Sreeja Akula is now at a career high world No 38 rank.
Though touted as a model of environmental preservation, the country has recently signalled a shift from phasing out fossil fuels to boosting the economy. Franz Tattenbach on the tension between green credentials and growth“This country is what the world would like to be but is not,” says Franz Tattenbach, Costa Rica’s minister of environment and energy. The 69-year-old economist is keenly aware of his role as guardian of the country’s reputation for forward-looking biodiversity initiatives and...
It was billed as a race that would be harder to win than the Olympic marathon gold in Paris and the London Marathon’s elite women’s race did not disappoint as reigning Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir won a hugely competitive race and set a new women’s-only world record. Jepchirchir, regarded as one of the greatest female distance runners of all time, raised her arms in jubilation as she crossed the tape in two hours, 16 minutes and 16 seconds. The Kenyan broke the women’s-only record – the...
Eddie Hall has set a new record for the hardest punch in the world. Just two weeks ago, UFC light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira obliterated Francis Ngannou’s old record on the PowerK
Pruitt Taylor Vince will play Pa Kent.
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Hopkinton, Massachusetts, celebrated its 100th anniversary as the starting line for the marathon, sending off a field of nearly 30,000 runners.
Short Stack is the world's smallest Nintendo Wii, created using a trimmed motherboard and custom stacked PCBs to replace what was cut. It's the size of a deck of cards, 7.4% the volume of an original Wii console, powered by USB-C, and otherwise the real hardware of Nintendo's 2006 comeback console. — Read the rest
"It’s 2016. I’m a contemporary artist and have been living off of Medicaid, food stamps, and $20k annually since graduating from art school five years ago."
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) These rankings are not published anywhere, but the data from which these rankings can be calculated are published by the World Bank; and, so, for the first time anywhere, these rankings are being published now, by me, here; and they can easily be confirmed by linking onto the URLs that […]
National Geographic Society & TNC extern Zoe Clark shares her experience studying the 13-pound Tasmanian giant crayfish.