CategoriesNews WorldIt ruled 6-0 in favour of a previous district court decision that said the state’s habeas corpus process “only applies to persons, and not to nonhuman animals”. This was true “no matter how cognitively, psychologically, or socially sophisticated they may be,” State Supreme Court Justice Maria Berkenkotter added in her ruling, external. While she said […]
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CategoriesNews WorldEyewitnesses have described the moment a ski lift failed in the Spanish Pyrenees, leaving at least 10 people injured. One boy said people were “flying and pirouetting”, when the “whole chair suddenly started bouncing”. Ambulances and helicopters ferried the injured to hospital. The cause of the chair-lift failure is currently unknown. Read more: Ski lift […]
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CategoriesNews WorldBourbon Street in New Orleans has reopened after being closed for investigation since the deadly attack on New Year’s Day. The BBC’s Carl Nasman spoke to people about how they felt as they returned to the street where the attack took place. Shamsud-Din Jabbar drove a truck through Bourbon Street before he was shot dead […]
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CategoriesNews WorldUS authorities have said they believe multiple people were involved in an attack in New Orleans that killed 15 and wounded dozens on New Year’s Day. The driver of a pick-up truck that sped into large crowds in the city’s French Quarter has been identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a US Army veteran from Texas, who […]
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CategoriesNews World“We can do all kinds of controlled experimental studies looking into changes in the Arctic,” says Prof Feiyue Wang. One implication of a less icy Hudson Bay is a longer operating season for the port, which is currently closed for nine months of the year. A longer season during which the bay thaws and becomes […]
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CategoriesNews WorldThese accounts paint a picture of a place with no hope, only pain. The prisoners spent much of their time in silence with no access to the outside world, so it is no surprise that they say they knew nothing of the rebel Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s (HTS) rapid advance in Syria until they […]
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CategoriesNews GamingCall of Duty: Black Ops 6 launched day one on Game Pass — the first Call of Duty game to do so following Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. It was a big gamble for Microsoft, with some analysts predicting a significant decline in game sales, particularly on Xbox, as a result. But in […]
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CategoriesNews GamingAmid the cacophony caused by Call of Duty Next, one new Black Ops 6 feature flew under the radar — but it could end up as the most impactful of all. Black Ops 6, out October 25, 2024, has a new Body Shield feature in multiplayer that lets you grab an enemy and hold them […]
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