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UPDATE: Kiyah-Starr Shelton nets 4 goals in big win over Grenada @CFU Challenge Series
MALABAR, Arima, T&T— Left-footed striker Kiyah-Starr Shelton was the star of the show when the Virgin Islands registered a 6-0 victory over Grenada on Match Day 3 of the 2025 Caribbean Football Union (CFU) U14 Girls Challenge Series at Larry Gomes...
VI beat Grenada 6-0 in CFU U14 Girls Challenge Series in T&T
MALABAR, Arima, T&T- After being edged by French Guiana in their opening game on Friday, August 15, 2025, the Virgin Islands bounced back in emphatic fashion in the Caribbean Football Union (CF) U-14 Girls Challenge Series in Trinidad and Tobago,...
At The Movies: “Jurassic” “Jaws”
Big Dinosaurs. Big Pharma. These disparate topics might not seem to have links across the epochs. They do in “Jurassic World: Rebirth.” Big Dinosaurs, a type of reptile that first appeared during the Triassic period 243 million to 233 million...

Story Applications Watch: MetOp-SG-A1 and Sentinel-5 media briefing 23/07/2025 1328 views 38 likes Read
Applications 23/07/2025 1328 views 38 likes With launch slated for August, the first MetOp Second Generation satellite, MetOp-SG-A1, which also carries the Copernicus Sentinel-5 mission, is currently undergoing final preparations for liftoff...

Satellite project could save lives, give extreme weather warnings
LONDON: A series of satellites are set to be launched into space over the next 15 years to help “save lives” and give early warning of increasingly extreme weather, British experts have said. The Metop Second Generation project aims to make...

Nine years since TTFA started its elite/high performance model, is T&T’s youth football better or worse off?
On 25 July, Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president Kieron Edwards suggested that “progress” was being made with regards to the country’s eligibility law, which would widen the pool of players available for the national football...

Europe says it leads the world in Earth Observation. But what is it?
Published on 13/08/2025 - 16:10 GMT+2 •Updated 16:11 The heavy-lift launcher, developed over a decade by the European Space Agency (ESA) and ArianeGroup, was launched from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana this Tuesday. After just over...

Story Applications First MetOp-SG and Sentinel-5 launched 13/08/2025 5961 views 44 likes Read
Applications 13/08/2025 5958 views 44 likes Ushering in a new era of weather and climate monitoring from polar orbit, the first in a new series of satellites, MetOp Second Generation, has been lofted into orbit aboard an Ariane 6 rocket from the...
What was in the sky? Witnesses, experts speculate on strange sightings captured on camera
Missourians who had their eyes to the skies Tuesday night in hopes of catching the Perseid meteor shower, were surprised to see something much bigger than a shooting star. Witnesses all across the Show-Me State, and in Kansas and Illinois, took to...

‘Learn a little bit every day': Orb over Connecticut catches attention of many
Did you see the mysterious object in the skies over Connecticut on Tuesday night? It was captured on video and shared widely on social media. Well, it turned out to be a rocket launching out of South America headed north. The NBC Connecticut...

Lights seen over Eastern U.S. were likely from European rocket launch
Along the East Coast of the U.S. on Tuesday night, onlookers snapped pictures and took video of strange lights in the sky — what could it be? Photos shared across social media showed a sort of wobbling white shape that looked like a boomerang or...

Ashley Thomas AKA Bashy reveals biggest hope for Netflix drama Hostage and how acting came before rapping
This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine. In Netflix's new thriller Hostage, Ashley Thomas plays Dr Alex Anderson, the husband of Prime Minister Abigail Dalton and a medic with Médecins sans Frontières who is taken hostage while working...

Mystery object that appeared in sky over Connecticut identified
(WFSB) - Viewers spotted a mystery object that appeared in the sky over Connecticut on Tuesday night. Channel 3 viewers sent in photos of it through social media. Viewers reported that the photos were taken in places like Watertown, Bristol, and...

What was mystery light seen in Lehigh Valley sky last night?
Several residents in the Lehigh Valley and throughout Pennsylvania reported seeing a “spinning light” object in the sky Tuesday night. Many people posted images of the object on social media, leading to speculation about the cause of the anomaly....
What was white spiral spotted in Tuesday night sky over PA, Del?
As star gazers were looking for Perseid meteor shower's zooming fireballs or Vulcan rocket launch on Tuesday night, multiple sightings of a mysterious white spiral had viewers stumped and questioning the unidentified object. Many people took to...

Hostage to Long Story Short: the seven best shows to stream this week
Pick of the week Hostage Abigail Dalton has assured her husband, Alex, that becoming prime minister won’t stop her from making the right decisions for her family. This is then tested painfully. Dalton (Suranne Jones) is already facing a tough...
Perseid meteor, Vulcan rocket launch or UFO; white spiral in night sky over PA, Delaware
As star gazers were looking for Perseid meteor shower's zooming fireballs or Vulcan rocket launch on Tuesday night, multiple sightings of a mysterious white spiral had viewers stumped and questioning the unidentified object. Many people took to...

UFO seen in Canada? Bright luminous object spins across night sky
A mysterious light streaked across the night sky over southern Quebec on Tuesday(August 12), leaving stargazers and casual skywatchers alike scratching their heads. Observers described a luminous spiral of light, seemingly floating and spinning in...

Metop-SG satellites to boost extreme weather nowcasting and climate monitoring
KOUROU, French Guiana - At 02:37 CEST on 13 August 2025, the Metop-SGA1 satellite of the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) will lift off from Kourou, French Guiana, on an Ariane 6 rocket. The...

U.S. issues travel warning for 5 countries: ‘Practice enhanced precautions’
The United States has issued a travel warning for Americans traveling to five countries. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in an update to its global travel alert that polio is circulating in Finland, Germany, Spain, the...