SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas: SpaceX prepared to launch the biggest and most powerful rocket on Thursday, working nonstop after the first shot at a test flight fizzled earlier in the week. The nearly 400-foot (120-meter) Starship was poised to blast off from the southern tip of Texas, near the Mexican border. Instead, if all goes well, the first-stage booster, dubbed Super Heavy, would drop into the Gulf of Mexico. The spacecraft on top would continue eastward, passing over the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans before ditching near Hawaii. Hundreds of space fans returned to the launch site at Boca Chica Beach on the eve of the second launch attempt, snapping more selfies.

The police are looking for a driver who had left the scene of an accident involving a Mercedes-Benz sedan and a taxi near Ma Tau Wai Estate in To Kwa Wan early Thursday morning. The police were alerted to the scene at around 3 am today that saw the Benz slam into a taxi parked on the slow lane of Ma Tau Chung Road. It is understood the driver of the Benz fled the scene on foot after the accident. Passerbys have managed to make a snapshot of the driver and have since relayed the information to officers investigating the accident. The taxi driver sustained minor injuries and was brought to the hospital for treatment.

An efficient way of giving vitality to such writing is to use appositives and appositive phrases. On the other hand, an appositive phrase consists of an appositive and all of its modifiers. The appositives used in the sentences that follow are indicated in italics: "My office assistant Joanna took the day off yesterday." It should now be clear that an appositive or appositive phrase may either be essential or non-essential to a sentence. Read this essay and listen to its voice recording in The Manila Times: "Appositives as open secret to more engaging writing"Next, April 27, 2023: "The empathic forms and inverted sentences"Visit Jose Carillo's English Forum, http://josecarilloforum.com.

The NBA made the announcement of a decision by Joe Dumars, executive vice president and head of basketball operations. In the fourth quarter of the Kings' 114-106 Game 2 win Monday night, Green stomped on the chest of Sabonis after Curry grabbed a defensive rebound. Sabonis was called for a technical foul for grabbing Green's leg and Green was given a flagrant-2 foul that led to an automatic ejection. The 33-year-old Green has been called for six flagrant fouls and 27 technical fouls in 147 career playoff games. He was ejected from a playoff game against Memphis last season.

An authority spokesman said inspections will be stepped up at patient waiting areas in A&E departments at public hospitals, and toilets will be inspected every hour. "We are very concerned about patients' safety and the Hospital Authority understands public concerns on recent cases of patients' conditions changed when waiting at the A&E waiting area. The authority will also install motion sensors in accessible toilets at some hospitals' A&E units. This will alert medical staff if a patient falls or if there is no movement for a while. "If medics find anything unusual about the patient, they can find the patient immediately and offer assistance," the spokesman said.

A couple committed suicide by burning charcoal in their home in Kwun Tong on Tuesday night. Police later found a suicide note at the scene and believed they killed themselves because of unsettled debts. Police said they found a suicide note at the scene, and it was believed they committed suicide because of unsettled debts. Dial 2896 0000 for The Samaritans or 2382 2007 for Suicide Prevention Services. You can also call Suicide Prevention Services at 2382 0000 or CEASE Crisis Centre of Tung Wah Groups of Hospitals at 18281.

A falling solar panel crushed a vehicle driving along Tsing Wun Road in Tuen Mun on Wednesday afternoon, with the driver luckily escaping the freak event uninjured. It's thought that the wind may have blown off the solar panel from a nearby building, with the observatory recording strong gusts across the territory – up to about 100 kilometers in Tsim Sha Tsui. Dashcam footage circulated online recorded the solar panel and debris falling from the sky just seconds before the car was crushed by the items, shattering its windshield. Netizens joked online and said the incident looked like scenes from the movie series “Final Destination,” adding that the driver had escaped death.

PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has ordered the creation of an "El Niño Team" that will handle the government's response to the effects of the impending weather phenomenon, an official said on Tuesday. So through mechanisms of the NDRRMC (National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council), he (Marcos) specifically instructed us to form an El Niño Team immediately. He said the President wanted the government, specifically the Department of Health, to focus on illnesses that are usually experienced during the El Niño phenomenon. While an El Niño is not officially underway, Pagasa last March elevated its monitoring to an El Niño Watch, which means that there is a 55 percent chance of El Niño being declared between July and September 2023. If the El Niño phenomenon turns out to be "strong," she said this could be compared to the extreme rainfall that took place during Tropical Storm "Ondoy" (international name: "Ketsana").

WITH the easterlies – winds coming from the east, passing through the Pacific Ocean and bringing warm and humid weather – it will be hot throughout the country, the state-run weather agency said on Wednesday. In particular, the easterlies are affecting the eastern section of the country, according to weather forecaster Obet Badrina of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa). He told The Manila Times that they have not monitored any weather disturbance or low pressure area that may enter the Philippine Area of Responsibility in the coming days. "In fact, there is a less chance of any storm until [the] end of the month," Badrina said. "It will be generally hot and humid weather in large parts of the country, so the public is advised to limit their outdoor activities especially during noontime and early afternoon when heat is most intense and drink plenty [of] water," he added.

Then at the age of 17, her mother encouraged her to learn “Maqamat” – the art of singing Arabic music melodies which would prepare her for Inshad chanting. ADVERTISEMENTNow 27, she is the founder of “Al Hoor” – an all female Islamic chanting troupe in Egypt. “I felt women were underrepresented in this field and I wanted us to take part in developing the art form of chanting,” she said. The troupe was initially met with skepticism as Egyptian society was accustomed to chanting by the male voice, Fathy said. “I want to develop chanting as an art form while protecting the old schools of Inshad,” she said.

The move of the Department of Justice (DOJ) panel of prosecutors to request the reopening of Criminal Case No. They made the sudden turnaround and are now claiming that they want to submit rebuttal evidence. In its motion, the prosecution said the rebuttal evidence would explain, repel, counteract or disprove the evidence of the other party. In February 2021, De Lima was acquitted in Criminal Case No. The third case against De Lima is Criminal Case No.

Hong Kong Customs busted a suspected smuggling case at the Lok Ma Chau control point on Monday, seizing HK$860,000 worth of coffee machines, coffee mugs, and saucers accessories. The case came to light after officers intercepted an inbound container truck declared to be carrying carton boxes yesterday. Upon inspection, a batch of smuggled coffee machines, mugs, and saucer accessories was found inside the container. The batch of items seized by Customs includes 30 sets of suspected smuggled coffee machines and 69 cartons of coffee mugs and saucer accessories. Any person found guilty of importing or exporting unmanifested cargo could face a maximum fine of HK$2 million and seven years imprisonment.

All eyes will be on Northern Division top seed and overall leader Laguna-Dasmariñas which finished the elimination round with an impressive 27-1 win-loss record. The Grandmaster Rogelio Barcenilla Jr. and International Master Daniel Quizon-led team will take on eighth seed Rizal Batch Towers (9-19) in the opening round. Despite being tagged as an overwhelming favorite, team owner Dr. Fred Paez said they will not take Rizal lightly in their match-up. The other quarterfinals pairings in the North are San Juan (26-2) vs Cagayan (10-18); Pasig (22-6) vs Cavite (14-14); and Mandaluyong (16-12) vs Manila (15-13). The Southern Division quarterfinals pits Negros Island Region (25-3) with Mindoro (5-23); Davao (21-7) with Zamboanga (10-18); Toledo (19-9) with Camarines-Iriga (13-15); and Iloilo (15-13) with Surigao (14-14).

A 49-year-old father was arrested for ill-treatment or neglect of a child in Yau Ma Tei on Monday night for allegedly beating his 15-year-old son with a steel mop after the son was said to have overused his mobile phone for gaming. The row erupted inside a unit of the Portland Building at around 11 pm yesterday, where the father allegedly used the mop to hit his son four times on his arms, fingers, and head. Police’s initial investigation revealed that the beating came after a quarrel between the two, with the father dissatisfied with his son’s phone addiction. The 15-year-old boy was taken to Kwong Wah Hospital for treatment, while the 49-year-old construction worker was arrested for 'Ill-treatment or neglect by those in charge of a child or young person.' It is understood that the son lives with his parents and elder sister.

MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/Asia News Network): To cap 30 years of marriage, President Ferdinand Marcos has asked his wife First Lady Liza to marry him again. In a Facebook post on Tuesday (April 18), Marcos posted photos of their celebration of their 30th wedding anniversary, saying they were with family and close friends. Among the photos is a handwritten letter from Marcos to his wife, telling her to marry him again. According to the President’s website, Marcos and Liza tied the knot on April 17, 1993 at the San Francesco Convent in Fiesole, Italy. Marcos said he and Liza met in New York in 1986 when the First Lady was then working as a lawyer.