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Berkeley Homes chief backs Labour house building pledge
Evening Standard via Yahoo Finance· 25 minutes agoLabour and the Conservatives both want to build 1.5 million homes in the next five-year Parliament....
South Africa's Ramaphosa to be sworn in as president
AFP via Yahoo News· 55 minutes agoSouth Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa is to be sworn in for a new term as president at a ceremony in Pretoria on Wednesday, after his weakened African National...
Britain's rollercoaster-riding Liberal Democrat leader embraces stunts to gain election attention
San Francisco Chronicle· 19 minutes agoMost politicians try to avoid slips, stumbles and undignified photos. Not Ed Davey. The...
Australian opposition puts nation's first nuclear power plants in its energy plan ahead of elections
WPXI· 5 hours agoMELBOURNE, Australia — (AP) — Australia’s main opposition party on Wednesday announced plans to ...
Kenya scraps bread tax as protesters tear-gassed
BBC via Yahoo News· 16 hours agoRights groups have condemned the police's response. "I am very angry and I'm fighting for my future," one protester, named Wangari, told the AFP news...
Kenya scraps some tax hike proposals as protesters rally in Nairobi
Al Jazeera· 17 hours agoKenya’s government has retracted plans to impose multiple tax hikes, the presidency said, announcing...
Shaping the Shard: spider crane scales Europe’s tallest building
World Construction Network via Yahoo Finance· 4 hours agoLondon’s newest landmark, the Shard, owes a substantial amount of its construction to a...
Can South Africa’s Center Hold?
Foreign Policy Magazine· 30 minutes agoThe highlights this week: The U.N. security council votes to halt fighting in El Fasher, Sudan, U.S. embassy staffer charged with abuse in Burkina Faso,...
Who should I vote for? The main parties’ policies at a glance
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoMr Sunak plans not to introduce any new restrictions on fox hunting and take a “more pragmatic”...
Kenyan parliament panel recommends scrapping some new taxes amid protests
Reuters· 19 hours agoA Kenyan parliamentary panel has recommended that the government scrap new taxes on items like cars...