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Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, is interviewed after attending at a press conference announcing the concept design for the new Bank of England fifty pound banknote, featuring mathematician and scientist Alan Turing, during the presentation at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, north-west England on Monday. — AFP
Code-breaker Turing to appear on new UK bank note
LONDON — World War II code-breaker Alan Turing has been chosen to feature on Britain's new £50 note, the Bank of England announced Monday, decades after his tragic death.Turing played a pivotal role in the development of early computers, but his career was cut short by his conviction in 1952 for gross indecency."Alan Turing was an outstanding mathematician whose work has had an enormous impact on how we live today," Bank of England governor Mark Carney said as he unveiled the note worth £50 ($63, 56 euros)."As the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, as well as war hero, Alan Turing's contributions were far ranging and path breaking," he said at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, northwest England. "Turing is a giant on...
July 16, 2019

Code-breaker Turing to appear on new UK bank note

Unlike his cousin here at the zoo in Rome, M49 has revealed a talent for breaking out into the wild. — AFP
Italians cheer on wild bear's 'Great Escape'
ROME — Italian animal lovers cheered on a wild bear Monday after a daring escape from an electrified holding pen sparked a bear-hunt and a furor over its fate.The three-year old, known only as M49, was captured Sunday in the Val Rendena valley in the Trentino region in northern Italy after it was spotted several times approaching inhabited areas.But in a getaway compared by Italian media to Steve McQueen's exploits in the 1963 WWII film "The Great Escape", M49 went on the lam Saturday after scaling a four-metre (13-foot) high and 7,000 volt electric fence."Run bear, run!" said one user on Twitter as the #fugaperlaliberta (#escapeforfreedom) hashtag went viral. Others appealed to Matteo Salvini with the #salvinisalvalorso (#salvinisavethebear) hashtag — perhaps...
July 16, 2019

Italians cheer on wild bear's 'Great Escape'

A giant spider-man balloon is seen above the red carpet along a closed Hollywood Blvd. outside the TCL Chinese Theater for the World Premiere of Marvel Studios'
'Spider-Man: Far From Home' crushes 'Crawl,' 'Stuber'
LOS ANGELES — Sony's "Spider-Man: Far From Home" claimed victory again during its second weekend in theaters, dominating over new releases, Paramount's gator thriller "Crawl" and Disney's R-rated comedy "Stuber."The superhero tentpole collected another $45 million, boosting domestic grosses to $274 million. This weekend's haul represents a 50% decline in ticket sales from its inaugural outing, a stronger hold compared to its predecessor, 2017's "Spider-Man: Homecoming."The 23rd adventure in the Marvel Cinematic Universe has crossed the $800 million mark worldwide, with box office receipts at $847 million. It's now the biggest "Spider-Man" film internationally with $572 million."Crawl" secured the best...
July 15, 2019

'Spider-Man: Far From Home' crushes 'Crawl,' 'Stuber'

Aussie kids take stolen car on 1,000-kms road trip
SYDNEY — Four children took a stolen four-wheel drive on a 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) road trip across the Australian outback before being nabbed by police, officials said Monday.A 14-year-old boy, two 13-year-old boys and a 10-year-old girl began their epic journey on Saturday when they took cash and packed fishing rods in a vehicle belonging to one of their families in the coastal Queensland town of Rockhampton, police said.One of the children left a note for his family telling them of his plans. Queensland police said the car was spotted early on Sunday morning in the outback town of Banana, where the kids allegedly stole petrol, before traveling south.The car was found on Sunday night near Grafton, in the neighboring state of New South Wales, about 11 hours' drive from...
July 15, 2019

Aussie kids take stolen car on 1,000-kms road trip

In this file photo taken on July 23, 2016 women play the parts from Star Wars, Hera Syndulla (L) and Sabine Wren during Comic-Con International 2016 in San Diego, California. — AFP
Comic-Con hits 50: from hotel basement to Hollywood hangout
LOS ANGELES — From Peter Parker's run-in with a radioactive spider to Superman fleeing an exploding Krypton: comic book fans love a good original story.So when 135,000 geeks and nerds invade San Diego next week for the 50th edition of Comic-Con — the world's largest celebration of pop culture — the event's humble beginnings will be a hot topic of discussion.The sprawling convention today draws Hollywood A-listers like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Patrick Stewart and the cast of "Game of Thrones" to its frantically hyped panels, where billion-dollar franchises are launched.But the first iteration — the brainchild of an unemployed 36-year-old comic collector and his five teenage acolytes — drew just 100 people to a seedy hotel basement down the road in March...
July 15, 2019

Comic-Con hits 50: from hotel basement to Hollywood hangout

 A giant manta ray with several fishing hooks caught below its eye appeared to ask two nearby divers for help in removing them, and then waited patiently for them to do so. — Courtesy YouTube
Off the hook: Manta ray asks divers for helping hand
SYDNEY — A giant manta ray with several fishing hooks caught below its eye appeared to ask two nearby divers for help in removing them, and then waited patiently for them to do so.Underwater photographer Jake Wilton was diving off Australia's west coast when the three-meter wide animal moved toward him, footage showed."I'm often guiding snorkelers in the area and it's as if she recognized me and was trusting me to help her," Wilton said in a statement Monday. "She got closer and closer and then started unfurling to present the eye to me."Incredible footage shows Wilton repeatedly diving down toward the animal and removing the hooks, before the manta ray departs after the final impediment is dislodged."She never moved. I'm sure that manta knew that...
July 15, 2019

Off the hook: Manta ray asks divers for helping hand

David Barber, The Queen's Swan Marker, holds a cygnet as officials record and examine cygnets and swans during the annual census of the Queen's swans, known as 'Swan Upping', along the River Thames in London, Britain, on Monday. — Reuters
"All up": Queen Elizabeth's swans checked and counted
SHEPPERTON, England — Royal officials clad in scarlet outfits took to the River Thames in traditional boats on Monday for the annual "Swan Upping" ceremony, an 800-year-old tradition of counting the swans owned by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth.Teams in old fashioned skiffs will row up a stretch of the river over the next five days to carry out the annual census of the birds, shouting "all up" when they come across a mute swan and its family.The swans and their young cygnets are then counted, weighed and checked for injury. "I am pleased to see that the breeding season has begun very well this year with a high level of nesting activity on the river," said David Barber, the queen's Swan Marker.The ancient ceremony dates back to the 12th century when the...
July 15, 2019

"All up": Queen Elizabeth's swans checked and counted

A man brushes off dust from a sarcophagus, part of a new discovery carried out almost 300 meters south of King Amenemhat II’s pyramid at Dahshur necropolis, exposed near the Bent Pyramid, about 40km (25 miles) south of the Egyptian capital Cairo, during an inaugural ceremony of the pyramid and its satellites, on Saturday. — AFP
Egypt opens two ancient pyramids, unveils new finds
DAHSHUR, Egypt —Egypt on Saturday opened two ancient pyramids south of the capital Cairo and unveiled a collection of newly found sarcophagi, some containing well-preserved mummies.Antiquities Minister Khaled Al-Anani told reporters the Bent Pyramid of King Sneferu, the first pharaoh of Egypt's 4th dynasty, and a nearby pyramid would be reopened to visitors for the first time since 1965.He also said a team of archaeologists had uncovered sarcophagi and the remains of an ancient wall dating back to the Middle Kingdom some 4,000 years ago.The finds were made during excavation work in the royal necropolis of Dahshur on the west bank of the Nile River, in an area home to some of Egypt's oldest pyramids."Several stone, clay and wooden sarcophagi were found and some contain...
July 14, 2019

Egypt opens two ancient pyramids, unveils new finds

Fans of English singer Kate Bush perform a dance during a flash mob event to mark
Wuthering Heights flash mobs pay homage to Kate Bush classic
BERLIN — Hundreds of red-clad fans of British singer Kate Bush on Saturday staged flash mobs in Sydney and Berlin as they reenacted her classic hit "Wuthering Heights".Bush wrote the song aged 18, inspired after seeing an adaptation of the 1847 novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.The lyrics are attributed to the novel's character Catherine Earnshaw, pleading at the window of Heathcliff, the man she loves, to be let in.Bush had recorded it in 1978 dressed in red and it was her most successful single.Hundreds of fans gathered in Berlin's central Goerlitzer Park under light rain, recreating Bush's moves for a performance lasting about four minutes, an AFP photographer said.Earlier, about 100 men, women and children in Sydney also staged a similar dance in a city...
July 14, 2019

Wuthering Heights flash mobs pay homage to Kate Bush classic

A couple guard the ATM selling a
'We've Gott it! the Zero Euro souvenir banknote
PRAGUE — Hundreds of people from home and abroad queued in steady rain in central Prague on Sunday to buy a "Zero Euro" souvenir banknote depicting Czech pop singer Karel Gott in honor of his 80th birthday.Some eager fans and collectors had waited for days, arriving as early as Thursday, to buy the zero-denomination banknote for the equivalent of two euros from special ATMs in the shop of a local record company.One fan, Lukas Gandzala, said he had slept outside the store after coming all the way from the northern Slovak city of Poprad, some 450 kilometers (280 miles) from Prague. "We arrived at 6:00 a.m. on Saturday. We slept in sleeping bags on the pavement," he told AFP."We collect the banknotes, the Zero Euro is a big phenomenon in our country, and so is Karel...
July 14, 2019

'We've Gott it! the Zero Euro souvenir banknote

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