February 2020

Harry Styles: Singer ‘mugged at knifepoint’ in Hampstead on Valentine’s Day

Image copyright PA Media Image caption Harry Styles greeted fans after appearing on BBC Radio 2 earlier in the day Pop star Harry Styles was reportedly robbed at knifepoint in north London during a night out on Valentine’s Day. The former One Direction singer, 26, handed over cash after he was confronted by a mugger

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Government backs ‘greener’ Cheshire and Aberdeenshire hydrogen plants

Image copyright ESSAR OIL UK Image caption Stanlow Oil Refinery will be used as a hydrogen production plant by the middle of this year The first low-carbon hydrogen energy production plants in the UK have been granted government funding. Facilities at Stanlow Oil Refinery in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire and St Fergus Terminal in Aberdeenshire will

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Coronavirus Infection Found After Cruise Ship Passengers Disperse

The cruise ship had been shunned at port after port for fear it might carry the coronavirus, but when the Westerdam arrived in Cambodia on Thursday, the prime minister greeted its passengers with flowers. Amid assurances that the ship was disease free, hundreds of elated passengers disembarked. Some went sightseeing, visiting beaches and restaurants and

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MIT to caption online videos after discrimination lawsuit

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has agreed to make its website and online educational videos more accessible to people who are deaf and hard of hearing under a settlement announced in federal court By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press February 18, 2020, 6:04 PM 3 min read BOSTON — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has

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Trump Grants Clemency to Rod Blagojevich, Bernard Kerik and Michael Milken

WASHINGTON — President Trump commuted the 14-year prison sentence of former Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich of Illinois, the Democrat who was convicted of trying to essentially sell Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat for personal gain, and pardoned the financier Michael R. Milken and Bernard B. Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner, the president

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