ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Friday blasted the “radical individualism” that he said was infecting society today, as he greeted Argentine pilgrims who are in town for this weekend’s canonization of the first female saint from his home country. Instead, Francis held up as a model the 18th century Argentine laywoman lovingly known as […]
AVRIEUX, France (Reuters) – French engine maker Safran said on Friday it had begun wind-tunnel tests for its “RISE” technology project, a radical jet engine design for the next generation of medium-haul jets. Safran and its partner GE Aerospace are testing the building blocks for an open-bladed jet engine able to reduce fuel use and […]
The New York Post’s headline writers didn’t hold back: “Woke NYC bookstore that lured strung-out junkies with freebies faces possible eviction”. The tabloid reported that the landlord of the Bluestockings Cooperative bookstore on New York’s Lower East Side was threatening eviction unless the store stopped operating as a “medical facility”. Bluestockings is a historic trans- […]
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for a “radical improvement” in the country’s farm machinery sector, state media reported on Wednesday, as the reclusive state pushes for agricultural modernisation to tackle chronic food shortages. Visiting a farm machine exhibition on Tuesday, Kim said it was important to map out a […]
CNN — What does intimacy look like for seniors? There’s no end to sex scenes and other steamy content featuring the young and unwrinkled, but past a certain age, popular culture largely draws a blank — or treats sex as a punchline. Last year, the artist Marilyn Minter set out to change that, gathering a […]