The masterminds of sun-powered plane Solar Impulse formally unveiled their new aircraft Wednesday, a year ahead of their planned round-the-world flight. Solar Impulse 2 is the successor of the original plane of the same name, which last year completed…
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The United States said Tuesday it had only low expectations for an upcoming meeting with Russia, Europe and Ukraine on the crisis in the former Soviet republic. “I have to say that we don’t have high expectations for these talks, but we do believe it…
Users of Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 may have noticed a rather large OS update yesterday—that’s Windows 8.1 Update 1, if you were wondering. The update brought a whole bunch of new bits and pieces to the table to make the experience of actually using…
A NASA robot has snapped pictures showing glints of light on the Martian horizon, which some UFO enthusiasts have seized on as a sign of alien life on the Red Planet. Not so, said the US space agency. More likely, the images of bright spots taken on…
Speaking English with a Slavic accent, a man known only as “John Smith” because he does not remember his real name is proving a mystery for Norwegian police. The tall, young amnesiac was found helpless in the snow near a carwash in Oslo last December…
Canada’s tax agency shuttered its website Wednesday after warning that encrypted taxpayer data could be vulnerable to the “Heartbleed” bug. The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) said the decision, which comes only three weeks before the annual income tax…
England striker Wayne Rooney won his race to be fit for Wednesday’s Champions League, quarter-final, second-leg at Bayern Munich despite struggling with a toe injury. United manager David Moyes started Rooney just in front of attacking midfielder Shinji…
English third tier club Tranmere sacked manager Ronnie Moore on Wednesday, a day after he admitted a Football Association charge of repeatedly breaking betting rules. Moore was suspended by the north-west club on February 17 after the FA launched an…
Egyptian owner Assem Allam’s application to change the name of Premier League Hull City to Hull Tigers has been rejected, the Football Association announced Wednesday. The move came as little surprise after the FA’s membership committee had said, three…
The current console war between Microsoft and Sony is barely half a year old, but conventional wisdom says that the PlayStation 4 is winning over the Xbox One pretty handily so far. But Microsoft seems determined to close the gap. During the company…
Gary Oldman (or Commissioner Gordon for all you Batman fans out there) is the star of HTC’s latest ad for its brand new HTC One M8 (see below). The new ad is bold and provocative, it doesn’t use any fancy marketing lingo or list out features and…
A leading Nigerian Islamic group has accused the country’s military of summarily executing Muslims in the name of counter-terrorism, prompting a swift and strongly-worded denial on Tuesday from top brass. The Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI) umbrella group…
Just making the cut would be a dream for this year’s youngest player at the Masters, 19-year-old Englishman Matthew Fitzpatrick, but he could be forgiven for thinking otherwise. Making it into the weekend would mean he would be sure of missing his football…
A Nigerian man was arraigned today on a 31-count superseding indictment charging him with participating in a scheme that used stolen identities to claim phony tax refunds, causing the U.S. Treasury losses of more than $3 million, authorities said. Kole…
Jose Mourinho believes Chelsea’s “special spirit” was key in overcoming Paris St Germain and will worry whoever is pitted against them in the Champions League semi-finals.
Henrik Stenson would gladly make golf history or become world number one, but he would rather fill the glaring gap in his career achievements by winning his first major title. And what better place and time to do it than at this week’s 78th Masters,…
Jamaica’s 2008 Olympic women’s 100 metres silver medallist Sherone Simpson received an 18-month suspension for doping from the Jamaica Anti-Doping (JADCO) Disciplinary Panel on Tuesday. The 29-year-old, who won 4x100m relay gold in the 2004 Olympics…
NEW YORK — Every spring, Yankees catcher Francisco Cervelli tries to take as many groundballs as he can in the infield. He goes around the diamond, fielding balls at third base, shortstop, second base and first base. An infielder when he signed with…
NATO warned Russia on Tuesday against making an “historic mistake” by provoking a flaring secession crisis in eastern Ukraine that Moscow itself conceded could degenerate into a civil war. Ukraine’s embattled interim leaders have been waging an uphill…
Queen Elizabeth welcomed the Irish president to Britain on Tuesday for the first time since the republic became independent, in a historic state visit consolidating ties between the once hostile neighbours. The four-day trip by President Michael D.…