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Gene Hackman death: Police change timeline after new details revealed – National
Entertainment, Movies

Gene Hackman death: Police change timeline after new details revealed – National

Authorities have discovered new information in the deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa, shifting the timeline of events. According to NBC News, cellphone records indicate that Arakawa was alive at least one day after her estimated time of death.Arakawa’s phone records show that she made three calls to Cloudberry, a private medical clinic, on the morning of Feb. 12 and it appears that she missed a return call the same afternoon.The medical investigator’s office had previously estimated that Arakawa died on Feb. 11, seven days before Hackman, who was believed to have died on Feb. 18.Chris Ramirez, a spokesperson for the medical investigator’s office, told NBC News that Arakawa’s cellphone records were not yet in investigators’ hands when chief medical examiner Heather Jarrell p...
NASA astronauts to return to Earth: Know what happens to the body in deep space
Health

NASA astronauts to return to Earth: Know what happens to the body in deep space

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore are all set to return to Earth after spending nine months aboard the International Space Station (ISS) for a mission that was supposed to last just eight days. Spending a considerable amount of time in space can pose several health risks, some of which were well-documented as the two astronauts navigated these challenges. Bone and muscle deterioration, radiation exposure, vision impairment —these are just a few of the challenges space travellers face on long-duration missions, even before considering the psychological toll of isolation. In a previous interaction with mid-day.com, Dr Atul Narayankar, Consultant Medical Oncologist, Wockhardt Hospitals, Mira Road, had highlighted how different elements in space can affect health, saying, “W...
Let Sabrina Carpenter do the Eiffel Tower, kids have seen it all before anyway
Life Style

Let Sabrina Carpenter do the Eiffel Tower, kids have seen it all before anyway

As with most in the Disney to pop star pipeline, a massive slice of Carpenter’s fanbase is tweenage girls. While Carpenter’s lyrics aren’t X-rated in the sense that she rarely swears, they are richly euphemistic. And yes, there’s something mildly unsettling about, say, 12-year-old girls belting out lines from her hit Bed Chem, like: “come right on me, I mean camaraderie!” or, “And I bet we'd both arrive at the same time, and I bet the thermostat's set at six-nine”. Source link
F-35 review ‘understandable’ for many, but would it risk Canada’s security? – National
Politics

F-35 review ‘understandable’ for many, but would it risk Canada’s security? – National

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s request for a review of the F-35 fighter jet contract — and opposition leaders’ calls to cancel the contract altogether — reflects the reality of souring relations and lost confidence in the U.S., some experts say, although others are worried about national security implications. Carney has asked Defence Minister Bill Blair to look into whether the deal with Lockheed Martin and the U.S. government, which would see 88 new planes purchased at a cost of roughly US$85 million each, is in the best interests of Canada.The review comes amid a growing trade war and U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to annex Canada, which has sparked increasing retaliation from Canadian officials. There are also some concerns about having a Canadian fleet made up of U.S.-made planes...
Carney says solving U.S. issues ‘won’t happen overnight’ amid Trump tariffs – National
Politics

Carney says solving U.S. issues ‘won’t happen overnight’ amid Trump tariffs – National

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday it will take time to solve economic and security issues between Canada and the U.S. amid President Donald Trump’s trade war, warning no “magic” single meeting will “unlock things.” Carney is expected to hold his first conversation with Trump as prime minister in the coming days, as officials on both sides of the border continue talks on a broader trade relationship that Ottawa hopes will include exemptions from Trump’s punitive tariffs.Carney told reporters in Iqaluit those tariffs and other actions from the Trump administration have “called into question the validity” of free trade rules enshrined in the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), which Trump negotiated during his first term.“That means that we should have a broader conversation ...
Chandan Roy Sanyal on hoping to take the story of Aashram forward
Entertainment, Movies

Chandan Roy Sanyal on hoping to take the story of Aashram forward

Bobby Deol and Chandan Roy Sanyal have gone from being tight friends to arch rivals, not in real life but as their characters—Nirala Baba and Bhopa Swami, respectively—in Prakash Jha’s series Aashram. While Deol’s character has ended with the recently released second part of the third season, Sanyal says that the story may take his character forward if there is another instalment. When he read the script, Sanyal found it interesting but never expected it to grow so much. He shares, “The last season has become the best [edition] for the people. [Initially], I was not sure that the show would become what it has become today; it has a cult following. I knew that it was a great story and script, and it was being directed by Prakash Jha and had Bobby Deol.” With season three catching the atten...
Canada as 51st state a ‘compliment,’ Ford says but country is ‘not for sale’
Politics

Canada as 51st state a ‘compliment,’ Ford says but country is ‘not for sale’

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Donald Trump’s threat to make Canada the 51st U.S. state is a “compliment,” but it’ll never happen. Ford shared his new take when speaking to reporters at Queen’s Park Tuesday, saying after his high-stakes meeting in Washington last week, the Americans aren’t “coming into our country to take over.”“I kind of flipped this around: what a compliment. We’ll never be a 51st state. Canada is not for sale, but isn’t it nice someone thinks we have the greatest country in the world, and they want access,” Ford said.“My simple answer to that is if you want access, let’s build an Am-Can Fortress as I’ve been saying. Let’s supply more critical minerals, let’s supply more energy that you need. We are not the enemy, they know that. Their foe is China. That’s their enemy an...
Liberals widen lead over Tories under Carney, Ipsos poll shows – National
Politics

Liberals widen lead over Tories under Carney, Ipsos poll shows – National

Prime Minister Mark Carney appears to have breathed new life into the Liberal party as new Ipsos polling shows the party widening its lead over the Conservatives even further since Carney’s arrival. The poll, published Tuesday by Ipsos Public Affairs exclusively for Global News, found that if a federal election were held tomorrow, the Liberals would secure 42 per cent of decided voter support, compared with 36 per cent for the Conservatives — widening their lead over the Tories by seven points in just three weeks.Polling from Ipsos last month found the Liberals topping the Conservatives for the first time in years, though the number was within the poll’s margin of error.Tuesday’s seven-point Liberal lead is beyond the 3.8 per cent margin of error.Since 2021, Ipsos polling has shown the Con...
Ford government to make gas tax cut permanent despite carbon tax change
Politics

Ford government to make gas tax cut permanent despite carbon tax change

Ontario Premier Doug Ford will push ahead with an election promise to permanently cut the provincial gas tax by 5.7 cents per litre, despite the federal government’s reversal on the controversial carbon tax. On Friday, Prime Minister Mark Carney signed an order-in-council removing the consumer fuel charge as of April 1 — a move that’s expected to reduce the price of gas in the province by roughly 17.6 cents per litre.The end of the consumer carbon price was immediately hailed by Ford, who has railed against the tax since being elected in 2018.“Good riddance to the worst tax ever,” Ford said on social media immediately after the Liberal government announced the change.The application of the federal carbon tax in Ontario, however, was a direct result of the Ford government’s policy in 2018 t...
Mumbai doctors remove cricket ball-sized tumour from 6-year-old boy’s stomach
Health

Mumbai doctors remove cricket ball-sized tumour from 6-year-old boy’s stomach

A team of doctors in Mumbai successfully removed a cricket ball-sized adrenal tumour, known as ganglioneuroma, from the stomach of a six-year-old boy hailing from Raipur. The patient, Kush Agrawal, who was experiencing excruciating stomach pain, travelled over 1,000 kilometres with his parents to get treatment at a Mumbai hospital. According to the medical team, a tumour, which was suspected to be cancerous, was found in the right adrenal gland, which is located on top of the kidneys and is responsible for producing hormones that regulate functions such as metabolism, blood pressure and the body`s response to stress. They performed a ‘Positron Emission Tomography’ (PET) scan, and it revealed that the tumour had not spread to any other areas. Final histopathological diagnosis revealed it...