Get the Think newsletter. SUBSCRIBE Dec. 29, 2018 / 9:36 AM GMT By Sabrina Hersi Issa After the midterm elections, 2018 was increasingly hailed as “The Year of The Woman.” But a record number of women heading to Congress as a result of the midterm elections cannot be celebrated outside […]
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NASA’s New Horizons robot probe will explore an object at the edge of the solar system on New Year’s Day, making it the most distant ever examined. Ultima Thule is a enigmatic trans-Neptunian object found five billion miles from Earth in the Kuiper Belt region. And NASA scientists have “no […]
Strictly Come Dancing stars including Neil Jones and Giovanni Pernice have denounced thugs who attacked AJ Pritchard and his brother Curtis at a nightclub in Nantwich, Cheshire. AJ, 24, and his sibling Curtis, 22, a professional dancer on the Irish version of the show Dancing with the Stars, were on […]
The Malaysia Airlines plane disappeared whilst flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing carrying 239 people and the mystery is yet to be solved. The investigators’ conclusion that the Indian Ocean is the most likely location of the jet was based on pingring data from the British satellite telecommunications company Inmarsat. […]
The US based National Weather Service issued a tsunami warning for the Philippines and Indonesia. It states that tsunami waves of up to 30cm should be expected on the coastlines nearest to the earthquake. An earlier NWS notice said tsunamis could occur on coasts up to 300 kilometres from the […]
(Reuters) – Sears Holdings Corp Chairman Eddie Lampert submitted a $4.4 billion takeover bid for the bankrupt U.S. retailer, representing its only chance of escaping liquidation and laying off tens of thousands of workers, a spokesman for the billionaire’s hedge fund said on Friday. A Sears logo is seen inside […]
Apple’s new iPhone XS and XS Max are displayed after it went on sale at the Apple Store in Tokyo’s Omotesando shopping district, Japan, September 21, 2018. REUTERS/Issei Kato (Reuters) – Citi Research on Friday slashed its first-quarter production estimates for Apple Inc’s iPhones and nearly halved expectations on the […]
FILE PHOTO: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan addresses members of parliament from his ruling AK Party (AKP) during a meeting at the Turkish Parliament in Ankara, Turkey, December 25, 2018. Cem Oksuz/Presidential Press Office/Handout via REUTERS ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey will have nothing left to do in the Syrian town of […]