Stuck. Too many Britons are stuck in neighbourhoods they find unlovely and depressing, jobs that are going nowhere and lives with too little sense of purpose. To escape, or at least to have some prospect of improvement, would be wonderful. Part of the mood of ... More »
Multiple gunmen shot into a group of people in a popular entertainment district, the local police said. The authorities are still looking for the shooters.Gunmen opened fire in a popular entertainment district near the University of Alabama’s campus in Birming... More »
The administrators of Great Britain's power grid admit that it's often unable to use energy-storage batteries due to old computer systems and an old network with "not enough cables", according to the Financial Times — though the system operator says they're ma... More »
The late nineties and early aughts ushered in another Golden Age of Television, changing the way we talk about small-screen storytelling with the likes of serious, dramatic fare like The Sopranos, Six Feet Under and The Wire. While those more elevated series s... More »
Last week, Vice President Kamala Harris rallied in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, a key electorate given its decades of Democratic prominence until the Trump era.Former President Trump upended the political map in 2016 when he won blue-collar, union-heavy count... More »
There are “serious safety risks” for patients in the rollout of electronic health records in hospitals across England, a charity has warned.Patient Safety Learning said incidents involving new systems were likely to be under-reported and must be flagged. It ha... More »
Labour goes into its conference this weekend with a friendly warning it would do well to heed. The Starmerite thinktank Labour Together has just published its analysis of why Labour won. Its conclusion: Labour has been “cautiously hired, on a trial basis, liab... More »
I have a new niece, as my sister Fionnuala and her husband Adam welcomed Sadhbh (pronounced: Sadhbh) into a grateful world this week. At time of writing, she is three days old, but she seems very sound and her sister Clodagh is delighted by her company. My kid... More »
At least four people were killed and dozens more were injured in a shooting at in Birmingham, Alabama police said early Sunday. At least four of the wounded have “life-threatening injuries,” Birmingham Police Department Officer Truman Fitzgerald told a news co... More »
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Two deadly bombings in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed scores of U.S. military personnel more than 40 years ago have cast a long shadow over survivors and victims’ families.A day after the killing of a senior Hezbollah member seen as a key figure in those attacks... More »
Who knew Chris Hemsworth‘s looks over the years could “transform” from hot to HOTTER?! Here is a 28-year-old version of the Australian hunk at the “Thor” Premiere in Hollywood back in 2011 (left). This was soon after he played the alpha male jock, Curt Vaughan... More »