The BBC has apologised and admitted “serious flaws” in the making of a documentary about children’s lives in Gaza. The documentary, Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone, was pulled from iPlayer last week after it emerged its 13-year-old narrator was the son of a Hamas official. It said it has “no plans to broadcast […]
The Athletic’s debate series features two writers breaking down a specific topic. In this edition, Chantel Jennings and Ben Pickman debate which women’s college basketball player should win Player of the Year. Chantel Jennings: As we head into the final week of the season, there seems to be one overriding theme in women’s college […]
Padraig Belton Technology Reporter Mater The Mater hospital in Dublin – home to Ireland’s busiest emergency department For a country famous as Big Tech’s European address, Ireland’s hospitals often lag far behind in technology. They lack shared computerised patient records, or unique identifiers to track people when they move between clinics. In July 2024, a […]
“People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi, executive director of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.” The projects terminated include H.I.V. treatment programs that had served millions of people, the main malaria control programs in the worst-affected African countries […]
SAN DIEGO — United States women’s national team coach Emma Hayes played down the significance of the team’s first loss since she took charge last year, saying after Wednesday’s 2-1 defeat to Japan in the SheBelieves Cup that “development isn’t linear.” “We’ve won the gold medal in the summer, and we are wanting to compete […]
The singer and songwriter Katy Perry and the broadcast journalist and show host Gayle King will be among the all-female crew on the next mission of New Shepard, the space tourism rocket that is operated by Jeff Bezos’ private company, Blue Origin. Blue Origin announced the lineup on Thursday, ahead of a planned spaceflight this […]
President Donald Trump meets with British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in the Oval Office on Thursday. Starmer is on his first visit to the White House since Trump returned to office. Carl Court/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Carl Court/Getty Images President Trump expressed confidence Thursday in reaching a peace deal between Ukraine and […]
SURPRISE, Ariz. — The groundwork for Joc Pederson becoming a Texas Ranger was laid last September, when Rangers president of baseball operations Chris Young sat with Arizona Diamondbacks general manager Mike Hazen. The two men were discussing the divergent paths taken by their teams. After meeting in the World Series the year before, the runner-up […]
The geography behind a plan to ship natural gas from the North Slope of Alaska to Asia makes good sense. Alaska has vast stores of gas and is just a little over a week at sea from Asia, which has some of the world’s biggest importers of liquefied natural gas. But those countries have long […]
Getty Images Donald Trump said he planned to hit goods from China with another 10% rise in tariffs, the latest salvo in the US president’s steadily escalating trade fights. Imports from China already face tariffs of at least 10%, after a Trump order that went into effect earlier this month. Trump also said he intended […]