Archive du mois : mai 2018

Indians shortstop Francisco Lindor kept his word Thursday and let members of the Montverde Academy baseball team shave his head after the team fulfilled Lindor’s challenge and finished 25-0 this season.

« Apple is committed to advancing technologies that are good for the planet and help protect it for generations to come, » said Tim Cook in a statement. « We are proud to be part of this ambitious new project, and look forward to one day being able to use aluminum produced without direct greenhouse gas emissions in…

Bayerns Innenminister Joachim Herrmann (CSU) hat « Lügenpropaganda » für den starken Zulauf zu einer Großdemonstration gegen das geplante neue bayerische Polizeigesetz verantwortlich gemacht. « Ich bin vor allen Dingen überrascht davon, dass die zum Teil auch Lügenpropaganda der letzten Wochen wohl auch manch unbedarfte Menschen in die Irre geführt hat », sagte Herrmann am Freitag im Bayerischen Rundfunk.…

Less than a month after his abrupt departure from WPP Plc, Martin Sorrell is planning his next act. “I am not going into voluntary or involuntary retirement,” the deposed 73-year-old ads czar said at a New York conference this week. “I’m going to start again.” So if Sorrell were to try to build an advertising giant anew,…

Before he directed such mind-bending masterpieces as Time Bandits, Brazil and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, before he became short-hand for a filmmaker cursed with cosmically bad luck, before he became the sole American member of seminal British comedy group Monty Python, Terry Gilliam made a name for himself creating odd animated bits for…

Live: Wayne Rooney’s future, football farewells, Premier League news conferences – BBC Sport ]]> ]]> Summary Latest on Wayne Rooney’s future Dermot O’Leary’s farewell letter to Arsene Wenger West Brom, Everton, Spurs & Chelsea news conferences Get involved: Tell us your football goodbyes Text 81111; tweet #myfootballgoodbye

Immy and the signed roof tile Michael Halliday, the former Ireland captain, has a broken pub roof tile on his mantelpiece. It is signed by Imran Khan. Because it was Imran who hit him out of Pagham Cricket ground when playing for Sussex against Ireland in 1977. Imran Khan made a hundred that day. When…

A first ever opposition victory signals voters’ disgust with corruption

Donald Trump claimed that « America is being respected again » and vowed to « secure peace » with North Korea.  Speaking at a rally in Elkhart, Indiana, the US president said his relationship with the secretive communist state’s leader Kim Jong-un was « good », adding that he would meet him « to secure a future of peace and prosperity for the world ».  He told his cheering supporters: « Something…