Sometimes, losing has its positives, especially when it comes to professional sports. Every season, across the four major American sports, teams with the worst regular-season records end up with the best odds to earn a high pick in the subsequent draft. Enter Cooper Flagg. Whichever NBA squads sputter the worst from now until the spring…
As families in Taiwan prepare to gather for lunar new year celebrations in January, a game that will be released that month promises to offer some war-themed fun over the festive period. The board game 2045, developed by the Taiwanese company Mizo Games, invites players to participate in an imaginary Chinese invasion 20 years in…
Ryan Edwards is about to give a different kind of ball and chain a shot. Over the past few years, this Teen Mom alum has seen the inside of a prison cell on a disturbing number of occasions — due to various parole violation and drug-related offenses. Now, however, Edwards is making headlines for a…
Over the weekend, a fire ripped through the property of Dan Barber’s Blue Hill at Stone Barns, forcing both his restaurant and non-profit farm education center to close temporarily. An announcement went out on Instagram stating the fire was “small but serious,” adding that “thankfully, no one was injured and the fire was quickly contained.”…
Protests have broken out in Syria over the burning of a Christmas tree near the city of Hama. A video posted on social media showed masked gunmen setting fire to the tree on display in the main square of the Suqaylabiyah, a Christian-majority town in central Syria. The main Islamist faction which led the uprising…
A bone-dry October is pushing nearly half of the United States into a flash drought, leading to fires in the Midwest and hindering shipping on the Mississippi River. Where has all the rain gone? Bone-dry October strikes much of US More than 100 different long-term weather stations in 26 states, including Alaska, are having their…
The Associated Press started giving out the NFL MVP award in 1957, and Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen is the most recent winner of the prestigious honor, being crowned the league’s best player at the 2025 NFL Honors on Thursday night. Allen was the favorite to win the award for a good portion of the…
After enduring its worst drought on record in 2024, Brazil closed the year with another alarming milestone: between January and December, 30.86m hectares of wilderness burned – an area larger than Italy. The figure published in a new report is 79% higher than in 2023 and the largest recorded by Fire Monitor since its launch…
Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral Reopened It’s been a tumultuous year in French politics, but there was at least some good news at the end of 2024: After being badly damaged by a fire in its roof-space in 2019, Notre Dame reopened its doors in December after five years of repair and renovation works. The cathedral…
Ruben Amorim’s appointment as Manchester United’s new head coach has brought along with it a wave of expectations. The former player, heralded as the new Jose Mourinho, found considerable success in Portugal, especially with Sporting CP. Manchester United players applaud fans after a match.(REUTERS) Coming to the Premier League, Amorim will have a huge task…
