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VIDEO: Great videos of the past decade | Pilot lands plane sideways in heavy winds at Bristol Airport in the UK in October 2018. ***** SOURCE: China Xinhua News Share on: WhatsApp
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AI beats human breast cancer diagnosis
Paris, France | AFP | A computer programme can identify breast cancer from routine scans with greater accuracy than human experts, researchers said in what they hoped could prove a breakthrough in the fight against the global killer. Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in women, with more …
Read More »Taiwan says military chief of staff missing after helicopter crash
Taipei, Taiwan | AFP | Taiwanese rescuers were searching for the chief of military staff and two others who went missing after a helicopter crashed landed in a mountain Thursday, the defence ministry said. The UH-60M helicopter carrying 13 people including chief of general staff for the military Shen Yi-ming …
Read More »New Year fireworks, smoke and tear gas
New Year fireworks, smoke and tear gas as decade begins with a bang Sydney, Australia | AFP | Smoke-choked Sydney ushered in the New Year with a huge fireworks display while police in Hong Kong fired tear gas at protesters, as crisis clouded some of the first celebrations to ring …
Read More »Chinese giant Huawei says ‘survival’ top priority as sales fall short
Beijing, China | AFP | Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei said Tuesday that “survival” was its top priority after announcing 2019 sales were expected to fall short of projections as a result of US sanctions. The global leader in telecom networking equipment has been effectively banned by the United States from …
Read More »US double strike in Somalia kill four militants
Washington, United States | AFP | The United States military said it killed four “terrorists” in airstrikes against the Al-Shabaab militant group in Somalia on Sunday, a day after the country’s deadliest attack in two years. US Africa Command (AFRICOM) conducted three airstrikes in two locations in the conflict-hit east …
Read More »Now, China jails scientist who gene-edited babies
Beijing, China | AFP | A Chinese court on Monday sentenced the doctor who claimed to be behind the world’s first gene-edited babies to three years in prison for illegal medical practice, state media reported. He Jiankui, who shocked the scientific community last year by announcing the birth of twins …
Read More »Surveyors set up tele-platform to eliminate impostors and fraudsters
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Institution of Surveyors of Uganda has set up a tele-platform to isolate professional surveyors from impostors and fraudsters it accuses of messing up the sector. The platform uses free Unstructured Supplementary Service Data also known as USSD codes on all mobile telecommunications Networks in …
Read More »Moroccans rally in support of journalist detained over tweet
Rabat, Morocco | AFP | Hundreds of people demonstrated Saturday outside Morocco’s parliament demanding the release of a journalist detained for criticising a judge in a tweet. Omar Radi, 33, was detained Thursday in Casablanca and immediately put on trial for the tweet about a judge prosecuting protest leaders, his …
Read More »MAX: Boeing ousts Muilenburg, names David Calhoun as CEO
New York, United States | AFP | Boeing on Monday replaced its embattled chief executive, Dennis Muilenburg, as it attempts to pivot from a protracted crisis surrounding the grounding of its top-selling 737 MAX after two deadly crashes. More than nine months after the MAX was grounded and a week …
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