Artist creates World Cup players' portraits with paint-covered football
'Red' Hong Yi produced colorful renderings of Portugals Cristiano Ronaldo, Brazils Neymar and Argentinas Lionel Messi. Read more...
Why America Cant Fix Its Gun Violence Crisis
Most Americans want to do something about it. Here39;s why we havent. Read more...
Vaccine Passports What Are They, and Who Might Need One?
The concept of documenting vaccinations is being taken to new levels of sophistication, and experts predict that electronic verification will soon become commonplace. Read more...
New car sales rebound in March as registrations rise 11.5%
It's the first month of year-on-year sales increases since August 2020 and comes as car dealerships prepare to reopen their showroom doors to customers next week for the first time in 2021. Read more...
The United Arab Emirates has announced its first female astronaut
A woman has made history in the United Arab Emirates as the country's first female astronaut. Read more...
Four men jailed for a total of 113 years for conspiring to murder
Dante Mullings, 20, was shot three times as he sat in a parked car in Birmingham in May 2019 in what was called a revenge attack for a serious stabbing just hours before. Read more...
Hundreds of brave Russians hit ski slopes in bikinis and underwear for annual BoogelWoogel carnival
Participants spent the week taking part in the festival while braving the 9 C temperatures and wearing almost nothing in the snow at the Rosa Khutor resort. Read more...
Una partcula diminuta podra alterar las leyes de la fsica
No es el prximo bosn de Higgs, todava. Pero la mejor explicacin, segn los fsicos, tiene que ver con formas de materia y energa no conocidas actualmente por la ciencia. Read more...
Boris Johnson will NOT attend Prince Philip's funeral to allow family members to attend
The Prime Minister was understood to have been expected to attend the ceremony for Philip by the royals, but offered to step aside with the number of guests allowed limited to 30. Read more...
Pfizer Requests Authorization to Use Vaccine in Young Teens
If the emergency use authorization is broadened, young adolescents could start getting vaccinated before going back to school in the fall. Read more...
I'm a victim of the 'rape culture' witch-hunt Pupil, 18, faces false claims on social media
A teenage schoolboy, 18, reveals how a torrent of anonymous, false claims that he is a sexual predator have turned his life into a nightmare. Read more...
Carmakers Strive to Stay Ahead of Hackers
The effects of a breach of a car, or fleet, could be devastating. Auto manufacturers and suppliers have aggressive plans, and a lot of firewalls. Read more...
Florida man, 30, 'bites, beats and squeezes two-year-old boy to death for urinating on the couch'
Police in Lakeland, Florida, say Alegray Damiah Jones, who was in a relationship with the boy's mother, admitted to hitting the toddler until he passed out. Read more...
Britons' most-dreamed-about post-lockdown holiday experiences - staying in the Maldives is No1
Researchers asked British travel-lovers what they dream most about doing and where as soon as it is possible, and a stay in the Maldives archipelago is top of the list for 39 per cent of them. Read more...
The Hazards of American Justice
Three new books analyze the shortcomings of the nations criminal justice system. Read more...
Taiwan39;s Drought Pits Chip Makers Against Farmers
The island is going to great lengths to keep water flowing to its all-important semiconductor industry, including shutting off irrigation to legions of rice growers. Read more...
'Kung Fu' just borrows the old show's name to kick off a CW-style drama
The latest batch of TV reboots haven't had much in common with the source beyond the name, and so it is with "Kung Fu," which -- like the recent "Walker" -- CW-izes a familiar TV property in a mostly unrecognizable way. In this case, a modern-day female lead learns mad martial-arts skills, in an uninspired series whose action and key narrative device owe at least as much to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" as its half-century-old namesake. Read more...
Phoebe Waller-Bridge to star in new Indiana Jones film
Phoebe Waller-Bridge has booked her next great adventure. Read more...