American Astronaut Jim Lovell, celebrated for his courageous leadership during the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA’s Apollo 13 mission, has passed away at the age of 97. In 1970, Lovell faced a critical situation when an explosion on board forced the mission to abandon its moon landing. Calm and determined, he expertly guided his…
Liberia’s Assistant Minister for Preventive Services at the Ministry of Health, Dr. Cuallau J. Howe, has hailed the launch of a new national guidelines to combat non-communicable diseases; calling it a ‘critical and timely initiative’ in the fight against public health crisis. Speaking at the close of a three-day stakeholders’ meeting in city…
A CCTV footage has shown the moment a Nigerian care giver violently manhandled a frail elderly man with dementia as she hurled him around just days before he died.In a court hearing, the carer, Bilikesu Olagunju, 42, who had been in the job just six days, was caught on camera ‘manhandling’ John Attard, 88, at…
Pope Leo XIV has warned of the potential consequences of artificial intelligence (AI) on the intellectual development of young people, saying it could damage their grip on reality. Since his election as head of the Catholic Church on May 8, the pope — a mathematics graduate — has repeatedly warned of the risks associated…
China has developed mosquito-sized drones for covert military operations National University of Defense Technology in central China’s Hunan province revealed the tiny drone, alongside humanoid machines. Reports say The mini drone features two small wings with leaflike structures on either side of the stick-shaped drone, accompanied by three slender, hair-thin “legs.” Meanwhile, China has…
…Harps on the Importance of shortwave broadcasts. Pope Leo XIV has visited the Vatican Radio’s shortwave Radio Center in Santa Maria di Galeria, where he emphasized the importance of shortwave broadcasts. He traveled out of Rome’s city center in the morning, according to a post on the Vatican Social media handle. During his visit, the…
California Governor Gavin Newsom said he is suing the Trump administration over the move by President Donald Trump to deploy the National Guard to Los Angeles to curb unrest over immigration raids. In a post on X on Monday, Newsom said the violence that has broken out in parts of Los Angeles during three days…
World Bank noted that sub-Saharan Africa has the highest extreme poverty rate globally, with a large share of the poor concentrated in a few countries. This is contained in the World Bank’s Africa Pulse report released at the ongoing Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank in Washington DC, the United States….
