19/12/2021
He and his team were stunned by the number of mutations. They felt they'd made a contribution by alerting the world to a dangerous variant. Then came the travel bans for residents of southern Africa.
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19/02/2020
Denying Mosweu a visa to enter Australia to play cricket deemed un-Australian.
One of the best female cricketers in Botswana has been denied a visa after being invited to Australia to participate in a T20 women's clash in Bowral on Saturday.
15/02/2020
BREAKING: A tourist died from the coronavirus in Paris, France's health ministry said. It's the first fatality caused by the virus in Europe.
13/02/2020
Recolonisation of Africa?
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/27/china-increases-defence-ties-with-africa.html
From military bases to joint training exercises, Beijing is looking to establish a greater defense profile in Africa.
01/02/2020
01/02/2020
Britain has exited the EU while you were asleep
01/02/2020
US President Donald Trump is set to be acquitted in his impeachment trial after senators voted against calling witnesses or admitting new evidence.
31/01/2020
BREAKING: Brexit’s done. The United Kingdom has officially left the European Union more than three years after a referendum that left the country bitterly divided.
15/01/2020
RECALL ALERT: Toyota is recalling nearly 700,000 Toyota and Lexus vehicles in the US because of issues with the fuel pumps. The pumps can stop operating, leading to engine failure, the company said.
11/01/2020
BREAKING: Iran has announced that it 'unintentionally' shot down a Ukrainian airliner on Wednesday.
All 176 people on board the Ukraine International Airlines flight were killed.
08/01/2020
FLORIDA MAN WOKEN UP BY MAN WHO BROKE INTO HOUSE AND BEGAN SUCKING HIS TOES
A Florida man was reportedly woken up by a home invader who was on a mission to "suck toes" on Christmas Eve, according to a police report.
08/01/2020
Uber taking the taxi business to the sky
The electrically powered PAV, or "personal air vehicle," will have the capability of carrying up to four passengers on trips of up to 60 miles at speeds reaching 180 mph, the partners said Monday.
08/01/2020
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck near an Iranian nuclear power plant
Unknown if there are any casualties
08/01/2020
The Egyptian pyramids may align with an ancient north star. NASA scientists found that star never-before-seen eclipses.
The star that some researchers think served as the north star for the ancient Egyptians is actually a pair of stars that eclipse one other.
08/01/2020
A huge number of wild camels to be culled in South Australia.
Indigenous elders in a drought-ravaged part of South Australia have given the green light for an army of shooters to take to the skies in helicopters to cull up to 10,000 feral camels.
08/01/2020
Breaking News # A Ukrainian passenger plane believed to be carrying 180 passengers has reportedly crashed in Iran.
08/01/2020
Statement released by Trump “All is well! Missiles launched from Iran at two military bases located in Iraq. Assessment of casualties & damages taking place now. So far, so good! We have the most powerful and well equipped military anywhere in the world, by far! I will be making a statement tomorrow morning.”
08/01/2020
NEWS: Iran has launched a rocket attack on an airbase in Iraq that houses US troops.
03/01/2020
A top Iranian military commander was killed in an airstrike at Baghdad airport on Friday morning
03/01/2020
A canceled flight, in many of us, inspires frustration and anger. And for billionaire Richard Branson, it’s no different.
Only when the British entrepreneur was met with a cancelled flight in the early 80s, it inspired another response, too: A new business idea.
Branson — already a successful businessman, having formed Virgin Records some years earlier — was due to fly to the British Virgin Islands to be reunited with a “lovely lady” on his private Necker Island, when his American Airlines flight was suddenly cancelled.
“I was livid because I hadn’t seen her for three weeks,” Branson recalled in an interview with CNBC for “The Brave Ones” podcast.
So, he did as all good entrepreneurs do, and looked for a solution.
The next day I rang up Boeing and said ... I’m thinking of starting an airline
The then 30-something marched to the back of the airport, gave them his credit card — “hoping it wouldn’t bounce” — and hired a plane.
He then borrowed a blackboard, wrote “as a joke, Virgin Airlines one-way: $39 to the Virgin Islands,” and filled up the flight with all the bumped passengers, he said
″(When) we arrived in the BVI, somebody said ‘sharpen up your service a bit and you could be in the airline business,’” Branson recalled.
Virgin Atlantic Airways and Virgin Group founder, Sir Richard Branson.Craig Barritt
“So the next day I rang up Boeing and said: ‘I’ve just had a bad experience and I’m thinking of starting an airline called Virgin. Do you have any secondhand 747s for sale?’”
The rest, as they say, is history. Shortly afterwards, a Boeing representative named RJ Wilson met with Branson to discuss his airline ambitions.
Wilson was not convinced by the name Virgin.
But he was convinced by Branson, and agreed to lease him the secondhand 747 aircraft for a year while he tried to get the business off the ground.
“I think that (was) the thing that put Virgin on the map,” said Branson, who launched Virgin Atlantic in 1984.
“We took on British Airways, PanAm, TWA with their hundreds of planes.”
Source: CNBC
30/12/2019
Africa's largest mobile operator MTN says it is reviewing allegations that it paid protection money to militant Islamist groups in Afghanistan.
The allegations, made in a legal complaint filed in a US federal court on Friday, say the firm violated US anti-terrorism laws.
It was filed on behalf of families of US citizens killed in attacks in Afghanistan.
Five other companies were also named in the filing.
The complaint alleges MTN paid bribes to al-Qaida and the Taliban to avoid having to invest in in expensive security for their transmission towers.
The alleged payments helped finance a Taliban-led insurgency that led to the attacks in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2017, the accusations say.
It is alleged that the money helped to provide "material support to known terrorist organisations," thus violating the anti-terrorism legislation.
The South African telecommunications giant says it remains of the view that it conducts its business in a "responsible and compliant manner in all its territories".
MTN is Africa's largest mobile operator and the eighth largest in the world, with more than 240 million subscribers.
In 2015, the firm was fined more than $5bn (£3.8bn) by the Nigerian authorities for failing to cut off unregistered sim cards - a figure that was reduced to $1.7bn after a long legal dispute and the intervention of South Africa's then President Jacob Zuma.
In February, a former South African ambassador to Iran was arrested in the capital, Pretoria, on charges that he took a bribe to help MTN win a $31.6bn (£24bn) license to operate in Iran.
Source: BBC
30/12/2019
Two parishioners were killed Sunday when a gunman opened fire during a church service near Fort Worth, Texas. Another parishioner shot and killed the gunman seconds after the incident began, according to officials and a livestream video of the service.
Jeoff Williams of the Texas Department of Public Safety praised the "heroic parishioners" who stopped the gunman. Several parishioners quickly pulled their guns soon after the first shot was fired.
Two people were treated at the scene and released, officials said.
Matthew Desarno of the FBI said in a press conference Sunday afternoon that they are still trying to determine the gunman's motive.
A witness told CBS Dallas / Fort Worth the gunman shot someone with a shotgun during communion and that he was then taken down by another church member. According to the witness, another church member shot the suspect.
Source: CBS News
29/12/2019
Japanese authorities have found 7 bodies in the remains of a wooden boat that washed ashore on the coast of Sado Island in the Sea of Japan.
A police officer on patrol found the bow of the boat close to shore in the Sobama District of Sado City on Friday.
Coast Guard officers suspect the bow was part of a North Korean boat.
The Coast Guard and police found seven partially skeletonized bodies inside the vessel during a search on Saturday morning.
The bow measures about 7.6 meters long, 4.3 meters wide and 2 meters high. On the side of it are Korean characters and numbers painted in red.
Coast Guard officers say a number of wooden boats from the North wash ashore around this time of year after being blown off course by northwesterly winds.
They are calling on people to stay away if they find one, and to call 118, the coast guard's emergency number
28/12/2019
A giant ‘hot blob’ stretching hundreds of kilometres has appeared in the ocean to the east of New Zealand.
The patch of water in the Pacific Ocean is abnormally hot and shows up bright red on University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute weather maps.
According to Professor James Renwick, a climate researcher at Wellington’s Victoria University, the area is “extremely warm” in comparison to other water bodies around the world
The red blob pictured to the east of New Zealand. Source: climatereanalyzer.org
“It's got to be one of the warmest spots on the planet at the moment,” he told The New Zealand Herald.
According to the weather map, its centre is six degrees warmer than the average sea surface temperature, sitting at about 20C.
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Prof Renwick said sea temperatures did not fluctuate a great deal so such a change was “quite a big deal”.
The area of warmer water may be due to a lack of winds, experts say. Source: climatereanalyzer.org
He said it could be contributed to a lack of wind, but said it was difficult to explain such a variance.
Experts believe such an occurrence could be an indication another marine heatwave could be on its way.
The last time it occurred in 2018 New Zealand experienced its hottest summer, The Guardian reported.
However the current patch of hot water is moving east thanks to westerly winds, meaning New Zealanders on the east coast won’t benefit from its heat
Source: Yahoo News
28/12/2019
It became operational Friday, Russia's defense minister reported to President Vladimir Putin, bolstering the country's nuclear strike capability.
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