Image copyright Reuters Image caption Senators Schumer and McConnell arrived at Congress together to announce the deal US budget hawks have labelled a plan to hike defence and domestic spending by hundreds of billions of dollars as a debt-ballooning « monstrosity ». In a rare show of bipartisanship, Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic counterpart Chuck…

This is a huge milestone for SpaceX. The question now is: What’s next? There were a lot of expectations pinned on this rocket, if not this specific launch. It would have been disappointing (rather than catastrophic) if the rocket had failed; SpaceX could have attempted another Falcon Heavy launch in another few months, assuming the…

Hamburg – Flau­schi­ges Wel­pen-Fell, treu­er Hun­de­blick: „Willy” mach­te seine Fa­mi­lie ein­fach glück­lich. Jetzt ist er aus­ge­büxt – und für die Han­sens aus Groß­h­ans­dorf (Metropolregion Hamburg) ist nichts mehr wie vor­her. FA­MI­LI­EN-DRA­MA UM EINEN VER­MISS­TEN HUND. Als der Ber­ner Sen­nen­hund (5 Mo­na­te) Sonn­tag beim Spa­zier­gang we­g­lief, nahm das Un­glück sei­nen tra­gi­schen Lauf: Herr­chen Tho­mas Han­sen (58)…

I recently helped repair the card reader for the Computer History Museum’s vintage IBM 1401 mainframe. In the process, I learned a lot about the archaic but interesting electromechanical systems used in the card reader. Most of the card reader is mechanical, with belts, gears, and clutches controlling the movement of cards through the mechanism.…

Enlarge / Eating our way to world domination. Last year, archaeologists in California made a startling announcement: they had discovered a 130,000 year-old prehistoric human campsite in the Golden State. According to currently accepted evidence, the first modern humans were just venturing out of Africa at that time, and no one would set foot in…

A « career conman » duped hotel staff into handing him almost £150,000 worth of tickets for last year’s Champions League final in Cardiff. Serial fraudster Lewis Hudson, 40, is believed to have worked with others, who police are trying to identify, to cash in on the major sporting final – one of the most prestigious events…

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Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo is confident he can keep going « for years to come » at the elite level of football. The Portugal captain, who turned 33 on Monday, has shown signs of a decline in his form this season for the first time in his glittering career. The forward has only scored eight goals…

India 303 for 6 (Kohli 160*, Dhawan 76, Duminy 2-60) beat South Africa 179 (Duminy 51, Kuldeep 4-23, Chahal 4-46) by 124 runs Live Scorecard and ball-by-ball details Virat Kohli ensured India will have some share of the silverware as he took them to unassailable 3-0 lead in the ODI series. Kohli scored his second…