As a parent, I find it so frustrating to take my children shopping, reusable bags in hand, only to be offered plastic toys at the checkout. It’s an incredibly confusing message to be sending kids. And it seems Coles is confused too. More »
It was exactly four years ago today that Mayor de Blasio signed into law a package of bills increasing the salaries of the City Council, mayor, public advocate, controller, borough presidents and district attorneys. To his great credit, de Blasio declined the extra money until his second term began...
Virgil Van Dijk insists there will be no panic at Liverpool following defeat in the first leg of their Champions League tie against Atletico Madrid.The holders will need to overturn a 1-0 aggregate deficit when the sides meet at Anfield next month to reach the quarter-finals after Saul Niguez scored the only goal at the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium.Niguez struck after just four minutes and Atletico then sat back, much to Liverpools irritation, to preserve their advantage in what was a dour contest... Читать дальше...
During the weekend of February 9th, MSNBC regular Tiffany Cross blurted out the conditions under which MSNBC black pundits work. She said, "If I said a lot of the things that I really think, I would get filtered--we just can’t say that, we have to filter our own voices.” This explains why the black women on Joy Reid’s show can weigh in on the stupid sexist brutish moves of some black athletes and entertainers, but can’t discuss the effect of Michael Bloomberg’s Stop and Frisk policy on black and brown women. Читать дальше...
Donald Trump's rally in Phoenix comes amid a four-day swing through the West that will combine campaign stops with official White House events.
Guilty trailer: Twitter finds Kiara film similar to 13 Reasons Why
Architecture studio Sāransh has used an array of materials to define the different living zones of this open-plan studio apartment in Ahmedabad, India. Designed for one of Saransh's company partners, the apartment has been transformed from a two-bedroom home into an open-plan studio. The studio removed all of the partition walls so that upon entering
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By Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) - General Motors will begin laying off around 1,500 employees in Thailand in June, after announcing the sale of its production plants in the country, a
Negotiations have been held between the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Westminster Peter Bonfield and the Rector of the Westminster International University in Tashkent (WIUT) Komiljon Karimov, in London.
Unless Bernie Sanders wins enough delegates to capture the Democratic Party nomination on the first ballot, he is not going to be the nominee. The reason will be that the superdelegates–those same people who were his wrath in 2016–will come back to deny him the nomination. The Democratic Party’s superdelegates were a reaction to the More
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Dewsbury Rams got their season up and running with a surprise 18-16 win over Halifax. Andy Gabriel’s try 15 minutes from time was enough for...
Ivy Tech and Cummins have selected IwamotoScott Architecture of San Francisco to create the new Ivy Tech Columbus campus building. The College anticipates breaking ground in 2020 and taking occupancy in 2022.
The Dame Awards are the leisure marine industry's equivalent to the Oscars, awarded every year at the Marine Equipment Trade Show (METS), held in Amsterdam each November.
It's very difficult to intercept.
Kyle Mizokami
Technology, Middle East
It's very difficult to intercept.
Key point: For a country such as Israel with fewer launching platforms, a very fast and hard-to-intercept ballistic weapon — however modest its explosive power — might be just what it needs to hold at risk certain kinds of distant targets.
Israel reportedly used in combat for the first time a new kind of fast, long-range missile.
According to aviation journalist Babak Taghvaee, on April 13... Читать дальше...
The first weeks of 2020 have been a trial by fire for the new Liberal minority government, which has crashed headlong into the realities of its reduced mandate, writes Keith Stewart.
The potential launch of tens of thousands of satellites — called constellations — is a serious threat to astronomy, according to the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Now, it's trying to find solutions.
Among some Democrats, there are fears that the billionaire candidate Mike Bloomberg will merely patch up the U.S. economy, rather than bring real and essential change that could help the disenfranchised.
Canada came within a whisker of losing its place in a United Nations peacekeeping mission in the fall of 2018 because of the military's inability to consistently deploy enough women to meet the world body's guidelines.
A CBC News analysis has revealed the price of cannabis extracts varies widely across Canada, with the same product sometimes costing three and a half times more in one provincially run online store than another.
The picture of the coronavirus outbreak now coming into focus is one of mostly mild cases, with increased risk of severe symptoms and death for the elderly and patients with pre-existing conditions, a new Chinese study suggests.
Legal documents lay bare a family feud between an aging patriarch who believes he's still able to manage his own affairs and his children, who say they're acting in his best interests by trying to get his recent marriage to a 55-year-old woman annulled.
There were 14 names on the ballot for the Conservative leadership convention back in 2017. The fact that there are few serious contenders for the job now may indicate how much the job has changed since Stephen Harper had it - and how hard it might be going forward.
Photo by Roland Krivec/DeFodi Images via Getty Images Liverpool were hamstrung by forced substitutions. Literally in Hendo’s case. Sometimes things don’t go according to plan. Conceding a goal to notoriously defensive Atletico Madrid within the first four minutes certainly wasn’t part of the plan. Having key attacker Sadio Mane pick …