Australia’s Catholic Leaders Reject Call to Report Sex Abuse Heard in Confessions

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15 Chapters of Grand Slam Drama for the Williams Sisters

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Sony Xperia XZ3 With Android 9 Pie And Bravia TV Inspired HDR OLED Display Launched

The Xperia XZ3 comes with the same design language as the XZ2 which was launched at MWC 2018.

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Gujarat Metro Recruitment 2018: General Manager, Joint Manager and Asst CS Posts, Apply before 15th Sept 2018

MEGA is inviting applications for various posts to be filled on contract basis for a period of minimum 3 to 5 years.

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Trump threatens to pull US out of World Trade Organization

The US president says he will abandon the global trade body "if they don't shape up".

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Catholic Church rejects Australian call to overhaul confession

Catholic leaders in Australia confirm they will not force priests to report sexual abuse.

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Astronauts tackle air leak on International Space Station

A "micro-fracture" from a possible collision with a rock fragment sets off alerts on the ISS.

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UN 'alarmed' by reports of China's mass detention of Uighurs

The UN says credible reports suggest that up to a million Muslim Uighurs are held in detention camps.

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Gérard Depardieu: French actor accused of rape

French actor Gérard Depardieu is accused of rape and sexual assault - accusations he denies.

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John McCain: Sarah Palin 'excluded from his funeral'

A "stay-away message" was reportedly conveyed to Sarah Palin via McCain family intermediaries.

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Bobi Wine: Uganda's pop star MP 're-arrested at airport'

A young MP facing treason charges is allegedly detained while attempting to board a plane.

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Argentina raises rates as peso plummets

Central bank raises benchmark interest rate in an effort to stabilise the country's financial crisis.

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Florida sheriff backs Uber driver who killed 'goofball'

"This is a justifiable homicide all day long," says a Florida sheriff about the shooting.

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Hayabusa-2: Japan sets date for spacecraft's asteroid touchdown

Japan's space agency sets dates for its plan to explore the surface of an asteroid with robots.

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Macron: French 'Gauls' resistant to change, unlike 'Lutheran' Danes

The French president causes an outcry as he pokes fun at attitudes to his economic reforms.

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Stéphane Pauwels arrest: Football presenter charged over armed robbery

One of Belgium's top football TV presenters is charged with being an accomplice to an armed robbery.

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McCain and Biden's long friendship

The Arizona senator and the former vice-president shared a decades-long friendship.

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The power of 'pink money' in India

Some businesses in India have found that catering to the LGBT community makes financial sense.

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Colorado police tell handcuffed journalist: 'Act like a lady'

Susan Greene was arrested as she used her phone to record police detaining an African American.

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The first cyclist to 'Everest' on Everest

JJ Zhou took on a fiendish cycling challenge on the world's highest mountain.

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Why a plane is dropping trout into a lake from above

A mountain lake is being re-stocked with trout from the air by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.

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Tablet bends 'like ancient scroll'

A Canadian university has developed a tablet with a flexible screen that can rolled up.

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How Eto'o helped homeless ex-Cameroon captain

Cameroon's Norbert Owona, homeless for two years, thanks Samuel Eto'o for promising him a new house.

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Kanye West finally answers Jimmy Kimmel's Donald Trump question

The rap star also apologises for saying slavery "sounds like a choice".

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Why were there so many serial killers in the 1980s?

One historian suggests in a new book that the ravages of World War Two might have contributed.

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Why Australia is talking about a French au pair

A minister's decision to personally intervene in a visa case is attracting national attention.

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Movie madness: Why Chinese cinemas are empty but full

Chinese government investigators say certain investment companies are faking box office results.

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Iosif Kobzon: Russians mourn 'Soviet Sinatra'

Iosif Kobzon was the soundtrack to the lives of many Russians but had a controversial career.

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Why India activist arrests have kicked up a storm

The issue has heated up online and people are staging protest rallies against the arrests.

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U.S. to End Funding to U.N. Agency That Helps Palestinian Refugees

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Honey, I Swept the Floor!

By BROOKE WILLIAMS from NYT Style https://ift.tt/2Pk01gs

Yankees Looking to Trade for Andrew McCutchen, a Former M.V.P.

By TYLER KEPNER from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/2N3KVhz

Why You Should Tell Your Co-Workers How Much Money You Make

By TIM HERRERA from NYT Smarter Living https://ift.tt/2PjuTO3

What’s on TV Friday: ‘Ozark’ and ‘Jack Ryan’

By EMMA L. MCALEAVY from NYT Arts https://ift.tt/2LJ5bQC

How Germany’s Far Right Stole a Rallying Cry for Democracy

By AINARA TIEFENTHÄLER and SARAH STEIN KERR from NYT World https://ift.tt/2N45dHO

How Much Hotter Is Your Hometown Today Than When You Were Born?

By NADJA POPOVICH, BLACKI MIGLIOZZI, RUMSEY TAYLOR, JOSH WILLIAMS and DEREK WATKINS from NYT Climate https://ift.tt/2LIQ21K

Mob Protests in Germany Show New Strength of the Far Right

By KATRIN BENNHOLD from NYT World https://ift.tt/2MIlgM3

President Trump Had a Lot to Say at His Rally and on Twitter. But Not About John McCain.

By KATIE ROGERS from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2N6Jm2c

‘An Attack on Students’ Rights’: Reactions to Betsy DeVos’s New Rules on Sexual Assault

By JENNIFER MEDINA and EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2C3YpWi

2 Passengers Charged With Sexual Assault Aboard Aircraft as F.B.I. Cracks Down

By KIRK JOHNSON from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2PhTouX

Quotation of the Day: Tears, Laughter and Allusions to a Man Who Wasn’t Invited

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Yankees, With Strongest Home Run Muscles, Are Outdone by a Weakling

By WALLACE MATTHEWS from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/2C0FMTd

Caroline Wozniacki Becomes Latest Giant to Fall at Armstrong

By BEN ROTHENBERG from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/2C3K6Rx

Nick Kyrgios Was Struggling. The Chair Umpire Stepped Down and Stepped In.

By SCOTT CACCIOLA from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/2wqSkhu

Corrections: August 31, 2018

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Works With Kids

By DEB AMLEN from NYT Crosswords & Games https://ift.tt/2PSPV73

Ronan Farrow’s Ex-Producer Says NBC Impeded Weinstein Reporting

By JOHN KOBLIN from NYT Business Day https://ift.tt/2NFpVuk

Germany, Vanilla Beans, Riz Ahmed: Your Friday Briefing

By ALISHA HARIDASANI GUPTA from NYT Briefing https://ift.tt/2PgoVNG

Rumba, the Dance of Love

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Celebrating Guy Bluford's Historic First Flight

Guy Bluford, the first African-American astronaut, launched into space on shuttle Challenger's STS-8 mission thirty-five years ago, on August 30, 1983.

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Underwater Robots Help NASA Plan Future Deep-Space Missions

An expedition that will help NASA search for life in deep space launched today – not with a rocket’s roar, but with a gentle splash into the deep Pacific Ocean. The project will use underwater robots to explore the environment around a deep-sea volcano off the coast of Hawaii that has similar conditions to what may exist on Saturn’s moon Enceladus.

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Supreme Court Adjourns Hearing in Article 35A Case: Key Things to Know

The petitions have been filed by NGO on grounds that Article 35A was illegally added to the Constitution of India as it was never floated before Parliament.

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Soon, Mumbai's Arthur Road Jail to Have European-Style Cells for Fugitive Millionaires ​Like Mallya

Taking a serious note of fugitive businessman tycoon Vijay Mallya’s jibe of the “pathetic” prisons in India, the jail authorities are now set to renovate the construction inside the 93-year-old Arthur Road jail situated in the heart of Mumbai.

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Militants Abduct Relatives of Seven Policemen in South Kashmir

Officials privy to the development said that at least five people, whose family members were working in the Jammu and Kashmir Police, have been picked up by militants from Shopian, Kulgam, Anantnag and Awantipora.

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ICAR AIEEA 2018 Result Delayed, Website Down

The stay order comes in wake of Kerala Floods, due to which, candidates in the state could not attend the AIEEA 2018 exam held on 18th and 19th August 2018, earlier this month.

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Article 35A Hearing Adjourned till January 2019, SC to Decide After Panchayat Polls in Kashmir

Article 35-A, which was incorporated in the Constitution by a 1954 Presidential Order, accords special rights and privileges to the citizens of Jammu and Kashmir and denies property rights to women who marry those from outside the state.

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Lalu's Wife Rabri Devi, Son Tejashwi Yadav Granted Bail in IRCTC Scam Case

Earlier the court had summoned and asked the Lalu family and others in the case to appear before the court on Friday in the case related to alleged irregularities in granting operational contract of two IRCTC hotels to a private firm.

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12 Deaths, 159 Cases in 3 Days: What Kerala Should Learn from 1st Leptospirosis Outbreak 20 Years Ago

So far, the cases have been concentrated in five districts — Thrissur, Palakkad, Kozhikode, Malappuram and Kannur. An official of Directorate of Health Services said that the key problem with leptospirosis is that the symptoms are hard to identify.

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Unable to Arrange Money for Pregnant Wife's Treatment, UP Man Tries to Sell 4-Year-Old Daughter

The police learnt about the case and stopped Banjara and his wife, Sukhdevi, from selling the child.

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Drunk Driver Runs Over Four People Sleeping on Footpath in Jaipur

The accused has been identified as 35-year-old Bharat Bhushan Meena, a property dealer.

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'Register WhatsApp Groups or Face Action': UP District Admin's 'Gag Order' for Journalists

Journalists in Uttar Pradesh's Lalitpur district have been ordered to register their WhatsApp groups with state’s information department, which is headed by UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath himself. Those who fail to comply would face legal action under the IT Act.

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If Country Not Open to Criticism, Independence Makes No Difference: Law Commission on Sedition

The paper also cited examples of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student leader Kanhaiya Kumar, who was charged with sedition over the alleged anti-India slogans on the campus.

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Arunachal Pradesh on Alert as China Warns of Floods, May Release Excess Water into Brahmaputra

Arunachal Pradesh MP Ninong Ering said on Thursday said the communication from China has led to the possibility of floods in downstream areas.

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Policy to Give Reservation Cannot Be Questioned Even by Courts: SC

The bench was dealing with a clutch of matters relating to reservation of SC/ST upon migration from other states to NCT of Delhi.

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News18 Daybreak | Supreme Court Clarifies on SC/ST Quota, Rupee Slide Continues and Other Stories You may Have Missed

Get a fresh dose of the news that matters, delivered directly to your inbox, every morning. The perfect way, to get you started and informed, for the day ahead.

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Courts Are Told Rats Eat Away Drugs Seized by Police, Supreme Court Observes

The bench also observed that in narcotics cases, "more drugs are smuggled from inside the malkhana, than outside".

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Two Dead, Six Injured as Masked Men Go on Stabbing Spree in Delhi

It is suspected that the killings were the fallout of a rivalry between two groups trying to assert their dominance in the area, police said.

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Here's How Taxpayers Can Revise Their ITR Filing

As the government takes steps to make the tax processes smoother for individuals, it’s the duty of every taxpayer to file returns on time and work together with the government to make India a better nation.

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Last Day to File ITR, What Happens If You Don't File Your Tax Returns Today

For general category, which covers all the salaried persons, the due date for filing of the income tax return is August 31.

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Kashmir Family Confronts Jawans for Opening Fire Inside House, Video Goes Viral

The video, which is being widely circulated on social media platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp, shows a man repeatedly asking the security forces personnel why did they open fire inside his house.

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How to Choose the Right ITR Form for this Financial Year

Different forms are applicable for different assessees, based on factors such as quantum of income, type of income, residential status of the taxpayer etc. Selection of the right form is vital as choosing the wrong form will make your return invalid

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16-year-old Girl Forced to Drink Alcohol, Raped by Two Men in Noida

The incident took place when the girl, a resident of Dastampur village which comes under the jurisdiction of Jewar police station, was returning home on August 24, the police said.

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Days Ahead of 2+2 Dialogue, US Says No Change to Processing of H-1B Visas

A senior official of the administration acknowledged that it was prepared to expect India raising the H-1B issue at the 2+2, but added that it would not have much to say as the policy remained the same and was undergoing review.

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30 Trapped in Arunachal Pradesh as Brahmaputra in Spate After Heavy Rains in China

Arunachal Pradesh MP Ninong Ering has said that China has alerted India about the rising water levels in Tsangpo, leading to possibility of floods in downstream areas.

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In Rare Show of Unity, Kerala Politicians Decide to Pressure Centre to Accept Foreign Aid

Pinarayi Vijayan said government would explore the possibility of legal options to avail the funds offered to the state, including that from abroad.

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Varavara, 2 Other Activists Taken to Their Homes From Pune, In House Arrest; Allege Being Framed

Describing dissent as the "safety valve of democracy", the apex court yesterday directed the Maharashtra police that the five activists be kept under house arrest at their homes until the next day of hearing on September 6.

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Policemen Asked Us to Keep Bedroom Door Open and Sleep, Says Arrested Activist's Partner

Activist Gautam Navlakha was arrested on August 28 after searches in several cities that resulted in the arrest of four other activists. A transit remand was secured to take Navlakha to Pune, but the high court stayed the order.

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