SAO PAULO — The number of fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest region for the month of August surged to the highest level since 2010, government data showed on Sunday, after a record drought that has been plaguing the biome. Last year's rains came late and were weaker than usual because a weather pattern, known as El Nino, was supercharged by climate change, leaving the rainforest especially vulnerable to this year's fires. Satellites detected 38,266 fire hotspots in the Amazon in August, more... Читать дальше...
Howe has endured a difficult period since the end of last season, with Newcastle unable to make significant signings and forced to sell players to comply with the Premier League's spending restrictions Just days after Howe said Newcastle's transfer policy would make sustained take a "lot longer", the club's chairman Yasir Al-Rumayyan was at St James' Park to see the hard-fought success against Tottenham. Newcastle are unbeaten in their first four games, while Tottenham, who dominated for long periods, were beaten for the first time this term.
Boris Becker has given his verdict on an incident that occurred at the US Open.
The union representing the workers, UNITE HERE, has planned a rolling strike for several days in cities like Boston, San Francisco and Seattle after contract negotiations stalled.
Lifelong quizzer Jenny, 42, wrote questions for the pilot series, but did not secure her place as one of the show’s pantomime villains until 2015
Republican Ohio Senate candidate Bernie Moreno said on Sunday he supports “common-sense restrictions” on abortion at the federal level after 15 weeks while maintaining that the issue should be “mostly” left up to the states to decide. "My position on abortion is crystal clear. I am personally pro-life. I think we have freedom of religion...
Helmet communication has come to major college football, and early returns on the new technology were mixed after Week 1.
Walter Salles’ deeply poignant “I’m Still Here,” the Brazilian director’s return to his homeland and to the filmmaking form that yielded his Oscar-nominated “Central Station,” begins where maybe every movie set in Rio de Janeiro should: at the beach. A stray dog disturbs a game of volleyball. Girls dab Coca-cola onto their skin as tanning […]
Biotechnology firm Biocon said its subsidiary has received approval from the US health regulator to market a generic medication to treat chronic heart failure. Biocon Pharma has received approval of its ANDA for Sacubitril/Valsartan Tablets, in 24 mg/26 mg, 49 mg/51 mg and 97 mg/103 mg strengths, from the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA), the company said in a regulatory filing. Sacubitril and valsartan combination is used to treat chronic heart failure in adults to help reduce the risk of death and hospitalisation. Читать дальше...
Brady Corbet’s historical drama “The Brutalist,” starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones and Guy Pearce, wowed Venice Film Festival on Sunday with a 12-minute standing ovation. Brody, who stars in the film as a Hungarian Holocaust survivor struggling to revive his career as an architect in the U.S., was overcome with emotion as the clapping raged […]
The Justice Hema Committee, established to examine the working conditions of women in the Malayalam film industry, submitted its report in December 2019.
JNS.org – US President Joe Biden stated shortly before midnight on Saturday night that he is “devastated and outraged” after...
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Manuel Ugarte was paraded in front of the fans before kick off today. If we all had it our way, he would have been on the pitch, even if he would probably be unable to get through the game. It was even at the start but once Liverpool started to circulate, Man Utd started to […]
Читать дальше...Both Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are back to business as usual, way before they got back together. Lopez is posting unbothered Instagram posts, and Affleck is back to his old guilty pleasures, like fast food eating. In photos obtained by Page Six, Affleck was seen picking up a drop-off order of Chick-fil-A, which was […]
“The Witness,” premiering at the Venice Film Festival, has sold to Benelux (Edgy), France (Jour2fete) and No.mad Entertainment (Italy). The film’s German distributor is Missing Films as previously reported. The film, which is directed by Nader Saeivar, and co-written by Saeivar and Jafar Panahi, is debuting its trailer (below). “I’ve been working with Jafar Panahi since […]
A man died early Sunday morning following a shooting in Northeast Portland, authorities said.
She had denied assaulting Linda Olsen by beating her on a British Airways flight on December 3 last year.
Vinyl collecting is a popular pastime for many music lovers. And for some fans, they’re willing to dish out thousands and thousands of dollars. Over the years, a few rare releases have sparked intense demand, and with limited pressings of the coveted albums available, music lovers are willing to cough up plenty of money to [...]
After a life-changing accident, a Mpumalanga farmer has turned his R1.3 million Road Accident Fund payout into a lifeline for his community, providing much-needed running water to more than 100 households.
The bodies of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Ori Danino, Carmel Gat, Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi and Eden Yerushalmi were found in Gaza on Sunday
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