The next James Bond should be British, Pierce Brosnan has said, as a leaked memo reportedly confirmed the character will remain a man. The Irish actor, who played the spy from 1995 to 2002, also said it was the “right decision” for creative control of the franchise to be handed to Amazon-MGM, in an interview…
Ellen Pompeo’s favorite part about her 20 years on “Grey’s Anatomy” has nothing to do with the show itself. In an interview with People, the TV star said the financial security that portraying Meredith Grey affords her has been the best part of being on the long-running show. Pompeo in 2017 became the highest-paid woman…
The Secret Service shot a man near the White House early Sunday after an “armed confrontation” with law enforcement officers, the agency said in a statement. President Trump was not at the White House at the time. He is spending the weekend in Florida at his Mar-a-Lago Club. Earlier on Saturday, the local police shared…
Pat McFadden has vowed to bring about “radical” civil service changes including digitisation and stricter performance targets for officials to mirror private sector practices. Under the plans expected to be announced this week, under-performing officials could be incentivised to leave their jobs and senior officials will have their pay linked to performance. A new target…
Leading happiness expert Arthur C. Brooks has a lot of knowledge about how to improve your well-being and outlook on life. In addition to his happiness course at Harvard University, Brooks shares many of the lessons he’s learned throughout his career as a social scientist in his weekly newsletter called, “The Art and Science of…
A man has been charged with the murder of a teenage boy who was shot dead in Stockwell, south London, the Metropolitan police said. Lathaniel Burrell, 16, was shot dead in south London on Tuesday. Officers were called to the scene at about 3pm after reports of a shooting on Paradise Road. The teenager died…
In other words, Hilbert’s 10th problem is undecidable. Mathematicians hoped to follow the same approach to prove the extended, rings-of-integers version of the problem—but they hit a snag. Gumming Up the Works The useful correspondence between Turing machines and Diophantine equations falls apart when the equations are allowed to have non-integer solutions. For instance, consider…
The Democratic Republic of Congo government has offered a reward of $5m (£4m) for help arresting three leaders of a rebel group which has seized much of the east of the country this year. Corneille Nangaa, a former head of DR Congo’s electoral commission, now leads the Congo River Alliance, which includes the M23 rebel…
A reporter for the Associated Press who watched as South Carolina executed a convicted murderer by firing squad has described the experience, saying that the killing was now “etched” in his mind. Jeffrey Collins, who has witnessed executions in South Carolina for the news agency for 21 years and has seen 11 people killed using…
The US has rejected a Canadian proposal to establish a task force that would tackle Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet” of oil tankers, according to reports last night. Canada, which has the current Group of Seven presidency, proposed the measure ahead of a meeting of G7 foreign ministers in Quebec later this week. In negotiations to…
