The Daily Populous

At £7 ($9) a bottle, Buckfast tonic wine isn’t the cheapest alcoholic drink you can buy in Scotland.

(Satisfied customers who’ve bought it on Amazon would beg to differ, saying it tastes like “tears of angels” or the “elixir of life.”

It might well be illegal in the U.S., where the Food and Drug Administration has banned drinks that combine alcohol and caffeine. »

Country’s broadcast watchdog rules that the word is now so commonplace that it is no longer as vulgar as it once was.

It may be still be too blue for English speakers, but authorities in Canada have ruled that the word “fuck” is no longer taboo on French language broadcasts as its use is so commonplace.

In the second, Green Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong could be heard saying it in a concert excerpt. »

If such a sign comes down from the heavens during the next decade, China may well hear it first.

Science fiction is sometimes described as a literature of the future, but historical allegory is one of its dominant modes.

This past summer, I traveled to China to visit its new observatory, but first I met up with Liu in Beijing. »

Carrier Corp., the HVAC manufacturer that had planned to move its operations to Mexico before President Trump staged a much-heralded intervention, is gearing up for a final round of layoffs.

The company originally had planned those layoffs for late December, but delayed the move until January.

Although Carrier employees appeared elated in widely circulated photographs after Trump struck the deal with the company, the mood in Indianapolis has apparently soured as layoffs continue. »