Indonesia has undergone an extraordinary transformation over the past two decades, benefiting from strong growth that has lifted millions out of poverty and allowed important progress in areas such as health and education. But low levels of public spending and tax revenue are undermining the quality of social services and exacerbating infrastructure gaps, according to the OECD.

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Radu Banciu, 49, sparked outrage with the comment while hosting the late evening show on B1 TV. He said: 'Serena Williams looks exactly like one of those monkeys at the zoo with the red a****.'

Keys will make Grammy history by becoming the first female recording artist to host the annual music awards show more than once.

'We're all trying to make our way through a very chaotic time, and we all just need a little celebration -- to feel like we're with friends, like somebody actually cares,' she explained to Billboard.

While Alicia Keys was busy with her hosting duties at the 2020 Grammy Awards on Sunday night, she also took time to debut her new song Underdog.

After meditating in her dressing room backstage, the 39-year-old Grammy Awards host enlisted Boyz II Men to sing their 1991 hit It's So Hard To Say Goodbye with her at his 'house' Staples Center

The musician, 39, proved there's no rest for the wicked as she headed to the NRJ Radio Station in Paris, France to promote her upcoming eponymous album on Tuesday evening.

The BHA have postponed their consultation into the use of the whip while operation duties during the COVID-19 pandemic take priority.

Races will be restricted to 12 runners to comply with social distancing rules in plans to race behind closed doors next month. 

The tight guidelines of the strictest scenario for a possible return to racing have been underlined with the selected racecourses operating as almost sealed sites.

The title hopes of jump jockey Brian Hughes have been hit after he was suspended for three days for weighing in light on Carlisle winner Bingo D'Olivate.

Donald Trump renewed his 'spygate' attacks by parroting claims on Fox that shamed agents Strzok and Page were hiring 'spies' to work on his campaign as early as December 2015.

The primates are normally well fed by tourists in Lopburi, central Thailand, but visitors have plummeted because of the COVID-19 virus which is gripping the world.

Customers from Tesco, Aldi and Morrisons were left disappointed with their Christmas dinners after claiming that poultry they bought was mouldy and rancid.

They brought this year’s T in the Park to a close on Sunday evening with a storming set a Balado airfield in Perthshire on Sunday evening – but behind the scenes controversy still raged over rock band Arctic Monkeys’ involvement in a controversial tax avoidance scheme.

Postboxes on Canvey Island have been taped up as a precaution after the postman lost his set of keys. A councillor said all were cleared of mail using a spare set of keys before being closed.(stock image)

A new trial is underway for a coronavirus vaccine is underway at Oxford University in the UK involving more than 6,000 participants that will be started by the end of next month

Researchers at the US National Institutes of Health tested an experimental antiviral drug, first created for Ebola, on 18 rhesus macaques.

Germany provided the first installment of live post-lockdown sporting action on Thursday by hosting a dozen races in Hanover. Many jockeys wore face masks while others used transparent plastic visors.

Marie Nicole Pareja says the monkeys' tails are pointing upwards, meaning they were native to the Indus Valley in what is now Pakistan rather than North Africa or the Middle East.

In a hilarious video shared by the singer, the child is seen making a mini home complete with an elevator out of a cardboard box when he is bored on the set of her music video for Show Me Love.

The 38-year-old Grammy winner has two sons with husband

The 35-year-old singer linked arms with the hip-hop artist and leaned in for a kiss as they walked the red carpet before the ceremony.

The estate agent, 24, was facing the public vote opposite Isabelle after Hannah Agboola and Tom Barber secretly chose to target them when they were banished to Big Brother's spare room.

They were among the celebs who turned up decked out in their best and most imaginative costumes for the party at the Allbright in West Hollywood on Thursday evening.

The Cross Keys Hotel, in the charming medieval market town of Saffron Walden, Essex, is located in a medieval building dating back some 850 years.

PIERS MORGAN: Britain is a country of heroic NHS lions led by dangerously incompetent donkeys - and many thousands of people are going to die as a result, including many trying to save them.

Brian Hughes continued to build what he hopes will be an unassailable lead in the jump jockeys title race as a 49-1 treble at Carlisle took him 13 winners clear (124-111) of champion Richard Johnson.

Customers are raging on social media that supermarkets across the UK are failing to deliver key festive ingredients, sparking fears online that they are running out of items.

Duncan Johnson, 41, demanded Natalie Grimes' keys at an Asda car park in Liverpool as he tried to rob a vehicle with her daughter, seven, inside. He was jailed for six years after the incident in March.

They found almost 200 recurrent genetic mutations of the new coronavirus - SARS-CoV-2 - that show how it may be evolving as it spreads in people.

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Many investment professionals are naturally competitive people, myself included. Accustomed to being benchmarked and trained to quantify impact, we run an unusual risk of thinking that social media is a contest.

But applying that perspective is counterproductive. It is a bit like going to a dinner party and trying to keep score. People might be into it if you have strange friends, but there’s a better chance that you will alienate everyone there.

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You’ve probably heard of a “gaggle of geese.” Maybe even a “murder of crows.” But did you know that a group of November gobblers is called a “rafter of turkeys”? Here are some early 20th-century images (from the New-York Historical Society Postcard Collection) of the runner-up for America’s national bird. Not quite enough feathers to reach the rafters,...

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A 130-year span of keyboard instruments documents a revolution in colonists’ musical tastes. See the progression in “Changing Keys,” a new exhibit at the Museums of Colonial Williamsburg. Curator John Watson describes the outlay.

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The 1995 sci-fi flick “12 Monkeys” is about to become a TV show. This worries Angry Nerd—movies-turned-TV-shows don’t have the best track record. Sure, “Fargo” turned out fine, but let’s not forget the short-lived tragedy “Ferris Bueller”…

Chinese scientists have claimed that they have successfully tested the country's first vaccine against Covid-19 on monkeys, which is a significant development in the race to find a cure for the virus. According to the reports, PiCoVacc, an inactivated Covid-19 vaccine candidate made by Beijing-based Sinovac Biotech, has shown promising results.

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This week we hear stories on turning data sets into symphonies for business and pleasure, why so much of the world is stuck in the poverty trap, and calls for stiffening statistical significance with Online News Editor David Grimm. Sarah Crespi talks to news writer Ann Gibbons about the biology of ancient books—what can we learn from DNA, proteins, and book worm trails about a book, its scribes, and its readers? Listen to previous podcasts. [Music: Jeffrey Cook]

For a long time, Parkinson’s disease was thought to be merely a disorder of the nervous system. But in the past decade researchers have started to look elsewhere in the body for clues to this debilitating disease—particularly in the gut. Host Meagan Cantwell talks with Viviane Labrie of the Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan, about new research suggesting people without their appendixes have a reduced risk of Parkinson’s. Labrie also describes the possible mechanism behind this connection. And host Sarah Crespi talks with Peter Fratzl of the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, Germany, about what materials scientists can learn from nature. The natural world might not produce innovations like carbon nanotubes, but evolution has forged innumerable materials from very limited resources—mostly sugars, proteins, and minerals. Fratzl discusses how plants make time-release seedpods that are triggered by nothing but fire and rain, the amazing suckerin protein that comprises squid teeth, and how cicadas make their transparent, self-cleaning wings from simple building blocks. Fratzl’s review is part of a special section in Science on composite materials. Read the whole package, including a review on using renewables like coconut fiber for building cars and incorporating carbon nanotubes and graphene into composites. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Download the transcript (PDF) Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast [Image: Roger Smith/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook]

Govt to move High Court to seek lifting of a ban on killing monkeys.

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Colonial Williamsburg's Michael Monaco performs Peter Pelham's repertoire of 18th century music on the period keyboard instruments of the Governor's Palace.