AP source: Senate Republican leader McConnell tells colleagues he'll vote to acquit Trump in impeachment trial
WASHINGTON (AP) — AP source: Senate Republican leader McConnell tells colleagues he'll vote to acquit Trump in impeachment trial.
WASHINGTON (AP) — AP source: Senate Republican leader McConnell tells colleagues he'll vote to acquit Trump in impeachment trial.
Riot police in Myanmar on Friday dispersed hundreds of anti-coup protesters who have rallied daily in the country's largest city against a junta that toppled civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
The United Nations' human rights chief on Friday cited the need for an “independent and comprehensive assessment” of the rights situation in China’s Xinjiang region, while emphasizing that activists, lawyers and rights defenders face unfair charges, detention and trials in China. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said her office is working to find “mutually agreeable parameters” for her to visit China, including Xinjiang.
Seventeen former gymnasts in the UK have launched a group-claim lawsuit against the national governing body British Gymnastics alleging a range of abusive behaviour. The group, which includes three Olympians, has served a 'Letter of Claim' on the body, alleging physical and psychological abuse from coaches. "The abuse was perpetrated by coaches and others employed by British Gymnastics at various clubs across the UK, all of which were affiliated with the governing body," litigation firm Hausfeld and Co LLP, who are representing the former gymnasts, said in a statement.
First they conquered Hollywood film shoots, now they’re aiming to drive up local production, adding a new local edge to one of Europe’s most popular big shoot locales. A decade ago, Spain’s Canary Islands started to become a top shoot destination for big international films, offering wide-ranging landscapes and unique tax advantages. An influx of […]
Thor is a gentle giant that will absolutely brighten your day. Enjoy! Credit: wildrootsfarmllc (https://www.instagram.com/wildrootsfarmllc/)
Another day, another kitchen hack.
Just over half of Israel's population has had at least a first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, the health ministry said Friday in its latest update.
Due to the pandemic, Berlin Film Festival artistic director Carlo Chatrian and his programming team this year were forced to “think of the selection in different terms,” he says, when the fest adopted its two-step formula — an industry and press-focused event March 1-5 and a Summer Special open to the public June 9-20 — […]
[Marine Biologist Lisa Steiner]"I'm probably one of the original sperm whale geeks basically."Marine biologist Lisa Steiner has made it her life’s workto help people understand sperm whales better through machine learning -a type of artificial intelligence - in the sea around the Azores in the North Atlantic."My name is Lisa Steiner. I'm sitting on my back porch out in the Azores."It’s been a painstaking task that she has carried out manually and single-handedly, for the last 35 years.Since the 1980s Steiner has been photographing the tails - or flukes - of the endangered speciestrying to match them with other sightings of the same whale to work out its migration routes and population sizes."We started with black and white film in the cameras that we would develop ourselves in the darkroom and then print contact sheets and then from the contact sheets you pick out the specific fluke pictures that you want to print and then you printed those pictures and then you match them."Thankfully, the task is now being carried out faster and more accurately by a computer program - developed by Amazon Web Services and Capgemini.The Fluketracker recognizes the unique shape of each whale's fluke, which, much like a fingerprint, is unique to the individual.It’s already helped Steiner identify more than 200 new individual animals."It finds matches that my old program didn't find and that looking by eye I would never find. The machine learning for me is, they've trained it to know what a tail is, what a tail looks like and then they can train the computers to recognize the contours at the edge and then it goes from there and it sees more and more tails that I've provided. They had tails from 2005 to 2018. All the information is in a database so we can see where they've been, who they've been hanging out with, kind of what the social structure of what the groups are."Steiner says the end goal is to make the platform open source for citizen scientists to upload their marine life photographs for fun and to help scientific research."There's nothing I'd rather be doing on a nice day, nice weather with nice whales although when there's bad weather and the whales I'd rather be in bed."
Lara Gut-Behrami followed up her two world championship gold medals with downhill success in Italy on Friday to go top of the World Cup overall standings.
Seventeen former gymnasts in the UK have launched a group-claim lawsuit against the national governing body British Gymnastics alleging a range of abusive behaviour. The group, which includes three Olympians, has served a 'Letter of Claim' on the body, alleging physical and psychological abuse from coaches. "The abuse was perpetrated by coaches and others employed by British Gymnastics at various clubs across the UK, all of which were affiliated with the governing body," litigation firm Hausfeld and Co LLP, who are representing the former gymnasts, said in a statement.
Your house won't know what's hit it.
Central banks in Asia struggled to smother a selloff in global bonds on Friday (February 26), piling pressure on their bigger peers to do more.That spooked investors who sold assets to cover deepening losses.And rushed out of crowded positions in stocks.European stocks fell on Friday (February 26) as investors booked profits in high-flying technology shares.Concerns are growing over rising inflation and interest rates on the back of a jump in bond yields.The benchmark European stock index was down over 1%.And on track to record its first weekly fall this month.While London's FTSE 100 and Germany's DAX also slipped.Earlier, Asian markets had seen even bigger declines. Japan's Nikkei index shed almost 4%. Euro zone government bonds did at least stabilise.But Germany's benchmark yield was still headed for its biggest monthly jump since 2016.Assurances from European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde and other policymakers failed to stem the rise in yields.Technology stocks bore the brunt of this week's sell-off after powering the global stock market recovery last year.
Ireland's Sam Bennett won the penultimate stage six of cycling's UAE Tour on Friday, confirming his early season form to claim his second victory at the Palm Jumeirah Island finish with ease.
Mornings never felt so good.
England's Six Nations title defence suffered a setback Friday when Courtney Lawes was ruled out of the remainder of the tournament with a chest injury.
Make your morning brew a whole lot better.
Unidentified attackers killed eight people in twin attacks on a Malian military post and a gendarme base of the central town of Bandiagra late on Thursday, the army said. Islamist groups linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State regularly attack Malian security forces and U.N. peacekeepers in the area, which the militants use as a base for attacks across the Sahel region south of the Sahara Desert.
A cranky crab pulled an impressive vanishing act as it hid beneath a mound of sand at Port Phillip Bay, Victoria.Footage by marine biologist Sheree Marris shows the swimmer crab scuttling along the sea floor, before expertly digging into the sand and disappearing out of sight.According to Marris, swimmer crabs will dig a “sandy bunker” when they don’t want to be seen.“This crab wasn’t too happy to see me or hang around during a recent night dive which is evident by its outstretched claws and attempts to hide,” she told Storyful. Credit: Sheree Marris via Storyful
Crowds of up to 10,000 could be allowed into soccer stadiums from May 17 if conditions are met under the British government's plan announced this week to ease COVID-19 lockdown restrictions in England. Stadiums in some parts of the country opened their doors to a limited number of supporters in December, but the government launched another lockdown after a new wave of infections.