The outage occurred in the early afternoon More (ATLANTA) — A sudden power outage at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Sunday grounded scores of flights and stranded thousands of passengers during one of the busiest travel times of the year. Passengers were left in the dark when the lights […]
Daily Archives: December 17, 2017
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Mo Farah is announced as the winner of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award for 2017 at a ceremony in Liverpool on Sunday night. Farah, in London, is then unable to give his reaction following the result as the feed from the capital cuts out Mo Farah wins […]
Farah ended his track career this year having won 10 global gold medals, winning the 10,000m in London but missing out yet another distance double when he finished second in the 5000m. Joshua had been a huge 1/10 favourite to win the award and become the first boxer since Joe […]
GETTY Lee Child shares how he hopes to allow readers an escape from messy world events His Jack Reacher novels, along with The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins and Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, have topped bestseller lists, while TV crime dramas attract huge viewing figures. Child says […]
The final Xbox One Backwards Compatibility games have been released by Microsoft in 2017. More are still coming next year, however, Microsoft have confirmed that there will be no new titles arriving this week. Xbox’s Major Nelson himself has confirmed that no more announcements are being planned for December, although […]
BETHLEHEM, West Bank — A small group of Palestinian protesters on Sunday set fire to placards printed with images of U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and Middle East negotiator Jason Greenblatt outside Jesus’s traditional birthplace, days before their arrival in the region. With Bethlehem’s illuminated Christmas tree behind them, about […]
The outdoor recreation industry responded last week with a unified repudiation of the White House’s announcement to sharply reduce the size of two national monuments, but there is little indication that this — or other controversial positions, ranging from H-1B visa cutbacks to the still-unsettled fate of DACA “Dreamers” — […]
Migrant workers constructing stadiums for the Qatar 2022 World Cup continue to be trapped in a vicious cycle of debt and exploitation, according to new research by Amnesty International. Fifa is already under pressure from its own advisory board to act over the kafala system, used to monitor migrant labourers, […]