Mum Brady sharp in Patriots' first padded practice
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Two things were certain Saturday when the New England Patriots put on pads for the first time at training camp: The home fans sure do love Tom Brady, and the quarterba…
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Two things were certain Saturday when the New England Patriots put on pads for the first time at training camp: The home fans sure do love Tom Brady, and the quarterba…
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Two things were certain Saturday when the New England Patriots put on pads for the first time at training camp: The home fans sure do love Tom Brady, and the quarterba…
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Two things were certain Saturday when the New England Patriots put on pads for the first time at training camp: The home fans sure do love Tom Brady, and the quarterba…
KABUL — The new leader of the Afghan Taliban vowed to continue his group’s bloody, nearly 14-year insurgency in an audio message released Saturday, urging his fighters to remain unified after the death of their longtime leader. The audio message purportedly from Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor also included comments about the Taliban’s nascent peace talks with the Afghan government, though it wasn’t immediately clear whether he supported them. Mansoor took over the... Читать дальше...
As mourners paid their respects to Bobbi Kristina Brown at a private funeral, one of her aunts left mid-service in anger. Bobbi Kristina, the only child of Whitney Houston, died last...
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — A long-awaited solar farm is under construction at the University of Illinois and a campus official says it should be producing power by Christmas. The 21-acre farm will be built on open land on the far south side of the Urbana-Champaign campus. It will eventually provide 2 percent of the campus' power. The first panels will go up in mid-September, said Morgan Johnston, associate director of sustainability at UI Facilities and Services. The farm is being built in partnership with Phoenix Solar of San Ramon, California. Читать дальше...
Jesse Tyler Ferguson gets on his knees to spoof some Broadway shows during the opening night performance of Monty Python’s Spamalot at the Hollywood Bowl on Friday (July 31) in Hollywood. The 39-year-old actor’s character discovers that his “holy grail” is performing in Broadway musicals and he spoofs a few shows, including this bit from [...]
Daniel Suarez was fastest in practice Friday.
Take some dark-skinned, agile, desperate young migrants. Add queues of irate lorry drivers and frustrated holiday-makers. Stir in striking French ferry-workers. And then garnish with populist politicians pontificating about how the UK is being swamped with illegal immigrants and talking of sending the British Army to sort out the situation. This recipe, and the slight variant on it described today by Donald Armour of the Freight Transport Association, is for a perfect storm, or maybe a perfect swarm. Читать дальше...
Real men come from Glasgow, and, as a son of that finest of cities, certain activities are forever subject to self-denying ordinance: voting Tory; eating greens; watching cricket.
As one whose 55th birthday looms like an iceberg through Arctic fog, I read last week’s reports of the “controversial” study alleging that the male menopause really exists with all the enthusiasm that a goose would bring to the news that Strasbourg pie was about to be banned by EU law. At last, I thought, someone understands us.
It has been a good summer for the pound, or indeed for Britons heading abroad. The pound ended the week above $1.56, which is decent enough, though far short of the levels before the financial crash of 2008. But against the euro it is around €1.41, pretty much the best level since late 2007. For anyone going to Europe these are good times.
The village scribe, you might imagine, is pretty much out of a job in the West, in the 21st century, but my young friend has never been so busy. She has a skill that others seek out, on important occasions, notably weddings. She can take a few words, and make them really beautiful – not with her prettily modulated speech, but with her handwriting.
Poor old Cecil. Such a nice lion. Shot to death with an arrow fired by an American dentist. Not the end you would wish for him. Still, the global outrage that followed has been spectacular. Cecil’s death has played on the world’s heart strings like a manic harpist: the St Sebastian de nos jours.
Oh, the travails of a Republican grandee in this mind-bending American political summer of 2015. First there’s Congress, where your party has comfortable majorities in both House and Senate, but where Republicans have been spending less time of late fighting President Obama than fighting each other. And then there’s the battle for next year’s presidential nomination.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but being called "a virus" by the general secretary of a mid-sized union? That really is beyond the pale. When Liz Kendall appeared on Newsnight last week she said the CWU's description of Blairites was "offensive", but then it's far from the only potentially offensive term in the air of late.
The deal between the US and Turkey which will allow American bombers to use Incirlik airbase while Turkey takes action against Islamic State (Isis) looks stranger and stranger. When first announced over a week ago, US officials spoke triumphantly of the agreement being “a game-changer” in the war against Isis. In fact, the war waged by Turkey in the days since this great American diplomatic success has been almost entirely against the Kurds, at home and abroad.
Parkinson’s Law declares that work expands to fill the time available for its completion. But its author, the British historian Cyril Northcote Parkinson, coined a second less well-known adage. Parkinson’s Law of Triviality took the example of the committee asked to approve a new nuclear reactor, a new bike shed for the clerical staff and a rise in the price of coffee in the canteen. It asserted that people will always spend most time talking about the smallest issue, because the big one is generally beyond their comprehension. Читать дальше...
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — "Finding Your Roots" will return for season three, but whether the celebrity genealogy series that buried an uncomfortable fact about Ben Affleck's ancestor contin…
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — "Finding Your Roots" will return for season three, but whether the celebrity genealogy series that buried an uncomfortable fact about Ben Affleck's ancestor contin…
BEVERLY HILLS, California - "Finding Your Roots" will return for season three, but whether the celebrity genealogy series that buried an uncomfortable fact about Ben Affleck's ancestor continues after that remains in doubt, PBS' chief executive said.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — "Finding Your Roots" will return for season three, but whether the celebrity genealogy series that buried an uncomfortable fact about Ben Affleck's ancestor contin…
Twenty-two-year-old Radhika loves to attend her coaching classes. Her dream is to get admission in a top management college of the country and she is working hard for it But, a month and a half ago, her life seemed to hit a dead-end. She was trapped in a racket which used to take obscene photographs of girls under the pretext of modelling assigments and later, forced them into prostitution.