Many had been worried BP would have to cut or axe the payout after oil prices began tanking in late January. But the energy giant has raised the amount it will give to shareholders.

The 'Nordic Nightmare' is on a high after his devastating stoppage of previously undefeated Adam Kownacki earlier this month, and is now just one win away from a potential fight with AJ.

Tory MPs had threatened to rebel against the government if George Osborne had gone ahead with his New Year tax hike on petrol and diesel.

The Chancellor reaffirmed the Conservative manifesto commitments to lift the personal allowance to £12,500 and the 40p tax threshold to £50,000 by accelerating progress to meeting the goals.

'I'm very, very excited to have Monica Lewinsky's version of what happened be put out there in the world, and I think that she's earned the right to be able to tell her story,' Murphy told Collider.

The Russian pranksters who tricked Prince Harry into believing he was talking to Greta Thunberg have today warned they will release more audio.

The British champion will take on the Bulgarian at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium before a potential future date with Tyson Fury.

Reddit user racingbarakarts shared photos of herself in the hospital, her official diagnosis, and her text message exchange with her mom on Wednesday.

A website that is very different to the one described at Trump's Friday press conference at the White House is being built by Verily, a healthcare tech company also owned by Alphabet.

The decision to disable tech supporting contact tracing apps designed to monitor the spread of COVID-19 be made on a geographic basis according to representatives.

Three nuclear cabins in Cardigan, West Wales, that were said to offer 'full protection' from viruses including COVID-19, were removed from eBay after being listed on the website for £15,000 each.

Households in rural areas of the UK have been promised better internet speeds as the Government pledged £5billion towards providing faster broadband.

Maharashtra, which was the host state, alone received investment proposals of Rs 7.94 lakh cr and 3,294 MoUs

AIADMK chief becomes Tamil Nadu CM for the sixth time

A two-week course of an antiviral therapy, started within seven days of experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, may improve clinical recovery of patients and reduce their hospital stay duration, according to the first randomised trial of this triple drug combination. The study, published in the journal The Lancet, involved 127 adults from six public hospitals in Hong Kong, and tested the effectiveness of an antiviral drug combination in reducing the load of the novel coronavirus in their bodies. According to the researchers, including those from the University of Hong Kong, treatment involving combination of the drugs interferon beta-1b, plus the antiviral therapy lopinavir-ritonavir and ribavirin, is better at reducing the viral load than lopinavir-ritonavir alone. They stressed on the need for larger phase 3 trials to examine the effectiveness of this triple combination in critically ill patients, adding that these early findings were only observed in patients with mild to moderate ...

The hype that surrounded the introduction of Bt Cotton has now predictably proven false, says Devinder Sharma.

A voter discusses the chances in the Sawaimadhopur Lok Sabha seat in Rajasthan where Colonel Kirori Singh Bainsla, who led the Gujjar agitation last year, is the BJP candidate.

Without an iota of public debate and due process, Gujarat had increased allocation of Narmada waters for industry five fold last year, eating into the share of drought affected villages. The Comptroller and Auditor General reported this in 2007, finding it untenable. Himanshu Upadhyaya has more.

S Venkatraman presents an interesting set of charts to capture the movement of the consumer price index and finds that the answer to this question may not be an easy one to arrive at.

Much is made out of the proportion of youth in India’s population and what it could mean for its economy and progress. However, statistics and trends in education and employment within this group do not paint a promising picture, points out Kannan Kasturi.

The World Bank's Inspection Panel finds that a Bank-backed coal mine disrupted livelihoods by violating guidelines on resettlement, supervision, and the environment.

The most intractable conflicts in South Asia have remained unresolved because of the inflexibility and dogmatism of the contending parties. It is time for them to move beyond self-justification towards acknowledging and embracing the beauty of compromise, writes Ramachandra Guha.

Without the opportunity to empower themselves, hope for the nation's handicapped will remain just a four-letter word, says Ashwin Mahesh.

The terrible mid-day meal tragedy claiming innocent lives in Bihar recently is just one in a long line of instances that reveal the abysmal quality of services and chronic breach of trust by the government. Sakuntala Narasimhan voices the angst of the people.

As environmental clearance on the proposed Tadri port in Karnataka is awaited, Dina Rasquinha and Aarthi Sridhar discuss how assumed future benefits of the port have been projected in complete disregard of the natural, environmental gifts that the region enjoys.

In a very roundabout, over-simplistic way, the film is actually progressive. Thank you for small mercies. Plenty laughs are guaranteed.

Sarma also said that all the attendees of the Tablighi Jamaat event have volunteered to stay in isolation camps in Assam, adding the government took a humanitarian approach while dealing with the crisis.

England test captain Joe Root is keen to play international cricket this summer but not by compromising on quality of the game or its intensity, the 29-year-old has said.

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While average rainfall figure for Uttarakhand between June and Sept stood at 1,199 mm, Doon valley received 2,240 mm

Emu farmers struggle as they get focus wrong, while oil is yet to find a market

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The sea spider isn’t actually a spider, but it’s genitals are on its legs. Which is nice.

Researchers have developed a robotic bat that promises to transform the way search and rescue operations work.

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In this week’s episode of On the Evidence, Genna Cohen and Llew Brown, who research and work with electronic health records (EHRs) at Mathematica, discuss challenges in adopting EHRs as well as what to do about them.

A two-week course of an antiviral therapy, started within 7 days of experiencing Covid-19 symptoms, may improve clinical recovery of patients and reduce their hospital stay duration, according to the first randomised trial of this triple drug combination. The treatment combination, according to the scientists, also appeared safe and well tolerated by patients.

In this post I will talk about Events and Promise limits, trying to fill all gaps with a 498 bytes sized library called notify-js.

Update
The awesome Lie function got improved and became an official module (yet 30 lines of code thought). Its name is Dodgy, and it's tested and even more awesome!

Not today though, today is just fine

1. if we are in charge of creating the Promise, we are the only one that could possibly make it abortable and only if we want to, it's an opt in rather than a default or a "boring to write" subclass
2. it's widely agreed that cancellation should be rather synonymous of a rejection, there's no forever pending issue there, just a plain simple rejection
3. one of the Promise strength is its private scope callback, which is inevitably the only place where defining abortability would make sense. Take a request, a timer, an event handler defined inside that callback, where else would you provide the ability to explicitly abort and cleanup the behavior if not there?
4. being the callback the best pace to resolve, reject, and optionally to abort, that's also the very same place we want to be sure that if there was a reason to abort we can pass it along the rejection, so that we could simply ignore it in our optionally abort aware Promises, and yet drop out from any other in the chain whenever the rejection occurs or it's simply ignored
5. the moment we make the promise malleable from the outer world through a p.abort() ability, is also the very same moment we could just decide to resolve, or fully fail the promise via p.resolve(value) or p.reject(error)

var p = new Lie(function (resolve, reject, onAbort) {
  var timeout = setTimeout(resolve, 1000, 'OK');
  // invoking onAbort will explicit our intent to opt-in
  onAbort(function () {
    clearTimeout(timeout);
    return 'aborted'; // will be used as rejected error
                      // it could even be undefined
                      // so it's easier to distinguish
                      // between real errors and aborts
  });
});

p.then(
  console.log.bind(console),
  console.warn.bind(console)
).catch(
  console.error.bind(console)
);

var toTheOuterWorld = p.then(
  function (data) {return data},
  function (error) {return error}
);
// or even ...
var toTheOuterWorld = Promise.resolve(p);

// abortable promise
var cancelable = new Lie(function (r, e, a) {
  var t = setTimeout(r, 5000, 'all good');
  a(function () { clearTimeout(t); });
});

// testing purpose, will it resolve or not?
setTimeout(cancelable.reject, 1000, 'nope');
// and what if we abort before?
setTimeout(cancelable.abort, 750);



// generic promise, let's log what happens
var derived = cancelable.then(
  function (result) { console.log('resolved', result); },
  function (error)  { error ?
    console.warn('rejected', error) :
    console.log('ignoring the .abort() call');
  }
).catch(
  function (error)  { console.error('cought', error); }
);

// being just a Promise, no method will be exposed
console.log(
  derived.resolve,
  derived.reject,
  derived.abort
);

Lie.more = function more(lie) {
  function wrap(previous) {
    return function () {
      var l = previous.apply(lie, arguments);
      l.resolve = lie.resolve;  // optional bonus
      l.reject = lie.reject;    // optional bonus
      l.abort = lie.abort;
      return Lie.more(l);
    };
  }
  if (lie.abort) {
    lie.then = wrap(lie.then);
    lie.catch = wrap(lie.catch);
  }
  return lie;
};

var chainedLie = new Lie(function (res, rej, onAbort) {
  var t = setTimeout(res, 1000, 'OK');
  onAbort(function (why) {
    clearTimeout(t);
    return why;
  });
})
.then(
  console.log.bind(console),
  console.warn.bind(console)
)
.catch(
  console.error.bind(console)
);

// check this out
chainedLie.abort('because');

var justPromise = Promise.resolve(chainedLie);

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