Thursday, June 27, 2019

27 June - iGoogle Portal - Tab 7 - MSM


  • A popular video about an amusement park ride with a crazy drop turned out to be fake. This physics analysis spells it out.
  • The 2019 Copenhagenize Index ranks the world's urban hubs on how much they're doing to promote life on two wheels.

    • Want more comics with LGBTQ+ characters? Start here.

  • The court has ruled that racial gerrymanders can violate the Constitution, but it has struggled with voting maps warped by politics.
  • Elizabeth Warren set the tone for the party’s progressive wing, but others among the 10 candidates were more cautious, and proposed solutions sometimes broke along ideological...

    • The first NBC primary debate was moderated by Lester Holt, Savannah Guthrie, José Díaz-Balart, Chuck Todd and Rachel Maddow.

      India News, Latest News in India, Live News India, India Breaking News - Ti



  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the bilateral strategic ties between India and Japan will become more robust as India aims to be a $5 trillion economy in the next five...
  • An Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) team has recovered bodies of seven mountaineers while the search operation for the eighth and last body is under way, Pithoragarh district magistrate...

    • "We have respect for each other's cultures. This is because of Bapu (Mahatma Gandhi)...We all have heard his saying -- 'bura mat dekho, bura mat suno, bura mat kaho' (see no evil, hear...

      BBC News - UK



  • The country's foreign minister says he is concerned about the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
  • Boris Johnson wants a points system for immigrants and Jeremy Hunt would scrap some tuition fee debts.

    • There is "every suggestion" HPV vaccination will lead to a fall in cervical cancers, say scientists .



      National Geographic News




  • Encounters with the big fish are rare, but can be deadly. Here's how to reduce your risk, and what you should keep in mind.
  • This film features over 2,000 flags, set in motion to Ludwig van Beethoven, centuries in the making.

    • It took a string of shark attacks in New Jersey more than a hundred years ago to make U.S. swimmers fear the ocean’s top predator.


  • Iran is on course to breach a threshold in its nuclear agreement with world powers within days by accumulating more enriched uranium than permitted, although it has not done so yet...
  • The United States special envoy to Iran said on Thursday his country's policy of maximum economic pressure on Tehran was working and warned that U.S. Sanctions did not give it the right...

    • Indonesia's Constitutional Court on Thursday confirmed the victory of President Joko Widodo in April's presidential election, dismissing accusations of cheating by rival Prabowo...

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