Weather Talk: Preakness forecast update
Meteorologist Tony Pann says you may need to prepare for rain if you're heading to Pimlico. Plus, recent history of Preakness weather.
Meteorologist Tony Pann says you may need to prepare for rain if you're heading to Pimlico. Plus, recent history of Preakness weather.
The French government will keep a plan to hold the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony on the River Seine even after a deadly attack in the French capital at the weekend amplified existing security concerns. Sports Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera told Fance Inter radio on Monday that the plan could still be adapted within the idea of the river flotilla, as media reports indicated grave concern within the security forces that the ceremony could be vulnerable to attack.A man known to the authoritie
The leisure company told shareholders its board is recommending the deal which will see the US fund buy the business for 412.5p per share.
Insurers are heavily exposed to the impact of climate change and also face risk from their alternative investments in reinsurance, the International Association of Insurance Supervisors said in a report on Wednesday. Insurers continue to have "material exposure" to climate change through investments in fossil fuels and energy-intensive industries, as well as through their underwriting of natural catastrophe risk, the global insurance watchdog said. This exposure could hit insurers' profitability and eat into their capital buffers, according to the IAIS, which is made up of insurance regulators from the G20 and other economies.
Simple gestures could be all it takes to alter the colour of your clothes in the future, according to a research team that has developed a colour-changing textile embedded with a tiny camera and making use of artificial intelligence. The technology could help reduce waste by giving people more colour choices for an item of clothing, says Hong Kong-based Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence in Design (AiDLab). Professor Jeanne Tan, who works at Polytechnic University's School of Fashion and Textiles and heads the research team, notes the POFs are made of polymethyl methacrylate which is recyclable and the structure of the textile enables easy separation of POFs from yarns for recycling.
In a notable insider transaction, Rowland Charles A Jr, a director at Generation Bio Co, has significantly increased his stake in the company.
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In a recent transaction on December 4, 2023, Zachary Nelson, a Director at Freshworks Inc (NASDAQ:FRSH), sold 8,433 shares of the company.
In a notable insider transaction, Walter Woltosz, a Director and 10% Owner of Simulations Plus Inc (NASDAQ:SLP), sold 60,000 shares of the company on December 5, 2023.
Madou Koulibaly is the new face of an old Italy. The 24-year-old, who arrived in the country from Guinea in 2018, is blazing a trail as Tuscany's first migrant bus driver recruited as part of a drive to fill labour gaps with foreign workers. Koulibaly is feeling the more welcoming front of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's contrasting immigration plans.
Forty percent of patients who filled a prescription for Novo Nordisk's Wegovy to treat obesity in 2021 or 2022 were still taking it a year later, more than three times the rate of adherence with older medicines, according to an analysis of medical records and insurance claims data. Only 13% of patients who started taking Contrave from Orexigen Therapeutics and 10% of those who started on Qsymia from Vivus between 2015 and 2022 were still filling their prescriptions a year later, researchers reported on Wednesday in the journal Obesity. The findings involved 1,911 adults, 25% of whom received Wegovy, which belongs to a new class of anti-obesity medications known as GLP-1 agonists originally developed to treat type 2 diabetes.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran said Wednesday it sent a capsule into orbit carrying animals as it prepares for human missions in coming years. A report by the official IRNA news agency quoted Telecommunications Minister Isa Zarepour as saying the capsule was launched 130 kilometers (80 miles) into orbit. Zarepour said the launch of the 500-kilogram (1,000-pound) capsule is aimed at sending Iranian astronauts to space in coming years. He did not say what kind of animals were in the capsule. Iran occasi
Former prime minister arrived at the inquiry venue three hours early as he faces questions on UK’s late lockdown
North American organisation TSM announced on 6 December that it has parted ways with its Dota 2 roster as part of a departure from the North American Dota 2 scene.
A brave transfer strategy is in play at Stamford Bridge and clubs such as Manchester United should take note
Isabel Wilkins got into freestyle football during lockdown.
Khutha Mchunu says the Bulls are focused on becoming the first non‑European team to win the Champions Cup, before Saracens visit on Saturday
Tony Mowbray was key in attracting players to Sunderland but he probably knew his time was coming to an end
When Sarah, Duchess of York recently said that, since having breast cancer, she now suffers from “four in the morning syndrome”, I knew exactly what she meant. “You suddenly wake up feeling sure you’ve got cancer somewhere else,” she said, describing an experience all too familiar for those of us who have been through treatment.
This week, travel writer Peter Hardy, who has skied in over 500 resorts in 20 countries, answered the ultimate question facing British skiers and snowboarders each winter – which country does skiing best?
More than three million households are at risk of flooding but are not being warned by the Government, the National Audit Office (NAO) has said.