This year’s UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow is “the world’s moment of truth” in the fight to tackle global warming, Boris Johnson has said on the eve of its opening. Speaking ahead of the COP26 climate summit which begins on Sunday, the prime minister described the event as a moment for “decisive action” from
Musicians Bryan Adams and Jon Bon Jovi have to cancel scheduled events due to testing positive for Covid-19. According to Variety, Adams was scheduled to appear at Tina Turner’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. He was set to perform a medley of songs including “It’s Only Love,” which is a duet between
12 people have been detained as part of an international law enforcement operation for orchestrating ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure and large organizations that hit over 1,800 victims across 71 countries since 2019, marking the latest action against cybercrime groups. The arrests were made earlier this week on October 26 in Ukraine and Switzerland, resulting
Remains found earlier this month in California’s Yucca Valley have been identified as those of missing person Lauren Cho, a 30-year-old resident of New Jersey who had traveled across the country to start a new life. The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department announced Thursday that its coroner division had positively identified the human remains to
The Witcher season 2 trailer dropped a bevy of new footage to tide fans over until the December release date, and while there was plenty of footage involving Geralt, Ciri, and Yennefer, the biggest reveal in the footage was one of the franchise’s most iconic monsters. Those who watched the trailer saw the first look
G20 world leaders have endorsed a global minimum tax on corporations as part of an agreement on new international tax rules. The move by the leaders of the world’s biggest economies is a step toward building more fairness amid the surging revenues of some multinational businesses. US treasury secretary Janet L Yellen hailed it as
This week’s roundup of book challenges and censorship attempts doesn’t dig into a couple of things. First, the political appeal of using censorship as a tactic for inciting fear and moral panic was already covered earlier this week, and second, the roundup will not be covering right-wing media’s bizarre claims that Attorney General Merrick Garland
Despite all the controversy surrounding him this year, Morgan Wallen’s fans continue to have his back. His album Dangerous: The Double Album remains the highest-selling album of 2021, and now that he’s back on the road, his tickets are flying off the shelf. PSA: Everyone is welcome to attend my shows — morgan wallen (@MorganWallen) October 29,
Dierks Bentley, Hardy and Breland bring their promise of free booze in the music video for their collaborative single, “Beers on Me.” The lighthearted, feel-good clip follows the three singers as they exchange hugs, take selfies and hand out free beer to unsuspecting people in Nashville. Roaming around in a truck loaded with boxes of beer, they
Call recording on Android phones can now be done using Truecaller. The caller ID app has introduced a native call recording feature to let users record both incoming and outgoing calls on their devices. Truecaller stores call recordings in your phone storage. Since the recordings are stored offline, you can listen to them at any
There’s something special about “that moment” in the horror genre. Whether it’s the scene from that movie that’s been burned into your head since childhood or the passage of that book you’ll always wish you couldn’t recite from heart, there are just times when horror is so perfectly distilled into a single moment that we
Play video content BACKGRID Alec Baldwin is speaking on the death of Halyna Hutchins for the first time on camera — and he had a lot to say. The actor addressed a swarm of paps Saturday who were hounding him in Manchester, VT, where he and his family have been laying low since the fatal
Authorities are investigating a robbery which occurred Wednesday night at the Encino home of Dorit Kemsley, star of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.” Kandiss Crone reports.
Alec Baldwin spoke to photographers Saturday for the first time since the incident with a prop gun resulted in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film Rust. Baldwin and his family have been laying low in Vermont since the accident occurred October 21st. However, paparazzi tracked down the actor and
MONTEREY — In the days leading up to Halloween, a rare all-white dolphin named “Casper” has been frequenting the Monterey Bay. But sighting the perplexing creature isn’t a trick of the eyes, or just a spooky Halloween treat. The dolphin actually visits the region quite often, according to Nancy Black, a marine biologist with Monterey
Spiders measuring three inches across (about 8cm) have multiplied in the US state of Georgia, unnerving residents and prompting anxious posts on social media. The Joro spider, native to east Asia, spins golden, wheel-shaped webs, some of them 10ft deep (three metres). Females have vivid yellow, blue and red markings on their bodies. In the
Boris Johnson has not ruled out triggering the dispute mechanism against France as a row between the two countries over post-Brexit fishing rights escalates. On Friday, France seized a British scallop trawler and threatened to block ports and increase checks on boats and lorries over the UK denying some boats a licence to fish in
The WGA has told its members not to work for Constantin Film Development, the powerhouse German production company behind such films as the Resident Evil franchise, Downfall and The Baader Meinhof Complex. “The Guild has an ongoing serious dispute with Constantin because of its refusal to pay residuals for most foreign reuse. Constantin has also
Winter is Coming for CentOS 8—but here is how you can enjoy your holidays after all. The server environment is complex and if you’re managing thousands of Linux servers, the last thing you want is for an operating system vendor to do something completely unexpected. That is exactly what Red Hat, the parent company of
I’m pretty much your standard Brooklyn millennial lefty mom. I buy my son dolls. I serve him outrageously overpriced plant-based chicken fingers. I don’t allow him to watch Paw Patrol, though that has less to do with how the show glorifies the cop industrial complex and more to do with the fact that it blows (with