On Aug. 16, 1963, NASA’s M2-F1 aircraft prototype made its first glide flight. This wingless aircraft kind of looked like a flying bathtub. NASA made it to test a new concept called the lifting body, which was an unpowered glider that provided an alternative way to return piloted spacecraft to…
Ariana Grande Debuts New Tattoo in Reference to Ricky Álvarez
Grande and Ricky Álvarez’s love story began in 2015 after he joined the popstar on her Honeymoon Tour as a background dancer. “We’re happy,” Grande told Billboard of her romance with Álvarez in a May 2016 interview. “I’m a very happy girl. I have a healthy life right now, and I think that’s all anyone…
Indiana flooding victim identified as teen football star who jumped into surging river… as ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ disaster leaves six dead, including 4-year-old boy, with hundreds more rescued
By EMMA RICHTER, US SENIOR NEWS REPORTER Published: 14:58 BST, 16 August 2026 | Updated: 15:03 BST, 16 August 2026 A teen football star has been identified as one of the victims who died in the disastrous floods in Indiana. Matthew Morey’s body was recovered on Saturday from the Mississinewa River…
The stablecoin yield clash that won’t go away has banks, crypto battling over tradition
The battle is likely to be finished one way or another next month, when the Clarity Act gets its final three weeks of Senate action before the midterm elections, and the stakes will test the old-guard strength of bank lobbyists against the high-spending political powers of crypto advocates. The banks…
Danielle Fishel Recalls Leaving ‘Unhealthy Relationship’ at 19
Boy Meets World alum Danielle Fishel looked back on leaving an “unhealthy relationship” when she was 19. “This was a rough year for Danielle, personally,” Fishel, 45, recalled on the Thursday, August 13, episode of the “Pod Meets World” podcast. “I was in a very bad, unhealthy relationship that also…
Marc Turtletaub’s Road Movie Is Literary And Playful
Sometimes it feels like the growing subset of films set in the stuffy British academic world of the early ’70s deserve a genre all to themselves. It’s a very interesting visual paradox; young people going out into the world to discover and further themselves in an environment that’s been stained…
Is the goldrush over for FTSE 100 miners as leading stocks fall 3%-5%?
As trading opened on Friday, 14 August 2026, the FTSE 100 was down almost 150 points for the week. Much of the losses were driven by major miners Antofagasta (LSE: ANTO), Glencore, and Anglo American — all of which dropped around 3%-5% the previous day. Slightly less impacted was Endeavour…
Mario Lopez Says Watching Look-Alike Son Dominic, 12, Follow in His Acting Footsteps Is ‘Pretty Special’ (Exclusive)
“I’m very proud of him,” the ‘Saved by the Bell’ alum told PEOPLE Mario Lopez and son Dominic Lopez at Variety’s Power of Young Hollywood event in Los Angeles on Aug. 5, 2026Credit: Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty; Emma McIntyre/WireImage NEED TO KNOW Mario Lopez praised his son, Dominic Lopez, following…
Is the Burnham bounce already fading? PM’s popularity dips amid prisoner early release row
By JAMES TAPSFIELD, UK POLITICAL EDITOR Published: 11:59 BST, 16 August 2026 | Updated: 14:36 BST, 16 August 2026 There was a hint that the edge could be coming off the ‘Andy Burnham bounce’ today. Less than a month after the PM entered No10, a poll suggested his favourability rating…
Adventures & Appendectomies?
I should have been on a flight to the Yukon on Wednesday. I was meant, by now, to be sitting on a river with bears. I was, instead, lying on an operating table getting an emergency appendectomy. Don’t let anyone tell you the life of a photographer isn’t full of…