A ferry caught fire on a river in Bangladesh’s Jhalokati district, about 124 miles south of the capital Dhaka, while carrying around 1,000 passengers. Md Nazmul Alam, the Jhalokati district’s additional deputy commissioner, revealed the ferry was traveling from Dhaka to Barguna district in southern Bangladesh when the engine room […]
Daily Archives: December 23, 2021
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NEW YORK — Revelers will still ring in the new year in New York’s Times Square next week, there just won’t be as many of them as usual under new restrictions announced Thursday as the city grapples with a spike in Covid-19 cases. Viewing areas that normally accommodate about 58,000 […]
Healthcare workers take a break at the ProHEALTH testing site in Jericho, New York.Getty The CDC set looser interim federal guidance on isolation periods for healthcare workers amid Omicron spread. Asymptomatic personnel may return to work within 7 days of infection with a negative test result. In a crisis capacity, […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday blamed the West for heightened tensions on the Ukrainian border and claimed the Kremlin has not threatened “anyone” despite its military buildup there. Tensions between Washington and the Kremlin have reached a boiling point not seen since the Cold War as over 100,000 Russian […]
The Women’s Championship club Coventry United have announced they are going into voluntary liquidation, halfway through their first season as a fully professional club. Coventry, second bottom of the second tier, confirmed the news hours after one player tweeted that they were heartbroken to discover they no longer had a […]
COVID-19 COVID-19 looms large over the next year in science Any look at the immediate future of science must start with the pandemic coronavirus. As the world enters the third year of COVID-19, researchers are striving for a handle on what the latest variant of concern, Omicron, may mean for […]
A former stand-in actress on HBO’s Sex and the City is speaking out about her alleged experience with Chris Noth. In an essay originally published by The Independent in February, actress Heather Kristin, who said she was a stand-in for Kristin Davis for four seasons, claimed an “alpha male” actor “manhandled” her and spoke negatively about […]
Smith concluded: “It’s like working for Taylor Sheridan [showrunner], if he’s not telling you to do anything, then you must be doing it right and that’s kind of the way I was raised, if you’re not getting chewed out or cussed, you’re doing things right. “Nobody’s ever going around patting […]