Pan Pacific Hotels Groups will plant its first flag in Europe next autumn, with the opening of Pan Pacific London. The developers hope the property will become the unparalleled address for the discerning well-heeled travellers who seek to find a balance in life. The hotel will bring to the city of London, the signature Pan […]
Sir Paul McCartney has revealed he once recorded a secret Christmas album “just for the family” that “gets brought out each year” at the McCartney household. “Years ago I thought, there’s not very good Christmas records,” he told BBC Radio 4’s World at One programme. “So I actually went into my studio over a couple […]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A prominent group of researchers alarmed by the harmful social effects of artificial intelligence called Thursday for a ban on automated analysis of facial expressions in hiring and other major decisions. The AI Now Institute at New York University said action against such software-driven “affect recognition” was its top priority because […]
Issued on: 12/12/2019 – 16:13Modified: 12/12/2019 – 16:21 More than 45 million Britons are voting Thursday in a snap pre-Christmas general election that will be key to determining the future of Brexit amid political deadlock and bitter divisions over the country’s European Union membership. Advertising Read more A win for Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Conservative party […]
Dozens of people attended the funeral of a local leader of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-N party who was shot dead in the northwestern Swat Valley. Feroz Shah, a lawyer who was also a member of the jirga tribal assembly in Swat, was laid to rest on December 12, a day after unidentified gunmen opened […]
By Brian Owens Biologists thought the starry night toad was extinct in ColombiaPhoto courtesy of Fundación Atelopus A critically endangered harlequin toad, known as the starry night toad, has been documented by biologists for the first time since 1991 in the mountains of Colombia. But unlike other such stories of “rediscovered” species, this one was […]
Spiral galaxies are an iconic form. They’re used in product logos and all sorts of other places. We even live in one. And though it may seem kind of obvious how they get their shape, by rotating, that’s not the case. Scientists are still puzzled by spiral galaxies, and how they gain their form, with […]
The routes include Mac Thi Buoi, Nguyen Hue and Ngo Duc Ke streets. This year’s event marks the 10th anniversary of the Tet (Lunar New Year) Book Road Festival in Ho Chi Minh City. The festival’s highlight is an exhibition with the theme ‘Saigon – Ho Chi Minh City in the revolution of national liberation […]
Christmas and mistletoe: have you ever simply asked yourself … why? I have studied plant parasites like mistletoe for almost ten years, and I’m here to tell you that the answer is absolutely fascinating. In Norse mythology, Baldur (younger brother to magic-hammer-wielding Thor), was the subject of a premonition from his mother Frigg, who could […]
BISHKEK — A court in Bishkek has ruled to freeze the bank accounts of RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service, locally known as Azattyk, its correspondent, and the Kyrgyz news site Kloop following their joint investigation about possible widespread corruption in the country’s customs service and massive outflows of cash. RFE/RL’s office in Bishkek received a letter from […]