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Ronaldo breaks world record for goals scored in men's international football in Portugal's 2-1 World Cup qualifying win over the Republic of Ireland

The co-pilot made the emergency landing in India midway through the flight from Oman to Bangladesh.

Around 800 doses were found to have been damaged

EMMERDALE star Lisa Riley has revealed details of her booze hell, detailing how her house looked like a “squat” after wild nights out. The actress, who is best known for playing Mandy Dingle in the ITV soap, has been sober for over five years after quitting alcohol for good. But Lisa, 44, has opened up […]

"Diary of a Wimpy Kid," an animated adaptation of the Jeff Kinney novel, will premiere on Disney+ in December.

Darren Agee Merager, who spoke exclusively The Post, denies the allegations and says that she is actually the victim of transphobic harassment.

The 19-year-old full-back played in pre-season friendlies against Athletic Bilbao and Osasuna.

Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has added six youngsters to senior training this week.

OMAHA, Neb. — In a story published August 31, 2021, about the bidding to acquire Kansas City Southern railroad, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Kansas City Southern was due to receive a $1 billion breakup fee now that regulators rejected Canadian National’s plan to use a voting trust in the acquisition.

There’s one scene in the first season of “Schitt’s Creek” where Dan Levy’s character, David, reveals his sexual orientation by way of a clever conversation about wine. It helps another character, his best pal Stevie, easily understand what pansexuality means.

Nothing factually incorrect, says senior Culture Ministry official on criticism of the new look

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'There are objective problems, like that Arabs don’t serve in the army and therefore can’t work at Elbit and Rafael,' Takwin founders explain, but that shouldn't stop Israeli Arabs from joining Israeli high-tech, they say

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A failure of Western thinking

To hang the Afghanistan fiasco on Joe Biden is worse than unfair, it is unintelligent (“Biden’s debacle”, August 21st). Unfair, because it was foreseen by so many that the Afghanistan issue would end in a mess. Unintelligent, because the true sources of this disaster are neither political nor military, they are philosophical. Western thinking, shared by Europeans and Americans, is conditioned on Enlightenment thinking... Читать дальше...

PEOPLE OFTEN wondered why Gino Strada led the life he did. With his skills as a heart-and-lung surgeon, trained not only in his native Milan but at Stanford and Groote Schuur, in South Africa, he could have settled in a pleasant villa somewhere beyond the city, working at an easy pace and growing the roses he loved. Instead he seemed to live in operating theatres in desperate places, draining, cleaning, cutting and suturing the worst wounds imaginable. They were vast wounds, the result of landmines and bomb blasts that tore bodies to rags. Читать дальше...

Index, A History of the. By Dennis Duncan. Allen Lane; 352 pages; £20. To be published in America by W.W. Norton in February; $30

Cuba: An American History. By Ada Ferrer. Scribner; 576 pages; $32

IN 1853 WILLIAM KING was sworn in as vice-president of the United States on a sugar plantation in Matanzas, near Cuba’s northern coast. King, who had hoped that spending his afternoons amid the fumes of boiling sugar would cure the tuberculosis from which he was dying, asked Congress for permission to take office as deputy to President Franklin Pierce on foreign soil. He lasted only 45 days in the job, returning to his own plantation in Alabama just before he died.

More Than I Love My Life. By David Grossman. Translated by Jessica Cohen. Knopf; 288 pages; $27. Jonathan Cape; £18.99

ENGLISH HAS a long tradition of wrangling over its lack of a gender-neutral pronoun. For centuries the orthodox view was simply that “he” includes “she”. But in the 19th century, when suffragettes in Britain and America argued that they were entitled to vote, they were told that the “he” used to describe voters in laws referred only to men. More recently some (including this columnist) have argued for a generic singular “they”, which has been employed in this way for centuries. But conservatives insist that it is illogical. Читать дальше...

The Constitution of Knowledge. By Jonathan Rauch. Brookings Institution Press; 280 pages; $27.99 and £22.50

A CROWD OF reporters, drawn by the drama and glamour of the event, jostled outside a courtroom in San Jose on August 31st to witness the opening of what may be the next, perilous, act for a woman once touted as the next Steve Jobs and the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire. Jury selection was beginning for the fraud trial of Elizabeth Holmes, the former boss of Theranos, a startup which attempted to revolutionise the process of blood testing but failed spectacularly in 2016 after the... Читать дальше...

CARMAKING IS sharply divided between the old and new. Recent electric-vehicle (EV) entrants, with Tesla at the forefront, command effervescent valuations largely based on being new and different. The share prices of established carmakers suggest that they will soon go out of business. Yet many of the former will probably fail and most of the latter survive. Rivian, one of the newcomers, filed paperwork for an initial public offering on August 27th and is reportedly seeking a valuation of at least $70bn, roughly the same as General Motors. Читать дальше...

IN LATE JULY, less than a week after the British government lifted most of its remaining covid-19 restrictions, several thousand people nonetheless gathered in London’s Trafalgar Square to protest against “lockdowns”. Among the speakers were Piers Corbyn (brother of a former Labour Party leader), a climate-change denier who thinks that covid-19 is a “hoax”; David Icke, an author who believes that the world’s most powerful people are secretly lizards; and Gillian McKeith, an advocate of colonic... Читать дальше...

ASK MEMBERS of China’s elite—from senior officials to academics at leading universities, well-known commentators or bosses at big companies—to explain the beliefs of the country’s leader, Xi Jinping, and their replies are surprisingly unhelpful. Even simple questions elicit waffly answers. Take an ongoing campaign to clip the wings of some of China’s largest firms, notably technology giants. The authorities have variously accused such businesses of seeking excessive profits, harming national security with a cavalier approach to data... Читать дальше...

SINCE JOE BIDEN became America’s president in January, few senior American officials have visited China. But as The Economist went to press, Mr Biden’s special envoy for climate change, John Kerry, was in the middle of his second trip this year. With relations so rancorous in almost every other domain, the two countries appear to welcome the chance to talk about a problem they hope can be tackled together. There may be political dividends for both.