PARIS — As the spokesman for the National Association of Sex Clubs in Spain, José Roca has fielded all sorts of offbeat inquiries. But rarely has he been more flummoxed than when he received a call late last year from the government statistics agency. In earnest tones, a statistician asked him if he knew the […]
YSP near Wakefield takes £100,000 Art Fund prize with judges praising it as ‘truly outstanding museum with bold artistic vision’ Yorkshire Sculpture Park achieved a record number of visitors in the past year with exhibitions by Ursula von Rydingsvard, above, Yinka Shonibare, below. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Yorkshire Sculpture Park wason Wednesday named UK […]
A do-it-yourself team of engineers trying to lasso an aged but operational NASA space probe may have run into an insurmountable obstacle: Tanks on the spacecraft that were once full of nitrogen gas, needed to fire the thrusters, appear to be empty. Without thrusters, there is no way to push the 36-year-old spacecraft, the International Sun-Earth Explorer-3, […]
The international revival of public ownership is anathema to our City-led elite. But it’s vital to genuine economic recovery The Neurath-based power station of German firm RWE. ‘Control of essential services has not only passed to giants based overseas, but those companies are themselves often state-owned.’ Photograph: Ina Fassbender/Reuters Privatisation isn’t working. We were promised […]
WASHINGTON — Chinese hackers in March broke into the computer networks of the United States government agency that houses the personal information of all federal employees, according to senior American officials. They appeared to be targeting the files on tens of thousands of employees who have applied for top-secret security clearances. The hackers gained access […]
Obama heads to Texas as the mirage of an open door on the southern border triggers a political storm in Washington Two weeks ago, Karla arrived at the Texas border with her two very young children, her mother, and three siblings under the age of 15. It had taken the family a month to make […]
Holland 0 Argentina 0 Once again, Holland were reminded why it is only really the English who tend to be more petrified of penalties. It had been a recurring theme until their quarter-final against Costa Rica and this time Louis van Gaal had already used his three substitutes and could not bring on Tim Krul […]
‘Neurobridge’ connects chip in brain with electrodes on limb to convert thought to movement and bypass broken spinal cord” First they screwed the end of the grey cord into the metal silo rising out of Ian Burkhart’s skull. Later they laid his right forearm across two foam cylinders, and they wrapped it with thin strips […]
Hired to protect white-owned businesses in the 1980s, he is thought to have shot 101 people, killing 39, in a three-year spree. Some were burglars; others were passersby dragged in from the street. All were black or coloured, the term for those of mixed race. Convicted of murder but released from jail after 12 years, […]
Royal has challenged the hierarchical system of the male-dominated French left. Rather than wait around helping the ageing men who run the socialist party – “les éléphants” – she has attracted cult status and an army of devoted supporters of her movement, Désirs d’Avenir – “Wishes for the Future”. They tirelessly campaign […]