Fireworks are used across the world to mark joyous occasions—from New Year’s Day to Lunar New Year to Diwali to the Fourth of July—but behind the boisterous crackle and brilliant flashes meant to elicit gasps and cheers from festive crowds lie immense safety risks, not just to users and environments but especially to the people … Read more
The mantle of world No.1 in tennis is something every player aspires for but few ever achieve. When it comes to men’s singles, only a handful of names have held top spot over the past two decades. But a new generation of talent is coming through with young players pushing their way up the rankings. … Read more
ROME — The Vatican document explicitly saying Catholic priests can bless same-sex unions lays out the conditions for what such blessings can, and cannot, involve. The overall goal is to make it abundantly clear to the couple and those around them that the blessing is not a liturgical or sacramental ritual, and that it in … Read more
Who’d have thought America’s first serial killer would become part of MCU canon? Incredibly, in its time-hopping, Loki Season 2 touches down during 1893’s iconic Chicago World’s Fair, which was a hunting ground for H.H. Holmes. The titular anti-hero (Tom Hiddleston)’s Gal Friday, Mobius (Owen Wilson) even name-drops the infamous murderer, exclaiming, “The white city! … Read more
The Fall of the House of Usher is full of WTF moments, but one of the most memorable has to be Leo Usher (Rahul Kohli) blinding his newly purchased, malevolent cat. In the fourth episode of the Netflix series based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe, it’s made clear that some of what Leo … Read more