Widespread Displacement Crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

The conflict in the eastern province of North Kivu, DRC, between M23 rebels and government-backed militias has worsened since October. This conflict is causing massive displacement, and the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) is deeply concerned about the hu…

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QS Asia University Rankings 2024.

Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a global higher education think-tank renowned for compiling university rankings, revealed the QS Asia University Rankings 2024 yesterday. This eagerly anticipated release sheds light on the academic prowess of institutions across the continent. Top…

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Millions affected by Australian network failure.

Millions of Australians were left without mobile and internet after a network failure at telecoms firm Optus. The failure caused transport delays, cut hospital phone lines, and shut down payment systems. Optus, the country's second-largest provider, said more than 10 mill…

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10,000-Year-Old Human Remains Discovered in Vietnam.

Skeletal remains estimated to be 10,000 years old have been unearthed in northern Vietnam at the Tam Chuc Pagoda Complex by researchers from the Vietnam Institute of Archaeology. “This is the first time [that] human remains dating back 10,000 years have been discovered in Vi…

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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos announces move to Miami from Seattle.

Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos said he was moving to Miami from the Seattle region, relocating to be closer to his parents and the Cape Canaveral operations of Blue Origin LLC, his space exploration company. Bezos — the world’s third-wealthiest man, according to the Bloo…

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UK to host the AI Safety Summit 2023.

The United Kingdom’s Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, is set to host the AI Safety Summit 2023 on 1st and 2nd November at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire. This summit brings together global leaders, AI experts and industry representatives to discuss the growing concerns surroun…

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Bill Gates’ assistant, is the 5th-richest person in the world.

Bill Gates’ former assistant at Microsoft is now the fifth-richest person in the world, per Bloomberg’s tally, and only one spot behind Gates on the real-time list of the world’s richest people. Steve Ballmer, who joined Microsoft as its 24th-ever employee in 1980, has seen …

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World’s oldest dog ever dies in Portugal.

A 31-year-old dog in Portugal that had been ranked as the world’s oldest dog ever has died, his owner said Monday. The guard dog, called Bobi, died over the weekend in a veterinary hospital, Leonel Costa told The Associated Press. Bobi lived on a farm in the village of Conque…

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Black action hero Richard Roundtree who played ‘Shaft’ dies at 81.

Richard Roundtree, a trailblazing Black actor who played the private eye John Shaft in the “Shaft” films of the 1970s and also took on dramatic roles dealing with race relations in America, died on Tuesday aged 81, the Hollywood Reporter said, citing his manager. Roundtree d…

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WhatsApp will soon allow users to use two accounts on one phone.

Smartphone users will soon be able to use two WhatsApp accounts on one device. WhatsApp parent Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the same in a Facebook post.  This feature will save users from carrying around an extra device or continuously logging out of their accounts to …

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3,000 year old necropolis found in Turkey.

A remarkable discovery emerged as archaeologists dug deep in Cehennem Deresi, also known as Hell Creek, located in the village of Bagozu within the Gercus district of Batman, Turkey. This hidden treasure is a staggering three thousand years old. The Hasankeyf Museum Director…

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Thousands of global leaders gather in South Korea for World Peace Summit.

Thousands of world leaders were reportedly seen at the 09th anniversary of the Heavenly Culture World Peace Restoration of Light (HWPL) World Peace Summit, commemorated on 18 September, in Incheon, South Korea. Accordingly, 1,800 people from 121 countries, including Australi…

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Twitter really is losing users under Elon Musk.

X is shrinking meaningfully under Elon Musk. Since Musk bought Twitter in October 2022, it’s lost approximately 13 percent of its app’s daily active users, according to new data from mobile research firm Apptopia (that I was first to report last week on Big Technology), and…

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World Health Summit 2023.

The 2023 World Health Summit took place from October 15 to October 17 under the theme “A Defining Year for Global Health Action” in Berlin, Germany, and online. Bringing the World Together for Global Health Improvement The World Health Summit is a special event where people f…

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Afghanistan hit by third earthquake in a week.

A new earthquake has hit western Afghanistan - several days after two large tremors in the region killed more than 1,000 people. The US Geological Survey (USGS) says the magnitude 6.3 quake struck near the city of Herat. It was at a depth of 6.3km (four miles). So far there h…

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Archaeologists Find Hidden Chambers in Pyramid of Egyptian Pharaoh.

A team of Egyptian and German researchers led by Mohamed Ismail Khaled from the Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg recently uncovered multiple storage chambers within the ruins of the Fifth Dynasty pyramid of the pharaoh Sahura, putting centuries of ambiguity surrou…

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Wildlife Photographer of the Year.

A picture of a mysterious and other-worldly horseshoe crab has earned Laurent Ballesta the title of Wildlife Photographer of the Year (WPY) 2023. The golden marine arthropod is seen hugging the bottom muds in waters off Pangatalan Island, in the Philippines. It is tracked by …

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104 year old Dorothy Hoffner who set the record dies days after sky diving.

Dorothy Hoffner, the 104-year-old Chicago woman who set the record for the oldest tandem skydive, died in her sleep just days after the monumental jump. Hoffner made worldwide news just 10 days ago on October 1, when she became the oldest living person to jump out of a plane…

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Further evidence points to footprints in New Mexico being the oldest sign of humans in Americas.

New research confirms that fossil human footprints in New Mexico are likely the oldest direct evidence of human presence in the Americas, a finding that upends what many archaeologists thought they knew about when our ancestors arrived in the New World. The footprints were d…

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Lost 4,400-year-old tomb found with Ancient Egyptian Mummy inside.

Archaeologists have rediscovered a lost tomb that contains the mummy of an ancient Egyptian official. The tomb belonged to Ptahshepses, who lived around 4,400 years ago during the 25th and 24th centuries B.C. Archaeologists with the Czech Institute of Egyptology at Prague…

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