Grown-Ups Loved the N.F.L. on Nickelodeon. But What About Children?
The cable channel aired a slime-filled version of the Bears-Saints wild-card game on Sunday, to the delight of many adults. But the goal was to convert children into football fans. Read more...
A Six Senses Resort to Open in Portugal
Six Senses Resorts and Spas will open a property in Portugal this summer, its first in Europe. Read more...
Australia Decides Not to Kill Joe the Pigeon
A racing pigeon named after the president-elect appeared to have traveled from Oregon to Melbourne, breaching quarantine rules. Read more...
Your Wednesday Briefing
A likely vote on Trumps impeachment. Read more...
Mary Catherine Bateson Dies at 81; Anthropologist on Lives of Women
After a well-documented childhood as the daughter of Margaret Mead, she earned her own renown with a book on womens lives that became a touchstone to feminists. Read more...
The number of new skyscrapers drops 20% amid pandemic slowdown
The number of new skyscrapers built globally dropped more than 20% in 2020, according to data released this week by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). Read more...
Health 'Tantalising' new method of treating cancer by dietary changes uncovered in mouse study
UK researchers have shown that, in mice containing a graft of human bowel cancer cells, tumour growth is slowed by low-serine diets and the drugPH755. Read more...
UK entering 'worst point' of coronavirus pandemic as cases rise and bodies pile up
The United Kingdom is entering its most challenging weeks since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to England's Chief Medical Officer, Professor Chris Whitty. Read more...
U.S. Figure Skating to Pay .45 Million to Ex-Skater Who Says He Was Abused
Adam Schmidt had accused U.S. Figure Skating, the sports national governing body, of failing to protect him from sexual abuse by Richard Callaghan, a once-prominent coach of Olympians. Read more...
Fears Brazilian strain can reinfect Covid survivors
Professor Wendy Barclay, from Imperial College London, said 'There are two different types of Brazilian variants. One of them has been detected in the UK and one of them has not.' Read more...
Weather Sudden stratospheric warming at the North Pole may trigger another 'Beast from the East'
UK experts studied 40stratospheric warming episodes from the last six decades - and learnt to track their signals that they travel down to the Earth's surface. Read more...
Copenhagen's new Metro is a thing of beauty
In Copenhagen, traffic is usually caused by the two-wheel variety of transportation the bicycle. Read more...
Will an Overdraft Balance Impact Your Stimulus Check?
Banks have the power to decide whether to let overdrawn customers gain access to the stimulus money being deposited into their accounts, but they have taken different approaches. Read more...
Ice arches supporting the Arctic's 'Last Ice Area' could COLLAPSE due to warming trends
Ice arches holding the Arctic's 'Last Ice Area' in place are showing signs of melting. If these structures collapse, large chunks of the Last Ice Area could float south and create an 'ice deficit.' Read more...
Were Covid Patients in Egypt Killed by Oxygen Outage? Government Says No
With anger swelling over a video clip purporting to show patients dying in a hospital after their oxygen was cut off, the authorities offered a counternarrative. Read more...
Indian and Chinese tanks 'go face-to-face within 100 yards of each other at Himalayan border'
The photo of the tanks was first shared on Chinese social media site Weibo by a 'military blogger' and has since been picked up by pro-Beijing news sites boasting of their strength. Read more...