Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?You might think that April Fools’ season is well and truly over, but not in the world of the Thursday quiz’s favourite band, Sparks. One of the biggest Sparks fan groups on Facebook changed its name to be a Wombles fan group as a joke on the morning of 1 April. You can only change a group name once every 28 days. We are now into day 11 of the joyless quarter of the fandom fractiously...
OTTAWA - With a variety of fiscal and policy measures announced in the federal budget, here's a look at some of the winners and losers: Winner: Small businesses Carbon tax rebates for small businesses are coming, five years after consumers began receiving their share. The measure is “a big relief,” says Dan Kelly of the Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses, which represents the sector. The budget says as many as 600,000 small firms would be eligible for a share of $2.5 billion. ...
Air pollution, plastic, worrying too much, sitting too much, forgetting to floss, coffee, eating burgers - sometimes it can feel as if everything in life is conspiring to kill us.
The Chicago Sky and Connecticut Sun were among the winners and losers from the 2024 WNBA Draft on Monday. Here’s the full list.
Man shot dead in southern Stockholm, stop-and-search zones set to come into force from April 25th, and new stats reveal that unemployment is still on the rise in Sweden. Here's the latest news.
We round up the best and the worst of the Japanese Grand Prix as Fortmula 1 completed its fourth race of the season with storylines already emerging
Finallyit's Christmas Day for mixed martial arts fans. It's go time for the card billed as the greatest in UFC history, which has been under construction
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. That's the competitive mindset being carried by sixth-ranked UFC middleweight Brandon Allen as he heads into a
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Faster. Higher. Stronger. Floatier? As times have changed, so, too, has the Olympic program. When Paris first hosted in 1900, croquet and tug-of-war were featured (that was croquet’s only Olympics appearance, while tug-of-war was featured five more times until the Games in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1920). Contests of all kinds have come and gone and sometimes returned over the years — a trend that will continue thanks to the International Olympic Committee’s allowing host countries to nominate...
Every week a well-known celebrity reveals all in our health questionnaire. Here, queen of the bonkbuster Dame Shirley Conran reveals how she suddenly went off sex - at 89.