Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa. (Photo by Tharaka Basnayaka/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Sri Lanka’s central bank raised borrowing costs by 700 basis points amid economic and political turmoil that has engulfed the nation and left President Gotabaya Rajapaksa with a minority in parliament. The Central Bank of Sri Lanka increased the standing lending facility rate […]
Learn more →Since launching back in October 2021, Wordle has quickly become the go-to game for hundreds of thousands of eager players around the world. The daily word game gives players six attempts to guess a five-letter word, with feedback given after each guess in the form of coloured tiles – green indicating a letter is correct […]
Learn more →In her school uniform and sitting in a classroom with rows of wooden desks and blue plastic chairs, Otlotleng Moolikwe, 18, looks just like any other grade 12 learner. It’s hard to imagine she’s the mother of a four-year-old boy. Moolikwe says she was 13 years old when she and her boyfriend first had sex. […]
Learn more →WASHINGTON — President Biden on Friday will herald the historic confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is about to become the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court, during a ceremony at the White House. Biden, who watched with Jackson in the Roosevelt Room Thursday as the Senate voted 53-47 to confirm herwill […]
Learn more →The decision to exclude some flood-hit areas from assistance was based on bad advice – not politics – the NSW Premier has said. The NSW Premier says Scott Morrison Minister appears to be getting “bad advice” on the flood crisis as thousands of the state’s residents are told to evacuate. Dominic Perrottet said on Friday […]
Learn more →Over the years, Joe Buck would joke with Joe Davis about switching jobs. Buck would call Dodgers games. Davis would call the World Series. Davis laughed it off. “I always thought, ‘Of course, Joe Buck’s going to be at FOX forever,’” Davis said. ‘“Joe Buck’s always going to be calling the World Series.’” But Buck […]
Learn more →Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine. In 2018, my partner and I—she is Ukrainian, I am American—put together a Google spreadsheet called “Home – Kyiv.” I was due to finish a mission with a humanitarian organization in western Africa and planned […]
Learn more →A checkpoint in Ningbo, China. A growing number of Chinese cities are requiring truck drivers to take daily Covid P.C.R. tests.Credit…Agence France-Presse — Getty Images BEIJING — China’s mounting Covid-19 restrictions are creating further disruptions to global supply chains for consumer electronics, car parts and other goods. A growing number of Chinese cities are requiring […]
Learn more →In the mosquito breeding rooms of British biotech company Oxitec, scientists line up fresh eggs, each the size of a grain of salt. Using microscopic needles, the white-coated researchers inject each egg with a dab of a proprietary synthetic DNA. For four days, Oxitec technicians care for the eggs, watching for those that hatch into […]
Learn more →Lamborghini has announced its intentions to auction its last-ever Aventador coupe model alongside a 1:1 NFT of the car. The car will be auctioned at a special event on April 19th hosted by RM Sotheby’s, an Ontario-based classic automotive auction house. The NFT itself is a 1:1 creation of the vehicle in digital form. Lamborghini […]
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