One flight closer to space tourism Virgin Galactic is one flight closer to becoming a commercial "spaceline." The company's passenger spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo, completed its first rocket-powered flight Monday morning above the Mojave Desert in California. More
Herschel captures a 'cosmic horse' Europe's Herschel space telescope has imaged one of the most popular subjects in the sky - the Horsehead Nebula - and its environs. The distinctively shaped molecular gas cloud is sited some 1,300 light-years from Earth in the Constellation Orion. More
The Best Of Jazz For Record Store Day 2024: Sun Ra, Cannonball Adderly, Sonny Rollins & More Record Store Day 2024 is approaching on April 20th, and the Jazz releases are plentiful. Rather than providing detailed reviews of these ... 04/15/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
On the Record: Florida supreme court ruling on abortion Voters will be able to weigh in on the issue in November after Florida's supreme court ruling triggers a 6-week abortion ban. The ban starting May 1st is one of the strictest in the country starting ... 04/14/2024 - 12:37 pm | View Link
Sun Ra ‘At The Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977’ 2x180g Vinyl RSD (Jazz Detective) 5/5 Released on Record Store Day via the Jazz Detective label, Sun Ra and The Arkestra ‘Live At The Showcase’ is a collection of tracks from performances at the legendary Chicago venue between 1976 and ... 04/14/2024 - 7:34 am | View Link
FTSE 100 Live 12 April: No London record after US stocks plunge but index still closes up 0.9% Slender growth in February today fuelled hopes that the UK economy is out of recession. The performance underpinned mid-cap shares in a session when the FTSE 100 neared 8000 thanks to stronger oil and ... 04/13/2024 - 10:57 pm | View Link
Country Thunder AZ 2024 news: Eric Church takes the main stage as the sun sets on Day 2 Here's all the news from Country Thunder Arizona 2024, featuring Lainey Wilson, Eric Church, Jelly Roll and Koe Wetzel at Canyon Moon Ranch. 04/13/2024 - 5:59 am | View Link
Decorated Chinese athlete He Jie had been stripped of his Beijing half-marathon win Friday after an investigation found that the three African runners who competed alongside him had “actively slowed down” to let him cross the finish line first during the race on Sunday, April 14.
He won the 21 km.
ISLAMABAD — An important ally of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif demanded the government lift a two-month-old ban on the social media platform X, saying on Friday that it violates citizens’ right to speech and expression.
The ban on X has been in place since February, when the party of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan announced a nationwide protest against alleged election rigging ahead of the Feb.
BEIJING — San Francisco is the latest U. S. city preparing to receive a pair of pandas from China, in a continuation of Beijing’s famed “panda diplomacy.”
San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced the panda loan in Beijing on Friday, alongside officials from China Wildlife Conservation Association, or CWCA. It will be San Francisco’s first time hosting the beloved animals long-term—the result of a yearlong advocacy campaign, Breed said.
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San Diego previously announced it was receiving two pandas back in February.
China is home to the only natural habitat for pandas and owns most of the black-and-white bears in the world.
Earlier this month, two Indian writers published an ode to their Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Written in lyric form and titled “Forever In Our Hearts,” it recounts his achievements while singing his praises in highly effusive language. “With courage and wisdom/you show citizens the way,” it gushes. “Oh Modi, oh Modi/their hopes never sway/A people’s beacon, in whom they see light/Oh Modi, oh Modi, guiding day and night.”
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Such reverence captures the essence of Modi’s popularity.
The U. S. blocked on Thursday a draft resolution that would have allowed the United Nations General Assembly to vote on allowing a Palestinian state to become a full member state of the U. N. The move has triggered backlash from other states and pro-Palestinian groups, as global divisions continue to sharpen over Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Apple Inc. said that it removed Meta Platforms Inc.’s WhatsApp and Threads from its China apps store after an order from the country’s internet regulator, which said the services pose risks to the country’s security.
The order comes on the heels of a cleanup program Chinese regulators initiated in 2023 that was expected to remove many defunct or unregistered apps from domestic iOS and Android stores.