It can be difficult to find the right words to show you really mean it when you apologize. But there are linguistic cues you can use to get your message across. My recent research suggests that the length of the words that we choose influences how sincere the apology seems.
There was a significant post-Brexit reduction in lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in rural and peripheral areas, a new study has revealed.
Matthew Hughes, 32, was previously found guilty of breaking into the rapper's home and threatening to kill him in 2020
The transfer of "Gagarin's Start", the launchpad for the world's first spaceflight, will be finalised by June.
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[SAnews.gov.za] Water and Sanitation Deputy Minister, Sello Seitlholo, has called for decisive and intensified investment in the water sector to secure Southern Africa's future in the face of climate change and growing water demands.
Rilo Kiley aren’t just back to the point where they’re playing shows. They’re back to the point where they’re playing late-night shows. They’ve got product to promote. At the beginning of this year, we learned that Rilo Kiley would return to headlined this year’s Just Like
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Just a few weeks after releasing “Plaything,” a sequel to Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Netflix will remove the award-winning interactive special from the platform. Bandersnatch and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend will both be delisted from the Netflix platform
John Cena vs. Randy Orton isn’t just a rivalry. It is the rivalry of a generation, and it will be rekindled again—perhaps for the final time—at WWE Backlash. Read more...
Quasars represent some of the most luminous and energetic phenomena in the universe. These distant powerhouses are driven by supermassive black holes—colossal gravitational engines with masses millions to billions of times that of our sun—which actively devour surrounding
President Trump on Friday said GOP lawmakers “should probably not” raise taxes on the rich — but said he would be okay if it ultimately happened — as Republicans on Capitol Hill deliberate over the final details of the party’s bill full of Trump’s legislative priorities. The
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"We cannot go into never-ending spirals of debt," German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said during his first official visit to Brussels.
It was a strong performance. Vance came across as intelligent, articulate and polished.
President Trump on Friday signaled the U.S. could lessen the tariff pressure on China — dropping the import tax rate from 145 percent to 80 percent. “80% Tariff on China seems right! Up to Scott B,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social, giving a nod to Treasury Secretary Scott
For the first time, three golden snub-nosed monkeys from China have been introduced to France's Beauval Zoo, marking a milestone in conservation efforts.
A delay in appointing the oversight bodies will mean uncertainty for businesses that have to start complying with the rules.
Only 16% of all Commission meetings were with NGOs, following the EPP's political efforts to prevent NGOs from using EU grant money to influence policymaking.
As the nation's colleges and universities respond to the U.S. Supreme Court's "race-neutral" admissions mandates and the Trump administration's efforts to cut funding to campuses with DEI programs, a UC Riverside education professor has offered a framework for institutions to
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the May 9 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here . Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Repub lic, produced and presented by the DSR network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent. MAGA personalities are very,
[IPS] If one so wished, it would be entirely possible to spend a lifetime travelling from one international environmental conference to the next, without ever returning home. But the relentless pace of these meetings does not always translate into equally rapid action.
On this week’s cultural roundup, we dive into the Met Gala, which this year celebrated the theme of Black dandyism, and spotlight filmmaker Julia Ducournau, a previous Palme d’Or winner, who is set to premiere her new film 'Alpha' at Cannes.
The special tribunal will be able to impose sentences of life imprisonment when justified by the extreme severity of the crime of aggression.
Kanye West has hit out at his latest single 'Heil Hitler' getting removed from all streaming platforms just a day after it was released to much controversy.
On the menu: Trust fall; Mule mail; Greene at the gills; Beshear not bashful; The _____ Nate Moore America’s obsession — or at least the American media’s obsession — with the election process that gave the world Pope Leo XIV has been intense. It’s been great #content. I mean,
Everyone can see that Grandpa Trump has become a menace, but no one is doing anything to limit the damage, much less to take his car keys away. Sooner, rather than later, there’s going to be a terrible accident.
‘Islands,’ Jan-Ole Gerster’s thriller that first bowed in the Berlinale earlier this year to critical acclaim, has secured key distribution deals for Protagonist Pictures and augenschein Sales. The film — Sam Riley (“Control,” “Firebrand”), Stacy Martin (“The Brutalist,”
Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first mass in the Sistine Chapel on Friday morning, just a day after being elected to replace the late Pope Francis as the leader of the Catholic Church. The new pope, born Robert Francis Prevost in Dolton, Ill., spoke in Spanish, Italian and English
The weekend talks in Geneva have been described as a step towards de-escalating tensions with China.
The prime minister’s daughter is the favourite against incumbent Rafizi Ramli, says an analyst. But should she vie for PKR’s deputy presidency at all, another expert asks.
South Korea condemned the launches as 'a clear act of provocation' and linked them to North Korea's suspected weapons exports to Russia.
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In an Euroviews exclusive, the leader of Türkiye's Republican People’s Party (CHP) Özgür Özel shares his call for renewed solidarity, shared values, and democratic partnership.
Chicago-born Robert Prevost, 69, is the first North American to be elected pontiff.
The UK demanded in January that porn sites show how they were beefing up age verification to stop children accessing them.
The U.S. may avoid a recession this year, but the risk of one increases the longer the trade war lasts.
Continuing the cycle of traditions that await a new pope, the newly elected pontiff addressed his cardinals in English and Italian.
Robert Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, appears to have reposted articles critical of Donald Trump and JD Vance on X.
As the first missile trails vanished into the early morning haze over Kashmir’s Line of Control on May 7, a troubling reality broke into the open: South Asia remains hostage to a cycle of violence, denial and miscalculation, one that promises disaster ahead if not quickly
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