In a golf tournament, the day before the final round is called "moving day". It's when the leaders pull away from the rest of the pack. A rookie or little-known duffer may have strung together a few good holes or even posted a nice round, but time and pressure expose their flaws. Tuesday was such a moment in the...
SHE was the sexiest sci-fi siren of the seventies, thanks to her intergalactic purple bob and skimpy silver dresses, but British starlet Gabrielle Drake looks very different today. The now 71-year-old burst on to screens as Lieutenant Gay Ellis more than four decades ago in science fiction television series UFO. Defending Earth...
A group of Twitter accounts seems to be designed to pump out crude Iranian propaganda aimed at an English-speaking audience — but the people behind it and their true motivations are a mystery. Dozens of accounts tweet to thousands of followers in waves every few minutes throughout the day using the hashtag "Powerful...
A recent UN report weighed into a debate that provokes intense controversy in Japan, by including manga in a list of content with violent pornography. The BBC's Yuko Kato went to meet one of Japan's leading female manga artists, Keiko Takemiya, seen as the woman who opened the floodgates to sexually explicit manga. Some...
US student Otto Warmbier has been given 15 years hard labour in North Korea for crimes against the state. Warmbier, 21, was arrested for trying to steal a propaganda sign from a hotel while visiting North Korea in January. He later appeared on state TV apparently confessing and saying a church group had asked him to bring back...
At least 15 people travelling on a bus have been killed by a bomb in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, officials say. The vehicle was carrying government employees from nearby areas to the city. An improvised device apparently inside the bus caused the blast, police say. There has been no claim of responsibility,...
Ruger suppressors are now a reality with the introduction of the company’s first suppressor: the Ruger Silent-SR. The Silent-SR Ruger suppressor is designed for .22 LR, .22 WMR and .17 HMR rifles and pistols. In testing, the company found that this new suppressor reduced sound pressure levels by as much as 40 decibels....
Whitetail deer are very unpredictable during the rut. They usually don’t attack people, yet any semblance of a mating rival is fair game. An outfitter on Maryland’s Eastern shore was irate about someone destroying his small 3-D course one morning until he noticed the tine marks in each of the dismembered targets....
Time to dust off the fedora. A fifth Indiana Jones movie is in the works, Disney announced Tuesday. The film is set to reunite star Harrison Ford and director Steven Spielberg, and is slated to hit theaters on July 19, 2019. Ford, 73, and Spielberg, 69, last collaborated on 2008's Indiana Jones and the...
Last month, President Barack Obama and ballerina Misty Copeland sat down with TIME to discuss their rise in their respective fields, the country’s persisting racial discord and the grassroots movements looking to radically change the racial climate. Among the many highlights from TIME's transcript of that dialogue?...
US presidential candidate Donald Trump often yells at protesters to "get out" of his rallies and says that he wish he could knock them out. Fellow 2016 US presidential candidates have criticised Mr Trump for allowing a culture of violence around his rallies, but he has not taken responsibility. The Republican...
A Texas teenager is “in grave or immediate danger,” authorities said Tuesday amid fears that she was with her father when he was killed and his burned body dumped near a ditch. The FBI has joined the investigation into the disappearance of 13-year-old Adriana Coronado of Katy, who was last seen Saturday. An Amber...