Monthly Archives: July 2022
Tips for hotter days
THE STAR - It might not feel like you can “waste” water that you give to your plants, but there are more efficient and...
New cap Fainga’anuku in All Blacks team to face Ireland
AP - Winger Leicester Fainga’anuku has been named to make his test debut as part of a COVID-hit All Blacks team in tomorrow’s first...
Families brace for changes to free school meals
Lisa Rathke
ESSEX (AP) - Before the pandemic, there was no room in the budget for Kate Murphy’s children to buy lunch at school. She...
Late start law aims to make school less of a yawn
Carolyn Thompson
AP - When Hansika Daggolu’s junior year of high school starts in the fall, she’ll be watching to see if a later first...
Uber inks deal for Australian gig worker rights
SYDNEY (AFP) - Uber has reached a deal with a powerful Australian union after years of legal battles, campaigns and negotiations that will offer...
Popeye the Sailor Man is getting a makeover at age 93
Michael Cavna
THE WASHINGTON POST - Popeye may be famous for the confident credo “I yam what I yam”, but that doesn't mean the Sailor...
Farrell ‘not happy’ as Lawes named England captain against Wallabies
PERTH, AUSTRALIA (AFP) - Eddie Jones admitted Owen Farrell “wasn’t very happy” after Courtney Lawes was named England captain yesterday for the opening Test...
Why do we get the hiccups?
Jason Bittel
THE WASHINGTON POST - One-hundred years ago on June 13, a man from Iowa named Charles Osborne started hiccupping - and he didn’t...
BND154K cheat lands in prison
Fadley Faisal
Malaysian national Chieu Vun Thian was sentenced to two-and-a-half years of jail by the Magistrate’s court yesterday for cheating an oil and gas...
Caribbean storm likely to gain force, hit Central America
SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO (AP) - A storm that has hurled rain on the southern Caribbean and the northern shoulder of South America was...