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Two-time Olympic champion Rosie MacLennan added another gold medal to her trophy case Saturday, finishing first in the individual women’s final at the trampoline world championships in St. Petersburg, Russia. MacLennan, from King, Ont., scored 57.180 total points in the final, edging Xueying Zhu of China for gold. Zhu had a 0.2 penalty and finished second […]
MEL Science I recently had the strangely-pleasurable experience of being shrunken down virtually to the size of an individual electron, gaining an immersive 360-degree view of the invisible world that forms the very basis of our reality. MEL Science, a company based in St. Petersburg, Russia, provides a series of virtual reality experiences that can […]
His fearless, reckless devotion to his job becomes a form of addiction in the documentary The Definer. Using camcorder footage shot after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, the film captures Fakhir at work armed with nothing more than a pair of pliers and a determination to make the world a safer place. During […]
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– From the October 2017 issue – Downsized turbocharged engines have become a cornerstone in the car industry’s effort to increase fuel economy. And as CAFE standards push us toward a 54.5-mpg fleet average, engines are bound to get even smaller and turbo boost even higher. Such radically downsized engines can be strong at full […]
(Reuters) — India’s top court unanimously ruled on Thursday that individual privacy is a fundamental right, a verdict that will impact everything from the way companies handle personal data to the roll-out of the world’s largest biometric ID card program. A nine-member bench of India’s Supreme Court announced the ruling in a big setback for […]
David Ramos/Getty Images While he’ll be known for some time as the world’s fastest man, Usain Bolt came up short in the final individual race of his career, finishing third in the 100-meter dash at the World Track and Field Championships in London. Bolt still broke ten seconds, finishing with a 9.95, but was a hundredth […]
Clive Rose/Getty Katie Ledecky suffered her first individual loss at a major international meet on Wednesday at the hands of Italy’s Federica Pellegrini. Ledecky entered the 200-meter freestyle final as the favorite, as she had won 13 of 13 finals in this event during international competitions in her career. In the first 100 meters of the final, Australia’s […]
An execution site with 17 apparent victims of extrajudicial killings was found near the Old City of West Mosul, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said. The find is among a flood of evidence of atrocities being committed by Iraqi troops, the rights group pointed out. The site was studied by “international observers, whose evidence has […]
Under President Trump’s proposed tax overhaul, the corporate rate would drop to 15% from 35%, with a 35% top rate for individuals. Lower brackets would be set at 10% and 25%. The plan would end allowing individuals to deduct state and local taxes, and the estate tax and alternative minimum tax would be repealed. WSJ.com: […]
