Thirteen Fireballs rocked up to the start line for the Fireball Leinster Championships at Skerries SC at the weekend. Daniel Thompson (Wexford SC) sailing with Barry McCartin (Sat) and Ronan Wallace (
About 4 million people can expect a refund averaging $1,265 in the coming days, according to the agency.
By Beiyi Seow with Lianchao Lan in Shanghai
Agence France-Presse
BEIJING — China's economic growth slowed in the second quarter as the country's army of consumers remained hesitant to splurge and exports were dented by disruptions, according to an AFP poll of analysts.
The world's second largest economy has staged a rapid recovery from last year's pandemic-induced slump, but the investment and manufacturing rebound fuelling it now seems to be fading — and other drivers are not picking up fast enough. Читать дальше...
Last month, a federal judge easily declared Florida's social media law (complete with its Disney-inspired theme park exemption) as unconstitutional. It wasn't a hard call. Florida had tossed out a bunch of wacky arguments and the judge smacked down each and every one of them. He even pointed out that if you didn't use strict scrutiny (as you must) to analyze whether the law violated the 1st Amendment, it would still be unconstitutional.
Читать дальше...Andrew Butchart breaks his own Scottish 3000m record, coming third in the Diamond League meeting at Gateshead.
Eight years after its second entry, a new Company of Heroes game is in development at Relic Entertainment. Announced today by publisher Sega, Company of Heroes 3 will take the World War II real-time strategy series to the Mediterranean theatre. As before, the emphasis is on commanding squads of infantry and individual tanks, but new to this game is a strategic map that will allow you to decide how to approach the Allied invasion of Italy. How you plan your moves there will determine the forces... Читать дальше...
Basketball Ireland CEO Bernard O'Byrne apologised for his Facebook post about the England footballer.
On June 27, 2021, the world lost the gracious presence of one Dr. Steven G. Horwitz. This date will forever be marked in my mind because, while the world lost a first-rate economist, academic and intellectual, I lost a mentor and a friend. It was cancer, and not the first time that accursed murderer has taken someone from me much too soon. Steve was much too young, only 57, and he would have gotten a kick out of living in a world where the notion of 57 as too young is a thing. Truthfully, he did get a kick out of living in such a world... Читать дальше...
Dark Souls is challenging, but have you ever tried playing it drunk, on psychedelics, about to vomit, or any combination of the three? A new, totally unnecessary mod simulates that experience by making almost every texture in the hardcore action role-playing game scroll endlessly, making it seem as if the world around…
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Jamaica long served as a key node in a slave trade network that spanned continents, driven by Spain and then Britain.
The 13-year-old gangbanger who was shot dead amid a raging Bronx street war wanted to leave the Crips in the days before he was killed, grief-stricken pals told The Post on Tuesday.
Many people were in dire straits even before Covid-19 struck.
Oil up! Turkish wrestling fans returned to the country’s northwest for a 600-year-old oil wrestling championship after the tournament was canceled in 2020.
indie Semiconductor Sets Date for Second Quarter 2021 Earnings Release and Conference Call Yahoo Finance
Report from RNZ The best way to mitigate risk posed by 15 Covid-19 infected crew members at a MIQ facility in Wellington is to lock them in their rooms with no breaks, says a professor of medicine. University of Auckland’s Professor Des Gorman told Morning Report the Wellington public had been exposed to undue risk […]
It almost seems too good to be true: a major trial in Iceland shows that cutting the standard five-day week to four days for the same pay needn't cost employers a cent (or, to be accurate, a krona)
In this 884th episode, Mike chats with standup comic Noel Casler about The Tragically Hip and his years working with celebrities like Prince, Neil Young, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Bruce Springsteen, Bono. and the 45th President of the United States of America Donald Trump. This episode is exactly 1:
Rachel Bucchino
economy, Americas
The pandemic bill boosted the credit from $2,000 to $3,000 and allowed parents with children under the age of six to qualify for $3,600.
Roughly thirty-nine million families with about sixty-five million children are expected to start receiving the enhanced child tax credit payments in just two days, according to the IRS.
But even with the months of preparation and notices from the agency, millions of families are still unfamiliar and confused about the credit... Читать дальше...
Kyle Mizokami
History, Asia
More than twenty years ago, a military confrontation in East Asia pushed the United States and China uncomfortably close to conflict.
Key point: Beijing tried to intimidate Taipei during its first elections but Washington sent a bunch of carriers to put a stop to that. This embarrassment has driven Chinese carrier development ever since.
More than twenty years ago, a military confrontation in East Asia pushed the United States and China uncomfortably close to conflict. Читать дальше...
What We’re Tracking: Humid & breezy Hotter mid-week Storms later in the week Tonight, we'll see a few more clouds work their way in along with a steady light south breeze. Low temperatures will only drop back into the lower 70s with a fairly humid, and by Wednesday we can expect a mix of sun [...]
The fires come as the West is blasted with its second, life-threatening heatwave in a matter of weeks
There were more than 50 campers this week at the Clinton-Massie girls basketball camp at the CMHS and CMMS gyms. The camp was for girls in grades 1-8. Continue reading at wnewsj.com.