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A 13-year-old boy from De Meern in Utrecht took his father’s car on Saturday night to go for a drive but got scared when the police tried to arrest him. The boy decided in the middle of the night to go for a drive with his cousin in his father’s car. They took the key […]
Packers running back Aaron Jones won’t hit free agency after all. Jones revealed on Twitter that he is staying with the Packers. Agent Drew Rosenhaus told PFT that Jones will sign a four-year contract worth $48 million, with a $13 million signing bonus. When the Packers decided not to use the franchise tag on Jones, […]
Schizophrenia and personality disorders are the most disabling mental health conditions to live with, according to scientists from The University of Queensland. A Danish-Australian research team studied a cohort of 6.9 million Danish residents in the Danish Psychiatric Central Research Register to understand the burden of disability associated with 18 mental and substance use disorders. […]
China’s factory and retail sector activity surged in the first two months of the year, beating expectations, as the economy consolidated its brisk recovery from the coronavirus paralysis of early 2020. While the impressive set of numbers released on Monday were heavily skewed by the very low base from last year’s massive slump, analysts said […]
Microsoft has added a new “suspend my game” feature to the Xbox download queue screen. Selecting it will “help improve download speeds”. The option is appearing now on Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One consoles for those signed up to Xbox’s Insider program, which unlocks new dashboard features early. “Suspend in the queue will let […]
Amnesty International called on FIFA and Dutch football association KNVB to take “urgent and concrete action” to improve the situation of migrant workers building World Cup infrastructure in Qatar. “Now is the time for the football world to speak up,” Dagmar Oudshoorn, director of Amnesty Nederland, said to RTL Nieuws. The qualifiers for the 2022 […]