Rafael Nadal PULLS OUT of this year’s US Open amid concerns over coronavirus  

Rafael Nadal WILL NOT defend his US Open title this year as he says he would ‘rather not travel’ amid Covid-19 pandemic and calls the revised tennis calendar ‘barbaric’… but Novak Djokovic is set to play at Grand Slam Rafael Nadal has pulled out of the US Open due to concerns over coronavirus   The Spaniard … Read more

Bomb squad rush to city centre after magnet fisherman pulls suspected explosive device out of river

Bomb squad rush to city centre as area is evacuated after magnet fisherman pulls suspected explosive device out of river Rusty object believed to be an explosive device pulled from River Aire in Leeds  Large cordon was placed around the area and nearby businesses evacuated  West Yorkshire Police later confirmed ‘shell-like’ object is an old … Read more

Rod Stewart, 75, and his wife Penny Lancaster, 49, get FLASHED by man who pulls his trousers down

They are no strangers to a raucous night out on the town.  And Rod Stewart and Penny Lancaster got quite the surprise when a man pulled his trousers down while they were leaving Annabel’s in London on Saturday.  The rock star, 75 and his other half, 49, appeared to see the funny side of the cheeky … Read more

Thanks babe! Horse pulls a hilarious face after tot gives it a kiss and then throws up

Thanks babe! Horse pulls a hilarious face after tot gives it a kiss and then throws up Baby Leonardo threw up on a horse in in Thornbury, Bristol, on Wednesday He was filmed with the horse by his mother Chloe Manning, 25, who laughs The horse pulled a face meaning ‘he likes the smell or the … Read more

MIT pulls ‘racist and misogynistic’ dataset offline

MIT has had to take offline a giant dataset that taught AI systems to assign ‘racist and misogynistic labels’ to people in images. The database, known as ’80 Million Tiny Images’, is a massive collection of photos with descriptive labels, used to teach machine learning models to identify images.   But the system, developed at the … Read more

HBO Max temporarily pulls Gone With The Wind after accusations it ‘glorifies the antebellum south’ 

Gone With The Wind has been temporarily removed by HBO Max from its streaming platform after it was criticized for romanticizing slavery, amid a nationwide re-evaluation of cultural values. The 1939 Civil War epic, starring Clark Gable as Rhett Butler and Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara, is based on a novel written three years previously … Read more

Google pulls ‘Remove China Apps’ from the Play Store

An app designed to remove Chinese apps from smartphones and tablets has been pulled from the Google Play Store.  The app, called ‘Remove China Apps’, garnered nearly five million downloads in India, where anti-Chinese sentiment is growing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was free to download, had no adds, and its sole … Read more

Donald Trump pulls out of ‘open skies’ treaty which lets Russia fly over U.S. military sites

The United States announced its intention to withdraw from the 35-nation Open Skies treaty that permits unarmed aerial surveillance flights over participating countries, saying Russia has repeatedly violated the pact’s terms. Senior administration officials said the pullout will formally take place in six months, based on the treaty’s withdrawal terms. It was the latest move … Read more

Piers Morgan says he ‘hopes and prays’ Kate Garraway’s husband Derek Draper pulls through

Piers Morgan said Kate Garraway is ‘going through a living hell’ on Good Morning Brtiain on Monday morning as her husband Derek Draper fights for his life.  Derek, 52, has been in intensive care for seven weeks as he continues to battle coronavirus and remains in a critical and unresponsive condition.  Piers, 55, said: ‘We … Read more

‘A divisive waste of money’: Standard Life Aberdeen pulls out of Davos

‘A divisive waste of money’: Standard Life Aberdeen pulls out of the World Economic Forum meetings in Davos By Ruth Sunderland for the Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 23 April 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 23 April 2020 Standard Life Aberdeen has pulled out of the World Economic Forum meetings in Davos because its chief … Read more