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Jul232018 by adminNo Comments

Take these steps now to avoid or mend a family financial feud

Many families worry about their financial plan and whether or not they will run out of money. Some are living paycheck to paycheck and trying to figure out a better way to budget their monthly dollars. Money arguments are one of the leading causes couples ultimately split up. To that point, 22 percent of all divorces are caused by money issues, according to the Institute for Divorce Financial Analysis. So how do you stop those money arguments at home? ...

Jun232018 by adminNo Comments

Game Of Thrones stars wed at family castle

Entertainment

Game Of Thrones stars Kit Harington and Rose Leslie, who played on-screen lovers in the epic TV drama, have married. Harington and Leslie tied the knot at Rayne Church in Aberdeenshire. She wore a full-length white wedding dress and he was dressed in a traditional morning suit. Image: All smiles after the big event The actors met in 2012 while filming the long-running saga in Iceland, where they were playing Jon Snow and Ygritte. Image: Kit Harington arrives at church in Aberdeenshire for his wedding to Rose Leslie Their engagement was announced in The Times last year, and a wedding date of 23 June was posted at the Huntly registration office in Scotland.The...

Jun222018 by adminNo Comments

Trump hosts victims of undocumented migrants amid family separations row

World

Media playback is unsupported on your device US President Donald Trump has hosted the relatives of victims killed by illegal immigrants amid outrage over the separation of migrant families. "Your loved ones have not died in vain," he told the group of so-called Angel Families at the White House. Mr Trump has faced global condemnation for the US immigration policy that has seen more than 2,000 migrant children stripped from their families.He bowed to public pressure and reversed the policy earlier this week.The president signed an executive order on Wednesday to end the separate detention of undocumented immigrant children from their parents after illegally entering the country. As part of the the administration's "zero-tolerance" policy, which...

May142018 by adminNo Comments

Surabaya attacks: Family of five bomb Indonesia police headquarters

World

A suicide bombing at a police headquarters in the Indonesian city of Surabaya on Monday was carried out by a family of five riding on two motorbikes, police say.It came after another family carried out bomb attacks on three churches on Sunday. Police blamed an Islamic State-inspired group.An eight-year-old daughter survived the latest attack, police say.Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim-majority country. The archipelago, home to 260 million people, has seen a resurgence of Islamist militancy in recent months but the scale of the attacks in Surabaya has raised fresh concerns about the potency of jihadist networks.Video footage of the latest attack on the police headquarters shows two motorbikes approaching a checkpoint...

May132018 by adminNo Comments

Jurassic fossil tail provides missing link in ancient crocodile family tree

Science

May 11 (UPI) -- Paleontologists have recovered a Jurassic fossil tail they believe is the missing link between two halves of the ancient crocodile family. During the Jurassic period, from roughly 200 to 145 million years ago, ancient crocodiles took two basic forms, each featuring several species. One group featured dino-like armor and had limbs for walking on land. Another had tail fins and flippers, but not armor. One group was croc-like, the other was dolphin-like. Researchers suggest the newly discovered tail belonged to an intermediary species, which boasted armor as well as tail fins. Scientists, who described the fossil in the journal PeerJ, named the new species Magyarosuchus fitosi, a tribute to Attila Fitos, the amateur collector who discovered it. Fitos dug up the tail in the ...