Archive du mois : avril 2018
U.S. President Donald Trump hailed “big progress” as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged to halt nuclear testing, a largely symbolic gesture that appeared aimed at softening the ground for talks between the two leaders. Kim told a ruling party meeting in Pyongyang on Friday his regime would suspend tests of atomic bombs and…
Immigrants from Jamaica on board ‘Empire Windrush’ arrive in London on June 22, 1948 (Picture: Getty)The arrival records of thousands of immigrants from the Windrush Generation are in the National Archives. It could be the vital evidence the immigrants need to prove citizenship after it emerged the Home Office destroyed its archive of landing slips…
Updated April 21, 2018 15:20:35 Video: Security guards chase youth involved in crash (top left) (ABC News) Two teenagers have been arrested by police following a fatal hit-and-run collision involving a stolen car in Melbourne’s east in the early hours of the morning. The crash happened at the intersection of Stud and Boronia Roads at…
In Armenia, a small nation of three million located just south of Russia, spring has ushered in mass protests. Thousands of people, young and elderly, women and men, have taken to the streets to rally against the ruling regime, newly gussied-up in a revamped parliamentary system. The movement has been challenging outgoing President Serzh Sargsyan,…
Inspectors from the global chemical weapons watchdog have finally reached a formerly rebel-held town in Syria where a suspected gas attack took place two weeks ago. Saturday’s visit to Douma came a week after the fact-finding mission of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons’ (OPCW) first arrived in Syria, and amid growing questions about…
Havana, Cuba – The new president of this country, Miguel Diaz-Canel, is promising to defend the socialist revolution while also modernising the economy. However, Cubans are sceptical about seeing many improvements even though Diaz-Canel is the Caribbean country’s first leader – after more than half a century – who is not from the Castro family. For them, just…
Ganz im Nordosten von Berlin, wo die Stadt fast zu Ende ist, versteckt sich zwischen den ortsteiltypischen Plattenbautürmen ein kleines russisches Dampfbad namens „Teremok“. Der altmodische Name bedeutet auf Deutsch so etwas wie „gute Stube“, und tatsächlich ist das „Teremok“ eine Art gute Stube des russischsprachigen Marzahns. Wer den Ortsteil, der wie kaum ein anderer…
Dyson’s letters are particularly engaging when they describe the occasional flashes of illumination that lead to a scientific insight. Riding on a cross-continental Greyhound bus, past Iowa cornfields, Dyson notes: “On the third day of the journey a remarkable thing happened; going into a sort of semi-stupor as one does after 48 hours of bus…
Big tobacco stocks have had one of their worst weeks in years, with Marlboro manufacturer Philip Morris International (PMI) down more than 17% (including its single biggest one-day share price decline in a decade Thursday), Altria down more than 10%, and British American Tobacco (whose subsidiaries include Camel cigarettes maker Reynolds American) down 9%. So…
The theoretical physicist on why ‘exploring the nature of time leads us to understand something about ourselves’
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