Robotic snakes have been deployed in southwestern China to inspect power lines and ensure a stable power supply during the country’s high-pressure national college entrance exam. The snakelike robots spiral around power lines in Kunming, the provincial capital of Yunnan, to detect hazards such as broken wires, worn components and abnormal temperatures. The device’s developer, the power supply bure...
Robotic snakes have been deployed in southwestern China to inspect power lines and ensure a stable power supply during the country’s high-pressure national college entrance exam. The snakelike robots spiral around power lines in Kunming, the provincial capital of Yunnan, to detect hazards such as broken wires, worn components and abnormal temperatures. The device’s developer, the power supply bureau of Kunming’s Guandu district, said the robotic snake had checked more than 130km (81 miles) of...
Follow the folklore and you will discover a landscape full of wonder and powerful women – from a fearsome Scottish warrioress to the first queen of a united England It’s just past midday and I appear to be inside a rain cloud. Soaked to the skin, my walking boots squelching through tufts of grass and black bog mud, I can hear hundreds of streams rolling off this wide mid-Wales peak, each vying to ...
Follow the folklore and you will discover a landscape full of wonder and powerful women – from a fearsome Scottish warrioress to the first queen of a united England It’s just past midday and I appear to be inside a rain cloud. Soaked to the skin, my walking boots squelching through tufts of grass and black bog mud, I can hear hundreds of streams rolling off this wide mid-Wales peak, each vying to be the fastest. I’ve hiked around more than 8 miles (13km) of Hafren Forest trails to the top of Mount Pumlumon Fawr (Plynlimon), to reach a wooden post carved with the words Source of the Severn. And I’m here, alone, because I’m hoping to meet a river goddess. It’s perhaps not as strange as it first sounds. Starting about 150 years ago, the folklorist John Rhys travelled across Wales to archive as many local myths as possible, and among them was the very tale that brought me to this peak: the story of the birth of the River Severn, in which three sisters – Hafren (Severn), Rheidolyn (Rheidol) and Gwy (Wye) – each choose their own route to the sea. My trip to the river’s source was itself a moment of mythically inspired travel, something that has been common practice in the British Isles for as long as we’ve told stories, not least as a means of passing them on. Continue reading...
This impressive and charismatic debut novel revisits an actor and a director over various collaborations The central characters of Frida Slattery As Herself, Ana Kinsella’s debut novel, are the eponymous Frida, 23 when the novel opens, and John Reddan, five years older. Both live in Dublin. Frida loves acting but has never had a significant role, and didn’t even get into drama school. John is a wr...
This impressive and charismatic debut novel revisits an actor and a director over various collaborations The central characters of Frida Slattery As Herself, Ana Kinsella’s debut novel, are the eponymous Frida, 23 when the novel opens, and John Reddan, five years older. Both live in Dublin. Frida loves acting but has never had a significant role, and didn’t even get into drama school. John is a writer-director who has just had a play put on at a “real theatre”. What’s compelling about Frida is not necessarily what she says, thinks or does, but the way she is, and a large part of that lies in the physicality Kinsella writes into her. Frida, we learn, is “addicted” to the theatre. “Every time she came off stage she felt like a prizefighter. The curtain fell in the community theatre and there she was, rolling her neck, bobbing on her feet.” However, Frida’s acting aspirations are going nowhere. She eventually confides in her friend Catherine, who at university was a much more successful actor in student productions, but now has a proper job (“She owned an espresso machine and Frida lived in a bedsit”). “I just want something to happen,” Frida says. Catherine introduces Frida to John. They meet in Kehoe’s pub, then he asks Frida to accompany him on an errand which turns into a long, mystifying walk through Dublin, during which he interviews her. She asks in return what he is working on: “Are there any roles for women in their early twenties?” To which he responds, “Is that how you think of yourself, Frida? As nothing more than ‘a woman in her early twenties’?” Continue reading...
In Mexico, football is played wherever space permits. The Reuters photographer Raquel Cunha spent three months taking photos of amateur matches across Mexico City and beyond Across Mexico, a co-host of the 2026 World Cup, football pitches are laid out wherever communities can find the space. On the edges of towns, on highway underpasses, and even in a volcano crater, spaces are cleared that allow ...
In Mexico, football is played wherever space permits. The Reuters photographer Raquel Cunha spent three months taking photos of amateur matches across Mexico City and beyond Across Mexico, a co-host of the 2026 World Cup, football pitches are laid out wherever communities can find the space. On the edges of towns, on highway underpasses, and even in a volcano crater, spaces are cleared that allow people young and old to share in the dream of the beautiful game. In an impoverished neighbourhood in Monterrey, northern Mexico, 14-year-old Humberto Guadalupe, nicknamed “Messi” by friends and family, spends his weekends on the community’s only football field, surrounded by abandoned cars and dirt roads. Humberto Guadalupe (left), 14, and Eduardo Reyes, 12, play football, followed by snacks organised by evangelists, in Monterrey Continue reading...
As China’s gaokao, or national college entrance exam, fell on June 7 to 10 this year, the bigger challenge that female candidates face during the test is receiving increasing attention online. Gaokao is an exam that most Chinese secondary school pupils take to further their study. According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics in China, females account for around half of the secondary sc...
As China’s gaokao, or national college entrance exam, fell on June 7 to 10 this year, the bigger challenge that female candidates face during the test is receiving increasing attention online. Gaokao is an exam that most Chinese secondary school pupils take to further their study. According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics in China, females account for around half of the secondary school pupils in recent years. Of all the female gaokao candidates, around 30 per cent might have...
With the SpaceX initial public offering (IPO) just days away, the company's IPO prospectus has become required reading for investors around the world. In this 380-page document, several incredibly bold claims are made. One of the boldest is at the start of the document, where SpaceX CEO Elon Musk outlines his vision for the company: You want to wake up in the morning and think the future is going ...
With the SpaceX initial public offering (IPO) just days away, the company's IPO prospectus has become required reading for investors around the world. In this 380-page document, several incredibly bold claims are made. One of the boldest is at the start of the document, where SpaceX CEO Elon Musk outlines his vision for the company: You want to wake up in the morning and think the future is going to be great -- and that's what being a space-faring civilization is all about. It's about believing in the future and thinking that the future will be better than the past. And I can't think of anything more exciting than going out there and being among the stars. Continue reading
After Horrific Belfast Migrant Knife Attack, U.K. Officials Think The Problem Is X Authored by Monica Showalter via American Thinker , Northern Ireland went up in flames as angry Irish mobs rioted in the streets and burned down publicly funded migrant housing complexes last night. The spark that set it off was a migrant who tried to behead a resident. This is the attack in living color, which was ...
After Horrific Belfast Migrant Knife Attack, U.K. Officials Think The Problem Is X Authored by Monica Showalter via American Thinker , Northern Ireland went up in flames as angry Irish mobs rioted in the streets and burned down publicly funded migrant housing complexes last night. The spark that set it off was a migrant who tried to behead a resident. This is the attack in living color, which was posted on X: Tekijä: Hadi Alodid, sudanilainen turvapaikanhakija Video tapahtuneesta: pic.twitter.com/XLHbgMxRCo - Roni Arvonen (@RoniArvonen) June 10, 2026 Mob action is never desirable but the anger was predictable, as the details were worse than they looked: An innocent Scotish resident, Stephen Ogilvy, who is partially deaf, was helping a Sudanese 'asylum seeker' move into his residence. The migrant, Hadi Alodid, had entered the country in 2023 and got a five-year pass to seek 'asylum.' For unknown reasons, the migrant grabbed Ogilvy, began slashing him with a knife, gouging out one eye and severely damaging the other, slashed his knife all over Ogilvy's face, and then began to cut Ogilvy's head off in the street. He was intercepted by locals, one of whom hit him over the head with a shovel, saving Ogilvy's life. Ogilvy's alive, but gets to go through life not just nearly deaf, but nearly blind, too. Coming on the heels of the Henry Nowak murder by a migrant-involved person, along with the bad police response, and it was too much for many in Belfast. The riots that followed were the result of the state which failed to protect the people from uninvited barbarians who repaid kindness with savagery and who exhibited little consideration for the victims. Brendan O'Neill, who's a heckuva good writer, sums it up this way at Sp!ked : Yes, only the blood-stained degenerate bears responsibility for the horrors inflicted on that innocent man. But we now know the piece of scum had an army of witless aiders and abetters. There lurks in the background of this abomination a whole reg...
(RTTNews) - Kinepolis Group SA (KPSN.F, KIN.BR), a Belgian cinema operator, Thursday said that it has agreed to acquire Showcase Cinemas in the US from Harbor Lights Entertainment, formerly National Amusements Inc., for an enterprise value of $30 million.
(RTTNews) - Kinepolis Group SA (KPSN.F, KIN.BR), a Belgian cinema operator, Thursday said that it has agreed to acquire Showcase Cinemas in the US from Harbor Lights Entertainment, formerly National Amusements Inc., for an enterprise value of $30 million.
Emergent Metals ( EGMCF ) announced that Fairchild Gold Corp. has obtained unanimous shareholder approval to finalize the acquisition of Emergent’s Golden Arrow property located near Tonopah, Nevada. Shareholders cleared the transaction at a special meeting on June 9, 2026, marking a pivotal regulatory step toward a deal closure expected later this month, subject to final TSX Venture Exchange appr...
Emergent Metals ( EGMCF ) announced that Fairchild Gold Corp. has obtained unanimous shareholder approval to finalize the acquisition of Emergent’s Golden Arrow property located near Tonopah, Nevada. Shareholders cleared the transaction at a special meeting on June 9, 2026, marking a pivotal regulatory step toward a deal closure expected later this month, subject to final TSX Venture Exchange approval. The total consideration for the Nevada asset includes cash payments, equity issuance, and a structured debt instrument: Fairchild will pay Emergent $350K at closing, which follows a previously completed non-refundable deposit of $ 250K. Emergent will receive 12.5M common shares of Fairchild, valued at the market's closing price on the trading day immediately prior to issuance. Fairchild will issue a five-year, $3.5M senior secured promissory note to Emergent yielding 8.5% interest per annum, payable semi-annually. The note carries a first-ranking security interest over the property and includes a $500K early repayment waiver bonus if settled within six months, alongside principal step-up penalties increasing the debt to $4.0M after year three and $5.0M after year four if left unpaid. Emergent will retain a 0.5% Net Smelter Return royalty on the property. Fairchild holds tiered buyout options to purchase the royalty for $1.0M before year four or $ 1.5M between years four and seven. Additionally, Fairchild is required to take over and fund an approximate US$40K environmental reclamation bond associated with the mining property upon closing. More on Emergent Metals Corp. Fairchild Gold to acquire Emergent Metals' Golden Arrow Property Financial information for Emergent Metals Corp.
Tanvi Jayaraman, Health AI Clinical Lead at Oura, discusses the smart ring maker's new model and its new wellness capabilities that aim at detecting signs of high blood pressure and sleep apnea. She speaks with Shery Ahn and Haidi Stroud-Watts on Bloomberg: The Asia Trade. (Source: Bloomberg)
Tanvi Jayaraman, Health AI Clinical Lead at Oura, discusses the smart ring maker's new model and its new wellness capabilities that aim at detecting signs of high blood pressure and sleep apnea. She speaks with Shery Ahn and Haidi Stroud-Watts on Bloomberg: The Asia Trade. (Source: Bloomberg)
Earnings Call Insights: J.Jill (JILL) Q1 2026 Management View "We delivered first quarter results in line with our expectations for both sales and profitability" and "we are being thoughtful about infusing newness while retaining the essential elements our most loyal customers value" (CEO, President & Director Mary Coyne). "Notable successes in the quarter were jackets and accessories" while "tops...
Earnings Call Insights: J.Jill (JILL) Q1 2026 Management View "We delivered first quarter results in line with our expectations for both sales and profitability" and "we are being thoughtful about infusing newness while retaining the essential elements our most loyal customers value" (CEO, President & Director Mary Coyne). "Notable successes in the quarter were jackets and accessories" while "tops assortment skewed too far into shorter length and did not offer enough breadth in print" (CEO, President & Director Coyne). "Our new-to-brand customer acquisition...had slight year-over-year growth, driven primarily through the retail channel" and "we saw a meaningful improvement in the profile of these new customers who are younger than our existing customers' average age" (CEO, President & Director Coyne). "We launched a new nontender loyalty program called J.Jill Collective" and "leading this program and all customer and marketing strategies is our new Chief Marketing Officer, Kimberly Wallengren" (CEO, President & Director Coyne). "Total company sales for the quarter were about $144 million" and "gross margin rate for Q1 was 68.3%, down 350 basis points versus Q1 2025, driven by approximately $4.7 million in net tariff costs" (Executive VP, CFO & COO Mark Webb). Outlook "For full year, we are reaffirming our prior guidance" including "adjusted EBITDA of $70 million to $75 million" and "full year free cash flow...about $20 million" (Executive VP, CFO & COO Webb). "We now expect to spend between $20 million and $25 million of CapEx during the fiscal year compared to prior guidance of approximately $25 million" and "we now expect to open between 1 and 5 net new stores this year versus prior guidance of about 5 net new stores" (Executive VP, CFO & COO Webb). "For second quarter, we expect sales to be down 1% to down 3%...and adjusted EBITDA to be in the range of $18 million to $20 million" with "second quarter gross margin to decline approximately 100 basis points...primar...
University of Colorado Boulder Professor of Law and Laurence W. DeMuth Chair of Business Law Ann M. Lipton highlights how the SpaceX initial public offering structure limits investors' rights. Because of super voting shares, she notes that public shareholders have no votes, no sales, no suits. She speaks with Haslinda Amin on "Insight with Haslinda Amin." (Source: Bloomberg)
University of Colorado Boulder Professor of Law and Laurence W. DeMuth Chair of Business Law Ann M. Lipton highlights how the SpaceX initial public offering structure limits investors' rights. Because of super voting shares, she notes that public shareholders have no votes, no sales, no suits. She speaks with Haslinda Amin on "Insight with Haslinda Amin." (Source: Bloomberg)