Anadolu Agency Palestinian security forces on Wednesday prevented the speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (parliament), Aziz Dwaik, from going to the West Bank city of Ramallah, amid tension over a recent court ruling dissolving the assembly. “I was briefly held by security forces near the city of Bethlehem, which banned me from heading to…
Laurien Beane, Course Coordinator, Queensland Undergraduate Early Childhood, Australian Catholic University/The Conversation, Australia As the new year dawns, parents likely turn their thoughts to their child and new beginnings they may experience as they enter an early childhood education and care centre or preschool. Naturally, it’s a time of reflection on the previous year, and…
Banglanews24 Voters will exercise their franchise in a straw polls today (Dec 27), only in the six constituencies where Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) to be used in the 11th parliamentary elections. The voting will continue from 10am to 4pm. Election Commission (EC) sources confirmed the decision Wednesday (Dec 26). The mock voting has been organized…
Aditya Neupane, Associated with My City of Republica/My Republica A high female workforce-participation rate, a vestige of the war, helps the country exploit its demographic dividend. That’s good news for foreign money. Development of a country is impossible without psycho-socio wellbeing of its citizens. Nepal is a home to around 30 million people. A small-scale…
Anadolu Agency At least 10 people were slightly injured after a volcanic eruption triggered earthquakes in southern Italy, Italian news agency reported on Wednesday. The Catania city of Sicily, a Mediterranean island, was hit by a magnitude 4.8 earthquake on early Wednesday, ANSA reported citing local officials. Some old buildings were damaged due to the…
Digital Trends Gigapixel images let you zoom in to all parts of the photo to view it in astonishing detail, and this latest one from Chinese firm BigPixel is certainly no exception. Showing the Chinese city of Shanghai and shot from atop the 230-meter-tall Oriental Pearl Tower, the picture comprises a whopping 195 gigapixels. For…
Nine Planets Precisely on time on Dec. 24, 1968, Mission Control lost contact with Apollo 8 and its crew of Frank Borman, James A. Lovell, and William A. Anders. And everyone at NASA and onboard Apollo 8 was happy about that. It meant that the spacecraft and crew were on a precise trajectory to swing…
NB Magazine I had high hopes for this book. I’ve been hearing about it since the summer and I think it’s been one of the most highly anticipated books of the year. So, did it meet my high expectations? Oh yes, and it went way beyond them. Anyone who has school-aged children will know that…
Science Alert Everybody loves a good optical illusion – and this recently discovered perception trick has us questioning how we see the world around us. Take a look at those lines in the image above (or you can see the full picture below if you scroll down a bit). What kind of lines do you…
News Now I am on the record as loving snow and cheerfully tolerating cold. So you’d think I would love winter. And I do, mostly. But as of this week, I am very much ready for winter to pack up its bags and leave the D.C. area. The reason: ice. Ice is the worst. Ok,…