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After Boris Johnson's victory in the British election, Britain is headed for Brexit — and fast.

Global Warming May Deprive Polar Bears of Safe Places to Give Birth

Study suggests that if climate change continues unabated, there soon won’t be enough snow in northern Alaska for polar bears to dig birthing dens.

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Friday, December 13, 2019 - 11:00

Nala Rogers, Staff Writer

By Charles Brun: Anthony Joshua took to social media today to call out WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder to urge him to face him in a unification fight for the “undisputed” championship. What’s odd about IBF/WBA/WBO champion Joshua (23-1, 21 KOs) calling out WBC champ Wilder (42-0-1, 41 KOs) is the timing. This looks like […]

Nothing seems safe from plastic contamination. A new study by NSF-funded researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography suggests there could be a million times more pieces of plastic in the ocean than previously estimated.

As one naturalist put it: "You don’t have to have a dirty mind to make that connection.”

“There’s all these facts flying around on social media – you don’t know what to believe”.

Taylor Swift got an early birthday gift at Billboard's annual Women In Music Event: the first-ever Woman of the Decade Award.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Justin Thomas delivered the biggest moment for an American team desperate for one Friday in the…

If you’re like me, you probably walk around OSU unaware of all the hidden gems and history the university has to offer. Being founded in 1870 (huh, sounds familiar), there’s a ton of history afoot, and one of the ways this history is told, that I’ll admit even I was oblivious to, is through historical […]

The actor also had turns in classics like Moonstruck and The Godfather Part II.

FIVE hotel staff who brutally gang raped a Brit tourist then shared a sick video of the attack on WhatsApp have been given jail sentences totalling 36 years by an Italian court. The mum-of-one, 50, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was targeted with a date rape drug on the last day of a […]

BAGUIO, Philippines – Cordillera, the least populated but the biggest producer of gold in the country, added 18 more during the 30th Southeast Asian Games held in the Philippines.

Human Rights Watch is urging the Pakistani authorities to provide information about the whereabouts of a political activist and human rights activist who has been missing for one month.

Queen Elizabeth II is facing a severe case of writer's block as she prepares her annual Christmas speech amid a turbulent year for the royals and fallout from Prince Andrew's Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

A large number of protesters, including Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind leaders, protested at Delhi's Jantar Mantar on Friday against the amended citizenship law, which they described as "anti-constitutional" and "divisive", and demanded its immediate withdrawal. Separately, Jamia Millia Islamia University students held a protest against the law at the university. A third protest was organised by the Delhi Congress in Seelampur area of East Delhi. The protesters at Jantar Mantar, led by JUH general secretary Maulana Mahmood Madani... Читать дальше...

BJP leader Krishna Saagar Rao on Friday said that his party heartily welcomes the President Ram Nath Kovind's assent to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill after which the Bill has become an Act."The BJP heartily welcomes President Kovind's assent to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill. It has now become an Act. We are very hopeful that all the Hindus and the other minorities persecuted in other countries like Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh have an avenue in India and can become citizens of India,"... Читать дальше...

Poland's ruling conservative party has proposed a law to punish judges who question the government's controversial judicial reforms, with the opposition calling the bid an "attempt to gag" critical magistrates. The proposal presented late Thursday includes sanctions up to the exclusion of judges who question the legality of the nomination of another judge as well as for activities of a political nature or those considered harmful to the functioning of the judicial system. The text presented by lawmakers... Читать дальше...

On 17 December, ESA will launch a first-of-its-kind space laboratory, OPS-SAT. The small, low-cost test satellite has been specifically designed for operational experiments in space, and includes the most powerful flight computer on board any current ESA spacecraft.

Ethics, political, and legal experts were stunned Thursday night when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that he was effectively handing over control of the Senate’s impeachment trial of President Donald Trump to the president and the White House. One legal expert is now speaking out, explaining why this is problematic. In short, as Lawfare […]

(Bloomberg) -- It started last Friday, with a blowout U.S. jobs report that beat all expectations. Then in quick succession late Thursday investors got news that the guns will be holstered in the U.S.-China trade war, and that Britain is lifting itself out of the quagmire of a hung parliament.Suddenly, all the worries about a global recession, yet another wave of tariff hikes between the world’s two largest economies and a messy U.K. breakup with the European Union are fading from view. It may be Friday the 13th... Читать дальше...

Official FC Bayern News

Of all the companies selling cars here in the United States, the one with the best grip on how actual car names sell actual cars might actually be Kia. From the Soul to the Stinger, the company sticks to names not alphanumerics. And that’s why we should cast a wary eye on a new report that the surprisingly…

THE GRAND TOUR released its brand new first foray into its fourth season today with Seamen. As the trio venture into the depths of Cambodia and Vietnam, they hit a snag during their travels - but they had enough time to take a quick swipe at their former workplace, Top Gear.

With new rules on funding, the government has taken a further step in controlling arts in the country, prompting an outcry in Budapest.

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