The Dragon is the fifth animal in the 12-year Chinese Zodiac cycle. Find out more about why the Dragon placed fifth, what some Dragon year traits are, and which famous personalities are born under the Dragon Zodiac.
A Russian court on Friday ordered jailed dissident Alexei Navalny to pay 500,000 roubles ($6,700) in damages in a lawsuit filed by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Kremlin-linked businessman, the court said. Navalny, a prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin, was jailed for two and a half years last month over alleged parole violations related to an embezzlement case he said was trumped up for political reasons, something the authorities deny. Prigozhin's company, Konkord, said the court told Navalny to pay damages for comments he made that were deemed defamatory, inaccurate and offensive.
The tournament was postponed by a year to June due to the pandemic and there remain questions over UEFA's plan to host the event in 12 cities across the continent. European soccer's governing body UEFA wants each of the countries staging matches to submit their plans -- including for the safe return of fans -- by April 7. "All countries are grappling with this, not just Scotland."
Of all the interiors that are vital to Cadillac’s success, the new 2021 Escalade’s is arguably the most important. It’s supposed to be the best GM can muster, and the previous generation was a distant second to the classically elegant Lincoln Navigator. Cadillac didn’t try to copy Lincoln’s success with its redesigned full-sizer, instead opting to follow a more generic theme of tech-forward luxury.
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Nearly a fifth of Britons support Harry and Meghan but the Queen wins more sympathy, according to a poll.
Nigeria, Kenya and Rwanda started inoculating frontline healthcare workers and vulnerable citizens against COVID-19 on Friday as Africa, the world's poorest continent and home to 1.3 billion people, stepped up its vaccination campaigns. While some wealthy Western nations have already inoculated millions of people, many African states have struggled to secure doses and have yet to administer a single shot. But the global vaccine-sharing COVAX facility, co-led by the World Health Organization (WHO), the GAVI vaccine alliance and others, has begun to bear fruit in nations from Ghana to Rwanda.
Julia Roberts has been a Dr. Anthony Fauci advocate for some time now. On Thursday, Roberts mentioned her family has been profoundly inspired by the doctor’s work with the COVID-19 and HIV viruses, presenting Fauci with amfAR’s Award of Courage for 2021. “Your calm and your reassurance have been something that left an indelible mark […]
A rare drawing by the Italian Baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini is to go on sale on March 20 at an auction house in Compiegne, the French northern city where it was discovered six months ago. Bernini was a 17th century master sculptor and architect who is behind many of Rome's landmarks such as the Four Rivers Fountain in Piazza Navona. "One can see the artist has not forgotten the power and virility of Michelangelo subjects," said Dominique Le Coent de Beaulieu, head of auction house Acteon.
"No more reaching to scrub walls, tubs and floors."
With four bread modes and an oven mode, this gadget puts other toasters to shame. The post This stunning hi-tech toaster-oven hybrid is the perfect modern kitchen tool appeared first on In The Know.
Youngsters endured strokes, central nervous system infections and a build-up of fluid around the vital organ.
Jermaine Fowler was named one of Variety’s 10 Comics to Watch in 2016, and he jokes he wasn’t a fan of lists until then. Since that time, Fowler has made a name for himself as the star and producer of the series “Superior Donuts,” and now he takes on his biggest role yet — in […]
The artisans behind some of this year’s films were tasked with creating a myriad of stunts, regardless of century or setting. While stunt actors execute the physicalities in a script, it’s not without support from other departments, including costumes. A costume may be wonderful, but unless it can withstand the necessary action sequences as well, […]
FedEx has announced that its fleet of pickup and delivery trucks will be all-EV by 2040. The EV600, which GM announced in January, will have a 250-mile range and 600 cubic feet of cargo capacity, and FedEx is set to receive its first EV600s before the end of the year. Presumably, though, FedEx will need to expand its range of battery-electric trucks beyond just the GM offering, perhaps to Ford's E-Transit van, the Mercedes eSprinter, the VW I.D. Buzz Cargo, or a startup like the Bolinger Motors Deliver-E.
Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, who announced last week that they’ve come together as a project called Silk Sonic, have released the first song from their forthcoming album, and it’s a glorious blast of vintage R&B called “Leave the Door Open” that could be a Best R&B Song Grammy winner from 1974. Even though the classic R&B […]
The White House COVID-19 response team holds a news briefing.
One of Barcelona's top music venues will hold a concert for 5,000 people later this month after no COVID-19 cases were reported at a pilot project using same-day testing. No social distancing will be required at the show, headlined by Spanish indie band Love of Lesbian, and concert-goers will be able to buy drinks, said organizer Festivals per la Cultura Segura, whose name translates as Festivals for Safe Culture. The gig, scheduled for March 27 in Barcelona's Palau Sant Jordi, will serve as a pilot to establish "a new protocol for holding events in the current context," the company said in a statement.
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola says Manchester United will be "difficult" opponents despite a huge gulf in form between the two sides ahead of Sunday's derby.
Pangea, a marketplace startup that wants to connect college freelancers and companies in need of digital help, is seeing its growth rate accelerate as it races toward the impending Y Combinator demo day. Pangea, based in Providence, Rhode Island, is one such company. TechCrunch previously covered the company when it announced a $400,000 pre-seed round last April.
The US economy saw better-than-expected hiring in February as businesses battered by the Covid-19 pandemic began recruiting employees again, while Congress moved forward with President Joe Biden's massive stimulus proposal despite Republican opposition.
