Awaiting its UK cinema release next month is the Battle of the Sexes, the film based around the famous 1970s tennis duel between Billie Jean King and her male opponent, Bobby Riggs. It is a game, set and match tale of casual assumptions and punctured egos that should also serve […]
Seven people were injured, five of them critically, and another person remained unaccounted for Sunday night after an oil rig exploded in Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana authorities said. The explosion was reported at 7:18 p.m. (8:18 p.m. ET) about 1½ miles from shore in the lake north of New Orleans, authorities […]
Figure out what’s wrong with your dishwasher and make ordering replacement parts easy. Chris Monroe/CNET Dishwashers are complicated devices, with a surprising number of moving parts that spin and squirt water. As such, it’s no surprise that bits get broken, lost or otherwise need replacing. Fortunately, finding replacement parts isn’t […]
Courtesy of the Tishkoff lab By Colin Barras Skin tone has varied greatly among humans for at least the last 900,000 years. So concludes an analysis of the genetic variants associated with skin pigmentation in people from several regions of Africa. The latest findings suggest that some particularly dark skin […]
I am a gun owner and have been since I was 12, growing up in South Dakota. I still have an assortment of shotguns and rifles, all used for sporting purposes. My son-in-law, a New Yorker, loves to come to our Montana ranch and with Doug (our expert marksman manager) […]
North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) is one of Europe’s most important economic centres, according to the European Commission’s website, yet the bloc decided to increase its funding in the 2014 to 2020 period to its largest ever amount for the region. The region, whose capital is fashionable Dusseldorf, is receiving £66million more […]
The latest “Justice League” trailer finally shows Henry Cavill’s Superman character, but it’s still just a dream. The trailer premiered Sunday morning, starting off with Lois Lane (Amy Adams) finding Cavill’s Clark Kent in a field, but alas she’s next seen presumably placing dirt on his grave and waking up […]
The deaths of four American soldiers in an ambush in Niger on Wednesday highlight America’s increasingly deep and broad military commitments in Africa. With conventional troops and special forces officially operating in dozens of countries, including direct involvement in at least four active conflicts, America has become enmeshed in the […]