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ONE person is attacked with acid every three days, NHS hospital admission figures have revealed.

Contact's chief executive Dennis Barnes is optimistic Rio Tinto will keep its majority-owned Tiwai Point aluminium smelter open, but says an upgrade of the power grid - for when the facility does eventually ...

Manuel Berdoy, The Conversation
Such is the extent of our dominion on Earth, that the answer to questions around whether we are still part of nature and whether we even need some of it rely on an understanding of what we want as Homo sapiens. And to know what we want, we need to grasp what we are.

The alleged gunman who shot up an NYPD station house in The Bronx early Sunday has been identified by police sources as Robert Williams, a career criminal with busts including homicide. Williams allegedly walked into the 41st Precinct headquarters on Longwood Avenue around 8 a.m. and opened fire in a wild scene caught on video,...

Kirk must be spinning in his grave as incredible irony unfolds for the former blacklisted in Hollywood

Hindu community not synonymous with BJP: RSS leader Bhaiyyaji Joshi

A Florida man plowed with his van into a voter-registration tent full of Trump supporters, scattering the volunteers before giving them the finger and speeding off, police in Jacksonville said.

Katarina Zimmer, Scientist
Sometime around 2 billion years ago, a cyanobacterium slipped inside a larger cell, started producing energy there, and became the indispensable powerhouse we know today as the mitochondrion, so the working theory goes.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is advising governors across the nation to be careful when doing business with China. On Saturday, he warned governors the country could be “targeting individual states” for political and economic gain.

Steven Novella, Neurologica
When you think all to yourself (not engaging with others) do you hear an inner voice, do you conjure images, or do you just have abstract feelings? For most people the answer is, yes. Recently a Twitter post has triggered people to consider their inner voice, and whether or not they have one.

Messy problems deserve quick solutions.

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The 2020 McLaren 600LT exudes raw performance. It's not cheap, comfortable, or quiet, but it's one of the most incredible and exciting supercars ever built.

DOCTOR WHO continues this evening on the BBC but fans are still reeling from the introduction of the new Time Lady recently. Some fans want to know if the new Doctor is actually the Lone Cyberman is disguise.

MATT BAKER announced he would be leaving the One Show after 9 years, but when is he leaving and has the date been confirmed? Express.co.uk has everything you need to know.

You won’t find a Best TV Dialogue category on tonight’s broadcast of the Oscars (how rude!), but you will find the winners right here, in our latest Quotes of the Week gallery. (We couldn’t choose just one victor, though, so it’s a 21-way tie. Rules, schmules.) Unfortunately, our awards don’t have a red carpet or […]

Tatum O'Neal was only nine when she starred in her first film, 1973's "Paper Moon," with her father, Ryan O'Neal. She stole the show, and won an Academy Award. But her career and her life wasn't easy after that. She's always been remarkably open about her struggles with addiction, her divorce from tennis great John McEnroe (with whom she has three children), and a strained relationship with her dad. But O'Neal is showing the same grit with her family, her health and her career as she showed on screen as a child. Читать дальше...

Eric Berger, Ars Technica
On Friday, officials from NASA and Boeing held a teleconference with reporters to discuss issues related to the Starliner spacecraft's performance during an orbital test flight in December.Although an independent review team remains in the midst of an investigation that will not conclude until the end of February, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said he convened the call in the "interest of transparency."

Featured image: Shrunken gallery with low ceiling ¤ IT’S MUCH WORSE than you think over at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and even worse than the Los Angeles Times reported late last year. In November, the Times wrote that the museum officially maintains the cost of replacing its four core structures with a […]

Aston Villa midfielder Jack Grealish is considering leaving his boyhood club this summer if a big money offer is made. […]

An oral history

An oral history of Toronto’s all-bench lineup that turned the tide against the Brooklyn Nets originated on Raptors Republic.

Over 21,000 travellers have been screened at the Mumbai international airport so far, of whom 36 had been quarantined, the state Health Department said.

The building in Mablethorpe, which is used by squatters, is described as a giant 'health hazard' by locals - but nobody knows who owns it

aBlogtoWatch would like to congratulate Richard B. of Austin, Texas, USA who has won January’s Magrette Moana Pacific Professional Titanium dive watch giveaway. Thanks for being a loyal aBlogtoWatch reader, Richard! We hope you’ll take this one on plenty of undersea adventures! To the rest...