Technology keeps marching on and with new advances – such as the Google/Fiat partnership to bring the driverless car to the mass market – Canadian officials are worried driverless cars will lead to a greater increase in sex while in those cars, according to experts at the Canadian Automated Vehicles Centre of Excellence (CAVCE) and reported by Raw Story....
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A celestial event – so rare it happens just 13 times in a century – is going to have all eyes looking skyward beginning Monday, May 9, ABCNews reported Wednesday. Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, will begin to transit the sun beginning at 7.12 a.m. ET, the report said ... The astronomical event, where the planet will transit across the face of the sun, will take 71/2 hours ... ET, according to NASA....
The Pakistani authorities have opposed military action against the Afghan Taliban leaders days after President Ghani called on Islamabad to take actions against the group’s leaderships based in Peshawar and Quetta cities. The country’s foreign affairs adviser Sartaj Aziz has said such a policy had not brought results for 14 long years ... ....
Ray Galton and AlanSimpson, often credited as creators of situation comedy, also devised Hancock’s Half Hour... Ray Galton and AlanSimpson, the writers of Hancock’s Half Hour and creators of Steptoe and Son, will be honoured with a Bafta fellowship at its annual TV awards ... AlanSimpson and Ray Galton will be receiving the Bafta fellowship this year....
This year's BAFTA Fellowship for television will go to Steptoe and Son creators Ray Galton and Alan Simpson... (Ray Galton and AlanSimpson) Galton and Simpson also frequently wrote for comedian Frankie Howerd. "We are extremely delighted to receive the BAFTA Fellowship," Simpson said ... ....
A convicted child molester released from a California state mental hospital is facing a federal charge of possessing child pornography in Pennsylvania, authorities said. AlanThomas Rigby, 68, was convicted in Orange County in 1989 of molesting 17... ....
FuriousHibernian boss Alan Stubbs threatened to turn the air blue after claiming assistant ref GrahamChambers tried to ‘laugh off’ a penalty controversy in a gutting play-off loss to Raith ... ....