Hope for Iceland’s melting glaciers as scientists bury carbon
SÓLHEIMAJÖKULL GLACIER, Iceland — To first-time visitors, it is a picturesque sight: a large lagoon dotted with kayakers and...
Hope for Iceland’s melting glaciers as scientists bury carbon
SÓLHEIMAJÖKULL GLACIER, Iceland — To first-time visitors, it is a picturesque sight: a large lagoon dotted with kayakers and...
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With Frenemies Like These: A Challenge Guide to Cara And Laurel’s Roller-Coaster Relationship
The Spice Girls may have — at one time — insisted that friendship never ends, but Laurel and Cara...
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American Horror Story‘s Zach Villa Is Ready For His Breakout Moment
Zach Villa sits in a conference room armed with nothing but a cup of coffee (medium roast, splash of...
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Katy Perry Brought A Giant Pink Poodle Onstage For Her Ellen Performance
Katy Perry‘s debut television performance of “Small Talk” was anything but small. Or simple. True to form, KP pulled...
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Knives Out Reminds Us How Bonkers It Is With New Footage
Rian Johnson’s bonkers Knives Out looks weirder every time we see it, but that’s totally a good thing. New footage from the...
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Watch Greta Thunberg And 3 Other Gen Z Climate Activists Take On Congress
Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist whose work has taken the globe by storm, has never been one...
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Priyanka Chopra Rented Out A Football Stadium To Celebrate Nick Jonas’s Birthday
Never let it be said that Priyanka Chopra isn’t superb at planning parties. After making one of the sweetest...
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Tove Lo Reveals The Power Of New Single ‘Sweettalk My Heart’ Ahead of Sunshine Kitty
Although Tove Lo‘s fourth album, Sunshine Kitty, is out on Friday (September 20), the Swedish pop stalwart is not...
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Taylor Swift’s Rolling Stone Interview Was Her Best And Only Therapy Session Ever
Taylor Swift has never been to therapy. Like, ever. But despite never having spilled her guts to a trained...
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Liam Payne’s Crisp New ‘Stack It Up’ Is A Celebration Of Getting Paid
Liam Payne has money on his mind. After releasing his debut EP First Time last year, he spent much...
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Friends‘s David Schwimmer Flubbed A Key Line, Changing The Show’s Course
Ever wonder how they came up with some of your favorite plot threads from Friends? For example, we know...
Man who prosecutors call serial killer is charged in 4 slayings in Detroit
DETROIT — A prosecutor announced murder charges Wednesday against a 34-year-old man in the slayings of four women in Detroit whose deaths authorities have characterized as the work of a serial killer. Deangelo Martin is charged with four counts of first-degree murder and four counts of felony murder in...
Trump threatens San Francisco with EPA violation because of city’s homeless
President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to have the Environmental Protection Agency issue a “notice” to San Francisco over the city’s homeless issue, comments that were criticized by local officials. From Air Force One, Trump, who had been in California for a two-day fundraising trip, blamed the homeless population...
Tesla’s Model 3 scores the company’s first top safety award from IIHS
Tesla often touts that its cars are really safe, but the company has just received a specific recognition of that safety for the first time ever: the Model 3 was just awarded “top safety pick” from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). The Model S had previously fallen...
Apple releases two new trailers showing off its TV Plus children’s shows
Apple today posted trailers and new info for two of its original shows destined for its upcoming Apple TV Plus streaming service. The programs, the family-oriented shows Helpsters and Ghostwriter, are slated to arrive on launch day for TV Plus, which will be available starting November 1st. We can’t...
Netflix is debating bonuses for directors with popular or award-winning films
Netflix is mulling over paying some form of bonuses to filmmakers whose movies perform well on the streaming platform or nab prestigious awards, according to a report from Bloomberg. The tactic would be a way to win over on-the-fence directors and producers who might be shopping a project around...
Google almost had a Pixel smartwatch — here’s why it reportedly failed
Google’s Pixel-branded smartwatch was supposedly very close to being a real thing. As detailed in a Business Insider report that interviewed six former employees, Google hardware lead Rick Osterloh reportedly dropped the axe on the idea just ahead of the original Pixel phone’s unveiling in 2016. The main reason...
Here’s how cross-play will work in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
The next game in the massive Call of Duty franchise, a reboot of the Modern Warfare series, launches in just over a month, in line with Activision’s annual release model. Yet new to this Call of Duty entry is cross-play multiplayer, so you can squad up with your friends...
CBS and WarnerMedia ban e-cigarette advertisements amid vaping health crisis
CBS and WarnerMedia have both decided to ban advertisements for Juul and other e-cigarette makers amid global health concerns over a mysterious vaping-related lung disease that has claimed the lives of seven people and hospitalized hundreds of others. The decision, reported first this afternoon by CNBC, follows a similar...
‘SNL’ hired Shane Gillis to address charges of anti-conservative bias, report says
Saturday Night Live fires Shane Gillis One of three new Saturday Night Live cast members will not be working...
‘SNL’ hired Shane Gillis to address charges of anti-conservative bias, report says
Saturday Night Live fires Shane Gillis One of three new Saturday Night Live cast members will not be working...
With Frenemies Like These: A Challenge Guide to Cara And Laurel’s Roller-Coaster Relationship
The Spice Girls may have — at one time — insisted that friendship never ends, but Laurel and Cara Maria of The Challenge, who first met as series newbies on 2010’s Fresh Meat II, have proven over the years that buddy-bonds may, contrarily, carry a definite expiration date (or,...
American Horror Story‘s Zach Villa Is Ready For His Breakout Moment
Zach Villa sits in a conference room armed with nothing but a cup of coffee (medium roast, splash of almond milk) and a glass of water. “This is medicinal, so I can awaken,” he nods toward the coffee, then turns to the water. “This is therapeutic, so I can...
CBS, WarnerMedia, Viacom ban e-cigarette advertisements
CBS, WarnerMedia, and Viacom have decided to ban Juul and other electronic cigarette advertisements on their networks following a surge of mysterious vaping-related diseases that has claimed the lives of seven people. A CBS spokesperson confirmed to NBC News on Wednesday that it will not accept any e-cigarette advertising...
Teen e-cigarette use has doubled within past two years
The number of kids vaping nicotine has doubled in the past two years, according to research published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Experts in substance abuse say the new statistics make it clear that vaping is a public health crisis. “These products introduce the highly addictive...
Jake Gyllenhaal Shares Hilarious Blooper Compilation From Spider-Man: Far From Home
1 hour ago Filmmaking is a serious business, but that doesn’t mean fun can’t be had along the way....
How Downton Abbey Jumped From TV To Film, According To The Director
2 hours ago When a TV show gets to a certain point of popularity, the question of when the...
Hernandez: Dodgers need Cody Bellinger to regain his swagger for team to shine in October
If not for the foul pole that interfered with its trajectory, the baseball looked as if it might vanish...
Kenley Jansen is booed mercilessly after another blown save in Dodgers’ loss to Rays
The Dodgers were still leading when the first boos came in the top of the ninth, pointed toward a...
As quarterbacks fall, Jared Goff keeps healthful approach as Rams prepare for Browns
Nick Foles suffered a shoulder injury in a season opener and required surgery. Sam Darnold came down with mononucleosis...
Inside California’s homeless crisis
Some 130,000 people are homeless in California, by far the largest population in any state, according to the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness. Lester Holt reports from the streets of Los Angeles — a city where the homeless population jumped 16 percent in just a year — to...
Trump administration targets California with loosened emissions standards
California has long led the way in reducing auto emissions in the United States. Now President Trump is moving to revoke the state’s ability to set its own standard, something he says would make cars cheaper and safer. California officials are vowing to fight back.Sept. 18, 2019
Shocking new public service announcement by Sandy Hook advocacy group goes viral
Greta Thunberg tells Congress: ‘Unite behind the science’
Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg implored Washington lawmakers on Wednesday to take climate science seriously — bringing her simple and direct message as one of the world’s youngest and most prominent climate change activists to the halls of a normally divided Congress. Thunberg, a self-described introvert, spoke slowly and carefully,...
Stripping California of its right to set its own emissions regulations is ‘witch hunt,’ say industry experts
The White House is expected to announce Wednesday that it will move to block the State of California’s ability to set its own vehicle emissions standards. The widely anticipated move comes as President Donald Trump’s administration also prepares to roll back the strict Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE,...
Trump to tour San Diego border wall
LOS ANGELES — President Donald Trump will tour a section of the border wall in Southern California on Wednesday, returning to the scene where he promised last year to stop up to “99 percent” of undocumented immigration at the site. The visit to Otay Mesa, a neighborhood of San...
NFL player Antonio Brown accused of ripping off multiple businesses
American cancer survivor becomes the first person to swim the English Channel four times nonstop
FBI raids home of MyPayRollHR CEO
Climate in Crisis: Journey to Virginia’s disappearing island
‘Tulip’ tower planned for London’s skyline
Image copyright DBOX for Foster + Partners Image caption The building will be the tallest skyscraper in London’s financial district London’s had the Gherkin, the Cheese Grater and the Walkie Talkie and now, if the plans are approved, a new tower called the Tulip will join the skyline. At...
RBS faces up to £900m in new PPI charges
Image copyright AFP RBS says its profits could fall by a third this year after a surge of last-minute claims for mis-sold payment protection insurance ahead of the August deadline. The bank said it expects to take an additional charge of between £600 and £900m after receiving a “significantly...
Young fans ‘drive up UK sports attendances’
Image copyright Google Image caption Millennials prefer to spend money on the experience economy rather than acquisitions Young sports fans are driving strong growth in attendance at UK sports events, according to new research. Around 74.8 million people are expected to buy tickets for professional sports events in 2018,...
Virgin stops selling captive whale and dolphin experiences
Image copyright Getty ImagesImage caption SeaWorld has faced criticism over the way it treats cetaceans Virgin Holidays says it has stopped selling tickets to captive whale and dolphin experiences such as SeaWorld. The firm said it had culled the last five such attractions it promoted, which accounted for more...
Secret company registers in Crown Dependencies to be made public
Image caption The three Chief Ministers – Guernsey’s Gavin St Pier, Jersey’s John Le Fondre and the Isle of Man’s Howard Quayle Secret company records in Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man will become publicly available, the islands said. The beneficial ownership registers, which show the ultimate owner...
Europe’s airline industry is consolidating
AMERICA MAY be the land of free-market competition. But look up at the sky and Europe looks freer. The European Union is home to 135 scheduled airlines; America has 59. The five biggest carriers in America control around 70% of the market; the EU’s top five barely hold half....
How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely?
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Robert Burke, William Wills and John King approaching Coopers Creek in 1861 In 1860, Robert Burke and William Wills famously led the first European expedition across the largely unknown interior of Australia. It did not go well. Due to a combination of poor...
HTC smartphones pulled from UK sale in patent row
Image copyright HTC HTC has stopped offering its phones for sale in the UK while it is involved in an intellectual property dispute. The Taiwanese company’s online store currently lists all of its models as “out of stock” despite the fact they remain available in other nations. HTC has...
Could high-flying drones power your home one day?
Image copyright MakaniImage caption Makani’s unmanned tethered drone soars high while its propellers generate electricity A growing number of companies believe using tethered kites and drones is a viable way to harness the stronger and more consistent high-altitude winds. Could this tech release wind power’s full potential, or will...
Netflix, Amazon and Disney fight for India’s online audience
ON A TYPICAL night in India the family television set might be tuned to one of countless dowdy soap operas. The dramas play out over hundreds of episodes; strict broadcast standards on sex and violence mean they rarely sizzle. It is either that, or reality TV and game shows....
Personal travel agents boost holiday bookings
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Customers are opting for luxury destinations like Mauritius as well as those closer to home The British holidaymaker is back in fine fettle with a January jump in bookings for the summer. Helping sales is a growing army of 2,000 personal travel agents...
The elderly are the next big growth market for Chinese tech firms
SOON AFTER dinnertime, Xiangyang Park in central Shanghai transforms into a ballroom. Loudspeakers pump out old pop songs as elderly folk sway under the plane trees. A picture of geriatric nostalgia—until you meet Ms Shi and Mr Zhou, a couple in their 70s whose enthusiasm for the waltz is...
Carlos Ghosn: Court rejects request to extend detention
Image copyright Getty Images In a surprise move, a court in Japan has rejected a request to extend the detention of Nissan’s former chairman Carlos Ghosn, paving the way for his release. Mr Ghosn has been charged with financial misconduct – accused of under-reporting his pay package over a...
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An internet cafe in Fuyang, China, in August. Credit Reuters By Raymond Zhong Aug. 31, 2018 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版...
DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug 13, 2019– The “Report on the Chinese Glasses Industry 2018-2023” report has been added to...
GENEVA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug 27, 2019– Alcon (SIX/NYSE:ALC), the global leader in eye care, today announced the Food...
DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mar 14, 2019–Sealy & Company, a fully-integrated commercial real estate investment and operating company and...
DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mar 8, 2019–The “Eyewear Market: Global Industry Trends, Share, Size, Growth, Opportunity and Forecast 2019-2024” report...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sep 5, 2019– The San Francisco 49ers today announced a multi-year partnership with Zenni Optical, making...
By Associated Press, Wire Service Content April 24, 2019, at 7:38 p.m. Eyewear Website Operator Gets 2 More Years in Prison...
The tide is turning. Consumers are becoming increasingly conscious about their environmental footprint, and fast fashion seems, finally, to...
When you go through its extensive celebrity-sighting roster, its devoted fan base, and the sheer frequency of run-ins with...
INTERVIEW : MASUNAGA // THE ART OF CRAFTSMANSHIP By Franca MASUNAGA OPTICAL ranges among Japan’s largest and most eminent eyewear manufacturers....
LUNOR // EDGES WITH STYLE HERE COMES THE A10-COLLECTION FEATURING LUNOR-DESIGN AT ITS BEST! Lunor has launched a collection...
PALM SPRINGS, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug 19, 2019– Now Optics, a leading eye health provider offering accessible and affordable eye care...
CORNER OFFICE Jeff Raider on Founding Warby Parker and Harry’s First, eyeglasses. Now, shaving. Mr. Raider, a...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A Chicago-based telehealth company that provides online eye testing is challenging Indiana’s...
ATLANTA (AP) — Free eye exams and glasses are available this summer for “school-age” children...
Texas Gov. Rick Perry has a new look thanks to a pair of Jean Lafont eyeglasses chosen by his...
Essilor has announced the launch of a new digital phoropter that promises “a new era of refraction.” In October,...
OVVO LUXURY CASTED IN CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY The Wood, Carbon & Gold Collection from OVVO Optics merges the durability of carbon...
ATLANTA (AP) — Eyewear maker Luxottica Group plans to add 1,000 jobs in metro Atlanta by expanding its distribution...
LOS ANGELES (AP) _ The stock of major eyewear maker Oakley Inc. plunged nearly 37 percent Thursday on the...
(CNN) — As the oldest subterranean railway network in the world, the London Underground has been through a lot...
Image copyright Reuters An American Airlines mechanic charged with sabotaging an aircraft in July has possible links to the...
SÓLHEIMAJÖKULL GLACIER, Iceland — To first-time visitors, it is a picturesque sight: a large lagoon dotted with kayakers and...
Image copyright PA Media Image caption Humphrys had an eclectic line-up of guests for his last show John...
DETROIT — A prosecutor announced murder charges Wednesday against a 34-year-old man in the slayings of four women in...
President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to have the Environmental Protection Agency issue a “notice” to San Francisco over...
Manu Tuilagi (left) and Henry Slade playing for England in the Six Nations against Wales in February 2019 Rugby...