like to roast tomatoes until their skins blacken. A little pressure from your fork and their skins split, their juices – warm, tart-sweet and smoky – will spurt joyously on to your plate. It’s best to eat them with something that will benefit from those juices, such as a mound of soft orange lentil mash, […]

Ivanka Trump has landed in Israel for the inauguration of the US Jerusalem embassy on Monday, as protesters in Gaza prepare for a day of rallies along the frontier that are expected to be met with gunfire. The US president’s daughter said she was returning “with great joy” to Jerusalem, which Donald Trump has recognised as Israel’s […]

TRAVELING ACROSS THE GLOBE SOMETIME SOON? Common misconceptions abound. Here are a few travel myths I’ve heard on more than one occasion, debunked. Everyone Hates Americans I actually know people who don’t travel because of this widespread belief. While I feel that some countries may not agree with our foreign policy, I’ve rarely seen any of that […]

Britain’s Got Talent, Love Island and Blue Planet II were among the winners at this year’s Bafta Television Awards. Declan Donnelly was at the ceremony to accept the entertainment programme prize for Britain’s Got Talent – but co-host Ant McPartlin wasn’t there. Love Island won its first ever Bafta, for best reality show, while Casualty scooped its first […]

Chinese smartphone manufacturer ZTE, the subject of a seven year U.S. export ban, recently said that it had to close up shop because of its inability to source software, components and hardware from the U.S. But the phone and network equipment maker, who the U.S. accused of spying on American citizens and corporations on behalf of the Chinese government, […]

Russian scientists, after successfully implanting and achieving full functionality of a frozen frog heart after 45 days of cryogenic preservation, have now fully restored a frozen rat heart after 24 hours of hypothermic storage. Sputnik contacted the Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects for more info. On March 4, Russian media reported that a team […]

U.S. oil major ConocoPhillips (COP.N) has seized products belonging to Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA [PDVSA.UL] from the Isla refinery it runs on Curacao, an island official told Reuters on Sunday. A general view shows the Isla refinery in Willemstad on the island of Curacao, April 22, 2018. REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares Conoco has won court […]

The world’s third-largest cryptocurrency is about to get a makeover, at least if one supporter gets his way. Earlier this week, Alexavier Guzman unveiled XRP Symbol, an open-source quest to find a new logo for XRP — and assign it a Unicode-compliant currency sign. Guzman explained in a Forbes op-ed that he was prompted to start […]

A family of six, including a nine-year-old girl, were behind a wave of blasts targeting three churches in Indonesia’s second city of Surabaya, police say. At least 13 people died in Sunday’s bombings, which the Islamic State group has claimed. The mother and two daughters blew themselves up at one church, while the father and […]

May 19 is only a couple weeks away, and as a result, royal wedding fever continues to get hotter and hotter. It seems like everyone is trying to predict how Meghan Markle will look on her wedding day, from what gown(s) and shoes she’ll be wearing to how she’ll do her makeup. Experts are even chiming in on how Markle will […]