Britain launches new mRNA vaccine trial to prepare for bird flu pandemic
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Title up for grabs as Man City and Arsenal prepare for crunch clash
LONDON, April 16 : This time last month Arsenal were seemingly in the fast lane to their first Premier League title in 22 years, with a stuttering Manchester City leaking points and losing ground. On Sunday, however, a rejuvenated City will know that victory over the north London club in a showdown at the Etihad Stadium would make them favourites to reclaim the crown. Arsenal’s surprise 2-1 home defeat by Bournemouth last weekend re-opened the race and City’s subsequent 3-0 win at Chelsea cut the gap to six points with a game in hand. If City prevail and then win at relegation-bound Burnley three days later they would top the table with five games to go and leave Arsenal facing the unedifying prospect of a fourth successive runners-up spot. Should that happen it would be a crushing blow for Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta, whose desperation to deliver the title appears to be weighing heavily on his players. “You’re going for your first title, you start to become consumed, and it’s the mental and emotional drain …
Anne Hathaway says certain Beyonce song helped prepare her for singing in Mother Mary
Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Anne Hathaway has said she listened to Beyoncé’s “Ameriican Requiem” on repeat to prepare for her lead role in the new movie musical, Mother Mary. Hathaway, 43, stars in A24’s forthcoming psychological drama as fictional pop icon Mother Mary, who reunites with her estranged best friend and former costume designer (Michaela Coel) on the eve of her comeback performance. While the Princess Diaries actor has a musical theater background and even won an Oscar for her supporting role as Fantine in the 2012 screen adaptation of the hit musical Les Misérables, she described her voice as “much softer” than that of typical pop stars. “Musical theater is many wonderful things, but it’s not the coolest sound. Not known for its swag!” Hathaway quipped Tuesday during a Q&A in New York, per Variety. “So, I listened to ‘Ameriican Requiem’ by Beyoncé, over and over …
Did Trump prepare for Strait of Hormuz Closure?
U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) speaks to reporters after a roundtable on rising energy costs on Capitol Hill on March 17, 2026 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images The top Democrat on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is probing whether the Trump administration adequately planned for the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, which has roiled energy markets for weeks as the war with Iran drags on. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., in a letter dated Tuesday to Energy Secretary Chris Wright, shared exclusively with CNBC, demanded answers to a series of questions about how the administration prepared for the closure of the strait ahead of launching the war with Iran. The Islamic Republic has effectively closed the strait since the beginning of the conflict. “I am deeply concerned that the President’s decision to wage a reckless war on Iran will wreak havoc on energy markets for the foreseeable future — driving up energy costs for Americans across the country and causing global economic turmoil,” Heinrich said in the letter. “The …
UK working on major plan to prepare country for war | UK News
The UK is preparing a new version of a major plan to ready the whole nation – from the military and police to hospitals and industry – for the transition to war, the head of the armed forces has told Sky News. Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton said the updated iteration of what was called the Government War Book would require people to think differently about resilience, drawing on lessons from the Cold War but “in a modern context, with a modern society, with modern infrastructure”. In an interview on Friday at the London Defence Conference, he also revealed that a threat by the UK to seize ships that are part of Russia’s murky “shadow fleet” is already having an effect, even though British forces have yet to board any vessels. The chief of the defence staff said the mere knowledge that London was ready to target a sanctioned tanker was forcing Moscow to escort them or divert them away from UK waters. Image: RAF Typhoon jets shortly before departing for Qatar in March. …
Liverpool boss Slot says club support strong as fans prepare Anfield protest
April 10 : Under-fire Liverpool boss Arne Slot said he feels “complete support” from the club and the fans on Friday, even as his team endures a torrid run of form and supporters plan protests over rising ticket prices. The Dutchman’s side have lost their last three matches across all competitions, crashing out of the FA Cup to Manchester City while they trail Paris St Germain 2-0 in their Champions League quarter-finals. With Liverpool clinging to fifth place in the Premier League – the final Champions League qualification spot – and Chelsea breathing down their necks one point behind, Saturday’s home clash with Fulham takes on added significance. Asked if he feels support from the Liverpool hierarchy, Slot told reporters the club’s sporting director Richard Hughes and chief executive Michael Edwards are behind him. “I’m repeating myself a lot but I feel a lot of support. Not only from the owners but from Richard and Michael… But as weird as it might sound, I also feel the support from the fans,” Slot told reporters. “We …
Artemis II Astronauts Prepare For Re-Entry, Splashdown
Authored by T.J.Muscaro via The Epoch Times, When Artemis II crew members wake up at 11:35 a.m. ET on April 9, they will begin their last full day in space and start preparing the cabin for their return home. NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency, continue to fall back to Earth on a free return trajectory aboard their Orion spacecraft, Integrity, targeting a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean at about 8:05 p.m. ET on April 10. Over the past eight days, those astronauts became the first people in more than 50 years to leave Earth’s orbit and cross the proverbial channel of deep space to fly around the moon. They ventured farther from Earth than any other human expedition in history. They saw areas and aspects of the lunar surface that no other humans had ever been able to see with their own eyes, and they became the first humans ever to observe a full solar eclipse from lunar space. They captured striking images of …
NASA Artemis II astronauts prepare to end moon mission in ‘fireball’ re-entry
Four astronauts traveling back to Earth from the far side of the moon on NASA’s Artemis II mission spoke of their emotions as they wrapped up the unprecedented flight and prepared to re-enter the atmosphere in a “fireball”, during their first press conference from space on Wednesday. The Artemis II crew, flying in their Orion capsule since launching from Florida last week, are due to splash down off the Southern California coast on Friday evening after reaching the moon earlier this week. They cruised along a path that took them past the shadowed, lunar far side to become the farthest-flying humans in history. Source link
We urgently need to prepare for quantum computers breaking encryption
Dragon Claws/Getty Images Something very bad is going to happen in the near future unless we change course. Researchers know what will cause it and roughly when it will happen, and have ideas to mitigate it. Yet policy-makers may not do enough to avert it in time. This could be describing climate change, or perhaps the early days of the covid-19 pandemic. Now, it also applies to something more esoteric:quantum computers. As we report here, two separate papers, including one from Google, have discovered that the threshold for a quantum computer to threaten the encryption that keeps our data safe is far lower than expected. The knowledge that quantum computers will one day be able to quickly solve the maths problems that underpin our security isn’t new – it is perhaps one of thefew well-grounded applications of these exotic machines. What is new is that this moment, labelled Q-Day by some, may be far closer than anyone expected. Should it arrive unbidden, the results will be catastrophic: emails hacked, bank accounts emptied and secrets spilled. …
Artemis II astronauts prepare for historic Moon flyby
For the first time in more than half a century, astronauts will fly around the Moon on Monday, marking the high point of the Artemis II’s lunar mission. Here’s what you need to know about the event: Live broadcast The flyby will last around seven hours, starting Monday around 2:45pm eastern US time (1845 GMT) and ending around 9:20pm (0120 GMT). NASA will broadcast the flyby live on its website, as well as on YouTube, Amazon and Netflix, with commentary from both the astronauts aboard the mission and experts at the Mission Control center in Houston, Texas. Given the lengthy distance – further than any humans have ever traveled from Earth – NASA has cautioned that the livestream video quality may be poor at times. Radio silence There will be a period of around 40 minutes during the flyby where all communication with Artemis II will be cut off as the astronauts pass behind the Moon. “It’ll be exciting, you know, in a slightly scary way, when they go behind the moon,” Derek Buzasi, a professor of …