt to protect young people drawn to their flavors and mitigate the environmental impacts of the disposable products known as “puffs.” Lawmakers adopted the bill in a late-night vote on Monday by 104 in favor, zero against. The bill, supported by the government, will then move to the Senate where it is expected to be adopted as well. It could go into effect by Septem
ST-SEBASTIEN, QUE. — Over the last two years, François Nadeau has chosen to do something rare among his fellow Quebec pork farmers: invest in the future. Despite economic conditions that industry leaders have called a crisis, Nadeau and his wife and co-owner of their business, Julie Bogemans, went ahead with a new building to house some of their 1,200 sows. It features high-tech feeding and cooling systems and bigger, open pens to replace many of the crates and cages that used to keep the animal
TORONTO — The CBC's president says a round of layoffs and programming cuts the broadcaster announced this week could mean changes in what viewers see on television. Catherine Tait says slashing millions from the Crown corporation's overall budget may mean fewer unscripted, factual or game shows. She says those kinds of content don't fall under the broadcast regulator's programs of national interest policy that CBC has to remain committed to. Tait's comment came as the CBC and Radio-Canada reveal
Hundreds of residents of two municipalities in Quebec's Laurentians region are awaiting further news after being ordered to leave their homes due to structural problems in a nearby dike. Government inspectors found structural weaknesses in the Morier dike during a recent visit that could lead it to burst. The evacuation order was issued Sunday night for about 1,000 properties near the Kiamika River in the municipalities of Chute-St-Philippe and Lac-des-Ecorces. The inspectors suspect internal er
BANFF, Alta. — An Indigenous elder sits at a table telling a Blackfoot story about the Frank Slide in southern Alberta's Crowsnest Pass. "The Piikani people, they had been in that area for thousands of years," Hayden Melting Tallow of Siksika Nation, part of the Blackfoot Confederacy, says in a video during a learning circle. "The Europeans came and found some coal in that area and the Piikani people had been warning the people there, 'Don't build your house there, build it farther. That mountai
Lynne Spears is "really making the effort" with her daughter Britney as she tries to mend their relationship in the years after the end of the pop star's conservatorship.
After years of going through the revolving doors of daycares and kindergartens closing down because of either the pandemic or workers hitting the picket line, Kally Walsh finally found the right school for her 5-year-old autistic son.He was finally thriving in an environment that was right for him — and then the strike hit.More than 65,000 teachers with the Fédération Autonome de l'Enseignement (FAE) have been on an unlimited strike since Nov. 23. "Within a week of schools being closed, we lost
A businessman’s illegal £500,000 home is facing demolition after neighbours saw it light up “like an alien invasion from Mars” at night.
Australians have long described their home as the “lucky country”. British politicians are starting to ask themselves whether there’s more to it than that.