Posts by Cosmopolitan Canada
The Brilliance and the Badness of “The Sun Also Rises”
The second sentence is “Do not think that I am very much impressed by that as a boxing title, but it meant a lot to Cohn.” Even to my teen-age self, this was a weird sentence. The “much” seemed unnecessary, there only to call attention to itself, to the fact that someone was speaking. But…
Read More‘Hard to survive’: Kyiv’s elderly shiver after Russian attacks on power and heat
Shivering in her flat after Russian strikes knocked out the heating, 91-year-old Lidia Teleschuk said she couldn’t remember a winter this harsh since World War II. Russia has this month stepped up its strikes against Ukraine’s power and heating infrastructure, plunging Kyiv residents into darkness and cold as temperatures dropped as low as -20C. “In…
Read MoreExclusive-China gives green light to importing first batch of Nvidia’s H200 AI chips, sources say
Jan 28 (Reuters) – China has approved its first batch of Nvidia‘s H200 artificial intelligence chips for import, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, marking a shift in position as China seeks to balance its AI needs against spurring domestic development. The approval covers several hundred thousand H200 chips and was granted during…
Read MoreEx-Nigeria oil minister in bribery trial spent £2m at Harrods, court hears
More than £2m was spent at Harrods on behalf of a then-Nigerian oil minister accused of accepting bribes from industry figures interested in government contracts, a court in London has heard. Diezani Alison-Madueke, 65, is alleged to have been provided with “a life of luxury in the United Kingdom”, including the use of multimillion-pound properties,…
Read MoreSlovakia takes EU to court over Russian gas import ban
Slovakia plans to file a complaint with the EU’s top court, the European Court of Justice (ECJ), contesting the bloc’s ban on imports of natural gas from Russia, Prime Minister Robert Fico announced in Bratislava on Tuesday. The EU regulation violated the subsidiarity principle allowing all EU member states to decide on their own energy…
Read MoreDisabled freighter on its way to German port
The vehicle carrier MS Thames Highway that was left disabled off the North Sea island of Borkum is to be towed back to the northern German port of Emden after a fire, the salvage company said on Tuesday. The ship is now being brought back, Germany’s Central Command for Maritime Emergencies (CCME) reported. The vehicle…
Read MoreKipyegon announces plans for maternity ward in hometown
After winning a medal or topping a podium, athletes will ask themselves ‘What next?’. Middle-distance great Faith Kipyegon, a three-time Olympic gold medallist and a five-time world champion over 1500m and 5000m, has faced that question more times than most elite runners. Advertisement The 32-year-old Kenyan is now focusing some of her efforts off the…
Read MoreIn “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” Character Development Returns to Westeros
“A new ‘Game of Thrones’ series!” you might be thinking. “Time to unroll my map of Westeros.” Well, unroll away—but “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” despite its name, won’t require a refresher on the distance from Sunspear to Dragonstone. The six-episode series, which débuted this month on HBO, has a small-scale focus, and its…
Read MorePosts falsely claim Bangladesh train station clip shows Muslims sabotaging Indian train
A video of children tinkering with the coupling of a stationary train has spread among social media posts in Hindu-majority India, where it has been falsely presented as showing Muslim kids sabotaging an Indian passenger train. The video’s creator told AFP it was filmed in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka, and has nothing to do with India.…
Read More‘Major step’: French MPs vote in favour of bill to ban social media for under-15s
France’s National Assembly has backed a bill that would ban social media access for under-15s, a proposal supported by President Emmanuel Macron. Lawmakers in the lower house on Monday agreed key elements of the bill, before voting 116-23 in its favour. Next, the bill will go to the upper house, the Senate, for approval. If…
Read MoreMilitary intervention may be unavoidable to change Iran leadership, MEP says
PM Sebastian Tynkkynen told The Post that military intervention may be the final step needed to achieve regime change in Iran after sanctions and diplomacy. Military intervention is the final step in ensuring a change of leadership in Iran, a member of the European Parliament, Sebastian Tynkkynen, told The Jerusalem Post on Monday, adding that…
Read MoreAlex Honnold and Netflix Team Up for a Corporatized “Free Solo”
In Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi’s Oscar-winning 2018 documentary, “Free Solo,” the world-class rock climber Alex Honnold expresses reservations about being shot by a film crew while he attempts to become the first person ever to scale Yosemite’s El Capitan monolith without ropes or a harness. “The idea of falling off . . . It’s, like, kind…
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