Raising the price of music streaming could risk driving people back towards illegal downloading, MPs were told on Tuesday.
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Breaking News
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Breaking News
Nasa scientists celebrated the successful landing of another Mars rover by hosting an online Q&A on Reddit.
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Foreign Affairs
Five Cubans made it from their native country to two miles southeast of Palm Beach Inlet before the U.S. Coast Guard ended their journey Saturday, the agency said. The Coast...
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Foreign Affairs
The doctor slid a miniature camera into the patient's right nostril, making her whole nose glow red with its bright miniature light. “Tickles a bit, eh?” he asked as he...
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Breaking News
Golf star Tiger Woods suffered leg injuries when his vehicle rolled over near Los Angeles, and is in hospital undergoing surgery, authorities and his manager say.
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Politics
Liberal feminist author Naomi Wolf dared to take her alarm about the US' slide into totalitarian dictatorship onto Tucker Carlson's Fox News show, triggering a predictable uproar that largely ignored...
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Breaking News
French actor Gerard Depardieu has been charged with rape and sexual assault after authorities revived a 2018 investigation that was initially dropped, the Paris prosecutor's office said.
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Politics
The two-faced UK government continues to blame Beijing for coronavirus & accuse it of human rights abuses & spying, so why does it still expect the Chinese to play ball...
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Politics
How quickly things change. Nine months ago, most Miami offices remained shuttered. The luxury condo market was stalled, reeling from the double-whammy of a pre-pandemic glut and a collective case...
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Foreign Affairs
By taking meat off the menu at school canteens, the ecologist mayor of one of France's most famously gastronomic cities has kicked up a storm of protest and debate as...
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Politics
The US has finger-wagged at other countries for decades, alleging they can't care for their people. But when disaster strikes at home, America is not prepared, with the winter storm...
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Foreign Affairs
Iran officially started restricting international inspections of its nuclear facilities Tuesday, a bid to pressure European countries and President Joe Biden's administration to lift crippling economic sanctions and restore the...
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Breaking News
AstraZeneca expects to deliver less than half the Covid-19 vaccines it was contracted to supply the European Union in the second quarter.
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Breaking News
Spotify has said it is open to alternative models for calculating how artists should be paid amid concerns about how little emerging musicians are able to earn.
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Breaking News
A federal judge has ordered the wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to remain temporarily jailed after she was arrested and accused of helping her husband run...
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Politics
By losing a simulated war of its own invention with Russia, the Polish military seeks to convince NATO of its vulnerability. This could lead to a build-up of military forces...
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Foreign Affairs
Facebook announced Tuesday that it would lift a ban on Australians viewing and sharing news on its platform after it struck a deal with the government on proposed legislation that...
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Politics
Reuters is one of the largest newswires in the world, providing untold numbers of journalists with text they can reuse. What few know is that some of that content is...
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Foreign Affairs
A defrocked American priest went on trial Tuesday to face charges he sexually abused young girls at his shelter for orphans and children from impoverished families, in the first clergy...
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Foreign Affairs
About 96,810 pounds of Ming Yang Hotpot Seasonings were recalled because they have beef tallow and didn't undergo USDA import re-inspection after coming from China. Though beef tallow is beef...
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Foreign Affairs
Prince Philip is “comfortable” in a London hospital where he is being treated for an infection, Buckingham Palace said Tuesday. The palace said Philip, the 99-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth...
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Science & Tech
Google Docs is upgrading its comment feature with a new badge that shows users new activity in their document.
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Politics
Democrat attempts to overturn a certified election result that went against them in Iowa shows what hypocritical manipulators they are and reveals their real intent – to seize complete control...
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Politics
That's no typo on the sign of your neighborhood gas station. Gas prices are soaring in South Florida. And drivers are feeling it in the wallet as they hit the...
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Science & Tech
Sony has revealed the first details on its plans to introduce virtual reality to the PlayStation 5, but says don't expect any new hardware this year.
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Foreign Affairs
A relative of Queen Elizabeth II was sentenced Tuesday to 10 months in prison for sexually assaulting a woman at his ancestral castle in Scotland. Simon Bowes-Lyon, the Earl of...
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Politics
Diversity training that isolates a group of people, as used recently by Coca-Cola, is becoming a major problem. It contradicts the very idea of equality and runs the risk of...
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Politics
Covid's in retreat and millions of people have been vaccinated, so why not move out of lockdown more quickly? Worryingly, the damaging restrictions are fast becoming an end in themselves...
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Politics
Zero state inspection violations. None. That's what it takes to make this list. Well, zero inspection violations as judged by the inspector and an address somewhere between Key West and...
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Politics
A headteacher in England has confirmed he is erasing the names of significant historical figures from his school after a pupil complained. But this lack of respect for the past...
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Politics
Miami Beach wealth haven Star Island is getting competition from its neighbor. Ibrahim Al-Rashid, son of Saudi billionaire Nasser Ibrahim Al-Rashid and Lebanese-French socialite Mouna Ayoub, bought yet another house...
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Politics
Thanks to a new documentary, filmmaker Woody Allen is once again answering to cancel culture advocates over allegations he molested his daughter, despite the issue already having been investigated and...
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Foreign Affairs
Protesters gathered in Myanmar's biggest city on Monday despite the ruling junta's threat to use lethal force against people who join a general strike against the military's takeover three weeks...
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Foreign Affairs
Two U.K. studies released Monday showed that COVID-19 vaccination programs are contributing to a sharp drop in hospitalizations, boosting hopes that the shots will work as well in the real...
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Foreign Affairs
Microsoft is teaming up with European publishers to push for a system to make big tech platforms pay for news, raising the stakes in the brewing battle led by Australia...
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Foreign Affairs
The imprisonment of a rap artist for his music and tweets praising terrorist violence and insulting the Spanish monarchy has set off a powder keg of pent-up rage this week...
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Foreign Affairs
Norway's National Museum says a small, barely visible sentence written with a pencil on Edvard Munch's 1893 masterpiece “The Scream” was penned by the Norwegian painter himself. The painting which...
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Foreign Affairs
A sell-off in technology companies led stocks on Wall Street mostly lower Monday, adding to the market's losses from last week. The S&P 500 fell 0.8%, extending its losses to...
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Foreign Affairs
Maria Piparinen and other elderly residents of Ikhala were relieved when they heard that doctors were finally bringing a few doses of the coronavirus vaccine to their remote, snowy village...
Posted by | February 23, 2021 | Foreign Affairs
The Italian ambassador to Congo, an Italian Carabinieri police officer and their Congolese driver were killed Monday when gunmen attacked a U.N. convoy traveling to a school in eastern Congo,...
