RIO FERDINAND has revealed his crazy celebrations after Manchester United’s 2008 Champions League win. A penalty shootout victory over Chelsea secured the trophy, which the defender lifted with Ryan Giggs having captained the Red Devils in Moscow. After the final whistle, Ferdinand went on a magnificent bender that, as he revealed on BT Sport, left […]
The Mitchell, Indiana, native reignited his season-long momentum by claiming his sixth victory of the season following an Xfinity doubleheader at the Monster Mile.
"With COVID-19 and these two storms, it's just getting to be a bit too much right now."
The number of deaths has been slowly ticking down, but remains well above the totals seen in the early months of the pandemic. More than 175,000 in the U.S. have now died, according to the CDC.
Tripoli (AFP) Aug 21, 2020
Libya's warring rival administrations announced separately on Friday that they would cease all hostilities and hold nationwide elections, drawing praise from the UN, the EU and several Arab countries.
The surprise announcement followed multiple visits by top foreign diplomats to Libya in recent weeks, and came after a series of agreements and pledges that, however, have failed to be implemen
Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 20, 2020
Hong Kong on Thursday accused America of using the city as a pawn in ties with China as it slammed a US decision to withdraw from three accords on extradition and taxation.
The United States formally notified the Asian financial hub on Wednesday that it had withdrawn from bilateral deals covering the surrender of fugitives, transfer of prisoners and tax exemptions on income from shipping.
Berlin (AFP) Aug 21, 2020
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday expressed "significant doubts" over the EU-Mercosur free trade deal on concerns over the devastating deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.
The pact between the European Union and the South American free trade bloc - comprising Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay - was agreed in principle last year after two decades of wrangling.
But env
San Francisco (AFP) Aug 20, 2020
Uber and rideshare rival Lyft on Thursday backed away from plans to halt service in California after an appeals court granted them a temporary reprieve from having to reclassify drivers as employees.
A judge had originally given Uber and Lyft until Friday to comply with a labor law on the matter, which went into effect at the start of this year.
"The petitions are granted and the prelimi
Beijing (AFP) Aug 20, 2020
Beijing and Washington will soon hold a call on trade, China's commerce ministry said Thursday, after reports that planned high-level talks on the "phase one" agreement between the two countries were postponed.
The US and China signed the accord in January, bringing a partial truce in their lingering trade war, and obliging Beijing to import an additional $200 billion in American products ov
Shanghai (AFP) Aug 20, 2020
Chinese e-commerce leader Alibaba on Thursday reported solid 34 percent growth in revenue for the April-June quarter in the latest sign that the coronavirus, rather than hurting the company, had actually helped.
Hangzhou-based Alibaba said revenue - a key measure of the internet giant's business health as well as overall Chinese consumer spending - rose to 153 billion yuan ($22 billion), s
San Francisco (AFP) Aug 21, 2020
The maker of video game sensation Fortnite is taunting Apple amid its legal battle with the tech titan, launching a tournament on Sunday to highlight its war on the App Store fee policy.
"All of your friends. Awesome prizes. And one bad apple," Epic Games said in a post on its website.
The "FreeFortnite Cup" is free to enter and prizes include a virtual "Tart Tycoon" outfit featuring an
San Francisco (AFP) Aug 20, 2020
Facebook on Thursday said its executives are fielding questions from the US Federal Trade Commission on an antitrust fact-finding mission.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg answered FTC queries under oath remotely over the course of two days this week, news website Politico reported, citing unnamed people familiar with the case.
"We are committed to cooperating with the US Federal Trade Commission's i
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 20, 2020
The U.S. government must entice companies to do more microelectronics manufacturing in the United States, the Pentagon's undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment said Thursday.
During a prerecorded "fireside chat" at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Electronics Resurgence Initiative summit, Ellen Lord said the fact that most microelectronics are manufactured offshor
London (AFP) Aug 21, 2020
After Britain ordered the phased removal of Huawei from its 5G network, attention has now switched to China's role in other areas of the UK, particularly its involvement in key nuclear power projects.
Diplomatic relations between the two countries are already fraught as a result of Beijing's introduction of a controversial security law on former British colony Hong Kong.
But the rows ov
Ottawa (AFP) Aug 21, 2020
Toronto announced Friday that it will retrofit its fleet of ambulances with solar panels and hybrid electric engines in order to reduce pollution in Canada's largest metropolis.
The federal government, which has set a national target of slashing carbon emissions by 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 under the Paris Agreement, pitched in Can$1.1 million (US$830,000) for the upgrades.
Th
Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Aug 24, 2020
Mark the big one-of-a-kind engine, designed and built just for NASA, as delivered.
Nearly 13 feet long, three feet in diameter, and packing 22,000 pounds of afterburner enhanced jet propulsion, the F414-GE-100 engine is now at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base in California.
There it will be checked out and inspected before it is transported to nearby
Boston MA (SPX) Aug 24, 2020
Many analysts have predicted an explosion in the number of industrial "internet of things" (IoT) devices that will come online over the next decade. Sensors play a big role in those forecasts.
Unfortunately, sensors come with their own drawbacks, many of which are due to the limited energy supply and finite lifetime of their batteries.
Now the startup Everactive has developed industr
Cologne, Germany (ESA) Aug 24, 2020
French ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet re-familiarises himself with the Grasp experiment at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany. Thomas will continue running this experiment during his second mission on board the International Space Station.
Thomas commissioned the Grasp or Gravitational References for Sensimotor Performance experiment during his first mission to the Space Stati
Chennai, India (SPX) Aug 24, 2020
The government's decision to ban import of communication satellites throws up huge opportunity for private players, said K. Sivan, Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Secretary, Department of Space.
Speaking at the webinar on 'Unlocking India's Potential in Space Sector' on Thursday, Sivan said the decision throws up a huge opportunity for private players, ISRO and Ne
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 24, 2020
Optical communications, transmitting data using infrared lasers, has the potential to help NASA return more data to Earth than ever. The benefits of this technology to exploration and Earth science missions are huge. In support of a mission to demonstrate this technology, NASA recently completed installing its newest optical ground station in Haleakala, Hawaii.
The state-of-the-art ground
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 24, 2020
During a 2012 expedition to Antarctica, a team of Japanese and Belgian researchers picked up a small rock that appeared coal black against the snow white. Now known as meteorite Asuka 12236, it was roughly the size of a golf ball.
Despite its modest size, this rock from space was a colossal find. As it turns out, Asuka 12236 is one of the best-preserved meteorites of its kind ever discover
Wurzburg, Germany (SPX) Aug 24, 2020
Black holes are at the center of almost all galaxies that have been studied so far. They have an unimaginably large mass and therefore attract matter, gas and even light. But they can also emit matter in the form of plasma jets - a kind of plasma beam that is ejected from the centre of the galaxy with tremendous energy. A plasma jet can extend several hundred thousand light years far into space.
Kiruna, Sweden (SPX) Aug 24, 2020
The first of two Swedish-led Jupiter instruments has left the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) to take its place on the European spacecraft JUICE. The Radio and Plasma Wave Investigation instrument (RPWI) will measure electric and magnetic fields to identify and map the oceans beneath the frozen ice cover of the moon Ganymede.
In 2013, IRF was sel
Baltimore MD (SPX) Aug 24, 2020
NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of comet NEOWISE, taken on Aug. 8, zero in on the visitor's coma, the gossamer shell of gas and dust that surrounds its nucleus as it is heated by the Sun. This is the first time Hubble has photographed a comet of this brightness at such resolution after this close of a pass by the Sun.
The comet photos were taken after