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Saturday 13 February 2016

OH NO A 17 Story Building Collapsed and Ober 100 Die

It was a horrible sight to behold as a 17-story building collapsed in the city of Tainan in Taiwan, Asia. However, the city’s police officers have apprehended the builder of the collapsed complex, Reuters reports.

According to Ellen Hsueh, a municipal spokeswoman in Tainan, she stated that the developer of the collapsed building known as the Wei-Guan Golden Dragon Building is in police custody with 2 of his colleagues. She said the name of the developer is one Lin Minghui.

Lin Minghui was arrested for criminal practices in relation to how he designed the building.

The actual cause of the collapse was as a result of an earthquake that occurred in the early hours of Saturday, February 13. At least 39 bodies were recovered by rescue operators from the site of the rubbles of the building.

Rubbles of the collapsed building with rescue workers inside

According to New York Times, an earthquake struck Tainan in the early hours of February 13. Almost all the parts of the 17-storey building came down.
When the incident occurred, some residents who live close to the building were not fortunate as scores of them were killed.
Prosecutors have filed a case against the developer’s company. The charge is bordered on suspicion of professional negligent homicide. This is because there were some irregularities in the manner the building was constructed by the developer.

Wednesday 27 January 2016

Oregon occupation leader Bundy urges remaining protesters to go home

BURNS, Ore. The leader of a month-long armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon according to Reuters urged remaining protesters on Wednesday to leave the site and go home, a day after his arrest and the death of a supporter. | Video at Reuters.###

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Ryan Giggs May Leave MAN U.

Manchester United are worried assistant manager Ryan Giggs will end his 28-year association with the club if he is overlooked as boss Louis van Gaal's successor. (Daily Mirror) Read more here http://africanasports.blogspot.com.ng/

Kris Jenner: “Before I Got Pregnant with Kendall I Had a Miscarriage

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Her life appears to be chock full of fame and fortune, but Kris Jenner reveals in a new interview with People magazine that she’s also suffered her fair share of tragedy.
The “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” star discusses her close friendship with the late Nicole Brown Simpson, noting that she helped her weather the storm of a miscarriage.
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Narendra Modi to meet counterpart Nawaz Sharif in the first visit by an Indian premier to Pakistan in more than a decade The Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, has arrived in Pakistan in a surprise stopover to meet his counterpart, Nawaz Sharif, in what is the first visit by an Indian premier to the country in more than a decade.

Modi and Sharif resumed high-level contacts with a brief conversation at climate change talks in Paris last month, part of efforts to restart a peace dialogue plagued by militant attacks and distrust according to the Guardian

Thursday 24 December 2015

2015: the year in science - in pictures

This review is done courtesy the Guardian

JanuaryAn exciting year for space exploration kicked off with the news that the Beagle 2 spacecraft, missing since 2003 and presumed destroyed, had been found intact on the moon after 11 years. Elsewhere, Elon Musk’s first attempt to land a reusable rocket failed (although he would succeed by the end of the year), Kepler 438b, the most Earth-like planet yet discovered held out hope for alien life and a new study suggested that two-thirds of adult cancers might be down to ‘bad luck’ rather than genes.

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FebruaryMPs and peers voted to make Britain the first country in the world to permit the use of “three-person IVF” to prevent incurable genetic diseases. The month’s other science sensation was #TheDress: was it blue and black or was it white and gold? It’s all to do with your brain’s colour constancy.

Photograph: Alamy

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MarchArchaeologists worldwide expressed horror at reports of Isis/Daesh looting and razing ancient heritage sites, which culminated in the destruction of Palmyra. In happier news, it turned out that gold in faeces “is worth millions and could save the environment”.

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AprilA stand-out month for dinosaur fans, with the discovery of “bizarre” Jurassic dinosaur Chilesaurus diegosuarezi (left), new bird/bat dinosaur Yi qi and the possible resurrection of the brontosaurus - well, the genus, at least. There was also excitement as the internet went maths-crazy over a fiendishly difficult maths question for Singapore schoolkids and astronomers discovered that the largest known structure in the universe is ... a big hole. A controversial world first was also performed by Chinese scientists, who genetically modified human embryos, prompting worldwide debate.

Photograph: Gabriel L o/PA
May Scientists discovered that pandas are, in fact, poorly adapted for digesting bamboo, offering more insights into why the species is endangered and unleashing a tide of “why do we bother keeping them alive?” comments across the internet. In space news, mild panic was caused by the fact that a Russian Progress cargo spacecraft was set to crash to Earth, althoughthe chances of being hit were extremely remote.

Photograph: Xu Chang/Xinhua Press/Corbis
JuneA rollercoaster of a month for science. On the positive side, the Rosetta mission’s Philae lander “woke up” and started to communicate with the European Space Agency for the first time in seven months. A teenager on work experience discovered a new planet and a new study showed that chimps like to cook. On the down side, possibly the biggest scientific controversy of the year was kicked off by Nobel scientist Tim Hunt telling a conference that women in laboratories
“fall in love with you and when you criticise them, they cry”, which he later claimed was a poorly-judged joke.

Photograph: ESA/PA
JulyThis month’s main event was the Nasa New Horizons flypast of Pluto, which yielded unprecedented pictures and information about the dwaft planet. Physicists also had an exciting July with the discovery of new particles called pentaquarks at the Large Hadron Collider. But the truly good news came from Guinea, where an ebola vaccine trial proved 100% successful.

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AugustDespite it being theheight of summer, one of this month’s biggest stories came packing in ice: Antarctic scientists confirmed the existence of cosmic neutrinos – ghostly particles that have traveled from the Milky Way and beyond. We also discovered the reason for Knut the polar bear’s untimely demise and a study delivered a bleak outlook on the validity of psychology experiment results.

Photograph: IceCube Collaboration
SeptemberOrdinarily, the discovery of the fossils of what may be a new ancient species of ancient human, Homo naledi, would be the biggest storey of the month. However, the discovery of water on Mars made this an absolutely blockbuster month.

Photograph: NASA/Reuters
OctoberProcessed meat hit the headlines this month, as the WHO declared that it ranks alongside smoking in terms of cancer risk. However, it was a cheerier month for Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar, who shared the Nobel chemistry prize, for Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald, winners of the Nobel physics prize and William C Campbell, Satoshi Ōmura and Tu You, who shared the Nobel prize in medicine. There was fevered space speculation, as a possible “alien megastructure” was spotted by astronomers and “Spooky the asteroid” gave Earth a mild Halloween fright.

Composite: Alamy
NovemberLittle grey cells were very much in the news this month, as it was revealed that smoking high strength cannabis may damage nerve fibres in the brain and a new study showed that men and women’s brains may not be so different after all. A controversial genetic technique that could create “anti-malarial mosquitoes” was also revealed.

Photograph: Institute of Psychiatry