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Kyle Larson was already excited about what the weekend at Darlington Raceway would mean, and he added a moment to remember with his first career win at the track.Larson rallied from 30th, bumping John Hunter Nemechek on the final turn as the two raced to the finish line to win the Xfinity Series race Saturday.Larson, the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series champion, was named one of stock car racing’s 75 greatest drivers who were honored during a celebration at Darlington’s annual throwback weekend.Now, he’s got a checkered flag after numerous close calls at Darlington, where he’s finished second three times and…

For more than 50 years, designers of computer chips mainly used one tactic to boost performance: They shrank electronic components to pack more power onto each piece of silicon.Then more than a decade ago, engineers at the chip maker Advanced Micro Devices began toying with a radical idea. Instead of designing one big microprocessor with vast numbers of tiny transistors, they conceived of creating one from smaller chips that would be packaged tightly together to work like one electronic brain.The concept, sometimes called chiplets, caught on in a big way, with AMD, Apple, Amazon, Tesla, IBM and Intel introducing such…

Bunk beds in Air New Zealand planeSource: Air New ZealandAir New Zealand’s previously announced in-flight sleeping pods will likely cost between 400 and 600 New Zealand dollars ($250-$380) for a four-hour period, or up to approximately $100 an hour, according to a new press release from the airline.Travelers flying from Auckland to Chicago and New York will be able to sleep in the sky from September 2024, the carrier said, having first unveiled the plans for the new sleeping quarters in 2022.The Skynest sleeping pods will come in six-bed configurations and customers will be in fairly close quarters, with a…

As the sun rose on Friday morning, Antonio, 51, was gathering his things and saying his goodbyes at a large migrant shelter on the outskirts of Tijuana, Mexico.Since 2020, Title 42, a public health measure implemented during the pandemic, has allowed border authorities to swiftly expel migrants who crossed into the United States illegally. A surge of arriving migrants and a limited number of asylum appointments have led to large numbers of people waiting in border communities like Tijuana.On Friday, Antonio’s family was part of the first group of asylum seekers processed after the expiration of Title 42 on May…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size An out-of-control wildfire in northeastern B.C. is threatening a remote area primarily used by the oil and gas industry, prompting an evacuation order. The Peace River Regional District issued the order at 5 p.m. Saturday evening.“The Peace River Regional District has issued an evacuation order for the Donnie Creek and Tommy Lakes areas due immediate danger to life safety,” the district said in a statement.The fire covers 500 hectares, and is burning about 200 km north of Fort St. John.Loggers and oil and gas crews were told to leave immediately and head…

As song contest was under way, Russian missiles hit Ukrainian city of Ternopil, the home of Ukraine’s entrants Tvorchi.Swedish singer Loreen has won the Eurovision Song Contest with her power ballad “Tattoo” at a colourful, eclectic music competition clouded for a second year running by the war in Ukraine. The diva from Stockholm beat acts from 25 other countries on Saturday night to take the continent’s pop crown at the competition in the United Kingdom’s Liverpool. Finnish singer Käärijä was second in a close-fought battle of the Nordic neighbours. Loreen scored 583 points after the public and jury votes were…

Police are investigating their officers’ actions after a man died in hospital following a fall at a North Sydney unit.

BANGKOK: A general election kicked off on Sunday (May 14) in Thailand, where a new set of parliamentarians in the House of Representatives will be elected to form the next government. About 52 million people are eligible to cast their votes nationwide before the polls close at 5pm. More than 2 million people had already turned up for early voting on May 7.  A total of 500 members of the House of Representatives will be elected on Sunday.  Four hundred of them will be chosen in constituency elections. The other 100 will be elected from the national party lists –…

This young soldier was sent to fight in the Vietnam war or rather the Second IndoChina War (September 26, 1959 – April 30, 1975). After refusing his orders, he was placed in a stockade when he gave an interview to the press. Among his reasons for refusing his orders he said that he thought that the war in Vietnam was an American war of aggression. He thought that it was a racist and genocidal war. He doubted very much if America could bring equality and democracy to the yellow people of Vietnam, when it never brought equality and democracy to…

Antonio and his family, who had been living in a Tijuana shelter for months while waiting for an appointment to seek asylum in the United States, are some of the first to be processed after the lifting of a pandemic-era policy.