President Barack Obama was there to congratulate the champs, but not before giving them a bit of a tease. PHOTOS: Athletes visitng the White House “I usually tell a bunch of jokes at these events, but with the Patriots in town I was worried that 11 out of 12 of them would fall flat." Tom Brady wasn’t in attendance as he had a prior family engagement, but Rob Gronkowski was there....
The Daily Nation, Kenya’s largest newspaper, tweeted footage of people escaping from the Kenya Medical Training College and wrote: “Spotted: Kenyans under quarantine at KMTC Mbagathi escape.” “We know you and we will find you,” Kenyatta said of the escapees, according to a BBC report. The Kenya Medical Training College was holding over 200 people “found through either contact tracing or arrested for flouting the curfew and social distancing rules,” according to the Daily Nation....
“They shouldn’t be having public hearings. This is a hoax,” Trump told reporters on the White House’s South Lawn. “This is just like the Russian witch hunt. This is just a continuation.” The president’s remarks represented a direct contradiction to those he and congressional Republicans have made about the inquiry that has so far played out privately in a secure room in the basement of the Capitol. For the first time next week, the inquiry will turn from a process shrouded in secrecy to one that will undoubtedly become a TV spectacle available for everyone to see....
It’s a common infection that can be very painful, but it can be prevented. Around 10% of people will experience swimmer’s ear at some point during their life, but research shows that appropriate treatment and management is effective and can help avoid potential complications. The following tips can help you prevent swimmer’s ear. Keep Your Ears Clean and Dry, Especially After Swimming Thoroughly dry each ear canal after swimming or bathing....
This may be analogous to a primary thunderclap headache—a headache disorder that causes a sudden, extraordinarily severe and explosive onset of head pain. It’s important to note that this headache can mimic the same type of pain that accompanies life-threatening brain disorders—so, if a person has a thunderclap headache, they need to seek emergency medical attention. In fact, a thunderclap headache is actually more likely to be from a serious blood vessel problem in the brain (like a subarachnoid hemorrhage) or another organic brain problem, than this rare primary headache disorder....
Giolo-Nicollerat, 28, is counting on the LHC to give her a ringside seat to tiny re-enactments of the moments that followed the Big Bang, the cosmic event physicists posit begat the universe 14 billion years ago. To do this, scientists will use superconducting magnets to accelerate two protons round the track, 27km in circumference, to just under the speed of light. At that point they will have the energy of a 400-ton TGV moving at 200kph–and will smash into each other, creating the highest collision energies ever obtained in a lab....
In recent weeks, unnamed sources in the British tabloids have hinted that the prince could soon reveal a new plan to rehabilitate his public image against allegations of sexual abuse connected to his friendship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, publicly highlighted by a lawsuit filed by Virginia Giuffre in 2021. Following a car-crash interview in 2019 intended to set the record straight about his friendship with Epstein and to deny any recollection of having met Giuffre, Andrew stepped down from his public roles—effectively retiring from public life....
The Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, will learn about what the tech giant, formally known as Facebook, is doing to help in Ukraine and about its new cutting edge technology. The royals will learn about the 2Africa project, which will see a cable connect Europe, the Middle East and Asia, bringing high speed internet to 3 billion people. A Clarence House press release said: “Their Royal Highnesses will also hear from the Meta team about the work being done to support the people of Ukraine....
In a published extract from his new memoir Spare, released by Page Six after the outlet obtained a copy of the book before its January 10 global release, Harry alleges that Meghan was left in tears after Kate Middleton insisted her daughter Princess Charlotte’s bridesmaid dress be remade just four days before the wedding. This followed Charlotte—who was three years old at the time—trying on the loose-fitting dress, after which she allegedly “burst into tears....
Canada is a special place for Harry and wife Meghan Markle as the couple lived for a time in B.C. amid the turbulent “Megxit” period in 2020. The Invictus Games 2022 events in the Netherlands close on Friday after being postponed for two years during the pandemic. “God I’ve missed you all!” Harry began his speech at the opening ceremony, which followed a touching tribute by Meghan who introduced him as “my incredible husband”....
The Duke of Sussex condemned misinformation online and in the mainstream media during an appearance at online conference Re:Wired. Asked whether he had had the chance to make his case directly to the social media platform, he replied that he had been in touch with Twitter’s chief executive. Prince Harry said: “Jack and I were emailing each other prior to January 6 where I warned him that his platform was allowing a coup to be staged....
The brothers participated in a poignant vigil beside her coffin, joined by their royal cousins, after days of debate about a ruling that only working royals would get to wear uniform at the 96-year-old monarch’s funeral. Prince Andrew was given special permission to wear his military uniform at a vigil that was only for the queen’s children, however, initially no similar opportunity was found for Harry. That all changed when on Friday, September 16, the palace announced King Charles III had invited Harry to wear his uniform at the vigil for grandchildren....
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge travelled across England, Scotland and Wales to say thank you to front line workers amid the coronavirus pandemic in December. However, the trip required them to cross the U.K.’s internal borders at a time when restrictions warned against all but essential travel. The tour was criticized by politicians in both Wales and Scotland at the time, with claims the royal couple were undermining public health advice....
Footage of the princess playfully sticking out her tongue during a royal sports event in 2019 has been edited together with earlier footage of Harry performing the same childlike act directed towards the paparazzi in the 1980s, before he was swiftly redirected by Princess Diana. The video, uploaded to TikTok by user royal_fam_fan, has been viewed in excess of one million times and received over 145,000 likes on the platform so far....
British TV network Channel 4 has announced that the four-part series will tell for the first time the story of two separate police investigations into Diana’s death at the age of 36 in a Paris car crash. The first was undertaken in 1997 by French authorities, the second in 2004 by British police. Since the princess’s death, unfounded conspiracy theories have circulated, ranging from wild claims that Prince Philip ordered her assassination to speculation that intelligence operatives had issued a blinding flash in the Pont de l’Alma tunnel that disorientated the driver and caused the deadly crash....
Meghan Markle sparked backlash after re-creating her first curtsy to Queen Elizabeth II during the first part of the couple’s documentary. A TikTok video titled “5 Times Diana Did a Curtsy” was viewed 2.5 million times in 14 hours and liked almost 300,000 times. It can be seen here. Prince Harry took Meghan to meet Elizabeth for the first time at Royal Lodge, the Windsor home of Prince Andrew....
Diana, who tragically died in a car crash in 1997 at age 36, wore outfits symbolic of the time, meaning shoulder pads and power suits were very much in. The princess and Prince Charles got engaged in 1981, with photos of the young Diana showing her in elegant casualwear, when not attending a prestigious engagement. Diana wore dungarees, oversized sweaters, cycling shorts, sneakers and jeans, as she played with her two sons and headed to the gym....
Istanbul-based artist Alper Yesiltas started sharing his series, which he’s dubbed “As if nothing happened,” on his Instagram account in mid-August. “Behind this project lies the question of ‘how would people look if some great events had not happened to them,’” read the caption on the first portrait in his series, which featured Michael Jackson—a singer and songwriter known as the “King of Pop” who died in 2009. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, artificial intelligence uses a computer or computer-controlled robot to carry out tasks often completed by “intelligent beings....
Gaining over 18,000 likes, the tweet sparked a flurry of disapproving users, disappointed in the use of a prison as a novelty and “profiting off of folks’ trauma and downfall.” However, one travel influencer has defended the hotel, and her pictures there, to Newsweek, citing historical building preservation as an important factor in its existence. Twitter user Anna Seregina, @touchingcheeses, shared various screenshots of Instagram posts taken at the luxury hotel Malmaison Oxford in England, on September 20, writing: “Found a prison that has been converted to an influencer hotel....
This will be the first time five Heisman winners will dress out in the same game during the Super Bowl era, and all five could see the field during the game. The Baltimore Ravens have three Heisman Trophy winners and the Tennessee Titans have two. The teams will play at 8:15 p.m. ET Saturday night at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore. The five players are (College and Year to win Heisman): Baltimore—RB Mark Ingram (Alabama, 2009) Baltimore—QB Robert Griffin III (Baylor, 2011) Baltimore—QB Lamar Jackson (Louisville, 2016) Tennessee—QB Marcus Mariota (Oregon, 2014) Tennessee—RB Derrick Henry (Alabama, 2015)...
