A team of architects from Ukraine took top prize at a prestigious competition with a concept for a ‘living skyscraper’ shaped out of a grove of genetically modified trees. Their ‘Living Skyscraper for New York City’ design would mold fast-growing trees into an eco-friendly high rise or office building, with smaller branches forming individual rooms and walls. … Read more
A team of architects from Ukraine took top prize at a prestigious competition with a concept for a ‘living skyscraper’ shaped out of a grove of genetically modified trees. Their ‘Living Skyscraper for New York City’ design would mold fast-growing trees into an eco-friendly high rise or office building, with smaller branches forming individual rooms and walls. … Read more
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has warned that the United States will respond to reckless or aggressive acts by Russia. His comments came ahead of a meeting with Ukraine’s leadership on Thursday in a visible show of support following a massive troop buildup by Russia. Speaking during a visit to the UK for a G7 meeting … Read more
A stable democracy doesn’t threaten to cut off its neighbour’s energy supplies. That is the sort of behaviour we associate with rogue states. Putin’s Russia, for example, sometimes resorts to ‘gas diplomacy’ to browbeat Ukraine and other nearby states. An energy blockade is calculatedly bellicose — if not exactly an act of war, then certainly … Read more
A woman has revealed the story of how she lost more than £113,000 to a Facebook fraudster during lockdown following an elaborate scam. Rachel Elwell, 50, from Brownhills, West Midlands, says she is facing bankruptcy after becoming the latest victim of an increasingly popular online scam – ‘romance fraud’. The export manager was contacted by … Read more
Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Ukraine next week in a show of ‘unwavering’ support after Russian troops amassed on its border, the State Department said Friday. Russia in recent weeks deployed up to 100,000 troops near Ukraine’s northern and eastern borders as well as in Crimea, which Moscow seized in 2014, raising concerns … Read more
Putin fires warning to the West: Russian warship launches supersonic cruise missile in the Black Sea during live fire exercise ahead of arrival of British frigate and destroyer following his climbdown in Crimea Russian cruiser Moskva fired the Vulkan missile from its Basalt missile system A surface target was hit at a distance of 19 … Read more
Rudy Giuliani has claimed that the search warrant authorizing the raid on his Manhattan home was ‘illegal’ and ‘unconstitutional’, claiming that he had offered to hand over his electronic devices willingly for the past two years, and insisting that he had never worked for a foreign national. Giuliani’s home was surrounded by FBI agents at 6am … Read more
Rudy Giuliani has claimed that the search warrant authorizing the raid on his Manhattan home was ‘illegal’ and ‘unconstitutional’, claiming that he had offered to hand over his electronic devices willingly for the past two years, and insisting that he had never worked for a foreign national. Giuliani’s home was surrounded by FBI agents at 6am … Read more
Russia has ‘successfully’ tested a massive new missile designed to blast US nukes out of the sky as it continues its display of military prowess – despite announcing a partial troop pullback from areas bordering Ukraine. The trial of the new weapon, believed to be called the A-235 PL-19 Nudol, took place at the Sary … Read more