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Trump’s last days fuel lucrative market for presidential pardons
- US
- January 18, 2021, 10:39
As US president Donald Trump prepares to leave office in days, a lucrative market for pardons is coming to a head, with some of his allies collecting (...)

Crisis news ratings, robots that care and ‘Donald who?’
- Economy
- January 16, 2021, 05:10
Image of the week: Virtual Vegas The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is usually a festival of robots, curved television screens and robots with curve(...)

Audi and BMW present contrasting electric faces
- Motors
- January 14, 2021, 20:25
As with everything since last March, we can’t actually go to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this year, but major car makers are none(...)

How to saw a person in half: 100 years of a sensational illusion
- TV, Radio, Web
- January 12, 2021, 06:00
A hundred years ago next weekend a magician named Percy Thomas Tibbles literally and laboriously sawed through a sealed wooden box that contained(...)

Why we celebrate Christmas on the 25th, eat mince pies and put up trees
- Consumer
- December 14, 2020, 00:00
So here it is, merry Christmas everybody’s having fu . . . um, a socially distanced and responsible time in small and sober groups from not more than (...)

Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani living in ‘fantasy world’, court told
- US
- November 18, 2020, 11:12
US president Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani has described at length to a federal judge in Pennsylvania a vast Democratic conspiracy to steal the (...)

Case by case: Trump’s legal challenges to US election outcome
- US
- November 17, 2020, 16:11
Donald Trump’s baseless claims that his loss to Joe Biden was due to election fraud are set for their toughest test this week with hearings set in his(...)

Hyperloop adventures, McExperiments and the vaccine ‘dream team’
- Economy
- November 14, 2020, 05:00
Image of the week: Hyperloop express Taking a provisional silver medal for breakthrough of the week, Virgin Hyperloop spent its Sunday sending its fi(...)

Joe Biden may be more left-wing as president than expected
- Opinion
- November 9, 2020, 05:03
As Joe Biden took to the stage in Wilmington, Delaware, on Saturday night promising a new beginning for America, it was easy to forget that his victor(...)

Twenty-two ways supermarkets trick you into spending more money
- Consumer
- November 2, 2020, 05:00
Supermarkets are happy to spend a lot of money working out the best ways to get us to spend ours and they have been doing it in this country almost si(...)