Some time in the early years of the last decade, a friend and I travelled by train from London to Barcelona, where we would be covering a football match for work. We had a very nice day, playing Scrabble and drinking train wine as we sped south. The only problem was that a kid near…
Luka Doncic, following his ejection from the Los Angeles Lakers’ loss at the Oklahoma City Thunder, spoke about the emotional return he’s expecting in Dallas when the Lakers face the Mavericks. How real are the Lakers as NBA title contenders? The Lakers have been on a roll since trading for Luka Doncic, but are they…
Prehistoric hunter-gatherers were likely skilled seafarers who could make long and challenging journeys. Stone tools, animal bones and other artifacts unearthed in Malta indicate that humans first inhabited the Mediterranean island 8,500 years ago, about a thousand years earlier than previously thought, researchers report April 9 in Nature. To reach Malta, these hunter-gatherers seemingly crossed…
Jim Chalmers has laid into “Peter Dutton’s coalition of cuts and chaos” in a heated televised debate with Angus Taylor, who took aim at a Labor party he claimed had overseen the “biggest collapse in our living standards in history”. The treasurer and his counterpart went head-to-head in a debate hosted by Sky News on…
It’s a delicate moment. My father’s a proud man. I don’t want to be condescending, so I tell him to let me know the level of help he needs. “I’ll take my cues from you,” I offer quietly. With a default formality I still find endearing, he tells me he’ll require assistance at two stages…
China has announced new tariffs of 84% on imports of all US goods, in a move that sent stock markets falling further and will raise fears of further escalation of Donald Trump’s trade war. The Chinese ministry of finance said on Wednesday that it would impose 84% tariffs on US goods from Thursday, up from…