Ob Jesse Marsch angesichts der Kaderdichte "schlaflose Nächte" hat, wie sein Verteidiger Patrick Farkas mutmaßte, ist unbestätigt. Die Qual der Wahl, wenn der Neo-Trainer von Fußball-Meister Salzburger sein Aufgebot für den Spieltag nominiert, hat er aber sicher. "Es ist nicht so einfach, bei unserem Kader zu entscheiden, welche die beste Aufstellung ist", sagte Marsch am Freitag.
Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica
The state of Alabama has filed an Admiralty claim for ownership of the wreckage of the last ship to smuggle enslaved people from Africa to the United States. Archaeologists identified the wreck in an arm of the Mobile River earlier this summer. The new claim could help provide some legal protection for the wreck, but the details of its future remain to be decided.
Ross Pomeroy, RealClearScience
For thousands of years, people have been chalking up mysterious phenomena to religious "miracles," assuming these events to be the work of deities. Closer scrutiny invariably turns up a rational explanation, however. Here are four notable examples:
Ethan Siegel, Forbes
Our observable Universe is an enormous place, with some two trillion galaxies strewn across the abyss of space for tens of billions of light-years in all directions. Ever since the 1920s, when we first unambiguously demonstrated that those galaxies were well beyond the extent of the Milky Way by accurately measuring the distances to them, one fact leaped out at us: the farther away a galaxy is, on average, the more severely shifted towards the red, long-wavelength part of the spectrum its light will be.
Katharine Gammon, Atlantic
Matthew Downen had never done anything like this before. In a hotel room in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, he watched as a dealer poured a bag of amber fossils onto a white towel spread over a desk.The previous night, at the opening reception for the eighth International Conference on Fossil Insects, Arthropods, and Amber, Downen had gotten a tip from a friend: A guy here had spiders fossilized in amber, and he was looking for someone to take them.
Strong pitching powered the Eugene Emeralds (6-5, 22-27) to their second straight victory on Friday night, a 5-0 win over the Boise Hawks (6-5, 21-28) in front of 3,651 fans at PK Park.
Nilekani was speaking at a fireside session in Bengaluru along with renowned venture capital investor Vinod Khosla.
An Italian priest was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly drugging and sexually abusing members of his parish.
The Russian opposition vowed to stage another mass rally Saturday despite increasing pressure from authorities, who arrested nearly 1,400 people at a protest last week and have launched a criminal probe into the movement. The march along Moscow's leafy boulevards will be the latest in a series of demonstrations after officials refused to let popular opposition candidates run in next month's city parliament elections. The local issue has boiled over into one of the worst political conflicts of recent years... Читать дальше...
A new opposition party backed by the estranged brother of Singapore's prime minister was launched Saturday in a fresh challenge to the government as speculation mounts elections could be called soon. The Progress Singapore Party (PSP) -- aiming to contest an election due by 2021 but widely expected earlier -- is led by Tan Cheng Bock, a medical doctor and former government stalwart who once ran for president and nearly defeated the establishment candidate. The group has received the support of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's brother... Читать дальше...
KIERAN TIERNEY is desperate to join Arsenal for two big reasons....
As a separatist uprising in Cameroon enters its fourth year, Cardinal Christian Tumi is calling for a federal system to end the crisis and keep the country unified.
Schools in the Black Country and Staffordshire excluded pupils more than 800 times for assaults on teachers and other staff last year, figures reveal.
By Scott A. Yeager for GANT News Unless you are close to town, nights in the Pennsylvania Wilds are dark, pitch black in most areas. Granted, there is a certain brilliance in the night skies – the Milky Way, the cast of characters in the familiar constellations overhead and the occasional meteor shower provides a […]
A headteacher at the centre of a fraud investigation into her school's finances never looked at its bank statements, a jury heard.
GEORGE DOBSON has no excuses for failing to settle in the North-East.
The Labor Department has released its statistics for July. It shows that job creation was only a rather tepid 164,000. That was not even enough to take care of the 370,000 increase in the civilian workforce. That was not nearly enough to lower the unemployment rate. It remained at 3.7% for the second ...