Toxicology tests in Fiji have ruled out alcohol poisoning from a hotel bar’s cocktails as the cause of a mystery illness that sent seven guests to hospital, the Pacific nation’s government said on Wednesday (Dec 18). The tourists – who included four Australians and an American – were stricken on Saturday after drinking pina coladas at the five-star Warwick Fiji resort, government officials have said. The seven guests – all but one of them foreigners – have since recovered and been released from hospital, tourism minister Viliame Gavoka told a live-streamed news conference in the capital Suva. “I can confirm…
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Wantaway Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford has been told he has a future at the club by head coach Ruben Amorim.Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim says the club is “better” with Marcus Rashford and promises he is ready to “help” the forward who was quoted as saying he was ready for a new challenge. The 27-year-old was dropped from United’s squad for the 2-1 win at Manchester City on Sunday. Argentina winger Alejandro Garnacho, 20, was also not part of the squad for the Premier League clash, with new boss Amorim later saying his decisions were all about holding his…
After his early struggles in the NBA and G League, Bronny James is starting to hit his stride. Over his last three games for the South Bay Lakers, he is averaging 20.7 points on 43.1 percent shooting while showing flashes of the perimeter defender the Lakers hoped he could turn into when they drafted him No. 55 overall this year. Furthermore, Bronny’s three-ball is finally starting to connect after he bricked 14 consecutive shots from deep across seven games in the NBA and G League. Lakers head coach JJ Redick — a vocal supporter of Bronny since the Summer League in…
This year “The Ezra Klein Show” has covered everything from the presidential election to the effects of “Cocomelon” on the attention spans of both kids and adults. No matter the guest or the topic, every conversation on the show ends with this question: What are three books you’d recommend to the audience? Here are 62 of the answers. The following recommendations were transcribed from the podcast conversations and edited for clarity. Tired of Winning by Jonathan Karl It’s just a terrific psychological window into Donald Trump in exile after Jan. 6, after leaving office, when he’d become a pariah and…
Barbara Corcoran chooses to fly coach on airplanes, even though the self-made multimillionaire and “Shark Tank” investor can afford first-class tickets.In an episode of The Jamie Kern Lima Show that aired last week, Corcoran explained why she flies coach. Her rationale started with the incredulous question, “Do you know what a first-class ticket costs?””The way I figure it, a coach ticket is about 25% of a first-class ticket,” Corcoran said. As of Tuesday, a first-class ticket on Delta Air Lines from New York to Chicago in January cost at least $125 more and in many cases double the price of…
A reconstruction of the oldest known gorgonopsianHenry Sutherland Sharpe The oldest known sabre-toothed animal hunted large prey 270 million years ago – and its newly discovered remains could help us unravel how early mammal relatives became warm-blooded. The first land-based predators typically hunted relatively small prey. But things changed about 273 million years ago, when an event known as Olson’s Extinction shook up ecosystems around the world. Afterwards, much larger terrestrial herbivores began appearing – and predators needed new weapons to dispatch such large prey, says Josep Fortuny at the Miquel Crusafont Catalan Institute of Palaeontology in Barcelona, Spain. This…
The incident happened at around 7:15 p.m., when officers responded to the 8500 block of Loch Raven Blvd following multiple reports of a shooting, Baltimore County Police Chief Robert McCullough said.“This is an incident that is shocking, particularly for those of us in Baltimore County,” Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski said. “These types of incidents are really unheard of here, so it really shocks the conscience.”The first officer to arrive on the scene found a vehicle on its side that had caught fire, Mccullough said.The Baltimore County Fire Department was called to the scene, where they put out the fire,…
Amazon workers in the US could go on strike ahead of Christmas, after members of the Teamsters union voted to support industrial action.The workers say the online retail giant has refused to recognise their union and ignored a 15 December deadline to hold talks over their contract.Amazon’s facilities in Southern California, New York and Illinois could be affected, according to a Teamsters statement.”The corporate elitists who run Amazon are leaving workers with no choice,” said Teamsters General President Sean M O’Brien. “Amazon must be held accountable to workers and consumers alike. If workers are forced onto the picket line, Amazon…
Canada’s Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland resigned from her federal cabinet position. This may be perhaps the best thing that the Prime Minister has allegedly done for Canada. The fracturing of the left has become a contagion. Freeland shared her resignation letter on social media platform X this Monday. “On Friday, you informed me that you no longer want me to serve as your Finance Minister and offered me another position in Cabinet. Upon reflection, I have concluded that the only honest and viable path is for me to resign from Cabinet,” she added. The shocking announcement came right before she…
During COVID, government employees across the country were able to begin working from home and now, years later, they don’t want to give that up. Trump wants to put an end to this. He expects people to actually show up to their offices to do their jobs. Can you imagine that? Trump is serious about this too, and wants to fire employees who won’t return to working in-person. He absolutely should. if these people don’t need to show up for work, what are taxpayers paying them for? The Washington Times reports: Trump wants to fire federal workers who don’t return…