Under a new treaty on defence cooperation, Austria is set to offer mountain combat training for all EU armies. Austria is considered a world leader in this area, and the offer has been met with huge interest, according to Die Presse. It will also launch an industrial project to boost […]
Daily Archives: December 28, 2017
More Americans are likely to name former President Barack Obama as the man they admire most, although the gap between the former president and the current has narrowed over the last year, a poll has found. Seventeen percent of those polled said Obama was the man they admired most, compared […]
Fortnite Battle Royale recently saw the launch of a new weapon and mode, both of which are seeing changes made this week. Having released the Boogie Bomb last week on PS4, Xbox One and PC, Epic Games are now looking to make some tweaks. According to the development team, there’s […]
The co-creator of MTV’s “Unplugged” was struck by a taxi while crossing Fifth Avenue in New York’s Manhattan and later died. Jim Burns was struck Saturday. The taxi turned onto the avenue and accidentally struck the 65-year-old who had been walking with his seeing-eye dog near his Upper East Side […]
At the end of each year, wildlife ecologist David Steen compiles a list of critters that have likely gone extinct. The 2017 list includes a bat, cat, and multiple lizards, although other creatures may be gone for good — we just don’t know it yet. Steen, an ecologist at Auburn […]