Meghan Markle began her first overseas multicountry royal tour as she and Prince Harry landed in Sydney, Australia on Monday. The newlyweds will embark on a more than two-week tour of the Pacific that also includes Fiji, Tonga and New Zealand, attending some 76 official events during the trip. Shortly after their arrival in Australia, Kensington Palace …
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Kyle Edmund profile: The Liverpool-loving petrolhead star of British tennis bidding for Australian Open 2018 glory
Kyle Edmund will bid to reach his first Grand Slam final when he plays Marin Cilic at the Australian Open on Thursday morning. Victory for the Yorkshireman would also see him overtake his training partner and Davis Cup team-mate Andy Murray as British No.1. And he would then be one match away – probably against …
ROLLER DERBY: Juniors selected to play in exhibition match at World Cup
MEMBERS of Hereford’s junior roller derby team have been selected to play an exhibition bout during the Roller Derby World Cup. The eight players and three coaches will be in Manchester for the event that takes place from next Thursday (February 1) to February 4. Representing Hereford will be Marianne Corrick- Gough and Verity Corrick- …
Scepticism over what Scotland’s City Region Deals promise
Home / News / Local / Dundee by Leeza Clark January 8 2018, 12.01am FacebookTwitterWhatsAppLinkedInEmail Sign up to our Daily newsletter Want to read more?Subscribe today from £1 a week Significant issues with Scotland’s City Region Deals must be addressed, according to a Holyrood report. There was some “scepticism about what is being promised” particularly …
Seoul: No sign of imminent missile test by North Korea
Responding to US news reports that the secretive nation appears to be preparing to fire another intercontinental ballistic missile, Army Colonel Roh Jae-cheon, spokesman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at a press briefing on Thursday that there is no activity that would lead to an assessment that a missile provocation by the North …
NFL Super Bowl Challenge: SunSport’s picks on who will make the showpiece on February 4
THE NFL play-offs are here and SunSport’s resident American football enthusiasts make their selections on which teams will make the Super Bowl in Minneapolis on February 4.Play the Super Bowl Challenge and win a trip to America to watch a game next season.SUNNI UPAL Super Bowl prediction: New England Patriots to beat Minnesota VikingsThis year’s …
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Centre supports Vietnamese women married to Korean menThe Women’s Association of the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho and the Korea Centre for United Nations Human Rights Policy (KOCUN) held a ceremony to launch a centre to support Vietnamese women married to men from the Republic of Korea (RoK) on January 25. The “Korea-Vietnam Caring” centre, …
Sanchez signs for Man Utd, Mkhitaryan joins Arsenal
Football LONDON — Alexis Sanchez said on Monday he was “thrilled to be joining the biggest club in the world” as he moved to Manchester United from Arsenal in a swap deal with Henrikh Mkhitaryan. The 29-year-old Chile striker, who came close to joining Manchester City last summer, has signed what is believed to be …
Mike Pompeo in North Korea for pre-summit meetings
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in North Korea Wednesday to finalize plans for a historic summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Ahead of his trip to Pyongyang, Pompeo said he hoped he would “put in place a framework for a successful summit between the two presidents.” Pompeo said …
South Korea stops border propaganda broadcasts ahead of key summit with North
At midnight local time, the sound of propaganda and pop music from the South Korean side of the border stopped. South Korea’s defense ministry announced the decision to switch off the loudspeakers’ output of news, music and criticism of the North for the first time in two years, hoping it: “Will lead both Koreas to …