The first thing Pepper told me was that he was running out of battery. “He’s got about 15 minutes before he dies,” Emanuel Nunez Sardinha, a Ph.D. candidate in robotics at Bristol Robotics Laboratory, told me. That turned out to be plenty. Sardinha greeted Pepper; then I did. I asked Pepper how he was doing, to which he replied, “How are you doing?” Then Sardinha resumed telling me about the sorts of things Pepper, a friendly, wide-eyed robot designed to
The French serial killer dubbed ‘The Serpent’, who is linked to the murder of at least 20 backpackers across Asia in the 1970s and 80s, was photographed in London last week, just days before a new documentary about his life and crimes airs on Channel 4 tonight.
Charles Sobhraj, now 79, was released after serving 20 years in prison in Nepal in December 2022 for the murder of two backpackers in Kathmandu.
The criminal, who still denies he took the
What happened to the 21st-century city?
When I was younger, growing up in the rural but rapidly developing small town of my youth, I believed that cities were the place where one could find freedom. The greatest disappointment of my young adulthood has been the discovery that this is not true. Not only is it not true, but
Janice Dickinson has furiously denied Billy Baldwin’s claim that Sharon Stone vowed to make him ‘fall so hard’ for her while filming Sliver after he dragged her into their sensational spat.
Billy, 61, unleashed a tirade against Sharon, 66, after she claimed producer Robert Evans urged her to sleep with him to improve their onscreen chemistry in the 1993 movie – with the actor later accusing her of being ‘hurt he shunned her advances.’
In his fight back, Billy also
In the 10 years since Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 suddenly vanished, what exactly happened to the plane has become one of the biggest mysteries of our time.
The ill-fated aircraft vanished on March 8, 2014 after it took off from from Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia on its way to Beijing.
All 239 people aboard are thought to have died shortly after the plane mysteriously veered westwards off course over the Andaman Sea in the Indian Ocean.
Although many
Investigators pulled this account together slowly in the course of years, cross-checking hundreds of interviews with survivors, eyewitnesses, and participants in the events. But the answer to a key question sought by the students’ parents—what happened to their children after they were last seen that night long ago?—remains elusive: of those seven or eight missing hours, only fragments can be pieced together and the story behind them guessed at. Various documents, including text messages and testimony in the court filing,
A pregnant lawyer who plunged to her death after being thrown of a cliff at a picturesque tourist site by her abusive husband will be the subject of a chilling new documentary.
Fawziyah Javed, from Leeds, was thrown 50ft off Arthur’s Seat in September 2021, following a horrific campaign of abuse by her partner, Kashif Anwar.
The 31-year-old employment lawyer was 17-weeks pregnant with her first child when she fell to her death at the hands of ‘jealous, evil and
Marty Baron’s boardroom-first vision of how journalism should be organized.
In a new book, the former editor tirelessly hymns how he and the newspaper protected their journalists and shored up the foundations of our crumbling republic. But was that the case?
Martin Baron announcing that he is leaving The Boston Globe to become the executive editor of The Washington Post.
(Photo by Yoon S. Byun / Getty)
Early on
Last week, as American sports fans’ eyes moved from football to baseball, a great cry—or at least a significant grumble—was heard from MLB players arriving at spring training: The new uniforms are bad.
The MLB announced the uniforms, which have been redesigned by Nike for all of the league’s 30 teams, in a press release last Tuesday. It included praise from some of the biggest baseball names on Nike’s endorsement roster. As images of the uniforms began to circulate, however,
Do political parties make coalitions, or do coalitions make political parties? In American electoral commentary, the commonsense view is that parties stand for certain principles or policies—on gun control, say, or taxes, or abortion—and then ordinary voters line up with the party that is closest to their own beliefs. But for Karl Marx and his acolytes, this view of parties was nonsense. Political parties were defined not by their stated platforms but by the character of their social base. This … Read more
