Actress Eliza Dushku has become the latest Buffy The Vampire Slayer star to step into the growing controversy around alleged “misconduct” by the TV show’s creator Joss Whedon. The 40-year-old joins fellow cast members Charisma Carpenter, Amber Benson and the show’s main star Sarah Michelle Gellar in addressing claims of “a toxic work environment” on
Month: February 2021
A senior Conservative MP has warned the government against “backsliding” on the reopening of all schools in England on 8 March and suggested some younger children should return to classrooms this month. Robert Halfon, the chair of the House of Commons education committee, told Sky News of his concerns of an “epidemic of educational poverty”
A nine-year-old black girl pepper sprayed by police begged “please don’t do this to me” and “it’s burning my eyes” as she waited handcuffed in the back seat of a police car for 16 minutes, according to new police bodycam footage. Officials in Rochester, New York, suspended the officers involved following the 29 January incident
The worst GDP since the invention of GDP. By now we’re mostly all familiar with the scale of the economic contraction this country has faced over the past year. We have lived the lockdowns, the furloughs, the closures. Even so, the scale of the fall in economic output still takes the breath away. Image: Bank
Elon Musk made new comments about the possibility of a Tesla making an electric van with a solar-powered deployable roof. The prospect of Tesla potentially making an electric van has been discussed for years, but CEO Elon Musk finally recently confirmed that Tesla will make an electric van as soon as battery cell supply allows
In a move that will give chills to fans of the dystopian movie The Matrix, scientists have developed a wearable device that could use the human body to replace batteries. Echoing world-domineering robots’ use of enslaved humans in the 1999 cyberpunk movie, US researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have created an environmentally-friendly gadget that
The head of the Tokyo Olympics has announced his resignation over sexist comments. Yoshiro Mori had said women talk too much during an online meeting of the committee’s board of trustees earlier this month, where he also said women are driven by a “strong sense of rivalry”. The former Japanese prime minister, 83, had previously
The coronavirus crisis meant the UK economy endured its deepest annual slump last year since the Great Frost in 1709, according to official figures. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said early estimates, subject to revision, showed that gross domestic product (GDP) tumbled by 9.9% in 2020. It was a consequence of large parts of
5:57 PM ET BARNSLEY, England — As Christian Pulisic left the pitch at Oakwell, substituted in the 80th minute of Chelsea‘s 1-0 FA Cup fifth-round win at Barnsley, the United States captain bore the expression of a man who had just left an audition with the feeling that he had forgotten his lines. The 22-year-old
Green Genius, a renewable energy company that is a part of an international group of companies known as the Modus Group, has sunny ambitions for Poland. At the end of last year, it won two auctions for solar power plant projects with a total capacity of 79 megawatts. Along with these, the company plans to
Bob Chapek, CEO of the Walt Disney Company and former head of Walt Disney Parks and Experiences, speaks during a media preview of the D23 Expo 2019 in Anaheim, California, Aug. 22, 2019. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg via Getty Images Disney is set to report earnings for the first quarter of 2021 after the
This image shows how the development in Milan, Italy, could look once complete. From its cavernous medieval cathedral to the elegant beauty of La Scala, the Italian city of Milan is home to some of the world’s most interesting buildings. While the aforementioned structures date back hundreds of years — La Scala was inaugurated in
New streaming service Disney+ has signed up nearly 95 million subscribers in just over a year, the entertainment giant has revealed. Disney’s latest quarterly results showed continued rapid growth for the direct-to-consumer channel, set up in November 2019 to compete with the likes of Netflix. Disney+ had 94.9 million paid subscribers as of 2 January,
The alleged leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group, who is accused of taking part in the attack on the US Capitol, discussed the possibility of getting a boat to ferry “heavy weapons” across the Potomac River, prosecutors have said. Court papers filed in the case against Thomas Caldwell provided new evidence in the
A lack of planning could affect the next phase of the coronavirus vaccine rollout, MPs have warned. The Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) praised the “world-beating” effort to get the jab to the most vulnerable, but said there is “much to be done” if the UK government is to hit its next target. Ministers are
Tesla has released a new software update in China that includes the integration of the TikTok app integration, as well as a few more features. Tesla New Year Update Tesla has a tradition to release new software updates for the holidays, which the automaker did again in December in most markets. Now, it is following
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