Two oil wells in an oilfield in northern Iraq were set ablaze using explosives in a terrorist attack the oil ministry said, Technical teams, isolated the two burning wells, and the overall production from the field was not affected, according to two sources. The production from the two wells was targetted didn’t exceed 2, 000…
Iran has arrested some of the culprits involved in last month’s assassination of the country’s most senior nuclear scientist Moshen Fakhrizadeh, according to an Iranian Parliamentary adviser. The official who alleged that Israel carried out the assassination with assistance from the US, declined to provide any further details on the detentions. Hossein Amir Abdolahin told…
Forest officials rescued a trapped leopard in Fatehpur village in Dharmashala, Himachal Pradesh, in North India on Tuesday. An official said: ” The leopard was trapped by a noose and was set free by officials here. We face about 10 to 12 such cases every year”. The leopard will be released in a zoo following…
A family in Chalakudy, Kerala, South India, found a fully grown crocodile lounging in the veranda of their home on Wednesday. The 3m-long accidentally wandered from the Chalakudy river to say hello. T Ajit Kumar, Range Forest officer said it took forest officials and locals over two hours to secure the crocodile to safety.
After 20 months of grounding globally in March 2019, commercial passenger flights have resumed on Boeing’s 737 Max aircraft for the first time, after Brazilian airline Gol resumed operations using the plane. The American company’s previously bestselling airplane was given the approval to return to the skies by US regulators US Federal Aviation Administration (FDA)…
The UK’s world-first Covid-19 vaccine rollout is facing problems for two people with serious allergies to medicines or food, within 24 hours. Two unnamed healthcare workers who have a significant history of an allergic reaction are recovering following the first day of the mass vaccination programme, as it is understood in the US vaccine trial…
Zhou Chengyu, a 24-year-old female space commander and in charge of the rocket connector system has become a viral sensation on Weibo, social media in China for her work on the Chang’e-5, China’s third successful Moon landing in seven years. China would be the first in more than 40 years to bring lunar samples back…
A helicopter Eurocopter EC135 owned by Service Aerien Francais, a private company carrying out a rescue mission has crashed and fell from an altitude of 1, 800 metres ( 5, 900ft) in the French Alps, near the town of Bonvillard in the Savoir area killing five of the six people on board. The alarm was…
Ninety-year-old Margaret Keenan known as Maggie is UK’s first vaccine recipient said she feels “so privileged” to receive the jab as the UK begins the biggest vaccination programme in NHS history. The UK is the first country in the world to start using the Pfizer vaccine after regulators approved its use last week. Globally 68million…
Dr. Onyema Ogbuagu, the Nigerian doctor who led Pfizer’s study for the Coronavirus vaccine in the United States, is also director of HIV Clinical Trials program at the Yale AIDS program, Infectious Diseases Swction, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, New York. Ogbiagu is part of a team of researchers at Pfizer which announced in…