Viggo Mortensen became a household name after he was cast as the rugged hero Aragorn in Peter Jackson’s Lord Of The Rings films. Since then he has racked up three Oscar nominations and become a well-respected leading man, most recently in the limelight for playing the main character in 2018’s best picture winner Green Book.
Month: December 2020
9:25 AM ET The Angry Beaver has endured a lot. Perhaps that’s why it’s so angry. Billed as Seattle’s only hockey bar, the Angry Beaver has been operating in the Greenwood neighborhood since 2012. On busy nights, it looks like a hockey quilt: different fans in different jerseys, clustered together, watching their NHL teams, never
Hand sanitiser is one of the most common ways people are protecting themselves from COVID-19 when out and about, but some contain less alcohol than they claim – and too little to kill the disease. The worst of the 18 sanitisers tested by consumer group Which? had an alcohol content of 10%, rather than the
A cyber espionage campaign targeted at companies vital to the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines has been detected. According to an alert issued by the US government and a research blog published by IBM, the hacking campaign started in September. It targeted a range of organisations, including in government and across the energy and IT sectors,
A long-awaited trade deal between the UK and the EU has been struck just days before the deadline. The treaty will apply from 1 January 2021 and take over from the existing arrangements under the transition period, which has seen the UK continue to follow most EU rules since Brexit day to limit disruption to
Britain was the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine because it has “much better” regulators than France, Belgium and the US, a senior minister has claimed. Education Secretary Gavin Williamson boasted that “we’re a much better country than every single one of them” – after some international disquiet surfaced following the breakthrough jab news.
Last month we reported on rumors that BMW had greenlit development of a high-performance “GP” version of the electric Mini. Today BMW announced that the car is indeed being worked on, but it will be designated as a “John Cooper Works” model, a name reserved for the brand’s highest-performance, track-ready vehicles. We didn’t get any
A Porsche 911 Speedster is presented at the Paris Motor Show on October 4, 2018 in Paris. Christophe Archambault | AFP | Getty Images German automaker Porsche is investing about $24 million in the development of “e-fuels,” which officials say is a climate-neutral fuel to replace gasoline in non-electric vehicles. Production of such a fuel
Three of the UK’s ‘big four’ supermarket chains have now confirmed plans to return a total of almost £1.3bn in coronavirus aid to the public purse. Sainsbury’s revealed on Thursday morning it was to discuss with officials how it could hand back an expected £440m – following in the footsteps of rivals Tesco and Morrisons
Ivanka Trump has been questioned this week under oath as part of the Washington DC attorney general’s investigation into an alleged misuse of non-profit funds for her father Donald Trump’s inauguration four years ago. District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine’s office disclosed in a court filing that the president’s eldest daughter and a senior
Singapore has given US start-up Eat Just the greenlight to sell its lab-grown chicken meat, in what the firm says is the world’s first regulatory approval for so-called clean meat that does not come from slaughtered animals. The meat, to be sold as nuggets, will be priced at premium chicken prices when it first launches
Google employees at the tech giant’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, walk off the job to protest the company’s handling of sexual misconduct claims. Mason Trinca | Getty Images News | Getty Images The U.S. National Labor Relations Board has filed a complaint against Google and its parent company Alphabet, accusing the tech juggernaut of
A Chinese space probe sent to gather material from a previously unexplored part of the moon has completed its mission and is preparing to send back the world’s first lunar samples in four decades, Beijing said Thursday. China has poured billions into its military-run space programme, with hopes of having a crewed space station by
December 2nd, 2020 by Johnna Crider Fortune Magazine has named Elon Musk as its Businessperson of the Year for 2020. Fortune pointed out that Elon Musk has “seemingly defied gravity this year” with his success at Tesla, which is now one of the world’s most valuable companies. SpaceX wasn’t left out either. The article noted
1:56 PM ET The New York Yankees plan to tender a contract to catcher Gary Sanchez on Wednesday, sources told ESPN’s Buster Olney. Wednesday is the deadline for teams to tender contracts to arbitration-eligible players for the 2021 season. Sanchez was replaced by Kyle Higashioka as the Yankees’ primary catcher in the playoffs after hitting
The US has recorded its biggest daily death toll of the pandemic so far, on the same day it also reached a record number of COVID-19 patients in hospital. More than 2,670 coronavirus deaths were reported on Wednesday – the equivalent of nearly two deaths a minute – according to Johns Hopkins University. The widely-respected