general
Norwegian ski jumpers and officials suspended over 'cheat' suits
BBC Sport
Brevik and equipment manager Adrian Livelten were suspended by the Norwegian Ski Federation this week. Brevik told local media he was "terribly sorry for what we did" while Livelten apologised for t ...[Continue Reading]
BBC News
over 1 year ago
Recent News (General)
general
Eight Thai monks killed after child drives truck into procession
Al Jazeera Staff
Eight Thai monks have been killed and other people injured after a child drove his familys pick-up truck into a Buddhist procession. The child who media reports said is 11 years old stole his parent ...[Continue Reading]
Al Jazeera English
1 day ago
general
A Brutal Wake-up Call for NYCs Democratic Establishment
Errol Louis
Nobody, not even the co-chair of the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, anticipated the depth and breadth of the groups success in last Tuesdays primaries. If we were to e ...[Continue Reading]
New York Magazine
1 day ago
general
Eight monks killed after 11yo steals parent's truck and crashes into procession
N/A
An 11-year-old boy has driven his parents' truck into a Buddhist procession in Thailand, killing eight monks and injuring more than 20 others, according to police and health officials. The group of ...[Continue Reading]
ABC News (AU)
1 day ago
general
RFK Jr. Claims Hes Investigating Terrorism Now, Too
Jessica Washington
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is taking a beat from his busy day job ending the scourge of vaccines and modern medicine to take up a right-wing push attempting to link the ...[Continue Reading]
The Intercept
1 day ago
general
The first McDonalds ever to open in the Soviet Union welcomed 38,000 Russians on January 31, 1990 a queue that snaked for kilometres through the freezing centre of Moscow and lasted up to 6 hours, 22 months before the country itself would cease to exis
Space Daily Editorial Team
The first McDonalds in the Soviet Union was, by every available measure of Cold War-era symbolic significance, one of the more substantial single commercial events of the entire late-20th-century co ...[Continue Reading]
Space Daily
1 day ago