Hauwa Mohammed Liman, 24, was kidnapped by Boko Haram in March More A second aid worker held hostage by Islamist militant group Boko Haram has been executed after a negotiating deadline expired, according to the Nigerian government. Hauwa Mohammed Liman, 24, was kidnapped by Boko Haram in March along with […]
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Sunlight filtering through fall foliage at the Pando aspen grove in central Utah. National Geographic Image Collection/Alamy Stock Photo By David ShultzOct. 17, 2018 , 2:30 PM The Pando aspen grove, located in central Utah, is the largest organism on the planet by weight. From the surface, it may look […]
That’s the view of former Premier League midfielder-turned-pundit Trevor Sinclair. Mourinho is under pressure at United after a poor start to the new season which has seen the Red Devils lose three of their opening eight Premier League games. The Portuguese boss looked to be on his way out of […]
James called time on his second stint with home state franchise the Cleveland Cavaliers in order to enter free agency. And he decided to leave the Eastern Conference to head to California and link up with the Lakers. LeBron James comes with the pedigree of having reached the playoffs for […]
Tennis commentator Peter Fleming believes Federer resorted to trying to beat Borna Coric with ‘smoke and mirrors’ at the Shanghai Masters – such was his poor form at the event. Except the ploy flopped. The 37-year-old had no answers to an opponent 16 years his junior as he went down […]
Stephan Seidel By Adrian ChoOct. 17, 2018 , 1:50 PM For decades, experimenters have used laser light and electromagnetic fields to chill puffs of gas to within a billionth of a degree of absolute zero. At such frigid temperatures, something bizarre can happen: The atoms can crowd into a single […]
This young whooping crane was raised by white-suited humans at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Maryland. JONATHAN L. FIELY/USGS PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER By Elizabeth PennisiOct. 17, 2018 , 1:35 PM Today, 33 whooping cranes were airlifted from Maryland to Louisiana, marking the beginning of the end of the […]
Shekhar Mande Pallava Bagla By Pallava BaglaOct. 17, 2018 , 1:25 PM Shekhar Mande, a structural biologist, took over yesterday as director-general of India’s Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), headquartered in New Delhi, which operates a network of 40 research labs around the country. Mande, 56, headed the […]