Varadkar swamped by angry letters from nurses
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has been inundated with letters from furious nurses and hospital staff and their families over his call for holiday leave to be postponed.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has been inundated with letters from furious nurses and hospital staff and their families over his call for holiday leave to be postponed.
A golden retriever pup wants to have some time alone, hiding under the wardrobe, but the dog leaves its hind legs clearly visible to everyone.
The investigation originated from a Federal Bureau of Investigation tip in December and involved multiple agencies
MANCHESTER UNITED star Paul Pogba will never give Manchester United the opportunity to win trophies.
Rochdale mum's surgery halted over 'unusual transaction' BBC News
Barclays said it cancelled the payment for Samantha Smith's surgery out of "duty of care".
Hi-tech Xiaomi products such as smart mouse pads, motion-sensing lights, electric mops, electric toothbrushes and others are listed in the app.
SPOILER ALERT – This post contains spoilers from the live eviction on Celebrity Big Brother! There are now 10 contestants left in the Big Brother house following the first live eviction episode of the season. WHO WENT HOME? Get the spoilers now! After a surprising early exit, houseguests were given the chance to compete in [...]
Here at Fullpower Labs, we are thinking about last year’s Berkeley earthquake and have been doing some geographical distribution analysis. That earthquake hit right in the middle of our night, 2:39 am to be precise. Many of Sleeptracker’s users (www.sleeptracker.com) in Northern California were affected. Here’s a graphical representation using the Sleeptracker AI-powered predictive analytics […]
SPOILER ALERT – This post contains spoilers from the live eviction on Celebrity Big Brother! The first eviction on this season of Celebrity Big Brother had a shocking twist! Before contestants even got the chance to submit their votes, one contestant opted to head home – and it turns out they were never really even [...]
FiveCurrents, which has produced Olympic ceremonies, signs agreement with Dubai World Trade Centre to deliver live experiences
James Harden scored 35 points for his 22nd straight game with 30 or more.
Dylan Alcott continues his Australian Open dominance, winning a fifth-straight title in the men's quad wheelchair singles at Melbourne Park.
LA JOLLA, Calif. — If someone is going to stop Justin Rose this weekend at Torrey Pines, it’s going to take some seriously good golf to do it. Two rounds into the Farmers Insurance Open, Rose is 15-under after shooting 66 Friday on the South Course, a sterling round that followed his 63 on Thursday...
Kontos, who's from Lincolnwood and graduated from Northwestern, pitched for the Pirates, Indians and Yankees last season.
Anielewicz is not, however, the only central figure in the monument. Above him, a bare-breasted woman is holding a baby high up in her arms toward the heavens – perhaps as an act of rebellion.
Total piece of shit slapping and suffocating a baby. Luckily she has been found and arrested. https://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2019/1/disturbing-video-of-woman-slapping-and-suffocating-a-baby-was-shot-in-south-africa-and-the-childs-mother-has-been-arrested.html
Retail players have surprised everyone by delivering double-digit growth.
Here are key developments in Venezuela since a band of soldiers briefly rose up against President Nicolas Maduro on January 21, with an opposition leader declaring himself "acting president" days later.
Clive Finlayson, BBC News
Prof Clive Finlayson, director of the Gibraltar Museum, explains why some old assumptions about the intellectual capabilities of our evolutionary relatives, the Neanderthals persist today. But a body of evidence is increasingly forcing us to re-visit these old ideas.
Scott Barry Kaufman, Sci Am
In 2005, Scott Peterson was convicted of the murder of his wife Laci and her unborn child. During the first hour on death row, he received a marriage proposal, and within a day the warden's office was inundated with over 30 phone calls from women asking for his mailing address as well as letters from women professing their love for him.
Marcus Woo, Quanta
For a few months in 1880, entire swaths of the United States succumbed to an addiction the likes of which had never been seen. It has become literally an epidemic all over the country, wrote The Weekly News-Democrat in Emporia, Kansas, on March 12, 1880. Whole cities are distracted, and men are losing sleep and going crazy over it. The epidemic spread to Europe and as far as Australia and New Zealand.
Last year, Dylan Alcott was a nominee for Young Australian of the Year. We know this year’s Australian of the Year recipients — Craig Challen and Richard Harris, who both played vital roles in the Thai cave rescue — thoroughly deserve the honour, but nobody would argue if an official from Canberra flew down to Melbourne to chuck Alcott’s name on the award too after his effort today.
Ethan Siegel, Forbes
Imagine the coldest place you possibly can. Inside it, the particles that make up matter move as slowly as you can possibly imagine, approaching the quantum limit of what it means to be truly at rest. There will be no major interior heat sources nearby for those particles inside to absorb; there will be no significant exterior sources of energy heating them up from the outside.