By Ashley Strickland NASA says Saturn is losing its iconic rings While Saturn’s rings may disappear in less than 100 million years because gravity is pulling them into the planet, apparently they haven’t always surrounded the planet, either. The finding was published in the journal Science on Thursday. When NASA’s Cassini spacecraft plunged into the planet’s atmosphere […] Read more
Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson outlined his vision for Britain in a speech at construction equipment company JCB’s world headquarters in central England. Standing in front of a digger, Johnson urged Theresa May to return to Brussels to remove the Irish backstop from her Brexit deal. “It has to come out,” he said. “I think […] Read more
What happened to Paweł Adamowicz isn’t just a Polish problem – wherever toxic public debate is indulged, violent acts may be committed The death of Paweł Adamowicz, the popular liberal mayor of Gdańsk, has sent shockwaves across Poland and elsewhere in Europe. Silent marches have been held in Warsaw, Gdańsk and other cities to pay […] Read more
By Miguel Pereira A digger pours sand next to the area where Julen, a Spanish two-year-old boy who fell into a 25-centimetre (9.8 inch) wide and around 100-metre (328 feet) deep well four days ago when the family was taking a stroll through a private estate, in Totalan, southern Spain, January 17, 2019. Rescue workers […] Read more
A sacked aide to French President Emmanuel Macron has been detained over the use of diplomatic passports. The Paris prosecutor’s office said a preliminary inquiry had been opened into Alexandre Benalla’s alleged possession of two passports. He is alleged to have used them despite losing his job as a security officer in Mr Macron’s staff […] Read more
By Oliver Smith As part of his investment, Snoop Dogg is also becoming the face of Klarna’s Smoooth Dogg campaign Klarna, the Swedish financial technology giant valued at $2.5 billion last year, has a new addition to its shareholder register from the most unlikely source. Millionaire American rapper Snoop Dogg, aka Calvin Broadus, has today […] Read more
By: Michael Walsh Andrew Wheeler arrives to testify at a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing to be the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, on Capitol Hill in Washington The Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hammered Andrew Wheeler on Wednesday for his role in systematically rolling back environmental protections at the […] Read more
By ELIAS LEIGHT Members of Color of Change, UltraViolet, Girls for Gender Equity and Black Women’s Blueprint brought the #MuteRKelly movement to the singer’s label Demonstrators chant during an R. Kelly protest outside Sony headquarters in New York. As the morning rush gained momentum at a Gregorys Coffee outlet in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, a small […] Read more
Theresa May has seen off a bid to remove her government, winning a no-confidence vote by 325 to 306. Rebel Tory MPs and the DUP – who 24 hours ago voted down the PM’s Brexit plan by a record margin – voted to keep her in Downing Street. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn argued that Mrs […] Read more
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May has overwhelmingly lost a crucial vote on her Brexit plans in the House of Commons, the U.K.’s lower house of parliament. May lost by 230 votes after lawmakers voted by 432 to 202 to reject the deal. Politicians from different political parties rejected the proposed Withdrawal Agreement, currently the only […] Read more
