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French Open 2020: Sofia Kenin Downs Scream Queen Danielle Collins To Make Semi-Finals
Sofia Kenin will face Petra Kvitova for a place in Saturday’s final.© AFP Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin moved two wins from a second Grand Slam title of 2020 when she defeated American compatriot Danielle Collins to reach the Roland Garros semi-finals on Wednesday. The 21-year-old fourth seed prevailed 6-4,Continue Reading
Turkey’s involvement in the Karabakh conflict could harm Azerbaijan, warns journalist Rovshan Aliyev · Global Voices
Should Azerbaijanis be wary of their close friend’s embrace? Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan meets Azerbaijani President IIham Aliyev in Baku, February 2020. Photo CC-BY-4.0: President.Az / Wikimedia Commons. Some rights reserved. This isn’t the first time in recent years when fighting has flared up in Nagorno-Karabakh. But what isContinue Reading
Estonia is a ‘digital republic’ – what that means and why it may be everyone’s future
Basakk/Shutterstock.com People around the globe have been watching the build up to the US election with disbelief. Particularly confusing to many is the furore over postal ballots, which the US president, Donald Trump is insisting will lead to large-scale voter fraud – despite a complete lack of evidence to backContinue Reading
‘The war in Karabakh has made the possibility of conflict resolution even more distant’, fears Armenian politician Mikayel Zolyan · Global Voices
As fighting rages in Nagorno-Karabakh, what are the chances for peace? Armenian politician and analyst Mikayel Zolyan. Photo courtesy of Mikayel Zolyan, used with permission. The conflict currently raging in Nagorno-Karabakh does not only concern Armenia and Azerbaijan. Thus this conflict has significant international dimensions: neighbouring countries with interests inContinue Reading
Nobel Prize: how Penrose, Genzel and Ghez helped put black holes at the centre of modern astrophysics
NASA/JPL-Caltech The award of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez will be greeted with enormous pleasure by physicists and astronomers worldwide. It recognises the central importance of black holes in modern astrophysics, and the unique contributions of these three scientists in establishingContinue Reading
IPL 2020 LIVE Score, KKR vs CSK Today’s Match Live Updates: Kolkata Knight Riders Win Toss, Opt To Bat Against Chennai Super Kings
KKR vs CSK IPL 2020 Score: Chennai Super Kings will look to strike early.© BCCI/IPL Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) have won the toss and opted to bat against last season’s runners-up Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in the 21st match of the 13th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) on October 7. TheContinue Reading
Excel errors: the UK government has an embarrassingly long history of spreadsheet horror stories
TeodorLazarev/Shutterstock When the UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, first said the country would develop a £12 billion “world-beating” system for testing and tracing cases of COVID-19, few people probably imagined that it would be based around a £120 generic spreadsheet program. Yet the news that the details of 16,000 positiveContinue Reading
Why you should never use Microsoft Excel to count coronavirus cases
PixieMe/Shutterstock Public Health England has admitted that 16,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK were missed from daily figures being reported between September 25 and October 2. The missing figures were subsequently added to the daily totals, but given the importance of these numbers for monitoring the outbreak and makingContinue Reading
Oxford is protecting students from China’s national security law – other universities must follow suit
Students at the University of Oxford will now submit some of their work on China anonymously. This, among other measures, is an important protection against China’s new national security law in Hong Kong, which makes it risky for anyone that appears to be criticising the Chinese government. Other universities mustContinue Reading
Rough sleeping fell during the pandemic – but can this success be sustained?
Two weeks after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a global pandemic, the UK government announced Everyone In, a scheme to protect people sleeping rough from catching the virus. The policy was highly demanding. It gave local authorities across England just three days to move all people sleeping roughContinue Reading