Ballet dancers and yawning lions: Africa's top shots A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond:Images subject to copyright ... 04/25/2024 - 4:28 pm | View Link
Golf: Kiwi Ryan Fox, South Africa's Garrick Higgo move into top 10 after opening round at Zurich Classic Kiwi golfer Ryan Fox and South African Garrick Higgo sit within the top 10 after the opening round of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans on Friday (NZ time). 04/25/2024 - 1:47 pm | View Link
Upwind vs. downwind: How to master these tricky shots Shots change when hitting upwind vs. downwind, but GOLF Top 100 Teacher Debbie Doniger has some tips to navigate them with ease. 04/25/2024 - 8:24 am | View Link
NFL draft best available players: Cooper DeJean, Adonai Mitchell top rankings after Round 1 After the first round of the 2024 NFL draft, several players from the top 125 rankings are still available for teams to grab. 04/25/2024 - 2:17 am | View Link
Goggles, bubbles and puddles: Africa's top shots In Egypt on Monday, a Sudanese man gets his hair cut in a Cairo barbershop. Almost to half a million Sudanese refugees have crossed into Egypt since war broke out in their home country a year ago. 04/18/2024 - 1:58 pm | View Link
Across social media, iPhone users have reported waking up to the scary realization that they had missed their alarm. “In the past six days of school, I’ve accumulated seven tardies,” said TikTok user CarterPCS. “I could’ve sworn it was because my alarm wasn’t going off.”
“I was literally late to work the other day because I slept through all four of my alarms that I had set,” TikTok user Charkaylotte recounted.
BEIJING — The death toll from a collapsed highway in southeastern China climbed to 48 on Thursday as searchers dug for a second day through a treacherous and mountainous area.
One side of the four-lane highway in the city of Meizhou gave way about 2 a.m. on Wednesday after a month of heavy rains in Guangdong province.
President Ronald Reagan warned in 1986 that if Nicaragua’s “Sandinistas” remained in power, “terrorists and subversives” would have sanctuary “just 2 days’ driving time from Harlingen, Texas.” During the 1980s, Reagan gave more speeches on the Central American country than about almost any other foreign policy issue. Congress voted countless times on his policy of undermining Nicaragua’s Cuban- and Soviet-backed government by arming insurgents known as the Contra.
LOS ANGELES — Police removed barricades and began dismantling a pro-Palestinian demonstrators’ fortified encampment early Thursday at the University of California, Los Angeles, after hundreds of protesters defied orders to leave. Some people were detained, their hands bound with zip ties.
The action came after officers spent hours threatening arrests over loudspeakers if people did not disperse.
In 2018, we worked with Bill Gates on a special issue of TIME dedicated to the power of optimism. Gates’ view, shared by many of the issue’s contributors, was that people are wired to focus on when things go wrong and when they don’t work. Sometimes this attention distracts us from the moments when progress is being made.
Sometimes all it takes is a cold email to start a revolution. Dr. Alex Oshmyansky, a radiologist who had become incensed by the runaway prices of prescription drugs, decided to email billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who famously makes his contact info public. He included a business plan for a small company he had created in 2018 that made drugs and sold them at cost.