All blooming at onceChris J. Ratcliffe / Getty By Andy Coghlan UK gardens are likely to be ablaze with colour this week as plants all break into flower simultaneously. This “condensed spring” follows much dismal weather: the UK spring has seen snow, twice the usual amount of rainfall and temperatures that are below average. “Cold […]
TODAY is a very special day for Gulliver, for it is ten years to the very day since his column at The Economist opened for business. Since then, much has changed in the world of travel. A barrel of oil is now worth a tad over $ 60, instead of around the $ 100 mark […]
New Delhi: Just weeks before it announced a massive rise in its defence budget, China deployed its Chengdu J-20 stealth jet in February – claiming it is the most advanced fighter plane in all of Asia. The multi-role fighter jet’s deployment is being seen by analysts as China’s show of strength to counter the US, […]
By Chris Rossini Propaganda being what it is, it’s the biggest warmongers who litter the pages of the history books. They get the statues, the busts, and the hosannahs. There are so many examples, but let’s start with the beginning of America’s foray into empire building abroad. For sure, you’ve heard of the ultra-warmonger Theodore […]
IN THE Russian business community Sergei Galitsky served as a rare example of a self-made billionaire who rose with relatively little state help and outside the natural-resources trade. He built his retail company, Magnit, from scratch into Russia’s largest network; it has more than 16,000 stores. Rather than moving to Moscow, he kept his headquarters […]
Tonya HardingMost Brutal Knockout Video … Unearthed 2/11/2018 1:00 AM PST EXCLUSIVE Wanna see Tonya Harding knock a chick out cold with a devastating right cross? You’re in luck … because TMZ Sports found extremely rare footage from Tonya’s last professional boxing match — and she straight DESTROYED her opponent. It all went down in […]
A court in the Russian Far East region of Sakhalin has sentenced former Governor Aleksandr Khoroshavin to 13 years in prison for running a ring that brought in over half a billion rubles in bribes for him. Apart from the sentence, to be served in a maximum-security prison, the court ordered the ex-governor to pay […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Worries about the impact of a tightening job market on the prospects for inflation and a surge in bond yields sent investors fleeing equities on Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrials Average swooning almost 666 points, for its biggest daily percentage loss in 20 months. It was the biggest daily point […]
Top Story Shape-shifters aren’t just the stuff of fiction, they’re real — and they’re inside our DNA. Researchers have described how two normally mismatched bases in human DNA, guanine and thymine, are able to change shape in order to form an inconspicuous rung on the helical DNA “ladder.” This allows them to survive by avoiding […]
Like many years before, 2017 proved to be a deadly and dangerous year for those who found themselves on the other side of the badge. During 2017, 1,188 people lost their lives to the judges, juries, and executioners known as the American police. Everyone from children to the elderly were killed by police this year as […]