As someone who firmly believes every car should have a rear windshield wiper as standard or optional at the very least, I’m glad to see the Ioniq 5 N will have one. It wouldn’t make sense to keep it exclusive to the performance version, so it’s only a matter of time before Hyundai will offer it for the regular electric […]
Read moreRussia's despotic war mad President Vladimir Putin is so desperate to take as much of Ukraine as possible that he is now offering soldiers around £500 per kilometre of land they manage to steal. The bizarre new campaign has been advertised in several areas of Russia in a bid to increase the size of his depleted army. So far, he […]
Read moreThere’s an exasperating trend in superhero movies that has reached the end of its shelf life and needs to be chucked. Back in the 2010s, a light touch on the tone seemed fresh and funny, with quippy, ironic dialogue popularized by Joss Whedon’s “The Avengers” that felt revolutionary and snarky — motor-mouthed performances from stars such as Ryan Reynolds in […]
Read moreDenver is about to get one of Portland’s finest. Chef Carlo Lamagna, a 2022 James Beard Award finalist who was also named one of Food & Wine’s Best New Chefs in 2021, plans to open a Filipino restaurant, Magna Kainan, at 1350 40th St. in early 2024. “I’ve always wanted to move to Denver,” Lamagna said. “It was on my list […]
Read moreLogos often surprise people even after years of looking at them while shopping or using a service. The Travelodge logo left people reeling earlier this year when it was revealed that it does not show rolling hills, as most people assumed, while the Ryanair logo is not a flying woman, but rather an Irish harp. Well, another hidden secret has […]
Read moreOn the outskirts of a remote town with a population of just 1.824 people is one of the world's worst prisons, where inmates are tortured on a regular basis Idrizovo Penitentiary in Skopje, North Macedonia, is so horrific that it was the subject of an investigation by the Council of Europe's anti-torture committee in 2021. Apart from a few small […]
Read moreBookmark Don’t miss a thing! Sign up to the Daily Star’s newsletter We have more newsletters A wealthy senior Nigerian politician has been found guilty of an organ-harvesting plot into the UK. Ike Ekweremadu, 60, a former deputy president of the Nigerian senate, plotted with his family and doctor to traffic a 21-year-old to Britain for his kidney. The plan […]
Read moreIn late 1978, China’s paramount leader Deng Xiaoping set in motion two major policy shifts that would change China and the world order in the decades to come. At a Communist Party meeting in December of that year, the leadership declared that China would turn its focus from political struggle to economic development. Within days, China and the United States […]
Read morePHOENIX — Triston McKenzie and Logan Gilbert both dress a few lockers down from a surprise American League Cy Young Award winner. In the Cleveland Guardians’ clubhouse in Goodyear, Ariz., it is Shane Bieber, who won in 2020; in the Seattle Mariners’, in Peoria, it is Robbie Ray, who won for Toronto the next season. Neither had finished in the […]
Read morePhoto illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios. Photos: Chip Somodevilla, Lynda M. Gonzalez-Pool, Alex Wong, Bureau of Prisons, Denver Post via Getty Images A growing number of elected Republicans are openly promoting "white replacement theory," a decades-old conspiracy theory that's animated terrorist attacks, including the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Why it matters: This mainstreams what once was the sole provenance of white supremacists. […]
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