About the Chinese Zodiac: The Rat
The Rat is the first animal in the 12-year Chinese Zodiac cycle. Find out more about why the Rat placed first, what some Rat year traits are, and which famous personalities are born under the Rat Zodiac.
The Rat is the first animal in the 12-year Chinese Zodiac cycle. Find out more about why the Rat placed first, what some Rat year traits are, and which famous personalities are born under the Rat Zodiac.
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.
Albania's government on Friday selected a Swiss-based corporation to build a 104-million-euro ($125 million) new international airport near the southwestern town of Vlore in an effort to promote tourism and economic development. The Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy said the Lugano-based Mabco Constructions corporation would pay the airport construction costs and receive a 35-year concession to operate it. Infrastructure Minister Belinda Balluku acknowledged that the aviation industry “has been the most negatively impacted industry due to the pandemic.”
The coronavirus pandemic has wiped out millions of jobs in the United States, but it's had the unexpected effect of increasing savings rates among Americans, especially wealthy people stuck at home and forced to give up travel and entertainment.
There once was a time, before Spotify, TikTok, Seamless, Peloton and NFTs, when it still wasn’t that out of the ordinary for a rock ’n’ roll band like Kings Of Leon to top charts all over the world with Actual Rock’n’Roll Songs™. Now here we are in 2021, with the closest thing to guitar-based music […]
Ninja Thyberg, whose movie “Pleasure” debuted to rave reviews at Sundance Film Festival, has signed with CAA. “Pleasure,” an explicit drama about the adult film industry, marked Thyberg’s feature film directorial debut. In 2013, she directed a short of the same name, which premiered at Cannes Film Festival. The movie takes a look at the Los […]
Saks Fifth Avenue is spinning off its website into a separate company, with the hopes of expanding that business at a time when more people are shopping online. The website will still carry the Saks name. HBC, the parent company of Saks, said Friday that the new company will focus on growing online sales by adding more products and services, such as styling.
CEBU Air Inc. (CEB or Cebu Pacific) signed a P16-billion 10-year term loan facility Friday, March 5, with a syndicate of domestic banks.This syndicated loan facility is a landmark deal that exhibits the
Pope Francis arrived in Baghdad as he began his historic papal visit to Iraq on March 5.Videos released by Vatican News Arabic show the pope at Our Lady of Salvation Church in Baghdad. In 2010, gunmen representing the Islamic State of Iraq attacked the church during Sunday evening Mass and killed scores of Christian worshippers. Credit: Vatican News Arabic via Storyful
His death was confirmed on Twitter by Wayne, who said his dad had battled Parkinson's disease and other health issues over the last few years. "For my sister and my 3 brothers, Dad was our team captain - he guided, protected and led our family every day, every step of the way," 60-year-old Wayne wrote on Twitter. Widely recognised as Canada's most famous hockey dad, Walter produced the famous backyard rink on which Wayne learned to skate as a two-year-old and later honed his skills.
Porto were stunned by Braga in the second leg of their Portuguese Cup semi-final on Wednesday, losing 3-2 at home and 4-3 on aggregate, leading players and pundits to suggest mental exhaustion was a factor within the squad. Conceicao, however, denied those claims, saying footballers live privileged lives. "During these COVID times when so much is spoken about the pandemic, mental fatigue doesn't exist (for footballers)," he told a news conference.
Tottenham Hotspur manager Jose Mourinho believes clubs like Crystal Palace have the advantage of playing without any pressure as he prepares for Sunday's Premier League clash against Roy Hodgson's side. While Tottenham are scrapping for the top-four finish many feel is the least the club should be aiming for, Palace are in 13th spot, well clear of the relegation danger area. "They are a very good team, it is going to be difficult, we need points more than them because if their objective is to be stable in the middle of the table then they are going to have that," Mourinho told reporters.
AC Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic revealed Friday how he had to hitch a motorbike ride to avoid missing Italy's legendary Sanremo musical festival where he was performing a duet with Bologna coach Sinisa Mihajlovic.
The man was rescued and airlifted to hospital where he is being treated for chest injuries.
The 2021 Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo electric wagon is finally revealed, and along with it is a new configuration tool to play with. In typical Porsche fashion, there is a wide array of trim levels, performance options and, most fun, interior and exterior choices. Read on, and be sure to visit the Porsche configuration tool to build your own.
It’s not often you see Panasonic TVs in the cheap aisles, but this smart 4K flatscreen will have you doing a double take.
A former State Department aide in President Donald Trump's administration has been charged with participating in the deadly siege at the Capitol and assaulting officers who were trying to guard the building, court papers show. Federico Klein, who also worked for Trump's 2016 campaign, was seen wearing a “Make America Great Again" hat amid the throng of people in a tunnel trying to force their way into the Capitol on Jan. 6, the papers say. Klein pushed his way toward the doors, where, authorities say, “he physically and verbally engaged" with officers trying to keep the mob back.
Colombia's public prosecutor said on Friday he would ask a judge to halt an investigation into former president Alvaro Uribe regarding alleged witness tampering and fraud.