In August 1961, exactly 60 years ago, the US started its massive herbicidal warfare program during the Vietnam war. Tens of thousands of square kilometers of the Vietnamese territory were defoliated with some 20 million gallons of so-called “rainbow herbicides,” which included the infamous Agent Orange. The operation did not …
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Galileo Galilei was locked up after the Roman Inquisition found him guilty of heresy. That was 1633, but Professor Avi Loeb of Harvard University is going through his own tribulations. The eminent scholar is viewed by some as controversial, which sparked an outpouring against his new initiative to finally answer …
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Sadulaev overpowered Snyder 6-3 in Saturday’s final, handing him a gold medal to go with the one he won in the 86kg category in Rio five years ago. The 25-year-old Dagestani star – a four-time world champion – was later announced by Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) boss Stanislav Pozdnyakov as …
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Kill anything that moves March 15, 1968 was a normal day in America. The sun was shining. The birds were chirping. Race riots in Mississippi were entering their fifth day or so. And at the other end of the globe, in Vietnam, soldiers of the Americal Division’s Charlie Company, 1st …
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The latest Yahoo News/YouGov poll, released on Wednesday, showed that 66% of Republicans believe last November’s election was “stolen” from former President Donald Trump. Just 18% said they consider Biden’s victory to be “fair and square,” and approximately 16% were undecided. While only 3% of Democrat respondents believe Trump was …
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The 20-year-old artistic gymnast’s road to her 14.833 score, which beat individual gold medalist Suni Lee’s 14.500, was far from smooth. Part of a gold-claiming junior team at the European Championships in 2016, her transition to senior level was rough, with constant back injuries preventing her from being able to train and …
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Seeking to “provide timely, authoritative context across the wide range of global topics and conversations that happen on Twitter,” the San Francisco-based company announced on Monday it was teaming up with the two news agencies in order to “identify and elevate credible information.” The announcement was written by Joanna Geary, …
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There’s a push towards lab-grown diamonds, 7 million carats were produced last year, but mined diamond production was still far greater at 111 million. The world’s biggest jeweller recently announced it would only sell lab-grown diamonds. Mass market brand Pandora switched for ethical reasons and also because the price is about …
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Joe Biden recently announced that the US combat mission in Iraq will conclude by the end of the year. This announcement reflects the reality on the ground more than a major shift in US policy, and as such operates more as an exercise in semantics than a portent of any withdrawal …
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It’s that time of year again. When the world loses it over a spy scandal, it gets endless wall-to-wall coverage, pundits shout at each other on TV, governments release boilerplate statements that use words without saying anything – and in a few days or weeks, it all blows over, and …
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