Lauri Jetsu, an astrophysicist at the University of Helsinki, is following a tradition that may stretch back thousands of years. For more than a decade, he’s studied the bright star Algol, one of the most unusual stars in the sky, with its brightness visibly changing every few days. His research suggests those fluctuations have been noted since at least ancient […]

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London: The Duchess of Sussex has apologised for misleading a British court about the extent of her co-operation with the authors of a sympathetic book about her and Prince Harry. The former Meghan Markle is embroiled in legal action in London over a newspaper’s publication of portions of a letter she wrote to her estranged father after her 2018 marriage […]

YouTube is making some changes to its platform in an effort to protect creators by hiding dislike counts on videos.  On Wednesday, the video-sharing service began rolling out a new feature that keeps the counts private and only viewable to the person who uploaded the video.   The actual dislike button, however, will remain and viewers can still dislike a video […]

NIGERIAN bodybuilder Victor Richards is a legend in the fitness world. On Wednesday, November 10, rumors circulated that Richards was dead but his daughter set the record straight. Who is Victor Richards? Victor Richards began competing in 1982 at The American Cup. He placed first in the teenage heavyweight division, and second overall. At the age of 18, Victor placed […]

Johannesburg: South Africa’s last white president Frederik Willem (FW) de Klerk, who negotiated a peaceful transfer of power to a black-led government under Nelson Mandela, died on Thursday aged 85 after a battle with cancer, his foundation said. De Klerk won praise worldwide for his role in scrapping apartheid, and he shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Mandela in 1993. […]

By Susan Heavey and Sarah N. Lynch    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday sued Uber Technologies Inc over allegations of overcharging disabled passengers, and asked a federal court to order compliance with an anti-discrimination law.    The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco, targets an April 2016 Uber policy of charging passengers "wait time" […]

WASHINGTON — Republican Rep. Fred Upton, of Michigan, received a profanity-laced voicemail threatening his life and that of his family and staff, criticizing his support for the bipartisan infrastructure bill last week. In the voicemail, obtained by NBC News from his office, a caller told Upton, "I hope you die. I hope everybody in your f— family dies," while labeling […]

A GARDENING business owner sacked his pregnant wife after she found his receipts for £500 of "adult entertainment" – and now he has been ordered to pay her £15,000. Financial consultant Nicole Ramsay, 33, was working for her hubby Stephen's lawn-care company when she confronted him for spending hundreds of pounds on X-rated services online. Mr Ramsay responded by firing […]

THE Lotto drw returns TONIGHT with players in with the chance of winning £2 million. The draw takes place at 8pm, with a Thunderball draw also underway just minutes later at 8.15pm. The latest EuroMillions draw also took place on Tuesday evening, where the winning numbers were: 17, 25, 26, 33 and 36, while the Lucky Stars were 1 and […]