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Tyson Fury defies dad’s advice and vows to KO Whyte before retiring
TYSON FURY insists he will play Russian roulette with his legacy tonight by going toe-to-toe with Dillian Whyte. The former sparring partners, who bonded in 2012 when the 33-year-old Brixton Body Snatcher was drafted in to Team Fury as a training partner and lived alongside his family in a TravellerContinue Reading
Kate Moran funeral: Community ‘stunned into silence’ by tragic death
An entire community has been stunned into silence by the tragic death of a young GAA star in Co Galway, her funeral has been told. Kate Moran, 20, from the village of Monivea, was fatally injured playing for Athenry Camogie Club in a senior league game in Ardrahan on Monday.Continue Reading
Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron go head to head: why many French voters will be voting against a candidate rather than for them
France’s electoral system is held over two rounds. In the first, anyone who meets the threshold criteria (this year, 12 candidates) can run. Assuming no one wins an absolute majority (this has never happened), the top two candidates go head to head in the second round. This year, as inContinue Reading
Singapore is moving closer toward pre-pandemic living
Singapore is set to ease most Covid measures from April 26, authorities said. Lauryn Ishak | Bloomberg | Getty Images SINGAPORE — Singapore is set to remove nearly all virus safety measures from Tuesday as the city-state seeks to return to pre-Covid living, authorities announced on Friday. There will beContinue Reading
Making Science More Open Is a Potential Security Risk
The open science movement pushes for making scientific knowledge quickly accessible to all. But a new paper warns that speed can come at a cost.Continue Reading
The Northman Deserves More Than Cult Classic Status
Director Robert Eggers’ new movie has an opportunity to prove an artful viking epic can battle the summer superheroes.Continue Reading
The Future of EV Charging is Bidirectional, If You Can Afford It
Idle electric vehicles could act as massive batteries for homes and the energy grid. But the technology to pull this off is tricky.Continue Reading
Exercising while sick won’t help you get over a cold faster – but it may prevent your next one
The stress of exercising while sick could potentially make our immune cells less effective. Dmytrenko Vlad/ Shutterstock Exercising regularly is good for your immune system – with some research suggesting that it may even lower the risk of getting upper respiratory infections, such as the common cold. Even as littleContinue Reading
Here’s how we proved that tropical birds are more colourful – and why colour helps them survive
Green headed tanager in Ubatuba, Brazil Lars Falkdalen Lindahl, CC BY-SA 3.0., CC BY For many of us, the tropics conjure up thoughts of lush vegetation teaming with vibrant and strikingly colourful birds, insects and other creatures. It’s been a widespread belief that the tropical regions of the world areContinue Reading
West must beware the language of appeasement and see Russia’s war on Ukraine for what it is
Words influence the way we see the world. In 2015, we warned that the language used by the west to describe Russia’s armed intervention in Ukraine was a jumble of euphemism and understatement that failed to serve the public interest. The problem hasn’t gone away. Today there may be aContinue Reading