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The NAIA announced on Thursday the final group of hosts for the 2022 NAIA Men's and Women's Basketball National Championship Opening Rounds, presented by Ballogy.

Robert Whittaker is interviewed following his unanimous decision loss to Israel Adesanya at UFC 271 in Houston, Texas. | Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC

Robert Whittaker wants to be remembered as the greatest UFC middleweight of all time.

Viroqua Mayor Karen Mischel will no longer pursue her re-election campaign or her campaign to represent the Wisconsin State Assembly’s 96th District.

Danger lurks behind the endless possibilities of finding a life partner on an online dating app.

To decode B.zero1, B stands Bulgari, zero for the new millennium and number 1 for infinite beginnings.

People may overlook the beauty of a rugged chain-link fence but its diamond-like motif relates well to Tiffany & Co, which has been based in New York since 1837.

By poetically weaving gold and diamonds together in fluid, intricate openwork, Chopard fashioned the contemporary Precious Lace collection. Rubies along with diamonds grace the new iterations that further celebrate the fusion between haute couture and haute joaillerie.

With a devotion to the art and craft conservation of regional Thai textiles, HRH Princess Sirivannavari Nariratana Rajakanya recently presided over the opening of the "Thai Textiles Trend Book Autumn/Winter 2022-2023 And Seminar", hosted at Iconsiam as part of the "Promoting The Image Of Thai Textiles To The World 2021" project.

If Zaha Hadid's paintings of The Peak had come to life, Hong Kong would boast a leisure club and architectural landmark featuring horizontal beams with a large void carved out between a geological intervention in the hills of Kowloon.

There's no doubt that Thai wooden houses possess a quaint and charming character you'd be hard-pressed to replicate elsewhere. Therefore, it's somewhat aggravating that they don't enjoy the same fawning over that neoclassical or colonial buildings in Bangkok do when it comes to preservation. Rickety, stilt wooden houses alongside the river may seem common and "normal" for the average Thai, but...

Despite its popularity and cult status, the slasher genre is perhaps the most formulaic of them all. Since the genre's peak in the mid 70s and until today, each slasher movie has stayed true to its original format, without much change in the presentation. Most of these movies usually involves a group of young people on a trip, perhaps to a cabin in the woods, and a serial killer with crazy choices...

We are still in the midst of the Covid pandemic. We now know that it takes a few days for the disease to reveal any symptoms, but we may not realise that it has a profoundly negative effect in terms of our ability to trust others.

As the Constitutional Court's president, Worawit Kangsasitiam, gears up to celebrate his 70th birthday next week, a debate is brewing on whether or not he should step down from the helm of one of the country's top courts. Many people, including several well-known critics, believe he should.

Cassava-based ethanol maker Ubon Bio Ethanol Plc (UBE) expects its total revenue to grow by 15-20% this year, driven by high value-added products.

Business operators are likely to apply for more mergers and acquisitions (M&A) this year to enhance their competitiveness, resulting in greater market dominance or unfair trade practices by large operators, warns the trade competition regulator.

Ratch Group Plc, Thailand's largest private power generator by capacity, expects to allocate an investment budget worth 30 billion baht in 2022 as it continues to expand its power business and invest more in renewable energy development.

Christie's will bring the 1982 painting to the open market for the first time this spring.

The introduction of Acura’s latest Integra left a big question in the minds of the brand’s fans: With a new entry-level sedan on the horizon, what would become of the compact ILX? Many assumed the ILX would simply die off, and it seems they were right — Acura has confirmed that 2022 will be the last year for its…

On February 13, LIC filed the draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) in which the government offered to sell a 5% stake in the insurer that could fetch it Rs 70,000-80,000 crore (if it is valued at three times of the declared embedded value of Rs 5.4 lakh crore).

As climate change becomes an increasingly pressing issue, governments worldwide have stepped up efforts towards decarbonization. Japan aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 26% from 2013 levels by 2030. Leveraging nuclear energy could help Japan meet this goal, a fact understood by the administration of Prime Minister Kishida Fumio. However, the government faces an uphill battle in the shadow of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. Japan’s Energy Ambitions Prior to the Fukushima disaster... Читать дальше...

Jenna Biter

Russia-Ukraine War, Europe

By making a foil of the West, Putin unifies Russians against a narrative about an external threat trying to deny Russia its rightful place in the world.

Since Russia started amassing troops on the Ukrainian border last year, experts in the foreign policy establishment have sorted into denialist and alarmist camps. But, this time, as it turns out, the alarmists correctly sounded the alarm.

In the late hours of Wednesday, February 23 (the early hours of Thursday... Читать дальше...

Weight gain and changes within the brain can disrupt our precious shut-eye as we get older, but there are ways to mitigate these changes.

The Scientist spoke with University of California, San Francisco, neuroscientist Eleanor Palser about her study's finding that women, especially those working outside the US, are underrepresented in some areas of academic publishing.

A crowd of about 200 people demonstrated Thursday outside Saints Volodymyr & Olha Ukrainian Catholic Church against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. | Pat Nabong/Sun-Times

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ARE these seemingly healthy foods worth their salt? We told yesterday how soluble parace­tamol can contain more sodium, at 0.44g per pill than a pack of Walkers Ready Salted, at 0.34g – putting over 60s at risk of heart attacks. A daily limit of 6g is recommended – but many items that are supposedly good […]