Norways capital Oslo is said to become the first city in the world to install wireless charging systems for electric taxis, hoping to make recharging quick and efficient enough to speed the takeup of non-polluting cabs. The project will use induction technology, with charging plates installed in the road at taxi ranks linking to receivers […]

New Zealand Announces Plans For Gun Reform Following Mosque Shootings, New zealand prime minister Jacinta Ardem said her cabinet would ensure gun reforms and guns are been controlled in the country and alos placing a permaneny ban on semiautomatic rifles following the friday mas shootings leaving 50 people dead. She went on to add that […]

An ethiopian airline bound for Nairobi Kenya from Addis Ababa is said to crash with 149 passengers on board and 8 crew members crashed leaving not survivors. the Boeing 737 MAX 8 airplane lost control from the air flight controller just 6 minutes after take off. The Ethiopian Airlines in an interview yhay Kenya had […]

A 113-year-old Japanese man, Masazo Nonaka, recognized in April 2018 by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest male, died on Sunday. According to Nonaka’s granddaughter Yuko, Masazo passed from natural causes while sleeping peacefully at his home in Ashoro, Japan. Nonaka was born on July 25, 1905 and grew up with seven siblings. In […]

China will launch a probe to collect samples from the moon around the end of this year, a space official says, after Beijing hailed a successful touchdown of a Chinese probe on the far side of the moon. China’s National Space Administration applauded the event as a first that “lifted the mysterious veil” of the […]

Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill( AS +GG) architecture  have won the right to design the Shimao Longgang Master Plan that includes a 700-meter tall skysraper called the Shenzhen-Hong Kong International Center. Set to become the tallest skyscraper in china, the project will be set between the foothills of Longcheng Park and Dayun National Park. The […]

Vladimir Putin has been showcasing his ice hockey skills by taking part in a game in Moscow’s Red Square. The Russian president got kitted out in pads and helmet alongside defence minister Sergey Shoigu and veteran players Vyacheslav Fetisov and Pavel Bur. Saturday night’s exhibition match was part of an amateur league that the president […]

An American adventurer, Colin O’Brady has become the first person to complete a solo trek across Antarctica without assistance of any kind. O’Brady, 33, took 54 days to complete the nearly 1,000-mile (1,600-kilometer) crossing of the frozen continent from north to south. “I accomplished my goal: to become the first person in history to traverse […]

Miss Philippines Catriona Gray was crowned the winner of the 2018 Miss Universe pageant, which was held Sunday in Bangkok, Thailand. Catriana Gray was crowned Miss Universe after competing against 93 other contestants for the title. Tamaryn Green of South Africa was first runner-up, followed by Sthefany Gutiérrez of Venezuela, 

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A school in Merseyside has banned pupils from wearing expensive designer coats in a bid to stop “poverty-shaming” among its students.  In a letter to parents, Woodchurch High School in Birkenhead said pupils would not be allowed to wear branded coats such as Moncler, Pyrenex and Canada Goose.  Head teacher Rebekah Phillips said pupils and […]

People with albinism in Africa face a lot of challenges in their quest to gain acceptance in society. In that feat Uganda has held its first-ever beauty contest for people with albinism. Among the twenty two candidates from six districts, the judges chose 5 men and 5 women to represent Uganda at the Mr. and […]

Poland is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its rebirth as an independent state on Sunday with a multitude of events across the country, including marches, Masses, and the national hymn being sung in more than 600 public places. With celebrations around the country and the national white-and-red flag fluttering from buildings and buses. Poland regained […]

China has become the latest Asian country to warn its citizens in Canada about marijuana after it was legalized for recreational use there. A statement posted on the website of the Chinese consulate in Toronto reminds citizens in its jurisdiction to avoid using marijuana to ensure their physical and mental health. Canada legalized the sale of recreational marijuana […]

‎Ethiopian lawmakers picked career diplomat Sahle-Work Zewde to replace Mulatu Teshome who resigned as president.  The position of president is ceremonial in Ethiopia, with executive power vested in the office of the prime minister, but the appointment is deeply symbolic and follows up on last week’s cabinet reshuffle in which made half the ministers are […]

China will open the world’s longest sea bridge to traffic from 24 October. The 55-kilometre-long bridge linking Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macao took six years of preparations and eight years to build. Construction began on 15 December 2009 and is expected to slash travel time from Hongkong to mainland China from three hours to 30 […]

The world’s longest commercial flight, a 19-hour journey from Singapore to New York, took off Thursday from Changi Airport. The Singapore Airlines Airbus A350-900ULR will touch down at Newark Liberty International Airport early Friday after traveling 15,350 kilometers. The Airbus A350-900ULR (“Ultra Long Range”) is a new two-engine plane with far greater range and fuel […]

lawmakers in Greece announced that their popular coastal donkey rides would be limited to tourists “weighing less than 100 kilograms (220 pounds) or one-fifth of the donkey’s body weight,” the law states according to CNN. Tourists often take donkey rides along the steep and narrow terrain of the popular island of Santorini, which has prompted […]

Amazon is boosting its minimum wage for all U.S. workers to $15 per hour starting next month and said it will push for an increase in the federally mandated minimum wage, which now stands at $7.25 per hour. The company, whose value topped $1 trillion briefly in September, was facing political and economic pressure to […]

Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX has enrolled its first passenger for a trip around the moon. When the trip goes ahead, it will be the first time someone has traveled as far as the moon since NASA’s Apollo missions in the late ’60s and early ’70s, and also the furthest into space that a private […]