US country music star Dolly Parton has come out in support of Black Lives Matter, in a rare comment on politics. She told Billboard Magazine: “Do we think our little white asses are the only ones that matter? No!” With a broad fan base that spans the right and the […]
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Mark Zuckerberg, who founded the social media giant from his Harvard University dorm room in 2004, has said he plans to give away 99% of his Facebook shares over his lifetime. Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth passed $100 billion for the first time Thursday after Facebook Inc. hit a record high […]
Rupert Young, the twin brother of UK singer and Pop Idol winner Will, has died at the age of 41. A spokesperson for the singer confirmed the death and requested privacy for the star and his family “during this very difficult and sad time”. The singer had spoken in the […]
The post further details how the caretakers are able to determine the flirty nature of the African grey parrot named Larry. “How can you tell when an African grey parrot is being flirty?” this is how a Facebook post by Zoo Atlanta begins and as you read the post, or […]
The Catholic leader of the moderate Social Democratic and Labour Party, Hume was seen as the principal architect of Northern Ireland’s 1998 peace agreement. John Hume, the visionary politician who won a Nobel Peace Prize for fashioning the agreement that ended violence in his native Northern Ireland, has died at […]
Taylor Swift’s surprise eighth album, Folklore, has broken several chart records in its first week on sale. The record was written and recorded during the coronavirus lockdown, and swerves away from the pop sound that’s dominated her last three albums. On Spotify, it achieved 80.6m streams in a single day, […]
LONDON: Millions of COVID-19 tests able to detect the virus within 90 minutes will be rolled out to British hospitals, care homes and laboratories to boost capacity in the coming months, the country’s health minister said on Monday (Aug 3). They will comprise 5.8 million tests using DNA and 450,000 […]
NEW YORK: James Murdoch has resigned from News Corp’s board, citing disagreements over certain editorial content published by the company’s media outlets, the news publisher disclosed in a regulatory filing on Friday (Jul 31). While tendering the resignation, Murdoch also cited differences over certain strategic decisions of the company. The […]
SANTIAGO: Chilean police are training sniffer dogs to detect the coronavirus in people’s sweat at an early stage, after a similar trial in the UK showed encouraging results. Four dogs have been selected for the initial training, a mix of labradors and golden retrievers who sport green “biodetector” jackets for […]
New Zealand has to decide how best to open air travel including whether it should be restricted to certain types of travellers like foreign students, say two observers. DUNEDIN, New Zealand: Having successfully eliminated COVID-19, New Zealand now faces the option of sitting tight or exploring various ways of loosening […]