There were few bigger TV stars in the early 1970s than Peter Wyngarde. Once dubbed Britain’s best-dressed man, he was once said to have been mobbed by 30,000 screaming women when he arrived in Australia. According to his manager, he was “the most in-demand and highest-paid celebrity” for personal appearances after Morecambe & Wise. And… Read More »
Windows computers suddenly shut down after Microsoft outage – Gonzalo Fuentes/REUTERS Flight cancellations: Are planes grounded? Air travel around the world has been disrupted. Flights have been delayed and cancelled in the US, Europe and the UK, causing chaos at many international transport hubs. Frontier Airlines has grounded flights for more than two hours and… Read More »
As a child in Ivory Coast, West Africa, Tidiane Ouattara would gather with friends in his village to gaze at the stars. The group, who called themselves the “Moon Club,” would lie on the ground and gaze up at the cosmos. “We believed we could talk to the moon,” he told CNN in a video… Read More »
Sitting in his office, poring over a stack of undergraduate papers, Dr. Edward Skidelsky’s suspicions were aroused by a single word: “delve.” “The sentence went something like: ‘This essay delves into the rich tapestry of experience…’ and I thought of the word ‘dive’ again,” says the philosophy lecturer at the University of Exeter. “The sentence… Read More »
The Tour de France ends this Sunday in Nice. It will be the first time the race has been completed outside Paris since it began in 1903, and the first time since 1989 that the winner’s yellow jersey will be decided in a time trial on the final day. The Tour’s arrival in Nice also… Read More »
When you press “start” on your microwave or computer, it immediately powers on—but that’s not how big physics experiments like the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN. Instead, engineers and physicists must set aside a few weeks each year to carefully reset the collider and all the experiments… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. (main) drawing of a neutron star (inset) radio image of the S-shaped precession jet ejected by the neutron star Circinus X-1. | Source: Fraser Cowie Astronomers have captured for the first time a strange S-shaped jet emanating from a… Read More »
The ephemeral nature of digital magazine covers and the fleeting reputations of social media have led us to seek out real-life era icons. Paul Cavaco (former fashion director of Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue and longtime creative director of Allure) and his daughter Cayli Cavaco Reck (founder of Knockout Beauty) hope to capitalize on that wave… Read More »
A growing number of Democrats are calling for Joe Biden to abandon his re-election campaign to make way for a younger candidate after a series of embarrassing gaffes and stumbles, particularly in his recent debate performance. Concerns have grown in recent weeks, with the president facing criticism from politicians, donors, insiders and Telegraph readers. According… Read More »
Strictly Come Dancing’s “curse” used to be shorthand for a minor infidelity between a celebrity and their professional dance partner, adding an extra dose of excitement to the ballroom drama. For the past few weeks BBC bosses could be forgiven for thinking that their biggest show, Strictly itself, was cursed. The corporation’s executives were forced… Read More »