Two Russian aircraft carrying military officials arrived in Venezuela over the weekend as part of the ongoing military cooperation between the two countries, Russian media has reported. A diplomatic source told RIA Novosti that Russia and Venezuela have a number of ongoing contracts signed a few years ago, including ones in technical military cooperation, and…
Stranger Things’ Shawn Levy has reportedly stepped down from directing Sony’s Uncharted film, as the video-game action-comedy, Free Guy has now been green lit at 20th Century Fox, reported by THR. The search for a new director has begun, with Tom Holland still set to star in the long-awaited video-game adaptation. Levy has a slew…
France has reportedly threatened to boycott the Eurovision song contest in protest over an Israeli television series which portrays France’s entry in the popular competition as a terrorist. Set to air in May, the three-part series called ‘Douze Points’ (‘twelve points’ in French, the highest score you can receive at Eurovision) is about a French-Algerian…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Sophomore Mikaelyn Settles (Harmony (Texas) HS), senior middle infielder Jessica England (Stoneman Douglas (Parkland Fla.) HS) and senior infielder Mallory Belknap (Xavier College Prep (Phoenix, Ariz.) HS) have been selected as the MaxPreps/NFCA National High School Players of the Week for games played March 9-15. South Central Settles clubbed her way to…
A force to be reckoned with is what comes to mind when thinking of jaye simpson. Drawing from their own experience as a former youth in care, jaye is unafraid of speaking up or questioning those in power about needed changes to the child welfare system. They are a non-binary trans femme and are Oji-Cree,…
HBO CEO Richard Plepler has seen a rough cut of the final six episodes of Game of Thrones and he is “in awe” of them, even without any CGI. Plepler spoke to Variety during HBO’s post-Golden Globes party last night and said, in regards to Game of Thrones, that “everybody’s in for an extraordinary treat…
The ghostly wreck of an Italian warship that was sunk by a British submarine during the Second World War has been located at extreme depth off a volcanic island in the Mediterranean. More than 370 Italian sailors died after the battle cruiser was torpedoed by HMS Urge on April 1 1942. Built by Vickers Armstrong…
The “holy grail of bees” has been discovered lurking in an Indonesian forest. Unseen by humans since 1981 and believed to be extinct, the thumb-length Wallace’s giant bee was finally spotted by a conservation group. A Global Wildlife Conservation search team found and photographed Wallace’s giant bee (Megachile pluto) nesting in a termite mound in…
OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma City University softball coach Phil McSpadden reached win No. 1,458 on Friday night to move ahead of NCAA victory leader and fellow NFCA Hall of Famer Margie Wright for the most wins against four-year schools of any college softball coach. McSpadden collected the milestone victory in the Stars’ 13-1, 8-0…
Comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who plays Ukraine’s president on television, has won the first round of the struggling country’s presidential election and is set to face the incumbent in a runoff this month. The political newcomer had garnered more than 30 per cent of Sunday’s vote with four-fifths of the ballots counted on Monday afternoon. President…