December 2, 2023
Frank Gifford is widely regarded as one of the best players in NFL history. He was a six-time All-Pro, spent his entire career with the New York Giants and is a member of the team’s Ring of Honor. Gifford died of natural causes at his Connecticut home in 2015 at the age of 84. The
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization will back Ukraine in its defensive war against Russia for “as long as it takes.” The military alliance pledged this week to continue offering its continuous support to the Eastern European nation following a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council on the second day of the organization’s Foreign Affairs Ministers meeting.
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Long-term treatment of ADHD may be linked to cardiovascular disease, but many people stop taking these medications in the first year. ADVERTISEMENT People who take medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) for long periods of time and at high doses may be at an increased risk of some cardiovascular diseases, new research suggests. ADHD
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Residents of Mexico’s Caribbean reef island of Banco Chinchorro near Belize have hunted the meat and salmon-pink shells of queen conch for generations. As populations have shrunk in recent decades, Mexico has enforced limits and bans on catching the shellfish. The species has continued to decline despite these measures, which included
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The world’s largest airship has been unveiled, as the enormous Pathfinder 1 begins its first round of flight tests. Measuring 400 ft (121.9 metres) in length, this gargantuan blimp is nearly twice the length of a Boeing 747-8 quadjet, the world’s longest aircraft. The blimp uses approximately one million cubic feet of helium and 12
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Hamas is a “cancer” that the Israeli government needs to figure out how to “cut out”, says Curtin University’s Dean of Global Futures Joe Siracusa. Mr Siracusa’s remarks come on the third day of the four-day truce between Israel and Hamas. “Right now in terms of what happens next, the ball is in Hamas’ court,”
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Steve Jobs, driven by his genius and his gut, invented the iPhone and built Apple into the world’s most valuable company. He was uncompromising, larger than life and irreplaceable. His life was creating the future, which would be filled with devices controlled by their users. Sam Altman spent the last year taking on the mantle
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In this report from Warsaw, Brussels and Copenhagen, we hear from the Europeans on the front line of the fight against air pollution. As we get around, heat our homes and grow food, we emit harmful molecules we breathe in every day. This pollution causes thousands of people in Europe to fall ill each year. But
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Proteas captain Temba Bavuma is not in danger of being dropped for the Cricket World Cup playoffs, coach Rob Walter insists, despite his poor run of form at the showpiece in India. It remained unclear whether Bavuma would be available for South Africa’s semi-final against Australia in Kolkata on Thursday after he picked up a
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High-rolling entrepreneurs such as Adam Neumann, co-founder of WeWork, and Masayoshi Son, creator of SoftBank, do not usually take Latin lessons. Nor do most real estate moguls, or their financiers. That is a pity. For as the dust settles after the implosion of desk-renting start-up WeWork — whose putative valuation has collapsed from $47bn to
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