Actor Ed Asner, the veteran Emmy Award winner who became known for his leading voice role in Pixar film Up, has died aged 91. The veteran performer moved viewers of all ages to tears with his poignant performance in the 2009 animated hit, rejuvenating a career that before then was defined by his role in
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Hurricane Ida has made landfall in Louisiana as an “extremely dangerous” category four storm. It hit on the same date Hurricane Katrina ravaged Louisiana and Mississippi 16 years earlier, about 40 miles west of where category three Katrina first struck land. Arriving with a barometric pressure of 930 millibars, Ida preliminarily goes down as tied
1:47 AM ET Giga Chikadze was out to prove a point in his first UFC main event. Facing one of the legends of the sport in Edson Barboza on Saturday night in Las Vegas, Chikadze displayed his striking prowess and stopped Barboza in the third round after a flurry of punches. The former kickboxing star
A drone has destroyed a vehicle which was carrying “a substantial amount of explosive material” and heading to Kabul airport, US officials have confirmed. A military official said the strike on Sunday caused “significant secondary explosions”. He added: “US military forces conducted a self-defence unmanned over-the-horizon airstrike today on a vehicle in Kabul, eliminating an
Kanye West has released his long-waited 10th album, Donda. Named after his late mother, the record was originally due to drop last summer, but West‘s perfectionist tendencies have meant he has delayed its launch several times. The 27-track album, its cover art a black square, is 108 minutes long and available for streaming on services
Football fans in England are set to be allowed to stand at games before the end of the current season, in a reversal of the 30-year rule requiring all-seater stadiums. Many clubs in the Premier League – including Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester City and Manchester United – have recently installed “safe standing” areas, with rail seating,
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Oil firms on Saturday cut nearly 91% of U.S. Gulf of Mexico crude oil production, roughly 1.65 million barrels, as Hurricane Ida makes its way toward major U.S. offshore oilfields, according to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. The regulator also estimated that roughly 84.87% of natural gas production in the Gulf of Mexico has
At least 72 people have died, including 13 US service personnel, after two blasts and a gunfight outside Kabul airport. An official has confirmed at least 60 Afghans were killed and 143 others were wounded in the suspected suicide bombings. Islamic State affiliate, ISIS-K, said on its Telegram account it was behind the attack. SUBSCRIBE
Jon Stewart and Dave Chappelle weighed in on President Trump’s attacks on the media and other public figures in an interview with Christiane Amanpour at the Royal Albert Hall.
Over 10,000 tracking heliostats focus solar energy at the receiver on the 640-foot power tower at the Crescent Dunes Solar Thermal Facility in Nevada. The facility is representative of concentrating solar power modeled in the Annual Technology Baseline. Photo by Dennis Schroeder, NREL. Article courtesy of NREL. One of the challenges of aggregating energy data from
Article courtesy of NREL.by Wayne Hicks On a clear night, Kaitlyn VanSant will be able to watch her work whiz by. Knowing the success of her project, however, will have to wait until her tiny, temporary addition to the International Space Station returns to Earth. “My family and I have definitely been looking up at night
The human cost of Britain’s withdrawal from Afghanistan will be felt by those who were eligible to return to the UK but did not make it on to flights out of Kabul. It is unclear exactly how many eligible people remain, but among them are the family of a man called Mohammad, whose name has
7:32 PM ET Associated Press SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Essential Quality just keeps on winning, displaying a grit that his handlers simply marvel at. The Belmont Stakes winner added the $1.25 million Travers Stakes to his resume Saturday, holding off Midnight Bourbon in a stirring stretch duel at Saratoga Race Course for his eighth victory
7:34 AM ET JAKE PAUL ARRIVED at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida, just after 9 p.m. on April 24. He got to his front-row seat for UFC 261 during a preliminary fight between Alex Oliveira and Randy Brown. As Paul settled into his spot, a buzz came over the crowd. People around him
[Please refresh the page if you do not see the video player above.] Rocket builder Astra Space is going for its first launch since the company went public, and aiming to reach orbit for the first time. The new space company cut short its first launch attempt on Friday, with the rocket’s engines firing for a moment and
In an otherwise forgettable corner of western Germany, you drive round a corner and find yourself in America, complete with planes, jeeps and a lot of soldiers. Ramstein Air Base is the biggest part of a cluster of American facilities. Together, they make up the biggest community of Americans outside the United States. This is
The last remaining UK troops have been flown out of Kabul airport, ending Britain’s 20-year campaign in Afghanistan. It comes as the last dedicated flight purely for the evacuation effort left the Afghan capital last night – ahead of the 31 August deadline set by Joe Biden for American forces to withdraw. Operation Pitting has
What happened in America on 11 September 2001 changed the course of history. The attack unfolded on New York’s skyline when two airliners flew into the World Trade Center. Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives in a day that became known as 9/11. Afghanistan latest news – live updates Then-president George W Bush declared the
In this article TSLA A 2019 Tesla Model 3 hit a Florida Highway Patrol car in Orlando on the morning of August 28, 2021. No injuries were reported. Courtesy: Florida Highway Patrol The driver of a 2019 Tesla Model 3 told officers she was using Autopilot, Tesla’s advanced driver assistance system, when she collided with