EDITED BY KALAHAN DENG World powers turned their focus to the Boko Haram terror group this weekend, with the U.N. Security Council citing its anxiety over the group’s ties to ISIS as regional leaders gathered in Nigeria to devise ways to battle the Islamist extremist movement. In a presidential statement issued Friday, the Security Council expressed alarm at Boko Haram’s ...

LINDA BURNEY EVERY CHILD IN EVERY SCHOOL IN BARTON WILL BE BETTER OFF UNDER LABOR Labor Candidate for Barton, Linda Burney, has welcomed the Labor Party’s commitment to the parents and students of Barton through its Your Child, Our Future plan. Data released this week shows that no matter where a student lives or what school they attend they will ...

For more than a month, large protests throughout Lebanon have been gaining size and momentum, driven by the announcement that UNRWA, the UN agency which provides services and relief to Palestinian refugees, will no longer cover the cost of regular hospital visits for Palestinians in Lebanon. This move has been interpreted as representing a wider decline in the fortunes of ...

It was only a matter of time before the latent tensions brewing between Saudi Arabia and Lebanon boiled over, given the current rivalry between Riyadh and Tehran and the rising influence of the Shiite Hezbollah in Lebanon. But it seems Saudi Arabia is truly acting in an erratic manner that, instead of bringing Lebanon back into its sphere of influence, ...

Jürgen Klopp claimed he wanted to draw Manchester United in the last 16 of the Europa League as Liverpool need to “clear something” after two defeats to Louis van Gaal’s team this season. England’s most successful clubs were pitted against each other for the first time in European competition on Friday, with the mouthwatering ties taking place at Anfield on ...

The GAA’s Under-21 inter-county football championships are to be replaced by an Under-20 grade, after the motion was passed at tonight’s Congress. From 2018, teams will compete between June and August in the new set-up with any player that is named on a senior inter-county team ineligible for the new competition. There will be no replays and if teams cannot be ...

Gianni Infantino wants to reunite football after becoming president of world football’s governing body Fifa. The Uefa secretary general succeeds fellow Swiss Sepp Blatter, polling 115 votes, 27 more than closest rival Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa, at Friday’s election. Blatter quit in May amid allegations that led to a six-year ban from football, which he is contesting. “I said ...

Australia might not have got its man in the FIFA presidential election but FFA chief Steven Lowy says there is reason to celebrate Gianni Infantino’s rise to the summit of the world football body. The Swiss-Italian Infantino defeated Bahraini favourite Sheik Salman al-Khalifa and the recipient of Australia’s vote, Jordanian Royal Prince Ali bin Al-Hussein, in Saturday morning’s (AEDT) vote. ...

Ambulance services were called to the car park on Racecourse Road shortly after 7:30pm on Friday after a report that a man was unconscious in a car. When paramedics tried to wake the man, police said he rammed his white Infinity sedan into the ambulance several times. The man also hit two other vehicles before driving off west along Racecourse ...

How does one become a professional sword swallower? And what happens when things go wrong? Two of the world’s most accomplished performers open up to Amanda Smith. Sticking things down your gullet for the entertainment of others may seem like a strange way to earn a living, but for professional sword swallowers it’s more fun than you can poke a ...