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Ratings: Roswell Lifts CW Slot to Season Highs, This Is Us Returns Down
The CW’s Roswell, New Mexico premiered on Tuesday night to 1.54 million total viewers and a 0.4 demo rating, improving on Black Lightning‘s fall average (1.04 mil/0.3) to hit and match season highs for its time slot. TVLine readers gave the “reboot” an average grade of “C+.” Opening The CW’s night, The Flash (1.7 mil/0.6, […]
Ukraine formally lifts entry ban for Russian males but maintains enhanced border checks
With the end of martial law imposed over the Kerch Strait incident, Kiev has lifted its entry ban for Russian men. But intensive searches of all Russian citizens at the border will continue, Ukraine’s customs chief has stated. Ukraine temporarily banned Russian males, aged 16-60, into the country following the imposition of martial law last […]
Stocks End Lower After Fed Lifts Rates
The Dow Jones Industrial Average swung nearly 900 points Wednesday, slumping after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the fourth time in 2018 and signaled a milder path of increases over the next year.
Turkish court lifts house arrest, travel ban of detained US pastor Andrew Brunson
Published time: 12 Oct, 2018 13:42 Edited time: 12 Oct, 2018 13:50 A Turkish court will release imprisoned US pastor Andrew Brunson, who was jailed for alleged terror links following 2016’s failed coup attempt. Brunson’s arrest has soured US-Turkish relations, with Trump pushing for his release. The court passed a 3 years and 1-1/2 month […]
India's Supreme Court lifts ban prohibiting women of menstruating age from entering Hindu temple
India’s Supreme Court has nixed a ban which prohibited women from entering a prominent Hindu temple if they were of menstruating age. The temple’s authorities say they will appeal the ruling. Although the 12th century Sabarimala temple in the southern state of Kerala attracts tens of millions of pilgrims every year, women who are in […]
The Apprentice 2018: Lord Sugar lifts the lid on Piers Morgan cameo – 'He wouldn't last!'
Lord Alan Sugar and Good Morning Britain host Piers Morgan regularly go at each other on social media, firing insults left, right and centre on Twitter. But will their war of words cross-over to The Apprentice when the hit BBC show returns next week for its fourteenth season? At present, Baroness Karen Brady and Claude […]
Germany lifts strict constitutional ban on Nazi symbols in video games
Germany has softened its longstanding and strict ban on swastikas and other Nazi symbols, to allow their inclusion in computer and video games, after a heated public debate over the Wolfenstein video game franchise. The lifting of the ban on Nazi symbols, if used in a “socially adequate” way, was announced by a German industry […]
Meghan Markle: Handwriting expert ‘lifts the lid’ on Prince Harry wife’s ‘perfectionism'
Meghan Markle, 36, married Prince Harry, 33, earlier this month on Saturday 19 May. They are believed to have started dating in the summer of 2016, and announced their engagement in November 2017. A handwriting expert has observed a distinct change in Meghan’s writing since she became engaged to Harry, revealing a “more human” side […]
Trump lifts travel ban on citizens from Chad
Associated Press/Pablo Martinez Monsivais President Donald Trump lifted a travel ban on citizens from Chad. Trump added Chad on a travel ban list in September after saying the government failed to send proof it had taken adequate security measures to prevent terrorists from traveling to the US. Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, North Korea, and […]
