When the weather is hot and midsummer’s bounty of berries, stone fruit, melons and bananas need a life after the fruit bowl, these frozen desserts are just a quick blitz away. Who needs an ice-cream machine when granita, sorbet and ice blocks can be devised with a swift spin in a blender and a few…
In the United States, the number of deaths that didn’t have to happen has risen over time. From 2009 to 2019, the average rate of avoidable deaths rose by 33 per 100,000 people across the country, researchers report March 24 in JAMA Internal Medicine. Meanwhile, other countries trended down: Members of the European Union experienced…
Oliver Fiegel, a 47-year-old photographer based in Munich, was reading a German national Sunday newspaper recently when he saw a front-page image that looked strangely off. The image showed a boy chasing a football on a pitch. But some of the wildflowers on the grass floated without stems. Half the goal net was missing. The…
Helicopter, 41 bodies recovered from Potomac after DC plane collision NTSB officials say all black boxes from the plane and helicopter have been recovered and are in good condition. Nearly half of the passengers on the plane that fatally collided with a military helicopter last week were members of the figure skating community, U.S. Figure…
‘I had no friends,” says Charlotte Banfield, a gold medal-winning world para surf champion. “And no interests. I was very depressed. It was all going to end very badly indeed for me.” Banfield – who has cerebral palsy, epilepsy and autism, and was being bullied at school – thought of taking her life. But then,…
It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout.