FILE PHOTO: Tennis – Davis Cup Final Draw – France v Croatia – Stade Pierre Mauroy, Lille, France – November 22, 2018 Croatia’s captain Zeljko Krajan with Marin Cilic and Borna Coric during the draw press conference REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol BELGRADE (Reuters) – Croatians Marin Cilic and Borna Coric will join world number one Novak Djokovic’s … Read more
A harrowing video depicts the tragic final moments of a kayaker stranded at sea off the coast of New South Wales, Australia. Jeremy Worthy, 43, had posted the video to Facebook Sunday as a last-ditch rescue plea before his body was discovered in the water just hours later, reports the Daily Mail. “There’s no going … Read more
One of the phrases YouTube is censoring is “五毛 (wumao),” which roughly translates to “50-cent party,” a derogatory term aimed at online censors who the Chinese government pays to direct conversations away from criticism of the ruling party. According to The News Brig, what YouTube isn’t doing is deleting the English translations of those phrases nor their Romanized … Read more
The white financier caught in a viral video calling the cops on a black man in Central Park for asking that she leash her dog exhibited “racism” and “hatred,” Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted Tuesday, wading into the firestorm. “The video out of Central Park is racism, plain and simple,” de Blasio wrote Tuesday morning, … Read more
There is no team in the NBA that can say they had a successful game plan against Shaquille O’Neal. It was impossible to contain the 7-foot-1 freak of an athlete. Shaq’s dominance came through his gifted skill set and his passion to succeed in the game. Shaquille O’Neal can look back and say that he … Read more
US consumer confidence nudged up in May, suggesting the worst of the novel coronavirus-driven economic slump was likely in the past as the country starts to reopen, but it could take a while for the economy to dig out of its hole amid record unemployment. Signs the downturn could be close to bottoming were bolstered … Read more
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Tuesday awarded a contract to build a new desalination plant to a local company, turning down a bid by a Hong Kong conglomerate at a time of growing U.S. pressure to avoid Chinese investments in key infrastructure. Israel’s Energy and Water Ministry said it had granted the Sorek 2 desalination … Read more
Browser developers love to add small Easter Eggs to their apps to help you while away the hours when your interent is down, for example. Chrome has long had the Dino game, that you can start from the “No internet” error screen, for example. With its surf game, Microsoft’s Edge team built something similar into … Read more
BRASILIA (Reuters) – The Americas have emerged as the new epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a Tuesday briefing, as a U.S. study forecast deaths surging in Brazil and other Latin American countries through August. Gravediggers work during a mass burial of people who passed away due to the … Read more
Silent Hill’s iconic monster, Pyramid Head, is coming to Dead by Daylight, the 4v1 asymmetrical multiplayer horror game from Behaviour Interactive, alongside other content inspired by Konami’s psychological horror franchise. Pyramid Head, new survivor Cheryl Mason, and the Midwich Elementary School map are live now on Dead by Daylight’s public test build on Steam and … Read more