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Coco Gauff became the youngest player to win the WTA Finals in 20 years after edging Olympic champion Qinwen Zheng in an epic season-ending finale. Source link
Bringing on Gil Amelio was viewed as a big coup for the Apple board. Photo: Apple November 9, 1994: Gil Amelio, a businessman with a reputation as a talented turnaround artist, joins Apple’s board. Coming off his impressive revitalization of two other tech companies, National Semiconductor and Rockwell International, Amelio’s appointment at Apple sparks widespread […]
The impact came out of nowhere — but Southern Baptist Chaplain Charles LeClair will never forget it. Suddenly, another truck barreled toward them, slamming into their jeep and sending LeClair hurtling to the ground. It was September 1969. LeClair and his assistant were traveling a dirt road in South Vietnam between Long Binh Army Base […]
In 1974, 20 of the world’s leading intellectuals tried to imagine life in 2024. They got a lot wrong. In 1974, the worthy Saturday Review, then in its 50th year, published several anniversary issues that took stock of how the century led to a grim present of Watergate scandals, impending thermonuclear war, a population boom […]
Record prices and mortgage rates make U.S. homeownership a challenge, with the average buyer age at 56 for the first time. Buying a home used to be considered a rite of passage for many Americans. However, these days, the financial challenges of buying a home are simply too great for more and more individuals — […]
Sanju Samson’s breathtaking second century was beautifully complemented by spinners Varun Chakravarthy and Ravi Bishnoi as India outclassed South Africa by a whopping 61 runs in the first T20 International to go 1-0 up in the four-match series on Friday. Often panned for not realizing the minefield of talent that he is, Samson […]
MultiChoice Group has warned it will deliver another set of financial results stained in red ink when it reports its half-year numbers next week. In a trading statement on Thursday, the broadcaster — which owns DStv, SuperSport and Showmax, among other assets — said that in the six months to end-September 2024, it expects to […]
A study has shown that the well-preserved fossil of a nodosaur, a plant-eating dinosaur, could withstand the force of a high-speed car crash. The fossil, discovered in Alberta, Canada, belongs to Borealopelta markmitchelli , a species that lived around 110 million years ago during the Early Cretaceous period. This fossil is one of the best-preserved […]
The Enniskillen bombing, one of the darkest days in Northern Ireland’s Troubles, occurred on November 8, 1987, when the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated a bomb during a Remembrance Day ceremony in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh. The Enniskillen bombings killed 11 civilians and injured 63 others, marking a turning point in public and international perception […]
As the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) celebrates the 90th anniversary of our home at 66 Portland Place in London, a building specifically designed to house our world-leading architectural collection, which we’re looking forward to sharing with a wider audience through our collaboration with Google Arts & Culture 66 Portland Place first opened its […]