Firefighters in South Korea have brought a devastating fire in a tower block under control. Hundreds of people had to evacuate as the fire broke out between the 8th and 12th floors of the 33-floor Samhwan Art Nouveau commercial and residential building which has about 120 households and shopping units. More than 80 needed emergency…
Amanda De George has discovered a new species of spider with 8 eyes after spotting it on her backyard in Australia. She posted the picture of the spider on Facebook, to be told by spider expert Joseph Schubert that the species was unknown and asked her send it to him for examination. The spider is…
A 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton, nicknamed Stan after the paleontologist who discovered it in 1987m sold for £25m ($31.8m) at an auction in New York. The sale set a new world record for any dinosaur fossil ever sold at an auction. Standing 13 feet tall and 40 feet long, Stan is one of the most…
The World Bank in its report said as much as 150 million people are likely to be in extreme poverty because of the Covid-19 pandemic by 2021. “Countries will have to prepare for a different economy post-COVID-19 by allowing capital, labour, skills, and innovation to move into new business sectors,” World Bank Group said further.…
Louise Gluck, a US Poet has won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature. She was recognised for “her unmistakable poetic voice, that with austere beauty makes individual existence Universal” said the Swedish Academy, which oversees the award. Gluck born in 1943, in New York, lives in Massachusetts, and a professor of English at Yale University.…
EasyJet faces losses of more than £800m this year as it was expecting to fly at just 25 per cent capacity into next year because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The annual loss will be the first in EasyJet’s 25-year history. Johan Lundgren EasyJet CEO said: “Aviation continues to face the most severe threat in history…
A team of researchers from the University of Edinburgh has discovered a new species of toothless two-fingered dinosaur that lived more than 68 million years ago. The animals had a toothless beak similar to the type seen in parrots. Multiple complete skeletons of the new species named Oksoko avarsan were dug up in the Gobi…
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to French researcher Emmanuelle Charpentier and American biochemist Jennifer A Doudna for developing the tools to edit DNA. The duo discovered one of gene technology’s sharpest tools, the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors, a way of making specific and precise changes to the DNA contained in living cells.…
A US House of Representatives panel in its report said Facebook, Apple, Google, and Amazon used “killer acquisitions” to crush rivals and forced the small businesses into “oppressive contracts” for profit. The 449-page report also suggested expensive charges to antitrust law and recommended structural changes in tech firms. All four tech giants disagreed with…
Amid the Coronavirus pandemic, the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer. The wealth of the world’s 2,189 billionaires soared to $8 trillion ($10.2 trillion) in July breaking the previous record of £7 trillion ($8.9tn) at the end of 2019. The latest report “Riding the Storm” by Swiss bank UBS and accounting…