While traveling by a bus, an airplane or a metro, you do come across one or two women with disabilities. What’s the first thing you notice? People gawking at them with no shame. Without a doubt, women with disabilities have to face a lot. All the more reason to celebrate International Day of Persons with Disabilities, which is all about raising awareness and promoting the rights of persons with disabilities around the world. The best way to do this is by getting to know about the achievements of Indian women with disabilities. As people around the world celebrate International Day…
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England captain Harry Kane scored his first goal of this year’s World Cup, helping his team beat Senegal 3-0 Sunday and setting up a match against France in the quarterfinals.Kane scored for the 52nd time for his country to move within one of Wayne Rooney’s England record. He also overtook Gary Lineker as his country’s leading scorer in major tournaments with 11 goals. Jordan Henderson and Bukayo Saka also scored at Al Bayt Stadium, while Jude Bellingham played a key role in the opening two goals. England, which reached the semifinals at the last World Cup in Russia, will face defending…
The Sunday Night Football game in Week 13 of the NFL features the Dallas Cowboys and Indianapolis Colts. Dallas is the heavy favorite in the game, as they enter winners of two straight. The Colts on the other hand have lost two straight and five of their last six. Indianapolis is going to have problems slowing down the Dallas pass rush. Quarterback Matt Ryan better is ready to get rid of the ball quickly. Also, expect to see a heavy dose of Jonathan Taylor in the game. The Cowboys are the much better team and should have their way…
Renault plans to build a network of fast charging stations for electric cars along motorways across Europe, as the automotive industry accelerates its shift away from combustion engine vehicles. The French carmaker’s e-mobility services unit, Mobilize, said on Monday it would open 200 fast charging stations by mid-2024 across France, Belgium, Italy, and Spain.”Eventually, drivers of electric vehicles will be able to travel from Hamburg to Seville with complete peace of mind,” Mobilize said in a statement.Rolling out an adequate charging infrastructure is one of the main challenges faced by producers of EVs, as batteries generally offer less driving radius than fuel tanks and…
Move over ‘vanlife’, there’s a new trend in town. ‘Hutlife’ delivers the off-grid experience of holidaying on the road – without the stress. It immerses you in nature without the lack of mod cons. And it lets you try out tiny house life, without the commitment.Huts and cabins are nothing new, but the pandemic spurred demand for self-contained getaways in the great outdoors. Seasonal cabins sprang up in the Alps, shepherd’s huts appeared on English farmland, and Berlin-based startupRaus planted angular bunkers on city outskirts.But it isn’t just innovative newcomers on the scene.Inspired by Germany’s introduction of youth hostels, the…
What will Chinese trade data tell us about the health of the economy?Trade data slated for release on Wednesday will give markets a better read on how domestic and foreign demand have held up for the world’s second-largest economy.Economists polled by Bloomberg have forecast a year-on-year drop of 7 per cent in the dollar value of China’s imports in November and a 4.4 per cent dip in imports, both of which would mark substantially sharper falls than in October.Overshadowing the data is China’s approach to managing the coronavirus. Chinese authorities have stopped short of any explicit changes to President Xi…
A hot potato: As Elon Musk reduces Twitter’s content moderation to make the platform a bastion of free speech while also cutting its workforce, one of the European Union’s top officials has warned the billionaire could be inadvertently helping Vladimir Putin by not removing Russian propaganda relating to the war in Ukraine. European Commission Vice President Vera Jourova told Bloomberg that failing to tackle online disinformation could “lead to the very quick abuse” of Twitter. “By not acting actively against the propaganda, which means to remove the pieces of propaganda, the disinformation, then you are actively supporting the war,” she…
Olivia Wilde has left her worries behind. Shortly after splitting with boyfriend Harry Styles, the Don’t Worry Darling director jetted off to a tropical location for some much needed fun in the sun. On Dec. 3, Olivia shared a bikini pic of herself laughing in a hammock with friend Babs Burchfield on Instagram. The Tron: Legacy star captioned her post, her first in nearly two months, with the word, “Best.” On her Instagram Stories, Olivia also posted In a photo of herself posing in a swimsuit, with her arms above her head, on a rocky beach as the rays nearly shadow her…
PRIME VIDEO For the feature documentary about NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Exploration Rover Opportunity, Industrial Light & Magic created the extensive Mars sequences in CG, and supervising sound editor/designer Mark Mangini was tasked with creating the sound of the rover. “We wanted to make Oppy somewhat anthropomorphic,” he says. “The engineers themselves set the head of the mast-cam at the height of an average human and the cameras to capture images stereoscopically, like human eyes. However, we didn’t want Oppy to sound whimsical or ‘chatty,’ like many traditional sci-fi robots.” He decided to rely solely on sounds that the rover…
The European Union is stepping up work to confiscate the Russian-owned assets that have been frozen under EU sanctions and use them to finance the costly reconstruction of Ukraine.The plans, which include re-investing the international reserves of the Russian Central Bank, represent a challenge without precedent for the bloc and are ridden with legal risks and obstacles.”Russia must also pay financially for the devastation that it caused,” said European Commission Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday morning.”Russia and its oligarchs have to compensate Ukraine for the damage and cover the costs for rebuilding the country.”The World Bank initially estimated the…