A Swiss minister says over 10% of the Alpine country’s glaciers have been lost over the last five years — a depletion not seen in over a century — as the U.N.’s weather agency opened its first-ever meeting on how climate change is affecting mountains. Minister for Home Affairs Alain Berset cited the “urgency” of […]
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Matt Tifft will miss the final three races of the NASCAR season after suffering a seizure at Martinsville Speedway. Tifft was at Martinsville preparing for the Saturday rookie meeting when he fell ill. He said in a social media post that tests Monday showed a brain tumor he had removed three years ago has not
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Trump scrawled his reply in Sharpie. “Look forward to meeting you when things calm down,” he wrote. The meeting never happened. By Drollinger’s own account, his support for Trump dates to earlier conversations with Sessions, another soon-to-be sponsor, with whom Drollinger agreed that the United States needed a president with “a strong businessman background.” The
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A report on a deadly apartment block fire in London has condemned the London Fire Brigade and concluded that fewer people would have died if the building were evacuated more quickly. Britain’s Press Association said the leaked report, which was to be published Wednesday, also accused the brigade’s commissioner Dany Cotton, of “remarkable insensitivity” for
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Image caption Pinewood’s involvement in the Cardiff facility will come to an end next March Pinewood will end its involvement in a controversial Welsh Government-backed film studio from next March. The internationally-renowned film studio, which has overseen productions for the big and small screen for 80 years, said it would now focus on growth elsewhere.
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Fashion designer Roland Mouret says that plastic hangers are his industry’s “little dirty secret”. Figures from hanger recycling company First Mile show that 100 million hangers are thrown away every year and Mr Mouret has created a new recyclable hanger, which he says is fully sustainable. “Without touching the creative side of every designer and
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Our travel tips column has shown you how to pack (edit ruthlessly, use packing cubes) and how to take vacation photos (remember to take advantage of the golden hour). But which outfits both travel effortlessly and make for enviable posts on social media? The answer combines color coordination, personal style, destination mindfulness and knowing what
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The Australian government has proposed using a facial recognition system it is developing to verify that people who seek to watch pornography online are of legal age. Current law in Australia does not prohibit minors from viewing pornography. But the federal government is considering proposals that would require people to prove their age before watching
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World No. 1 Ashleigh Barty was upset by late substitute Kiki Bertens 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 at the WTA Finals on Tuesday. Bertens arrived at the elite tournament as an alternate, and has suddenly jumped into title contention with the other seven players in the draw. She took the place of Naomi Osaka, who withdrew from
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For our version, we decided to look at both the density of people and the density of building development. Analyzing census-tract data from the American Community Survey and spatial data from satellite imagery, we created a rural-suburban-urban density continuum index for more than 70,000 neighborhoods in the continental United States. We evaluated how many people
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