NBA London stages the next instalment in their international series of games, with Boston Celtics taking on Philadelphia 76ers. The Celtics are heavy favourites to win this games as they look to extend their lead at the top of the Eastern Conference. They’re gunning for a seventh straight win tonight […]
Daily Archives: January 11, 2018
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Heads of state from France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Cyprus and Malta have demanded the EU does more to control migration flows. In a joint statement at a summit of the so-called “EU Med Group”, the leaders warned: “The management of migration flows will be a fundamental challenge for the […]
The Russian president then declared Kim had won the latest stand-off with the West over his nuclear and missile programmes. He said: “I think Kim Jong-un has obviously won this round. “He has completed his strategic task: he has a nuclear weapon, he has missiles of global reach – up […]
A New York man pleaded not guilty Thursday to trying to bomb a subway station, an attack that injured no one seriously but himself. Akayed Ullah, a Bangladeshi immigrant, said little during his first appearance in federal court in Manhattan. Wearing blue jail-issued clothing, he said he understood the terrorism […]
Walmart announced on Thursday it would raise starting wages for hourly employees to $11 an hour beginning next month, and will give some of its hourly workers one-time bonuses that could be as high as $1,000. In total, more than a million employees could benefit, the company said. The goodwill […]
The movie will hit cinemas in just four months and a trailer is way, way overdue. Most Star Wars outings, and indeed every other type of blockbuster, typically has a promotional build up across at least twelve months prior to release. The Han Solo movie has had a very troubled […]
Brigitte Macron, 64, the wife of French President Emmanuel Macron, stepped out in a pair of fashionable blue leather trousers. She wore them to attend the Prix Histoire et Prix Patrimoine 2017 at the Institut de France. She paired the trousers with a black coat with leather piping detail and […]
Cliven Bundy wanted to walk out of the courtroom in his jail jumpsuit and ankle shackles. Deputy marshals blocked him from doing that. But if it hadn’t been for “flagrant misconduct” committed by federal prosecutors and investigators in the case, the Nevada cattleman may not have been walking out at […]
Astronomers have caught a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy snacking on gas and then “burping” — not once, but twice.
An intensive survey deep into the universe by NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes has yielded the proverbial needle-in-a-haystack: the farthest galaxy yet seen in an image that has been stretched and amplified by a phenomenon called gravitational lensing.
A new analysis of about 10,000 normal Sun-like stars in the Milky Way’s bulge reveals that our galaxy’s hub is a dynamic environment of variously aged stars zipping around at different speeds.
One of the most memorable moments of CES 2018. Tyler Lizenby/CNET On today’s podcast, we talk about: An hours-long electricity outage at the world’s largest tech show. Big robots. A play-focused smartwatch for kids called Wanderwatch that encourages them to put down their screens and play outside. Now Playing: Watch this: #CESBlackout, […]
The centrist promised shortly after his landslide election in May to speed up the asylum process, but later pledged to increase efforts to deport economic migrants. Far-left MP Éric Coquerel, of the leading opposition party La France Insoumise (France Unbowed), told the French daily Le Figaro on Wednesday the asylum […]
A new study shows rings, arcs and spirals in disks around stars may not be caused by planets. They may self-generate.
Astronomers have uncovered the largest known population of brown dwarfs sprinkled among newborn stars in the Orion Nebula.
Dengue virus slowly takes over the endoplasmic reticulum, the production site for a subset of host proteins, and steers clear of the cytosol, the fluid-filled space where the majority of host cellular proteins are synthesized. Its viral RNA template is translated into protein in such an inefficient, lackadaisical manner that […]
Immune cells that process food and bacterial antigens in the intestines control the intestinal population of fungi, according to a new study. Defects in the fungus-fighting abilities of these cells may contribute to some cases of Crohn’s disease and other forms of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
It was one of the biggest clues that Luke wasn’t really there. Eagle-eyed fans quickly noticed the Jedi master was holding a blade that had supposedly been destroyed. That, combined with his darker youthful beard and the fact that he never scuffed up the planet’s salt surface to reveal red […]
Mario Tennis Aces is coming to the Nintendo Switch this year. Nintendo For weeks, Nintendo fans have been waiting for a new Nintendo Direct — the focused, digital presentations the company gives to announce new Switch and 3DS games. This week, anticipation reached its peak after Nintendo laced its Twitter feed with […]
Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. A proponent of virtual warfare? NurPhoto I tend to prefer virtual warfare over actual. Although, I admit, the noises sometimes emitted by gamers can be quite disturbing. Still, I fear the two genres of fighting […]