Analysis Los Angeles police have arrested Tyler Barriss on a fugitive warrant in California arising from a Thursday evening incident in Kansas, where a suspected “swatting” hoax and a phony 911 call ended in the fatal police shooting of an unarmed man, Andrew Finch. Prosecutors will now have to figure […]
Daily Archives: January 2, 2018
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Even for an always-listening assistant in a connected speaker, Amazon‘s Alexa can do quite a lot. It can reorder essentials, get you a Domino’s pizza and call an Uber. The Echo can stream practically any audio, control your smart home and wake you up every morning. More useful features are in the […]
Some Californians raised “blunts,” cut ribbons and endured long, early morning lines outside marijuana dispensaries to show their love for the state’s recreational pot law, which went into effect at 12:01 a.m. on Monday. At Berkeley Patients Group, which billed itself as the country’s longest-running medical pot dispensary, the number […]
(All dates in brackets are ‘until’) All football fixtures are available here January 1 Cricket Second T20: New Zealand v WI, Mount Maunganui Tennis ASB Classic, Auckland (7 Jan); Brisbane International, Australia (7 Jan); Maharashta Open, Pune (7 Jan); Qatar Open, Doha (7 Jan); Shenzen Open, China (7 Jan) Darts […]
The 40-year-old centrist, who promised to make 2018 the year of “national cohesion”, also pledged to give the bloc a “jolt” through so-called EU citizen consultations. During his first year-end address on Sunday, he told the 11 million viewers who tuned in: “We need to recover a European ambition to […]
The physicists are attempting to harness the power of Quantum Entanglement – a bizarre force which allows one particle to ‘talk’ to a mirror particle even if it is on the other side of the universe. Quantum Entanglement is also believed to control gravity – and that interfering with, or […]
New Year celebrations were marred by 510 people arrested and 1,031 cars being set alight, according to official numbers from the interior ministry. The numbers were up from 456 arrests and 935 cars torched last year. And eight police officers and three anti-terrorist Sentinel soldiers had been injured on Sunday […]
The pictures show Captain Henry Wirz being hanged in Washington DC with the Capitol dome in the background as well as other men being hanged around the United States. Other gruesome photographs show the practice of execution extended around the world as Cuban prisoners line up against a wall to […]