The engineers battling to stop global warming ruining roads
Getty Images Maintaining Queensland’s roads is a challenging task Australia’s floods of 2010-11 spread devastation and damage across Queensland, with 33 people losing their lives and causing billions in losses across the state. The floods also damaged 19,000km of roads, including those needed for emergency and delivery vehicles. It was a stark lesson in the […]
Monday’s Scottish Gossip: Rangers, Ojo, Aribo, Celtic, Ntcham, Kilmarnock, Alessio
Olivier Ntcham admits he could leave Celtic with Lyon, Marseille and Porto all keen on the midfielder. (Sun), external Celtic’s Ntcham has hinted he is keen to join Marseille. (Mail, print edition) Midfielder Leanne Crichton insists the Scotland women squad can cope with criticism from former United States goalkeeper Hope Solo. (Scotsman), external Scotland’s participation […]
Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism
Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) Monopoly’s inventor, Elizabeth Magie, would have sent herself straight to jail if she’d lived to know just how influential today’s twisted version of her game turned out to be. ‘Buy land – they aren’t making it any more,’ quipped Mark Twain. It’s a maxim that would certainly serve you well […]
What’s a skilled worker? And other immigration questions
Getty Images The government has been unveiling details of its plans for a new post-Brexit immigration system. It said low-skilled workers would not be given visas, and employers should “move away” from relying on “cheap labour” from Europe. We answer readers’ questions on visas, skills, entrepreneurs, and more. How will the new rules affect overseas […]
New tool for under-18s to report nude photos of themselves online
Getty Images Under-18s who want nude pictures or videos of themselves removed from the internet can now report the images through an online tool. The service – from the Internet Watch Foundation and Childline – aims to help children who have been groomed, or whose partners have posted photos of them online. The IWF will […]
Tokyo Olympics: The rise of the Chile women’s football team
Navarro was Santiago Morning’s head coach until last year, when she decided to take on a more administrative role as the club’s assistant director of women’s football. Yet she still shows up to every training session and on matchday. “The national team has achieved their success with the players’ clubs,” Navarro told BBC Sport from […]
Why is New Zealand so progressive?
Martin Vlnas/Getty Images New Zealand was not conquered but founded on a treaty between Māori and the Crown (Credit: Martin Vlnas/Getty Images) New Zealanders like to see themselves as practical, coping with anything thrown at them, with good life-skills and a co-operative “can-do” spirit. Our coverage during coronavirus While travelling is on hold due to […]
Nasa names first woman and black man on Moon mission
NASA Koch, Glover (rear), Hansen and Wiseman (seated) were unveiled at the Johnson Space Center The US space agency Nasa has named the four astronauts who will take humanity back to the Moon, after a 50-year gap. Christina Koch will become the first woman astronaut ever assigned to a lunar mission, while Victor Glover will […]
‘I didn’t even meet my potential employers’
Peter Lane Peter Lane has found video interviews impersonal and off-putting As companies rely more on machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to find the right job candidates, is recruitment in danger of losing that personal touch? Peter Lane, a 21-year-old who graduated last summer from Cardiff University with a degree in History, is hoping […]
Why Shah Rukh Khan’s comeback film is a big deal
YRF Pathaan stars Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone and John Abraham Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s latest film Pathaan, which releases on Wednesday, has been hitting the headlines in India for the past several weeks. The interest is hardly surprising – Khan is among India’s biggest and most-loved stars. Charming, funny and with millions of […]