Jarrod Bowen 20 Questions with West Ham's 20
West Ham United star Jarrod Bowen is a busy man with the Hammers' successful season, but West Ham's number 20 took time out to answer 20 questions in this quickfire challenge. Read more...
How to Stop Speeding Drivers in N.Y.C.? Scare Them
Traffic deaths in New York City have risen to the highest level in eight years. A new campaign aims to shock them into slowing down. Read more...
Who Is Protected Against Monkeypox?
Older people who received smallpox vaccinations may yet have some immunity, researchers say. Healthy children and adults generally do not become severely ill. Read more...
Why Republicans Campaign on Guns While Democrats Choose Not To
For Republicans, brandishing firepower is a visual shorthand for hard-core conservatism. Democrats see little gain in highlighting an issue on which their party hasnt been able to get much done. Read more...
Tricky general knowledge quiz will test you on topics including geography, science and culture
A tricky new challenge has been shared on US-based trivia platform Quizly. Players are tasked with answering 24 multiple-choice questions that put their general knowledge to the test. Read more...
Liz Jones's DiaryIn which reality again fails the fantasy
Real life is never as it is portrayed in glossy magazines. And because I spent my life trying to emulate a spread in a glossy, I've been doomed to fail Read more...
Huge asteroid TWICE the size of the Burj Khalifa will pass Earth on Friday
The asteroid, named 7335 (1989 JA) measures a whopping 1.1 miles (1.8km) in diameter, and will pass by our planet on Friday. Read more...
Substack Drops Fund-Raising Efforts as Market Sours
Amid an industrywide downturn, venture investors are preaching austerity and halting new deals, particularly for companies that have spent aggressively on growth. Read more...
Verizon's plan Consumers win, investors lose
Verizon has decided to bring back unlimited data plans. But while that's great for its subscribers, it's awful news for investors. It's another sign of how brutally competitive the telecom business is. And it's hurting Verizon's stock. Read more...
Tom Brady Will Step Into Fox Broadcast Booth After He Retires
Brady has a deal to eventually become the lead analyst during Fox broadcasts of N.F.L. games. Read more...
Are the Next Global Tennis Stars Among These Tweens?
The search for elite players is so competitive that IMG, the agency that once ruled tennis, is cultivating preteens to find the next prodigy, giving them access to representatives from the pro tours and Nike. Read more...
Texas school district is shut down after cops foil alleged copycat shooting plot
Officials in Donna, a small community in the Rio Grande Valley, issued the shutdown order late on Wednesday, a day after a gunman slaughtered 21 at an elementary in Uvalde, about 300 miles north. Read more...
The Fight Over Abortion History
The leaked draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade also takes aim at its version of history, challenging decades of scholarship that argues abortion was not always a crime. Read more...
NHS 'dangerously over-reliant' on China with one in SIX medical items coming from Beijing
A report by the thinktank Civitas found that overall NHS dependency on Chinese supply chains has trebled since 2019, with the UK now sending 6.2billion a year to Beijing for medical gear. Read more...
Indian brave, courtesan, slave and the world's loudest snorer MANY LIVES AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY STEPHANIE BEACHAM
It takes a while to get into this book because first you have to navigate a prologue and not one but two forewords, the first by the authors 11-year-old grandson, who reveals that at 4 a.m. without make-up Stephanie Beacham has green skin, witch-like hair and gives him nightmares, muses JOHN HARDING Read more...