Mrs. I Donthaveaphd No, it is not hammers, spatulas, screwdrivers, or nuts; the iPhone is the most useful tool right now. However, if you are the type of user who does not know anything about their phone and just swipes away hoping for the best, you probably do not even know how great your phone…
Hindustan Times: Being a woman is tough in China — at least if you go by how men and women spend their day. Chinese women on average spend 2.1 hours a day on housework, roughly three times that of men, according to a survey by the National Bureau of Statistics conducted last year and published…
Reuters: The Philippine military said on Thursday it has arrested a Muslim cleric who knew in advance about a bomb that killed 11 people on Basilan island in an attack earlier this week that raised fears of Islamic State involvement. Acting on a tip off, scout rangers raided the home of Indalin Jainul, alias Ustadz…
AFP: Small tsunami waves lapped New Caledonia, Fiji and Vanuatu Wednesday after a strong earthquake in the Pacific Ocean, but the threat passed without any damage reported. After the 7.1 magnitude quake struck off the eastern coast of New Caledonia, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said “waves reaching 0.3 to 1 meter above the tide…
DOT Desk: Local influential persons have grabbed a large portion of Dhupkhola Math in Gendaria, depriving children of sporting entertainment, reports The Daily Sun. The sprawling open space has been turned into a parking lot of trucks, rickshaws, human hauliers and other vehicles in connivance of the officials of Dhaka South City Corporation and local…
Daily Mail: A Chinese space probe has moved into position to land on the dark side of the moon for the first time, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The probe, the Chang’e-4, entered a planned orbit on Sunday ‘to prepare for the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon’, the news…
The Guardian, UK: The number of children put on to local authority care plans because their parents have been accused of emotional abuse has soared over the past decade, research has found, amid warnings that some families are being broken up without justification. Analysis of national care statistics shows that the use of “emotional abuse”…
David Nield/Science Alert Could nature’s smallest organisms help us to combat rising CO2 levels and even oil spills? Strange as it might seem, the answer might be yes, with research into newly discovered deep-sea microbes suggesting these tiny critters possess a keen appetite for pollutants. The microbes – collected in the Gulf of California, around…
M Humayun Kabir: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has congratulated Australia’s newly elected Prime Minister Scott Morrison on his assumption of office. In a message sent yesterday, she said, “On behalf of the government and the people of Bangladesh and on my own behalf, I’ve the great pleasure in extending our warmest felicitations to you on…
AP, Idomeni Hundreds of migrants, egged on by activists, are protesting near the fence separating Macedonia from Greece, demanding that the border be opened to allow them to continue their journey into central Europe. Greek riot police are standing between the fence and the protesters, who are chanting “Open the borders!” and holding placards. Macedonian…