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A new range of ten stamps which plots the life of Queen Victoria has been released to mark her and Prince Albert's bicentenaries. Six of the stamps illustrate a timeline that starts in 1830 when the young royal was an 11-year-old princess and stretches to 1890 in the final years of her mammoth 63-year reign. This collection also includes an image of Victoria's marriage to Albert and another of her holding an audience with prime minister Benjamin Disraeli. The remaining four stamps celebrate the legacy of Albert by featuring drawings of buildings linked to him such as Balmoral Castle and...

Britons should be working nine-hour weeks to help solve climate change and reduce green house gas emissions, according to a new study. Autonomy, an environmental think tank, published research which suggests that reducing the amount of hours Britons work would keep the country within the 'planetary boundary' of 2C of global warming at current carbon intensity levels. They claim it is the only way for the UK to meet the greenhouse gas emission targets set by the UN

A SOUTH African farmer activist who spoke out against brutal attacks on the the country’s white farmers has been found dead. Annette Kennealy, 51, was founded with multiple wounds to the body on her land in Limpopo province. Colonel Moatshe Ngoepe, a police spokesman, said: “Family members tried to call her without success, until one of them went to investigate. “On arrival he found the deceased inside the house.” The victim was staying with an employee on her farm in the town of Louis Trichardt when she was attacked. A friend is said to have found her body lying in...

A South African farmer activist who spoke out against attacks on white farmers has been found dead. Annette Kennealy, 51, was beaten to death in Limpopo province. She was found in a pool of blood by a family member. Kennealy was attacked on her own farm in the town of Louis Trichardt where she was staying with an employee.

balance between order and disorder, or entropy, he said. "We can look at a balance—or a competition—between dissonance and entropy of sound—and see that phase transitions can also occur from disordered sound to the ordered structures of music," he said. Berezovsky ... he's uncovering the "emergent structures of musical harmony" inherent in the art, just as order comes from disorder in the physical world. He believes that could mean a whole new way of looking at music of the past, present and future. Berezovsky said his theory is more than just an illustration of how we think about music. Instead,...

Next month’s LA Pride Parade will be televised for the first time. KABC has inked a three-year deal with Christopher Street West, the nonprofit group that produces the annual LA Pride Festival and Parade in West Hollywood, to air the event. This year’s parade is set for Sunday, June 9. “We’re proud to bring the L.A. Pride Parade celebration to viewers across Southern California,” said Cheryl Fair, president and general manager of KABC. “Our collaboration with LA Pride is a commitment to reflecting and serving the diverse communities that represent our audience.” “We’re proud to bring the L.A. Pride Parade...

That’s the prayer delivered at Baylor University’s 2019 spring graduation by Dan Freemyer of Fort Worth’s progressive Broadway Baptist Church. I’ve cued it up to a startling point. This prayer was uttered at graduation at the Baptist Notre Dame, deep in the heart of Texas.

I thought it would be a good day to analyze headlines from around the fake news echo chamber so I assembled the leads as of 6:30 AM from the major news sites:- CNN British Prime Minister Theresa May ResignsDonald Trump Falls For Nancy Pelosi’s Trap - NBC  British PM Theresa May announces she will step down over Brexit crisis In another attack, Trump shares edited video of Pelosi tripping over wordsAssange indictment poses First Amendment threat, advocates warn - CBS 8 dead amid outbreak of severe weather Britain’s Theresa May to Resign as Prime Minister     Nadler says Mueller wants to...

TOKYO We all know that cats love to look down on their human owners with disdain, but we never think they’re actually going to turn their tails up on us and leave, especially when we hold all the bargaining chips as their ever-loving carers who lavish them with pats, warmth, and never-ending bowls of food and water. Still, despite all our love and affection, there are felines who are desperate to get out there and explore, and with little regard for the feelings of humans, they can be gone for hours, days, or weeks, without even stopping to consider the...

The high cost of low-level crime in the City by the Bay San Francisco is the nation’s leader in property crime. Burglary, larceny, shoplifting, and vandalism are included under this ugly umbrella. The rate of car break-ins is particularly striking: in 2017 over 30,000 reports were filed, and the current average is 51 per day. Other low-level offenses, including drug dealing, street harassment, encampments, indecent exposure, public intoxication, simple assault, and disorderly conduct are also rampant.Many in law enforcement blame the crime wave on Proposition 47, which in 2014 downgraded possession of illegal narcotics for personal use and theft of anything under...

New orders for U.S.-made capital goods fell more than expected in April, further evidence that manufacturing and the broader economy were slowing after a growth spurt in the first quarter.The slowdown was driven by exports and a buildup of inventories.Orders for non-defense capital goods excluding aircraft dropped 0.9% last month as demand weakened almost across the board, the Commerce Department said.Overall orders for durable goods, items ranging from toasters to aircraft that are meant to last three years or more, tumbled 2.1% in April. .... The renewed trade tensions are expected to weigh on exports, which earlier this year...

The Department of Justice announced 17 new charges against Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange on Thursday, including a virtually unprecedented move to charge him with publishing classified material — a move that could pose challenges to First Amendment protections. In a superseding indictment, a grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, has accused Assange of breaking the law by inducing Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning to send him classified documents — and then publishing material that included the names of confidential sources who provided information to American diplomats. The 17 counts were tacked on to a single count accusing Assange of conspiring with Manning...

The news comes after it was confirmed that an American man from Utah also died earlier this week having reached the summit and fulfilling his life’s dream, his children told NBC affiliate KSL-TV. Don Cash, 55, was a passionate climber who had left his job to join the "Seven Summits Club," — in which climbers attempt to summit the highest mountain on every continent. Tweeting a picture of a long line of climbers waiting to get to the summit on Wednesday, the British broadcaster and adventurer Ben Fogle, the U.N. Patron of the Wilderness, called on the countries that share...

Puerto Rico's government Thursday filed an amicus brief in a lawsuit to overturn a federal ban on cockfighting in territories. Puerto Rico Chief of staff Ricardo Llerandi said in a statement the territorial government had joined the lawsuit filed by the Club Gallístico de Puerto Rico against the federal government in a San Juan federal court. "We have made the determination to sign on as friends of the court in this suit. We do not favor this prohibition that would affect families who live on the economy surrounding this sector in Puerto Rico. We have been and we will be...

Following the freeze on trade talks last Friday, China’s apparently moved into full-out attack mode. After slapping new tariffs on thousands of U.S.-made products (mostly meat and vegetables), the Chinese warned President Trump, “if you want to fight, we’ll fight you to the end.” Over these next few weeks of battle between both governments’ communications departments, will China finally pull out a major hole card it has against the U.S. on the unfair trade issue? That is, will it raise the issue of corporate labor subsidies created by America’s mass immigration system? By pursuing a system of mass unskilled migration...

...frustrated by all the things that had to be done to make another run after fixing an error, she devised a way to bypass the computer’s clunky debugging process. To Lorenz’s delight, Hamilton would take the paper tape that fed the machine, roll it out the length of the hallway, and edit the binary code with a sharp pencil. “I’d poke holes for ones, and I’d cover up with Scotch tape the others,” she said. “He just got a kick out of it.” Many accounts, including the one in Gleick’s book, date the discovery of this butterfly effect to 1961,...

May’s announcement came the morning after Brits went to the polls to vote in the European Parliament elections, with Britain only participating due to its departure from the E.U. being delayed until October. Full results are not expected for days but polls suggested her Conservative Party were expected to be punished severely for the government’s handling of Brexit, with polls suggesting the Tories could receive just single-digit support. A YouGov poll for The Times of London published Wednesday found that the Tories would come in fifth place, with just 7% of the vote, while the newly-formed Brexit Party was predicted...

On his show last night, @TuckerCarlson said the "leadership class" in America has decided to "downplay the threat of MS-13" because Trump called them "animals." "Why? Because @realDonaldTrump attacked MS-13 ... the enemy of Donald Trump must be my friend. That's how they think."

How Palestinian terror and “right of return” demands torture Palestinians. Jason Greenblatt, President Trump’s special envoy, scolded the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday for refusing to accept the obvious cause of Palestinian suffering in Gaza. He said that the Security Council needs “to admit that Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad are the primary barrier to the dreams of those residents of Gaza who want to live in peace, raise their families and find meaningful work.” Mr. Greenblatt condemned both terrorist organizations for continuing “to target Israeli hospitals and schools” and using Palestinian civilians, including children, as human shields. He...