• LIVE updates on the 2024 Boston Marathon: Follow in real time as Swiss Paralympian Marcel Hug drives RECORD TIME in the men’s wheelchair

    By Oliver Salt Published: 08:22 EDT, April 15, 2024 | Updated: 11:52 EDT, April 15, 2024 Lemma storms homeEthiopian star Sisay Lemma has claimed victory in the elite men's race after crossing the finish line in just over two hours and six minutes, about 40 seconds ahead of his compatriot Mohamed Esa in second place.In operationThe 128th Boston...

  • Elective surgery wait times longest on record

    Wait times for elective surgery at public hospitals have blown out to the longest on record, prompting calls for an overhaul by Australia’s peak medical body. The latest Public Hospital Report Card, released on Friday by the Australian Medical Association, shows the median wait time for elective surgeries was 49 days in 2022/23. The median […]

  • Tips and tricks for your time abroad at NYU Buenos Aires

    About 100 students make the trip to NYU Buenos Aires each year, prepped only with a handful of tips from an NYU orientation on Argentina’s capital city. Nothing prepares you for a city quite like living there — but luckily, I’ve been in Buenos Aires for eight months and picked up some tips along the This story Tips and tricks for your time abroad at NYU Buenos Aires appeared first on Washington Square News.

  • Metro Urges Residents To Participate In Ward Committee Nominations

    Tshwane has called on residents and stakeholders to participate in the ward committee nominations from April 9 to 23. Ward committees promote community participation, inform the municipality of the needs of residents and are responsible for keeping residents informed about municipal activities. According to Section 79 electoral committee chairperson Dana Wannenburg, elected ward committees will […]

  • State Forestry Division urging residents to prepare for wildfire season

    NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – As New Mexico enters springtime, the New Mexico Forestry Department is urging homeowners to prepare for dry conditions and wildfire season. The department is urging homeowners to clean up dead vegetation trapped against their houses or under their decks. They also are asking for homeowners to remove fine fuels which are pine []

  • iFi launches Zen Phono 3 in time for Record Store Day

    Just getting into vinyl or been a fan for years? Well, you'll want to take heed of iFi's latest product as that will help give your vinyl set-up a boost in time for Record Store Day 2024. iFi has announced the launched the Zen Phono 3, which it describes as offering a "gateway to the rich, warm sound that vinyl enthusiasts admire". It features an "intelligent subsonic filter" that can selectively remove imperfections "while preserving the integrity of the music" to ensure every note is...

  • Letters to the Editor: Another heat record? Nature is telling humanity that time's up

    To the editor: Earth's increasing temperature is relentless, going ever higher, year after year, bringing us problems so large they require us to change the way we live. ("And the heat keeps coming: Global temperature record broken for 10th month in a row in March," April 10) Melting ice, rising sea levels, unstable jet streams, extreme weather, record fires, record floods, acid oceans and desperate migrants. It means we have to give up our beloved fossil fuels, our air travel to Hawaii and our...

  • 'I feel exiled': How Brits in Europe are locked abroad with foreign partners

    Britons and their European families are being divided or simply unable to move back to the UK because of strict income requirements, which are now set to rise steeply. Two British nationals in Europe tell The Local how the rules have impacted them.

  • 'I feel exiled': How Brits in Europe are locked abroad with foreign partners

    Britons and their European families are being divided or simply unable to move back to the UK because of strict income requirements, which are now set to rise steeply. Two British nationals in Europe tell The Local how the rules have impacted them.

  • Tigist Assefa targets breakthrough women’s marathon world record time

    Ethiopian eyes 2hr 10min mark – but not necessarily in LondonAssefa will run London Marathon in £450 Adidas super shoeEthiopia’s Tigist Assefa has set her sights on further lowering her women’s marathon world record to under two hours 10 minutes – but admits her only goal in Sunday’s London marathon is to win.Achieving that time sounds like a staggering ambition but the 27-year-old is clearly confident after running 2:11:53 in Berlin last September – a time that obliterated the previous mark of...

  • Dubai airport says flood recovery ‘will take some time’ after record rain

    The desert nation of the United Arab Emirates attempted to dry out Wednesday from the heaviest rain ever recorded there after a deluge flooded out Dubai International Airport

  • More history for Tiger Woods. He makes the Masters cut for a record 24th time in a row

    On Friday, Tiger Woods broke the cut mark he shared with three-time champion Gary Player, who advanced to the weekend 23 straight times beginning in 1959, and 1992 winner Fred Couples, whose own streak lasted until 2007.