Hurricane Simon continued to move slowly up the coast of west-central Mexico early Tuesday bringing wind and flooding rain after tropical weather systems caused five deaths and damage in Pacific coastal towns and resorts. The eye of the hurricane remained offshore as its outer bands of winds and rain slammed communities between the Sierra Madre […]
Building an electric 8×8 camper from scratch looks impossible until Quiet Nerd opens a workshop and starts cutting square punch tubing into a lightweight frame. Eight separate 48-volt, 1000-watt brushless differential motors soon sit under that frame, each one ready to push its own wheel. Differential gears generally allow wheels to move at different speeds, […]
Max Dowman is Arsenal’s rising star (Picture: Getty) Mikel Arteta has responded positively to Lionel Messi’s prediction that Arsenal starlet Max Dowman is on the road to greatness. The 16-year-old is already firmly established as part of the Premier League champions’ first team squad and is pushing to be included on a more regular basis. […]
Who are holders PSG’s closest challengers as the competition resumes?
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Poor, lonely old Vladimir Putin did not have any form of gathering, party or wider celebration at all last week, as he celebrated his 74th birthday all by himself
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Gerrard captained Liverpool during the 2013/14 season, when they lost the Premier League title race to Manchester City
A passenger train travelling from Karachi to Peshawar derailed in Sher Shah city in Punjab province, killing at least four people and injuring 30 others, according to Pakistan Railways and police officials
An electric helicopter built by a small team in Columbia, Maryland, flew away with first place in the DARPA Lift Challenge after hauling a load of cast iron that weighed nearly four times the aircraft itself. The machine, called Katana, finished its winning run in just over nineteen minutes at the National Museum of the […]