SEPTEMBER 11, 2022
Bill Gates has partnered with Samsung to create a prototype waterless toilet for household use that turns solid waste into ashes.
The toilet was developed as part of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Reinvent the Toilet Challenge which started in 2011 and sought proposals for toilets that safely and effectively manage human waste.
The Microsoft founder worked with...
SEPTEMBER 11, 2022
Queen Elizabeth II in Tuvalu during a 1982 tour of the South Pacific, which also included a stop in the Solomon Islands. - Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images
HONIARA, Solomon Islands — Millicent Barty has spent years trying to decolonize her country, recording oral histories across the Solomon Islands and promoting Melanesian culture. Her goal: to...
SEPTEMBER 11, 2022
Fuel is one of the highest costs for airlines, accounting for 20-40% of expenditure depending on price and region. But how much fuel does each flight and aircraft type require? Let's take a look.
How much fuel do aircraft need?
Every plane is different and therefore requires a different amount of fuel to fly. Apart from the size and...
SEPTEMBER 11, 2022
As summer comes to a close, we turn our collective attention toward the colder months of the year and Farmers’ Almanac's trusty predictions but unfortunately, it's not looking good!
A colder-than-usual winter is expected to arrive much sooner, good news for snow lovers, but not so good for the rest of us!
According to the outlet's extended forecast, the...
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
NEW DELHI: In 2018, Queen Elizabeth II showed PM Narendra Modi crocheted cotton lace made from yarn that Mahatma Gandhi had spun himself. It was his gift for her wedding on November 20, 1947. The story goes that Gandhi told Lord Mountbatten he wanted to send a wedding gift but had given away all his possessions. Mountbatten,...
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Lawyer Kenneth Feinberg estimates he's taken on about "half a dozen" of the nation's most difficult tasks as special master over the years.
He oversaw the September 11th Victims Compensation Fund during former President George W. Bush's administration. He administered a similar fund for victims of the Deepwater Horizon spill during the Obama administration. He also oversaw CEO...
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
In life, Queen Elizabeth II traveled a great deal, logging 285 state visits abroad. In death, there is one last and highly ceremonial journey — about 500 miles from her castle in Scotland to her final resting place in Windsor.
The journey will take more than a week, with stops along the way. The plans have been in...
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
LONDON — With the queen’s death, the pressure-cooker role of heir to the British throne moves to Prince William, a largely popular royal whose sober and straight image is more in line with that of his grandmother than his father, and now king, Charles III.
Like both father and grandmother, Prince William has moved headlong into the traditional...
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, take part in a two-minute silence to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day and laid flowers at the Balmoral War Memorial on May 8, 2020, near Crathie, Scotland. - Amy Muir/Pool/Getty Images
With the death Thursday of Queen Elizabeth II, thoughts immediately turn to her son. And the ascension of...
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee holds hearing on the District of Columbia statehood bill on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. - Reuters/CARLOS BARRIA
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser on Thursday declared a public emergency over buses of migrants sent by Republican governors from the U.S.-Mexico border states of Texas and Arizona.
Bowser, a Democrat, issued an...
