Russia has entered a new space competition, according to the head of the country’s space agency, Roscosmos. The new “competition” is focused on manned space flight and deep space exploration. “Now we are entering a new stage of a certain competition with leading space powers, related to future manned programs, including in deep space,” Roscosmos
OTTAWA — Contentious wording in Ottawa’s summer jobs program that tied pro-abortion beliefs to funding eligibility is being dropped after a backlash to what was styled last year as a values test. Instead, the federal Liberals have re-tooled the 2019 version of the Canada Summer Jobs program to require applicants to declare they don’t work
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Defending national champion Virginia Wesleyan continues to lead the way in an unchanged first five in the NFCA Division III Top 25 rankings. The (28-0) Marlins swept Guilford in a pair of run-rule shortened games on Sunday, and are unbeaten in their last 34 games, but figure to have a much-tougher test
In classic Soviet style, a Communist party candidate was elected head of the Republic of Khakassia after running with no other candidates on the ballot. The candidate defeated the incumbent from United Russia in round one. During runoff elections for the head of the Siberian Republic of Khakassia, voters were asked to mark if they
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Yanique Spencer (Baldwin [N.Y] HS), Lexi Wagner (Seton LaSalle [Pittsburgh, Pa.], Alexis Kilfoyl (Academy at the Lakes [Fla.] HS), Kendall Fritz (Wakeland [Frisco, Texas]) HS) and Madie Augusto (St. Ignatius [San Francisco, Calif.] HS) were selected MaxPreps/NFCA National High School Players of the Week for games played the week of March 19-25.
Zhores Alferov, the only Nobel laureate in physics to reside in Russia, has passed away aged 88. One of his inventions revolutionized mobile phones and helped to develop LEDs, barcode readers, and CDs. Alferov, born in 1930, died of pulmonary heart insufficiency on Saturday, Russian media reported. He was hospitalized in November last year after
A deadly bus crash that united a hockey-mad country in grief and spurred people to leave sticks on porches from coast to coast has been selected as Canada’s News Story of the Year. The Canadian Press annual survey of newsrooms across the country saw 53 out of 129 editors cast their votes for the Humboldt
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Arizona’s O’Connor scored four more wins this week to move up one place to No. 2 behind Los Alamitos in the latest USA Today Sports/NFCA High School Super 25 poll. The (13-0-1) Eagles also benefited from Norco’s loss to previously-unranked Orange Lutheran (11-1) in their rematch this past week in the gold
The moment a powerful explosion rocked a chemical factory near St. Petersburg was caught on the dashcam of a car nearby. The blast was triggered by a fire in a workshop and injured four workers. The footage of the incident was filmed from quite some distance, but the blast and plume of smoke sent into
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canadians and people around the world are “extremely disturbed” by China’s detention of Canadians. Trudeau told reporters in Mali that Canada is impressing upon the Chinese how important it is to release detainees Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor. Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canada has been has