India begins international’s biggest COVID-19 vaccination marketing campaign

NEW DELHI — India began inoculating well being employees Saturday in what's most probably the arena’s biggest COVID-19 vaccination marketing campaign, becoming a member of the ranks of wealthier countries the place the hassle is already smartly underway. India is house to the arena’s biggest vaccine makers and has some of the greatest immunization techniques. But there's no playbook for the enormity of the present problem. Indian government hope to present pictures to 300 million other folks, more or less the inhabitants of the usand a number of instances greater than its current program, which goals 26 million babies. The recipients come with 30 million docs, nurses and different front-line employees, to be adopted by means of 270 million

The global’s brokest billionaire – Chicago Sun-Times

Seated on the breakfast desk, scanning The New York Times tale on Trump’s taxes, I mentioned to my husband, “We have a greater net worth than Donald Trump.” He knitted his forehead. I used to be considering of a tale that Ivanka Trump shared some time again: “I remember once my father and I were walking down Fifth Avenue and there was a homeless person sitting right outside of Trump Tower and I remember my father pointing to him and saying, ‘You know, that guy has $8 billion more than me,’ because he was in such extreme debt at that point, you know?” In 2020, in spite of the dazzling luck

Winter Olympics 2018: North Korea Might Have World’s Best Cheerleaders

Winter Olympics 2018: North Korea Might Have World’s Best Cheerleaders

Win or lose, the North Korean cheerleaders are at the 2018 Winter Olympics to do two things: be positive and be awesome. Dubbed the “Army of Beauties,” the North Korean cheerleaders have made quite an impression in Pyeongchang, South Korea. And that was especially true during the Korean women’s hockey team’s 8-0 loss to Switzerland Saturday night. Despite the lopsided score, the cheerleaders never stopped showing their support. Check this out: Wow. Here’s some fantastic context, courtesy of Bleacher Report’s Joon Lee: At the end of the day, the score didn’t matter, as the game was a truly historic event. The Kor... NESN.com

Margaret Court Blames America For Tennis World’s Backlash To Anti-LGBT Comments

Margaret Court Blames America For Tennis World’s Backlash To Anti-LGBT Comments

One of tennis’ four Grand Slams currently is taking place in France, but the main topic in the sport remains the anti-LGBT comments made by Margaret Court. The Australian tennis legend’s list of supporters is dwindling after she made multiple controversial comments about the LGBT community, including that “tennis is full of lesbians,” in an interview with Vision Christian Radio, via The Guardian. Her anti-LGBT comments — which also included her saying “transgender individuals are ‘influenced by the devil,'” according to Yahoo! Sports — along with her stance against gay marriage, have led multiple current and former tennis stars to cri... NESN.com

‘Game Of Thrones’ Actor Claims He Was Robbed In World’s Strongest Man Competition

‘Game Of Thrones’ Actor Claims He Was Robbed In World’s Strongest Man Competition

If you’re familiar with the “Game of Thrones” character Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane, then you can guess that he’s probably one of the largest, strongest men in the world. However, he’s not the strongest man, and he’s not too thrilled about that. Icelandic actor Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson is enormous, coming in at 6-foot-9, 416 pounds, and has won Iceland’s Strongest Man every year since 2011 and was crowned Europe’s Strongest man in 2017. However, Björnsson finished just shy of first place in the World’s Strongest Man competition in Botswana on Sunday because of what he believes was a referee mistake.

GM Reportedly Will Deploy World’s Largest Fleet Of Self-Driving Cars

GM Reportedly Will Deploy World’s Largest Fleet Of Self-Driving Cars

It’s pretty difficult at this point to determine which automaker is the most serious about developing self-driving vehicles in the United States. General Motors, though, might have plans to distance itself from the pack. The U.S. automaker plans to soon deploy 300 Chevrolet Bolts fitted with self-driving technology, Spectrum reported Friday. If true, GM would sport the world’s largest fleet of autonomous vehicles, placing it well ahead of Waymo, which currently owns the largest such fleet at nearly 80 vehicles. GM currently has around 50 driverless cars deployed across San Francisco, Scottsdale, Ariz., and Detroit. In addition to expanding its vehi... NESN.com

Some Of World’s Smartest Students Tested Pods On SpaceX Hyperloop Track

Some Of World’s Smartest Students Tested Pods On SpaceX Hyperloop Track

And you thought your eighth-grade science fair went well. Well, maybe it did. But chances are it wasn’t as cool testing Hyperloop Pods on a test track at SpaceX headquarters. That privilege was reserved for teams of students from Delft University in the Netherlands, the Technical University of Munich and Massachusetts Institute of Technology who got to test their prototype pods on the SpaceX track during the weekend, according to Popular Mechanics. The three teams emerged from a field of 30 that recently competed for the chance to try their pods on the mile-long track. The teams were tested on a variety of criteria and scored by SpaceX engineers. W... NESN.com