Royal Troon, host of this year’s British Open, in 2004, the last time it hosted the event. The golf club is the only one in the tournament’s rotation that does not allow female members.
Science instruments on board detected changes in the particles and fields around the spacecraft as it passed from an environment dominated by the interplanetary solar wind into Jupiter's magnetosphere.
BIRAN, Cuba (AP) — At the end of a dirt road lined with fields of sugar cane, royal palms and tropical fruit trees, a cluster of wooden houses painted in brilliant yellow, blue and white draws thousands of Cuban and international tourists a year. Visitors who roam the complex, often in sweltering heat, can see the crib where Fidel Castro was born, the bedroom he shared with his brothers and the cockfighting arena where his father's birds fought. Biran sits in an isolated part of Holguin province... Читать дальше...
Activist K Manivannan alias Periyar Mani, 32, of Immidipalayam near Kinathukadvu, sought alms from bus passengers and coconut sellers, among others, in front of the district collectorate and later sat with beggars.
NEW YORK, June 30 (Yonhap) -- South Korean U.N. Ambassador Oh Joon called Thursday for stringent implementation of U.N. Security Council sanctions on North Korea, saying making its nuclear weapons development more difficult and costly is the only way t
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico faced a historic default Friday as the U.S. territory prepared to enter unchartered waters under the guidance of a newly enacted federal control board to oversee the island's finances amid a dire economic crisis. The anticipated missed payment of $2 billion in debt payments would be the biggest ever for Puerto Rico and includes $1 billion worth of general obligation bonds that are given top priority by the island's constitution. A rescue package signed Thursday... Читать дальше...
Sally Pearson is the way we like our sporting heroes: gritty, imperfect, up for the struggle.
Queensland man allegedly sexually assaulted child.
Mosha, a three-legged elephant, uses a custom-made prosthetic leg to walk.
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In 1863, the pivotal, three-day Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, resulting in a Union victory, began in Pennsylvania. In 1916, during World War I, France and Britain launched the Somme Offensive against the German army; the 4 1/2-month battle resulted in heavy casualties and produced no clear winner. In 1934, Hollywood began enforcing its Production Code subjecting motion pictures to censorship review. In 1946, the United States exploded a 20-kiloton atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. Читать дальше...
After a year of meetings with potential customers, Boeing is advancing toward developing an all-new jetliner with up to 270 seats that would target mid-range flights of up to 10 hours.
Congressional legislation to eliminate housing subsidies for hundreds of U.S. intelligence analysts based in the United Kingdom — the latest salvo in a battle with the Pentagon over a base relocation plan — has raised fears about a possible exodus of qualified personnel.
Repulsive and boring, “Swiss Army Man” is one of the longest movies of the year, and it runs only 95 minutes. Imagine a remake of “Castaway,” but with Wilson replaced by a rotting, flatulent corpse, or “Weekend at Bernie’s,” only with artistic pretensions in place of laughs. The gimmick is that Paul Dano is on a desert island, driven to the point of suicide, when a dead body washes up on the shore. [...] he starts imagining that the corpse, like a Swiss Army knife, can perform a variety of functions. Читать дальше...
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Two students of an engineering college in Coimbatore were arrested on Wednesday night in connection with a five-day-old hit and run case which resulted in the death of a sub-inspector.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has begun formally vetting prospective vice presidential picks.
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The Tour de France kicks off July 2. And this year, the event's organizers are cracking down a new form of cheating: mechanical doping, where cyclists use hidden motors to get ahead. Matthew Pioro, editor-in-chief of Canadian Cycling Magazine, tells Brent about the ins and outs of technological bike fraud.
By the late nineteen-eighties, as the sounds and styles of hip-hop pervaded youth culture, budding stars jostled for position, and a curious internal debate swept the tristate area—where exactly had it begun? Though South Bronx block parties had long been given the credit, one song inadvertantly fed fans the rumor that hip-hop started in Queens. In MC Shan’s 1986 single, “The Bridge,” he raps, “You love to hear the story, again and again / Of how it all got started way back when / The monument... Читать дальше...
In 2013, Dan Hurlin, a performance artist and puppet artist, was working at the American Academy in Rome when he stumbled on evidence that during the First World War Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), one of the Italian Futurists, had written four puppet plays that were never produced. Where were they? Hurlin travelled to Depero’s home town, Rovereto, at the foot of the Italian Alps, to examine the man’s archive. “I sat at this big table, wearing those white cotton gloves they make you wear,” Hurlin remembers. Читать дальше...
Technology, globalization, the levelling of cultural genres, and the ever-expanding options for entertainment and diversion have placed the empyrean realm of classical composition—and its living, thousand-year tradition—into a maelstrom of conflicting contexts. For Timo Andres, one of several brilliant composers to come out of the Yale School of Music over the last quarter century, context is commonplace. Not only is he part of a composer group, Sleeping Giant, which creates multi-movement, collective works... Читать дальше...
The vegetarians are winning. Not only are they healthier than the rest of us, they’re saving the planet, one carrot at a time—or, more specifically, one fewer hamburger at a time. (Livestock is responsible for an estimated eighteen per cent of greenhouse gas; if everyone in the world became vegan, methane emissions would be reduced by twenty-four per cent by 2050.) But even as a plant-based diet becomes cool (guilt and peer pressure can be effective motivators), there will always be carnivores who want—who need—meat (or chicken... Читать дальше...
In the citronella-scented back yard of Rose’s, a man in a stiff Carhartt jacket disparaged a recent meal to his friend, a five-hundred-euro affair that dared to include a classless dish of couscous and a cold egg yolk. Luckily, that evening, the egg yolk served on a particularly juicy burger was hot and runny to perfection. Until the bar was bought out by two of its managers, last April, Rose’s was owned by Francine Stephens and Andrew Feinberg, dons of the tastiest mafia on Flatbush Avenue, which... Читать дальше...