Astonishingly, earthquakes shake the US state of California around 10,000 times a year, on average – that’s about once every hour.
California’s official nickname is the Golden State, harking back to the mid-19th-century gold rush that saw its population explode in just four years, from…
NEW YORK, NY – MAY 01: Bronx VA Medical Center nurses hold a demonstration and join other nationwide ‘May Day’ actions demanding increased COVID-19 protections for nurses and health care workers on May 01, 2020 in New York City. According to National Nurses United, 139 hospitals in 13 states…
Humans have probably shared their homes with dogs ever since they first settled. So it could be argued that there is no such thing as “human society” without including animals as part of it.
Our long shared history with dogs has even been described as a form of co-evolution.
And a new study my…
The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88.
One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English…
Rescuers in Kyiv have completed operations to deal with the consequences of the Russian attack.
Ukraine’s State Emergency Service announced this on Facebook, Ukrinform reports.
According to the final data from the SES, the enemy strike on the Ukrainian capital…
Tom Stoppard, the ingenious Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter whose gift for wordplay led him to a record five Tony Awards for best play, the first for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and the last for Leopoldstadt, and an…
French President Emmanuel Macron will host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Paris on December 1 to discuss security guarantees and continue the talks initiated in Geneva concerning the U.S. peace plan.
This is stated in a press release from the Elysee…
Wales: Murray; Mee, Roberts, Hawkins, Dyer; Edwards, Hardy; G Thomas, Lake (capt), Assiratti, Carter, R Davies, Plumtree, Mann, Wainwright.
Replacements: Coghlan, Southworth, Coleman, Ratti, Morse, Morgan-Williams, Sheedy, B Thomas.
Sin-bin:…
Mankind has been trying to get back to the moon for…