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Mayweather, McGregor trade verbal jabs as countdown begins
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BOXING: Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor traded verbal jabs today (Aug 23) as the circus-like countdown to their money-spinning superfight cranked into overdrive on the Las Vegas Strip.
BBC journalist Jonathan Head in Phuket court for defamation trial
News / Phuket
PHUKET: British BBC journalist Jonathan Head appeared in Phuket Provincial Court today (Aug 23) for the start of a criminal defamation trial brought by a lawyer who featured in an investigation about foreigners being scammed of their retirement homes.
Divers have located human remains in warship: US admiral
News / World
SINGAPORE: Divers searching for 10 missing sailors on a US destroyer that collided with a tanker off Singapore have found human remains, the commander of the US Pacific Fleet said yesterday (Aug 22).
Spanish police shoot dead Barcelona attack fugitive
News / World
SPAIN: Spanish police yesterday (Aug 21) shot dead Barcelona terror suspect Younes Abouyaaqoub, in a dramatic end to a massive manhunt for the Moroccan national who was wearing a fake suicide belt when he was killed.
Police uncover gas arsenal at bomb factory as Barcelona mourns
News / World
SPAIN: Spanish police said yesterday (Aug 20) that they had uncovered a cache of 120 gas canisters at a house believed to be the bomb-making factory of suspects in terror attacks that claimed 14 lives, as Barcelona mourned victims of the rampage.
Ten sailors missing after US destroyer collision off Singapore
News / World
SINGAPORE: A rescue operation is under way for 10 sailors missing after a US destroyer collided with a tanker east of Singapore today (Aug 21), in the second accident involving an American warship in two months.
As Bolt leaves athletics stage there’s a huge vacuum to fill
Sport / World
ATHLETICS: Usain Bolt’s retirement leaves a huge vacuum to fill but athletics is moving in the right direction in rebranding itself after scandals that seriously damaged its image, according to sports marketing experts.
Dusting off ‘painful’ bunkers
News / World
NETHERLANDS: Just behind The Hague’s sandy beaches under the dunes lie dozens of Nazi bunkers built during World War II which the Dutch are now dusting off to attract tourists and to help heal lingering scars.
Coming out of the woods
News / Thailand
KHON KAEN: From communing with forest spirits to whipping up love potions, Thailand’s cave-dwelling hermits once conducted their supernatural endeavours with just ancient magic and rituals as their guide.
Giant tortoise found two weeks after escape from Japan zoo
News / Weird World
JAPAN: A giant tortoise that made a break from a Japanese zoo has been found safe and sound two weeks after it escaped, only 140 metres away from the park.
Ancient city ready for rebirth
News / World
CAMBODIA: It has survived centuries of monsoon rains, a US bombing campaign and rampant looting.
Four things we learned from the Premier League
Sport / World
FOOTBALL: The Premier League returned with bang last weekend as Arsenal staged a thrilling fightback to beat Leicester, champions Chelsea suffered a shock defeat against Burnley and Romelu Lukaku marked his Manchester United debut with a brace in their rout of West Ham.
London’s Big Ben to fall silent for four years
News / World
UNITED KINGDOM: Britain’s much-loved Big Ben will fall silent for four years from this week as conservation work is carried out on the famous 19th century bell in a clock tower next to the Houses of Parliament.
Mud baths and faceplants: Running of the bulls Thai style
News / Thailand
CHONBURI: Languidly ploughing flooded paddy-fields, Thailand’s buffaloes don’t usually strike people as the quickest of beasts. But farmers in eastern Thailand recently showed off their fastest bovines in a unique, muddy speed test.
13 dead in Barcelona van carnage, ‘terrorists’ killed in another incident
News / World
SPAIN: A van driver ploughed into crowds of pedestrians on Barcelona’s most popular street in broad daylight yesterday (Aug 17), killing 13 people in an attack claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group.
At least 37 die in jail riot in southern Venezuela
News / World
VENEZUELA: At least 37 people died in an hours-long jail riot in Venezuela’s southern state of Amazonas, officials said yesterday (Aug 16).
Air Berlin files for bankruptcy, flights to keep going
News / Business
GERMANY: Air Berlin on Tuesday (Aug 15) announced it had filed for bankruptcy after its main shareholder Etihad Airways said it would not plough any more cash into the struggling airline.
312 dead as mudslides, flooding sweep through Sierra Leone capital
News / World
SIERRA LEONE: At least 312 people were killed and more than 2,000 left homeless yesterday (Aug 14) when heavy flooding hit Sierra Leone’s capital of Freetown, leaving excavators to pull bodies from rubble and overwhelming the city’s morgues.
Billions of tons of plastic waste are piling up and there’s no end in sight
Life / Environment
The world has a plastic problem. More than 8.3 billion metric tons of it have been produced on Earth, with most dumped into landfills or the oceans, US researchers reported recently. The report in the journal Science Advances is described as “the first global analysis of all mass-produced plastics,” and warns that an even more dire scenario lies ahead. At the current pace, 12bn metric tons of plastic waste will be discarded in landfills or in the environment by 2050. This amount is about 35,000 times as heavy as the Empire State Building in New York City. “Most plastics don’t biodegrade in any meaningful sense, so the plastic waste humans have generated could be with us for hundreds or even thousands of years,” said Jenna Jambeck, study co-author and associate professor of engineering at the University of Georgia. “Our estimates underscore the need to think critically about the materials we use and our waste management practices.” Researchers compiled their data from production statistics for resins, fibres and additives from a variety of industry sources. The report found that as of 2015, nearly 6.3bn metric tons of plastic waste was generated on our planet. A total of 79% of that plastic waste accumulated in landfills or the environment, including the oceans. Despite widespread efforts toward re-usability, only 9% was recycled. Another 12% was incinerated, a process that can also be harmful to the environment. Recycling is not much help when it comes to plastics, because they do not dissolve in the environment. None of the plastics in widespread use are biodegradable. Just over two tons of plastics were produced globally in 1950, when mass manufacturing of the durable material began, said the report. By 2015, that number skyrocketed to over 440 million tons, outpacing most other man-made materials, with the exception of steel and cement. About half of the total amount of plastics produced from 1950 to 2015 has been made in just the past 13 years. While steel and cement are used for years, most plastic is used in packaging – think plastic water bottles or snack food packaging that are used once and discarded. “Roughly half of all the steel we make goes into construction, so it will have decades of use – plastic is the opposite,” said Roland Geyer, lead author of the paper and associate professor in University of California, Santa Barbara’s Bren School of Environmental Science and Management. “Half of all plastics become waste after four or fewer years of use.” The share of plastics in municipal solid waste increased from less than 1% in 1960 to more than 10% by 2005 in middle- and high-income countries. Plastic debris can now be found in oceans all over the world. The same team of researchers reported in 2015 eight million metric tons of plastic entered the oceans in 2010.
Film brings Native influence on US music out of shadows
Life / Arts
American music took shape and went global thanks to the country's melting pot of influences.
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