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Saints assistant Todd Grantham to become defensive coordinator at Oklahoma State

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Todd Grantham is leaving the staff of the NFL’s Saints to become the defensive coordinator at Oklahoma State, New Orleans interim coach Darren Rizzi said Monday. Grantham has been defensive coordinator for the Cleveland Browns in the NFL and for Georgia, Louisville, Mississippi State and Florida …

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3 weeks, 5 days ago

Australia takes step to ban under 16s from social media

Raw Story

by Laura CHUNG / Andrew BEATTY Australian lawmakers moved a step closer to banning under 16s from social media platforms Wednesday, threatening companies that fail to comply with multimillion-dollar fines. Social media firms -- who could face fines of up to Aus$50 million for failing to impose the ban -- have described the laws as "vague", "problematic" and "rushed". In …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Corona del Mar boys’ water polo extends season with thrilling win at Harvard-Westlake

LA Times

Lucas Reynolds remembers the match fairly well, even if it was nearly two decades ago. The Corona del Mar High boys’ water polo team headed up to Studio City Harvard-Westlake in 2005 for a CIF quarterfinal game in coach Barry O’Dea’s first season. Corona del Mar’s Landon Castillo celebrates after scoring a goal against Harvard-Westlake on Tuesday night. When it …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Dame Maggie Smith RECAP: Legendary Harry Potter and Downton Abbey star hailed a 'national treasure' following her death at the age of 89 as former co-stars pay tribute

Daily Mail

During her career, actor Dame Maggie Smith shone in roles as varied as a maverick schoolteacher, a witch in the Harry Potter film series, and Downton Abbey's Dowager Countess of Grantham, a part which won her three Emmys. Here is a round-up of her most famous roles: Professor Minerva McGonagall From 2001 to 2011, Dame Maggie played Hogwarts' Professor Minerva …

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2 months, 4 weeks ago

Europe’s worst floods on record made twice as likely by climate crisis – and will only get worse

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Until oil, gas, and coal …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Owners sacrifice to spoil pets as form of joyful escapism in cost-of-living crisis

ABC

Four-year-old cavoodle Miss Mia has 70 tutus and a shoe collection to rival Imelda Marcos. For owner Lisa Turner, spending time and money curating the social media accounts for the Gold Coast-based "dog-fluencer" is about bringing joy to herself and the community. Bond University marketing professor Rajat Roy said research firm Roy Morgan's latest Future of Retail report, released earlier …

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6 months ago

Downton Abbey returns! Michelle Dockery gets back into character as she joins Hugh Bonneville and Elizabeth McGovern to film first scenes of third film... but there's no sign of the iconic stately hom

Daily Mail

The cast of Downton Abbey looked in high spirits as they reunited on Thursday to film the hotly-anticipated third film in the series. The cast of Downton Abbey looked in high spirits as they reunited on Thursday to film the hotly-anticipated third film in the series Michelle Dockery was among the show's stars that were seen on set at the …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Taliban govt harbours big dreams for Afghan rail

The Hindu

On the edge of the Afghan border with Uzbekistan, where the railway abruptly stops, throngs of young men transfer sacks of wheat or flour from freight trains to trucks. "People have been talking about the Trans-Afghan Railway for more than 100 years," said Andrew Grantham, news editor of the U.K.-based Railway Gazette International, a media outlet dedicated to covering developments …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Getting ready for heatwaves

Hindustan Times

A crushing heatwave that began more than a week ago has become unbearable since Monday. In Delhi, power consumption surpassed records and desperate families mobbed water tankers after their taps ran dry. A 40-year-old labourer who lived in a room with no air cooling died at a hospital during the week and the administration imposed fines on wasteful use of …

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8 months ago

NASA’s Landsat 9 satellite captures before and after pics of Dubai floods from space

Hindustan Times

NASA recently shared striking before and after images of Dubai’s recent floods, caused by torrential rainfall that hit the United Arab Emirates last week. Captured by NASA’s Landsat 9 satellite on April 19, these images depict vast pools of floodwater contrasting sharply with the region’s typically dry terrain. Another picture taken from space shows flooded areas in Abu Dhabi, the …

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8 months ago

Extreme Dubai rainfall linked to climate change, not cloud seeding: Scientists

Hindustan Times

Extreme rainfall in Dubai late on Monday and Tuesday triggered the worst flooding in over seven decades in one of the world’s most advanced but arid cities. The intensity of the rainfall sparked speculation that cloud seeding may have led to it, prompting climate scientists to underline the climate change link to it. Friederike Otto, a senior lecturer at the …

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9 months ago

Reddit soars in Wall Street debut, opening at $47 a share

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Reddit’s stock soared in its Wall Street debut as investors pushed the value of the company close to $9 billion seconds after it began trading on the New York Stock Exchange. About 76 million users checked into one of Reddit’s roughly 100,000 communities in December, according to the regulatory disclosures required before the San Francisco company goes …

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1 year ago

'Tax the bad' to boost climate finance, COP28 panel advises

The Hindu

Increasing taxes on polluting activities and cutting fossil fuel subsidies could generate trillions of dollars to tackle climate change, an advisory panel to the COP28 talks in Dubai said. Summit host the United Arab Emirates, a major oil producer, has said the two-week meeting starting on Thursday must deliver "tangible action" on climate funding, which has been squeezed by rising …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Heat waves in US and Europe would have been ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change, new report finds

CNN

CNN — Extreme heat waves across three continents this month were made significantly more likely by the human-caused climate crisis, according to a new analysis released Tuesday as temperatures are still blazing in parts of the Northern Hemisphere. The “heat hell” searing parts of the United States and southern Europe would have been “virtually impossible” without climate change, while climate …

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1 year, 5 months ago

World registers hottest day ever recorded on Monday

Al Jazeera

Scientists say to expect more records to fall this year as climate change and an emerging El Nino pattern make the mercury climb. Monday was the hottest day ever recorded globally, according to data from the US National Centers for Environmental Prediction. “This is not a milestone we should be celebrating,” said climate scientist Friederike Otto of the Grantham Institute …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Climate change made April heatwave in Western Mediterranean ‘100 times more likely’

The Independent

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A record-breaking heatwave which gripped southern Europe and North Africa last month was made “at …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Study: Don’t blame climate change for South American drought

Associated Press

Climate change isn’t causing the multi-year drought that is devastating parts of Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Bolivia, but warming is worsening some of the dry spell’s impacts, a new study says. The natural three-year climate condition La Nina – a cooling of the central Pacific that changes weather worldwide temporarily but lasted much longer than normal this time – is …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Study: Don't blame climate change for South American drought

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The natural three-year climate condition …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Climate Questions: How much has the climate changed already?

Associated Press

Relentless drought in China, East Africa, the U.S. West and northern Mexico, devastating floods in Pakistan and Kentucky, scorching heat waves in Europe and the Pacific Northwest, destructive cyclones in southern Africa and intense hurricanes in the U.S. and Central America make up just some of the recent extreme weather events that scientists have long predicted would be more intense …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Climate Questions: What are the solutions to climate change?

Associated Press

As the world warms and extreme weather events mount, governments and corporations have been called on to address climate change by top officials, climate scientists and activists and to curb levels of heating. ___ Scientists and officials agree that it’s important to not make matters worse by burning even more fossil fuels — coal, oil and natural gas — that …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Climate Questions: What are the solutions to climate change?

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. ___ Scientists and officials agree that it's important to …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Boost climate action or we'll see you in court, activists tell govts

Hindustan Times

Governments around the world must scale up climate action "or face further legal action", an open letter from campaign groups warned Tuesday, as battles over policies to cut emissions and protect the environment are increasingly fought in the courts. From legal efforts to steer governments to do more to curb fossil fuel pollution, to court action over companies' misleading green …

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2 years, 4 months ago

UK heatwave: Weather forecasters get ‘unprecedented’ abuse for reporting facts on climate crisis

The Independent

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Weather forecasters were bombarded with “unprecedented” abuse during the UK’s record-breaking heatwave, according to key …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Rishi Sunak's wife Akshata Murthy wears £165 Club Monaco dress in Tory blue

Daily Mail

She is an heiress with a billionaire father, but Rishi Sunak's wife seemed eager to prove she could still be a woman of the people as she joined her husband on the campaign trail over the weekend. Tory blue: Akshata Murthy, the daughter of billionaire Indian IT mogul Narayana Murthy, donned a £165 dress by high street label Club Monaco …

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Saints assistant Todd Grantham to become defensive coordinator at Oklahoma State

Australia takes step to ban under 16s from social media

Corona del Mar boys’ water polo extends season with thrilling win at Harvard-Westlake

Dame Maggie Smith RECAP: Legendary Harry Potter and Downton Abbey star hailed a 'national treasure' following her death at the age of 89 as former co-stars pay tribute

Europe’s worst floods on record made twice as likely by climate crisis – and will only get worse

Owners sacrifice to spoil pets as form of joyful escapism in cost-of-living crisis

Downton Abbey returns! Michelle Dockery gets back into character as she joins Hugh Bonneville and Elizabeth McGovern to film first scenes of third film... but there's no sign of the iconic stately hom

Taliban govt harbours big dreams for Afghan rail

Getting ready for heatwaves

NASA’s Landsat 9 satellite captures before and after pics of Dubai floods from space

Extreme Dubai rainfall linked to climate change, not cloud seeding: Scientists

Reddit soars in Wall Street debut, opening at $47 a share

'Tax the bad' to boost climate finance, COP28 panel advises

Heat waves in US and Europe would have been ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change, new report finds

World registers hottest day ever recorded on Monday

Climate change made April heatwave in Western Mediterranean ‘100 times more likely’

Study: Don’t blame climate change for South American drought

Study: Don't blame climate change for South American drought

Climate Questions: How much has the climate changed already?

Climate Questions: What are the solutions to climate change?

Climate Questions: What are the solutions to climate change?

Boost climate action or we'll see you in court, activists tell govts

UK heatwave: Weather forecasters get ‘unprecedented’ abuse for reporting facts on climate crisis

Rishi Sunak's wife Akshata Murthy wears £165 Club Monaco dress in Tory blue