Mastering words such as “cricetine” and “indumentum”, 12-year-old Bruhat Soma clinched victory on Thursday in the United States spelling bee. The seventh-grade student from St. Petersburg, Florida, beamed as colorful confetti rained down after he won the tiebreaker. “Bruhat Soma from Florida cemented his win by correctly spelling his final word, ‘abseil’,” organizer Scripps National…
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has moved to home care from a hospital in the central city of Banska Bystrica, where he had been recovering from an assassination attempt, the hospital said on Friday. An attacker shot Fico with four bullets at close range when the prime minister greeted supporters at a government meeting in the central Slovak town of…
A study has revealed that cleaning up the air in the West Midlands could prevent the early deaths of about 2,000 people a year. If the region were to meet World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for air pollution, it could also avoid 2,000 new asthma cases, 770 new cases of heart disease, 170 new lung cancers and 650 strokes…
Thousands of patients in England are to be fast-tracked into groundbreaking trials of personalised cancer vaccines in a revolutionary world-first NHS “matchmaking” scheme to save lives. The gamechanging jabs, which aim to provide a permanent cure, are custom-built for each patient in just a few weeks. They are tailored to the individual’s tumours and work by telling…
An Alabama man received a lethal injection Thursday for the killing of an elderly couple in 2004, the first inmate put to death by the state since it became the first in the nation to execute an inmate using nitrogen gas months ago. Jamie Ray Mills, 50, was pronounced dead at 6:26 p.m. after a three-drug injection at a…
A Minneapolis police officer was “ambushed” and killed by a gunman he was trying to help, a suspect was fatally shot by police, and a third person was found dead in an apartment as violence unfolded Thursday, officials said. Police responded to a report of a double shooting at an apartment on Blaisdell Avenue, and…
Luka Doncic had a 20-point first quarter on his way to 36 points for his high this post season, and the Dallas Mavericks beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 124-103 on Thursday night to breeze through the Western Conference finals in five games. Kyrie Irving also scored 36 points for the Mavericks, who built a 29-point halftime…
According to the officials, American and British fighter jets and US ships hit a wide range of underground facilities, missile launchers, command and control sites, a Houthi vessel and other facilities. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to provide early details of an ongoing military operation. Also struck by the U.S. were eight un-crewed aerial vehicles in Houthi-controlled areas…
Donald Trump has been found guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records in a criminal hush-money scheme to influence the outcome of the 2016 election. The verdict came after a jury deliberated for less than twelve hours in the unprecedented first criminal trial against a US president. It marks a perilous political moment for…
Great Britain’s Matthew Hudson-Smith beat his own 400m European record with a convincing victory in his season opener at the Diamond League in Oslo. The 29-year-old ran 44.07 at the Bislett Games, beating his 44.26 from last year’s World Athletics Championships in Budapest. “Preparation has been going well,” he told BBC Sport. “I knew anything…
