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With today marking what would've been David Bowie 's 74th birthday, and this Sunday being the fifth anniversary of his death, Duran Duran has just rel...

With today marking what would've been David Bowie 's 74th birthday, and this Sunday being the fifth anniversary of his death, Duran Duran has just rel...

Duran Duran Drop David Bowie Cover Five Years Ahead Of Virtual Tribute To The Late Music Icon Legendary music group Duran Duran has dropped a cover of David Bowies song "Five Years" prior to a virtual tribute to the late recording icon that will live stream tonight, January 8. The band released their own version of the song, featured on the 1972 album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, ahead of their appearance at the concert. Duran Duran will perform alongside ...

3 Jan 2021 The “sexist” European Union tax on tampons has been abolished in the United Kingdom following the departure from the bloc at the end of the Brexit transition period. Prior to Brexit, the United Kingdom was bound by EU law, which mandated that member-states charge at least a 5 per cent European Union value-added tax (VAT) on tampons, which were classified by the bloc as a ‘luxury item’ rather than an essential product. The British government announced on Friday, that as of Jan...

At the dawn of a new year, I extend cordial greetings to Heads of State and Government, leaders of International Organizations, spiritual leaders and followers of the different religions, and to men and women of good will. To all I offer my best wishes that the coming year will enable humanity to advance on the path of fraternity, justice and peace between individuals, communities, peoples and nations. The year 2020 was marked by the massive Covid-19 health crisis, which became a global phenome...

Diamond Billionaire Steinmetz Sentenced to Five Years for Land Fraud December 20, 20 by John Jeffay (IDEX Online) - Beny Steinmetz, the diamond a nd real estate billionaire, has been handed a five-year jail term by a court in Romania after he was convicted of a land deal fraud.  The countrys Supreme Court overturned the decision by a lower district court to acquit him last year. Steinmetz, 65, ( pictured) an Israeli national, was accused of being involved in corrupt enterprise to recover lan...

Description Pope Francis’ message for the World Day of Peace, which is celebrated, January 1, 2021, on the theme: “A Culture of Care as a Path to Peace.” The text was presented on December 17, 2020, virtually, from the Holy See Press Office. Publisher & Date Vatican, December 17, 2020 1. At the dawn of a new year, I extend cordial greetings to Heads of State and Government, leaders of International Organizations, spiritual leaders and followers of the different religions, and to men and ...

For more than two decades, the iShares MSCI Canada ETF (NYSE: EWC) was the primary game in town for U.S. investors looking to access Canadian stocks via the exchange traded funds wrapper. From its debut in March 1996 until the third quarter of 2018, EWC essentially had the U.S. market for Canada... Read More...

Entertainment 3 months, 2 weeks If there was any small silver lining to spending all this time indoors in 2020, it had to be the truly ridiculous amount of books consumed. I caught up with royals, visited alternative versions of the past, went to art camp in Brooklyn, and even explored one very creepy haunted house (below). I loved a ton, but the below 10, in no particular order, really stood out to me as my favorite new books of 2020. For anyone looking to kick off 2021 with a great read, ch...

Nigeria Is Paxfuls Second Biggest P2P Bitcoin Market, Trades Top $566 Million in Five Years Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy and most populous nation, traded more than $566 million worth of bitcoin between 2015 and 2020, making it the world’s second-largest peer-to-peer (P2P) bitcoin market after the U.S., which traded $3.75 billion in the period under review. According to an analysis of bitcoin trading platform Paxful’s database shared with news.Bitcoin.com, Nigeria h...