30 minutes ago Mallory Moench BBC News BBC French police halted train services to and from Paris Gare du Nord station on Friday after an unexploded World War Two bomb was found on tracks leading to the terminal, train companies reported. The bomb was found on the tracks in the area of Saint-Denis, a suburb…
The process of creating the USB recovery drive can take some time—about two hours based on my testing, though the speed of your system and USB drive will play a part in that—and you’ll see a message on screen when the job is done. When your recovery USB drive is called upon, you need to…
Forces linked to Syria’s new rulers have engaged in heavy fighting with fighters loyal to deposed President Bashar al-Assad in a coastal area of the country. It is the worst violence in Syria since rebels toppled Assad in December and installed an Islamist transitional government. A war monitoring group, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human…
Unlike Singles Only Social Club, however, My TruBond is also an app (it’s free to sign up). Moss, who previously managed IT systems for various government agencies and private companies, says that the app is primarily designed for people to meet offline. There are no robust texting features, and the dating radius only allows users…
More Coffee Maker Favorites Oxo Brew 8-Cup Coffee Maker for $190 or Oxo Brew 9-Cup Coffee Maker for $190: Both of these previous-generation Oxo models are quite lovely, SCA Golden Cup coffeemakers. Both can make tasty drip coffee that would please any connoisseur. But here’s the thing. The 8-cup (9/10, WIRED Recommends) contains an insert…
Former Olympic snowboarder and Canadian national Ryan Wedding, 43, has been placed on the FBI’s 10 most wanted fugitives list for allegedly running a violent transnational drug trafficking network. Wedding is wanted for allegedly shipping hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia, through Mexico and southern California, to Canada and US locations, and for orchestrating…
60 minutes ago Katy Watson Australia correspondent Reporting fromSouthern Queensland Watch: Australia’s east coast prepares for rare cyclone Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated and some 84,000 households left in the dark as a rare tropical cyclone approaches Australia’s eastern coast. Cyclone Alfred is expected to make landfall on Saturday morning between the…
Blackbird numbers have fallen in the UK as the Usutu virus has taken hold Ytje Veenstra/Shutterstock A deadly virus is killing blackbirds across the UK. Beyond the risk to the birds, its spread indicates that mosquito-borne viruses now pose a growing threat to humans and animals in the country, in part as a result of…
Social scientist Kasley Killam has always been fascinated by the science of human connection. In college, for instance, she once decided to conduct a personal experiment and perform an act of kindness everyday for 108 days. At the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, she researched solutions for loneliness. At Google’s health spinoff, Verily,…
After years of wrangling with authorities, students in Thailand can now let their hair down. Literally. On Wednesday, Thailand’s Supreme Administrative Court annulled a 50-year-old directive by the education ministry, which had previously set out rules on hairstyles for school students: short hair for boys and ear-length bobs for girls. In practice, hairstyle rules have…