Biden’s ‘America’s Back’ vow torched as Taleban overrun Kabul
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) - Just last month, United States President Joe Biden defended his Afghanistan pullout by saying that "the likelihood...
Month: August 2021
Britain not going back to Afghanistan even as Taleban seizes control
LONDON (REUTERS) - The Taleban is in control of Afghanistan and British and Nato forces will not be returning to...
The world may never reach herd immunity against Covid-19
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) - As Covid-19 surged last year, governments worldwide touted the hope of "herd immunity", a promised land...
Tesla Autopilot formally probed by US for emergency-vehicle crashes
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) - The US has opened a formal investigation of Tesla's Autopilot system, citing collisions with parked emergency vehicles,...
Blinken says not in US interests to stay in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON (REUTERS, AFP) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told CNN on Sunday (Aug 15) that it was not...
Fires blaze in Spain, Morocco and Israel
MADRID, RABAT, JERUSALEM (AFP/REUTERS) - Spain saw its highest temperature on record on Saturday (Aug 14) as a heatwave on...
Barenaked Ladies: how we made One Week
I joined Reprise Records in 1995, based in New York, and was assigned to help Barenaked Ladies make their fourth...
The best books about the post-human Earth
We humans have a profound impact on the world around us. Bob Paine, the groundbreaking American ecologist, once described us...
Mellow giallo: has the horror genre lost its ability to shock?
Giallo began as the trashiest of genres. Derived from pulp Italian novels (with yellow covers, hence the name), it was...
Dragons and Mythical Beasts review – watch out for the tooth fairy!
Something miraculous is happening. The sun is shining and the kids in the crowd are buzzing on sugar yet, somehow,...