2 Powerball tickets sold in Mass. win smaller prizes as jackpot climbs to $810M

Massachusetts didn’t claim Saturday night’s Powerball jackpot but there were two tickets sold in the Bay State that hit for smaller prizes. The numbers selected were 10-11-26-27-34 and the Powerball was 7. The multiplier was 4X. No one picked all six numbers, sending the jackpot for Monday’s drawing to $810 million — the fifth highest … Read more

Britain’s Labour opposition has won 2 big prizes in special elections

LONDON — Britain’s main opposition Labour Party has decisively won two special elections, snatching seats in Parliament that were long rock-solid bastions of the governing Conservatives. Results early Friday showed that voters in Tamworth, central England and Mid-Bedfordshire, north of London, switched from Conservatives to Labour in almost unprecedented numbers, solidifying Labour’s status as front-runner … Read more

Balzan Prizes acknowledge achievements in examine of human evolution, black holes with $840,000 awards

MILAN — An American literary historian, a French paleoanthropologist, a Danish evolutionary geneticist and a German-Dutch astrophysicist have been named the winners of this 12 months’s Balzan Prize. Their work within the humanities and pure sciences advances the examine of comparative literature, human evolution and black holes. David Damrosch, chair of Harvard College’s comparative literature … Read more

No Prizes Will Be Given Out for Guessing Who’ll Play a Closely-Rumored ‘Superman: Legacy’ Character

Picture through DC Comics Hypothesis that James Gunn‘s new position as co-CEO of DC Studios might result in a crossover of MCU stars continues as followers theorize about who will land a plum position in Superman: Legacy. A fan took to the r/DC_Cinematic subreddit to rule out the potential of Chris Pratt enjoying Krypto in favor of a extra … Read more