Corax
WWE chairman and CEO Vince McMahon retires at 77 with a USD 3.4 billion fortune, the decision follows an investigation by the company's board for agreements to pay USD 12 million over 16 years to suppress allegations of sexual misconduct, is succeded by his daughter Stephanie
World
WHO declares monkeypox a global health emergency which is its highest alert level, Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says the outbreak has spread rapidly and that they understand too little about the transmission, more than 16,000 cases of the zoonosis have been reported across 75 countries so far this year, 98% of infections among men who have sex with men and primarily those who have had multiple recent anonymous or new sexual partners
Russia and Ukraine reach deal to resume grain exports from three Ukrainian Black Sea ports, the deal also signed by UN and Turkey
18 migrants dead and 76 injured after two-hour skirmish as 2,000 adult men stormed the border between Morocco and the Spanish enclave Melilla, 130 people breached the border and are evaluated at a local migrant center, 140 Moroccan security officers injured
Swimming's world governing body Fina votes to stop transgender athletes from competing in women's elite races if they have gone through any part of male puberty, requires that the sex change is finished by the age of 12, aims to establish an open category for swimmers who do not identify with their sex
Travel mayhem predicted for the summer, extreme airport lines and canceled flights in Ireland, the Netherlands, UK and US among other countries, Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary has commented that the UK should bring in the army to help ease the chaos
WHO comments that monkeypox is not a gay disease just because the cases have mainly been identified among men who have sex with men, explains that the overrepresentation can be explained by the community's tendence to contact health services regarding sexual health concerns
G7 finance ministers announce commitment of USD 19.8 billion in financial support to Ukraine, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner says they stand by Ukraine during this war and after that and are ready to do more, rules out EU Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans' idea of a borrowing scheme similar to EU's Covid-19 recovery fund Next Generation EU as that was a one-off opportunity
Miscellaneous
Merriam-Webster amends its definition of "female" to include "having a gender identity that is the opposite of male", the definition of "woman" has lately been hotly debated including in recent Congressional hearings
Indian police shut down elaborate hoax cricket league created to dupe Russian gamblers, a group of men in the state of Gujarat hired a field and dressed up labourers to play, set up cameras and streamed on YouTube with a commentator and added crowd noice, gamblers reportedly bet USD 6,000 on the matches, four people charged with criminal conspiracy and gambling
Anne Frank trends on Twitter after intense debate regarding whether she was a beneficiary of white privilege
James Caan dead at 82, got his breakthrough as Sonny Corleone in The Godfather, reversed his personal policy of staying out of politics by vocally supporting Donald Trump and criticizing the liberal Hollywood
British Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society laments the adding of QR tracking codes on stamps, society founder Dinah Johnson says that the digital world has been forced on the pure and simple letter writing and that the romance of uncertainty is lost, Johnson says she has covered the codes despite not wanting to deface stamps and that she has sent a letter to the Royal Mail CEO without getting a reply
Media
Google, Facebook, TikTok and Instagram all suppress any advertising for Alex's War, the documentary about Alex Jones is ranked 2nd on the iTunes movie preorder rankings behind Top Gun: Maverick, director Alex Lee Moyer says the movie is an impartial, fly-on-the-wall look at why so many revere Jones as a hero when he has said things that would make anybody uncomfortable
Twitter sues Elon Musk to try to force him to buy the company according to his contractual obligations, Musk walked away from his proposed USD 44 billion takeover due to not being given information about the number of fake and spam accounts on the platform
Dutch right wing broadcaster Ongehoord Nederland fined EUR 92,000 for spreading wrongful information and not differentiating between facts and opinion, allowed for instance Flemish politician Felix de Winter to unopposed talk about replacement theory, ON chair Arnold Karskens calls the fine unjustified and says they are getting fined for letting elected representatives speak about mass migration and the consequenses of rampant climate measures
Elon Musk threatens to walk away from his USD 44 billion bid to buy Twitter as the company repeatedly has refused to provide information regarding the amount of spam bot accounts, says the company's offer of only providing details about the testing methods breaches the merger agreement obligations
BBC alters female rape victim's quote from he/him to they/them to prevent misgendering the transgender attacker, the pronouns reportedly changed on advice from the 14-member central diversity team in accordance with the editorial policy
Politics
The European parliament votes to end sale of petrol and diesel car by 2035 in EU, MEPs still have to negotiate the final law with ministers from the 27 national governments, the proposed law is part of a broader climate crisis response with the goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by the end of the decade
Boris Johnson calls for a return to the workplace to drive up productivity and revive Britain's town and city centres, says his experience of working from home involves spending an awful lot of time making another cup of coffee and walking very slowly to hack off a small piece of cheese before forgetting what it was he was doing when returning to the computer
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the idea of defunding the police is not the position of the Democratic Party as community safety is their oath of office, the slogan was frequently used during the 2020 elections but Pelosi now quotes her far left colleague Ritchie Torres' statement that "defund the police" is dead
Joe Biden calls Fox News journalist a stupid son of a bitch after being asked if he thinks inflation will be a political liability ahead of the midterms
Joe Biden reassures his allies that he plans to run for 2024 reelection, the message follows six-month stretch where his national approval rating has plummeted more than a dozen points into the low 40s amid growing inflation concerns, top donor John Morgan says he is unsure regarding Biden's future health despite recent health checkup showing the 79-year-old to be healthy and vigorous
Andrew Anglin: Antifa in Australia protests in support of more lockdowns and forced vaccination, obviously has no interest in “opposing the power structure” but supports every aspect of the agenda of the global ruling class
Japan prime minister Abe Shinzo resigns due to health concerns, recently became the longest sitting prime minister in the post world war two era, Abe has a brief stint as prime minister between 2006 and 2007 when he was also forced to resign due to chronic illness which was later claimed to have been successfully medicated
Opinion
Vladimir Putin: For 30 years we have tried to come to an agreement with Nato regarding equal and indivisible security in Europe but have faced a continued military expansion despite our protests and concerns, a hostile anti-Russia fully controlled from the outside is taking shape in territories adjacent to Russia and this crosses the red line which we have spoken about on numerous occasions, we are acting to defend ourselves from the threats created for us and from a worse peril than what is happening now
Jeffrey Tucker: The world seemingly forgetting about natural immunity despite it being documented since the Peloponnesian War might constitute what Murray Rothbard called "lost knowledge" where known truths are forgotten and have to be rediscovered, remarkable that the hysteria keeps festering when everyone carries access to nearly all the world's information in their pockets
Peter Hitchens: Just like the Red fanatics, the Green fanatics think they're too good and noble to possibly be wrong, but just like Soviet Union the UK will begin to get colder and darker as efficient nuclear and coal-fired power stations are dismantled and the country is made hopelessly reliant on expensive non-green gas and by autumn all will be paying hard cash to sustain the dogmatic lunacy of a power elite wholly gripped with Green zealotry
Paul A. Nuttall: Viktor Orbán's 5-question referendum on LGBTQ+ law is a brave move, if he wins it could be the end of Hungary's EU membership and if he loses it would be curtains for him as prime minister, EU doesn’t like referendums as it does not like to leave anything to chance, but will now make the referendum about Hungary's membership, confident its people will be cowed into voting against Orbán’s proposals
Matthew Crawford: When science is elevated to authority to rule society it is distorted into a scientistic religion, manipulation becomes necessary to make public opinion conform to official intepretation of research results, leads to unstable regime which provokes stronger and more militant counterreactions
Peter Hitchens: The West pushes for war with Russia, which is a broken former superpower with the economy of about the same size as Italy's, imagine how US would act if Soviet had won the cold war, engulfed the former Nato nations into the Warsaw Pact, encouraged Texas and California to form an independent Spanish-speaking nation hostile to the US and based troops along the American border
Peter Hitchens: Scotland Yard’s raid on Polish Church of Christ the King in Balham during Good Friday devotions proof of revolution where much we used to know and believe is being insistently destroyed, with Johnson Government’s contemptuous indifferent to how insulting their actions are to those who acknowledge a power higher than them, but if the police had come in with Communist emblems on their cap-badges the Poles probably would have thrown them out, but free countries are incredibly easy to turn into despotisms, because nobody can believe what is happening
Kevin Karp: EU press Northern Ireland’s onerous post-Brexit arrangement as key for the Good Friday Agreement, while using it as a political prop to claw the rest of Britain back into the EU regulatory straitjacket, whatever the damage this causes to peace in Northern Ireland, spurring the recent sectarian violence and validating EU’s condescending disregard for British interests
Hans-Hermann Hoppe: Political exploitation of Covid-19 frighteningly successful, the state kills and makes ill more people than it saves with protective measures, at the same time local leaders are given opportunities to challenge central power and the critical importance of decentralized decision making is demonstrated
Europe
Lithuania lifts the ban on rail transport of sanctioned goods in and out of the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, decision made after the EU last week said the ban only affects road transit
Italy's President Sergio Mattarella dissolves parliament after Prime Minister Mario Draghi's resignation, national elections to be held on September 25, journalist Alessio Perrone says far-right parties together currently poll at 40% and that migration will be a major talking point in the electoral campaign
More than 15,000 boat migrants have arrived Britain from France during 2022, twice as many as during the same period in 2021, the daily high so far this year was 651 people in 18 boats on April 13 which was followed by Home Secretary Priti Patel arranging for illegal immigrants to be sent to Rwanda
The Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds drops ballet from auditions as it is deemed an elitist art form built around white European ideas and body shapes, says ballet has gender-divided roles and its terminology has strongly gendered roots, which is problematic in relation to inclusion of non-binary and trans dancers, part of school's plan to decolonise the curriculum
Ukraine petition calling for same-sex marriage to be legalized reaches 28,000 signatures meaning President Zelensky has 10 days to respond, the country's first official Pride march was held in 2013 after the 2012 march was cancelled due to skinheads threatening the participants, 12% of Ukrainians are positive to the LGBT community while 38% are negative according to a May poll
Heathrow tells airlines to stop selling summer tickets and imposes 100,000 passengers per day cap until September 11 to fix long queues and baggage problems, 93,000 already booked passengers estimated be affected by the news without compensation as the issue is outside the airlines' control
Germany's Social Democratic Party SPD investigates reports of at least eight women being drugged with Rohypnol-like substance during the internal summer party in Berlin
Dutch police arrest 19 farmers who blockaded a distribution central near Rotterdam for three days, 16-year-old who was shot at with live rounds in his tractor by police during demonstration near Heerenveen released after the accusation was withdrawn, protests also held in Amsterdam, Arnhem and Hilversum, four access roads to Minister for Nature and Nitrogen Policy Christianne van der Wal's home blocked off by police to stop protests
North America
Florida jury finds Tesla 1% to blame for teenager's 2018 death crash in Fort Lauderdale as they granted the teen's wish to disable the father's speed limiter, the teen crashed at 186 kph in a 48 kph zone and the limiter was formerly set at 136 kph
First Avenue in Minneapolis cancels Dave Chappelle show and apologizes after backlash on social media, Varsity Theater instead hosts the comedian with five sold-out shows over three days, Chappelle criticized for transphobic jokes such as comparing being transgender to wearing blackface and has despite years of callouts insisted that his views are biological facts
Sesame Place in Philadelphia apologizes and conducts bias training after viral video shows a costumed performer in a parade waved at two black girls instead of highfiving them, the family's attorney B'Ivory LaMarr says they request immediate termination of the employee and that the theme park takes care of any type of health care or mental care expenses that these children have realized
Three dead and two injured after Indiana mall shooting, the shooter who was armed with a rifle and several magazines of ammunition was shot dead by a legal carrier shortly after commencing the shooting, Police Chief Jim Ison calls the intervening citizen a hero, no info given regarding the perpetrator
Ivana Trump dead at 73 from cardiac arrest, was married to Donald Trump between 1977 and 1992 and had three children with him
73-year-old black man beaten to death with a traffic cone by seven youths in Philadelphia, USD 20,000 reward offered for information on the four black boys and three black girls caught on surveillance cameras, the attack was filmed by one of the assailants but police have not found the film on social media, overall crime in the city up more than 25% in 2022
Derek Chauvin sentenced to 21 years in federal jail for violating George Floyd's civil rights, the term runs concurrently with his 22.5-year state murder sentence, Chauvin to be transferred from the current state prison to a federal prison which by many is considered to be a far safer and less restrictive place
San Francisco couple threatened with USD 1,542 fine for parking in their own driveway, violated code section allowing parking in front of a garage but not in front of a house, tried getting waiver via aerial photo from 1938 showing the space being used for parking but the photo was deemed not clear enough, Planning Chief Dan Sider says he recognizes the frustration but that the code is needed for aesthetic reasons to ensure that front yards don't turn into parking lots
Latin America
At least 16 suspected gang criminals and one police officer dead in favela complex in Rio de Janeiro after police raid with 400 officers, ten bullet-proof vehicles and four helicopters, Governor Cláudio Castro laments the police officer's death and says he will continue to fight crime with all his strength, Complexo do Alemão holds 13 favelas and 70,000 people of which three-quarters are black
Tens of thousands protesting increasing inflation and food prices in Argentina, inflation at 6.7% monthly and 58% annually in April, 43% rise in poverty since the beginning of the year
German-speaking Covid-19 deniers seek to build 1,600-hectare gated community El Paraíso Verde in the Caazapá region of Paraguay, the current population of 150 will eventually grow to 3,000 according to the owners
710 people charged with crimes including sedition and vandalism in Cuba after taking part in anti-government protests in July 2021, 172 people already tried and convicted where the trials are criticized as unfair and the sentences ranging up to 30 years in prison are seen as disproportionate
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro says the identities of the officials who authorized Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccinations for 5-year-olds will be revealed despite the country's health regulator stating death threats have been received, comments that everyone has the right to know the names and to form their own judgment
El Salvador plans issuing USD 1 billion in tokenized Bitcoin bonds and build Bitcoin City, 10% VAT to be the only tax, nearby Conchagua volcano to provide energy for Bitcoin mining
At least 68 dead after eight-hour gun battle between rival gangs inside Ecuador's largest prison, more than 300 prisoners have died in clashes in penitentiaries across the country this year, authorities say overcrowding as well as inmates' access to guns constitute major problems but that pardons and international aid will help the situation
25 suspected bankrobbers killed by Brazilian police in offensive during the early hours of Sunday, police spokesperson calls the raid the biggest ever and compares the heavily armed gang to the cangaço outlaws who roamed the country's north-eastern backlands in the early 20th century
Colombian coca growers take 180 soldiers hostage during attempt to eradicate the illegal crops, General Omar Sepulveda says six plutoons were kidnapped in Tibu after being surrounded by farmers armed with sticks and machetes, the office of Colombia's human rights ombudsman has sent a delegation to try and secure the soldiers' release
Asia
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe both agree to resign after thousands of demonstrators stormed the president's residence and set the prime minister's private residence on fire, the country is in a crippling economic crisis with a severe shortage of fuel, food and medicine
Former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo dead after being shot while giving a speech in Nara during Friday morning, former navy member, Yamagami Tetsuya, arrested and his home-made double-barrelled shotgun seized
Authorities in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh demolish homes of people accused of involvement in last week's riots triggered by by two ruling BJP party figures' perceived derogatory remarks about the Prophet Muhammad, opposition leaders say state Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's government is pursuing unconstitutional tactics to silence protesters
Myanmar junta troops accused of torching hundreds of buildings during three-day raid against the People's Defense Force in the northern Sagaing region, junta chief Min Aung Hlaing says efforts were made to minimise the casualties when performing the counterattacks to terror acts and that the country is now in tranquility
Sri Lanka's prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe warns of food shortage as last year's decision to ban all chemical fertilisers drastically cut crop yields despite the ban then being reversed, promises to obtain enough fertilizer for the next planting season, 29.8% inflation in the country in April with food prices up 46.6% year-on-year
World's second-biggest wheat producer India bans wheat exports after scorching heatwave and record local prices, was prior to the ban targeting to ship out a record 10 million tonnes this year, the country's inflation on an eight-year high in April due to rising food and energy prices
27 dead and over 500,000 people with fever symptoms in North Korea, the country imposed nationwide lockdowns on Thursday after confirming its first Covid-19 infections, experts voice concern as North Korea has so far shunned vaccination offers, Kim Jong-un says they will be following the Chinese model of virus prevention
Japan accepted 74 refugees in 2021, highest number since it began recognizing refugees in 1982, Myanmar with 32 refugees constituted the largest group ahead of China's 18
MIDDLE EAST
Israel drops the threshold for cash transactions from USD 3,200 to USD 1,700 in accordance with the Law on Reducing the Use of Cash, tens of thousands of audit-raids on businesses have been conducted by the Tax Authority and 1.5 billion in fines have been collected since the law came into force in came into force in 2019, violations are punished with up to 30% of the transaction for businesses and 25% for private individuals, attempts at splitting payments is a criminal offense punishable by three years in prison
Turkish police detain at least 36 people in Ankara after dispersing a Pride march with teargas and pepper spray, follows last week's detaining of over 300 people during Pride march in Istanbul, widespread hostility towards homosexuality in the country and increasingly tougher police crackdowns on Pride parades which are banned in many cities
More than 100 arrested in Istanbul for participating in a Pride march, journalists' union says many were beaten by police, Pride marches banned in the city since 2015
Iran's state TV hacked to show a salute to Mujahedeen-e-Khalq leaders Massoud and Maryam Rajavi as well as a death threat to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
Iran asks its population to wear warm clothes to cut gas use the next ten days, the country has the world's second largest gas reserves and subsidizes it heavily, Oil Minister Javad Owji thanks God and the oil industry for the stability so far but emphasizes that further efforts are now needed
Turkish journalist Sedef Kabaş detained for using the Turkish proverb "a bull does not become king just by entering the palace, but the palace becomes a barn" on live television, risks four years prison sentence, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's Chief Spokesman Fahrettin Altun says a so-called journalist blatantly insulted the president with no goal other than spreading hatred
Iran agrees to replace damaged cameras at the Karaj nuclear facility after agreement with the UN nuclear watchdog IAEA
Turkey investigates 31 Syrians of which 11 is arrested and 7 to be deported on charges of provocatively eating bananas in social media posts, the viral trend began after a Turkish man complained about not affording bananas while the Syrians bought kilos, the arrested are charged with the crime of inciting or insulting the public to hatred and hostility
Israel's decision to label six Palestinian NGOs as terror organizations based on being PFLP fronts criticized internationally, UN Human Rights Office in Ramallah says the decision includes entirely peaceful activities and EU says the funding will continue, at least two of the organizations have denied the allegations
Africa
Amnesty International calls for an investigation into the Ethiopian June 18th ethnic massacre where the Oromo Liberation Army killed more than 450 Amhara civilians, burned down buildings and looted, government forces arrived hours after the attack ended despite early emergency calls
Zimbabwe's central bank says that gold coins will be issued as legal tender in late July to act as a store of value and reduce the demand for US dollars, inflation rate in the country more than doubled last month to 191%, economist Prosper Chitambara says that the measure will not fix the inflation problem as that is caused by money supply growth
At least 35 teenage girls rescued from baby factory hotel in south-eastern Nigeria where they were used as sex slaves and their babies sold on the black market, three suspects arrested accused of abducting the teenagers, engaging in sexual slavery and prostitution, and operating a baby factory
Nigeria bans bushmeat sales to stop the spread of monkeypox, six cases detected in the country this month of the infection that is endemic in the country
South Sudanese ram sentenced to three years at a military camp for killing a woman, the ram's owner is referred to as innocent by the major but a local court has ruled that he is to hand over five cows to the victim's family as compensation, the ram is also to be transferred to the victim's family after its three-year sentence according to local laws
24-hour curfew imposed with immediate effect in Nigerian state of Sokoto after hundreds protested to demand the release of suspects accused of stoning and burning the Christian student Deborah Samuel, Samuel was accused of making a social media post that blasphemed Prophet Muhammad, Kaduna state 500 kilometers from Sokoto bans protests related to religious activity citing moves to organize a similar demonstration
Ethiopia starts generating power from the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, the 84% finished dam is expected to double the nation's electricity output, Egypt and Sudan critical and vying for a deal with Ethiopia over the filling and operation of the dam as they fear for their Nile water
Nigeria declares a national emergency on ritual killings, bans movies on the popular theme, Deputy Minority Party leader Toby Okechukwu expresses concern that some youths in Nigeria seem stuck in the belief that sacrificing human blood is the surest route to wealth and safety
South African doctor Angelique Coetzee who was one of the first scientists to discover the Omicron strain criticizes the widespread attempts to pressure her into describing the virus as more dangerous than what she could observe, says she could not understand why politicians refused to listen to her first hand experience
Economy
European Central Bank raises key interest rates 0.5 percentage points and says furter hikes are to be expected after consumer prices in the eurozone rose at an 8.6% annual pace in June, first raise in 11 years
Tesla sells 75% of its bitcoin after its second-quarter profit falls 32% compared to the first record quarter, Elon Musk says the sell-off is not to be taken as some verdict of bitcoin and that they have not sold any of their dogecoin
UK consumer price index rises 9.4% annually in June to 40-year high, up from 9.1% in May, motor fuels soaring 42.3% on the year which is the highest rate ever since the series' construction in 1989, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey says there will be no ifs or buts regarding the Bank's commitment to return to the 2% target and that the current situation emphatically does not mean that the regime has failed
EUR reaches parity with USD for the first time in 20 years, 1 EUR was worth 1.13 USD in February, signals the market's assumption that the European economy is heading for a deep recession
200 Danish mechanics join the SAS pilots' strike, SAS says they will try and get their planes serviced in other countries but that it is clear that the strike will hurt them regarding the planes currently on the ground in need of regular maintenance
SAS announces that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US after the pilot strike, says it has sufficient liquidity to meet near term business obligations but that the strike hurts its position, comments that it has reduced costs, met with potential investors and engaged actively with multiple stakeholders to improve its overall financial strength
Turkish inflation soars to 78.6% year-on-year according to official data, highest rate since January 1998, up from 73.5% in May, Economy Minister Nureddin Nebati promises the people and President Erdoğan that there will be a drop in inflation starting in December
Kraken urges employees to quit if they don't agree with the company's libertarian values, offers four months' worth of wages to those affected, founder Jesse Powell makes announcement after time-consuming internal debates about gender and race initiated by woke activists
US inflation 8.6% year-on-year in May, highest increase since December 1981 and higher than the 8.3% Dow Jones estimate, real wages decline 0.6% from April and 3% on a 12-month basis, Joe Biden says he will push for further improvements to supply chains and continue efforts to bring down the budget deficit, the Biden administration has largely denied that the trillions of dollars directed toward Covid aid played a major role
Technology
Google fires engineer Blake Lemoine who despite lengthy engagement from the company maintained that the AI language technology Lamda is sentient, Google comments that Lemoine's claims are wholly unfounded and that they take the responsible development of AI very seriously, Lemoine who tested if the program used discriminatory or hate speech found that it showed self-awareness and could hold conversations about religion and emotions
The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration requests information from Tesla after 758 complaints regarding vehicles braking for no reason, demands access to all consumer and field reports about false braking as well as reports of crashes, injuries, deaths and property damage claims, also wants to know whether the Full Self-Driving system was active during any of the incidents, the problem reportedly might be connected to last year's decision to remove radar sensors from Model 3 and Model Y vehicles
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration asks Tesla Inc for information about a recent 2021 Tesla Model Y fire in Vancouver where the driver had to smash a window to exit the vehicle as the doors did not open and the windows did not go down when the power stopped working
Hyundai and Kia tell owners of almost 500,000 cars and SUVs in the United States to park outside and away from buildings due to a possible anti-lock brake defect caused by foreign contaminants that can cause the vehicles to spontaneously catch fire, owners can safely continue driving the vehicles according to company info
Tesla recalls the "full self-driving" driver-assist feature from all 53,822 vehicles as the beta version in some scenarios intentionally slowly rolls through stop signs, no known accidents related to the feature
The Law Commission of England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission propose to absolve users of autonomous cars of responsibility, carmakers instead to be liable for infringements such as dangerous driving, exceeding the speed limit or running a red light
Slovakia's transport authority issues Klein Vision's AirCar with certificate of airworthiness in accordance with European Aviation Safety Agency standards, the current prototype has completed more than 70 hours of test flights with 200 take-offs and landings, the 160 horsepower BMW engine provides a range of 500 kilometres
Science
150 million-year-old marine invertebrate with ten arms named Ausichicrinites zelenskyyi to honor the Ukraine president's courage and bravery in defending the country, the well-preserved fossil that was unearthed in Ethiopia is a feather star which are spectacularly colored and let nutrients moved by the current come to them as they wave their arms, the feather star also have the ability to shed an arm as anti-predator response
Covid-19 variant Omicron BA.5 which accounts for 54% of the US cases is claimed to pose the biggest threat yet to immune protection as it along with BA.4's 17% is four times more resistant to antibodies from vaccines than BA.2, Pfizer says it can have an updated vaccine targeting BA.4 and BA.5 ready to be distributed in October, the most common symptoms in the UK where the variants also dominate is a runny nose, sore throat, headache, persistent cough and fatigue with less than one in three reporting fevers
50 mg intravenous vitamin C per kilogram of body weight every 6 hours for up to 96 hours resulted in 17% increased risk of dying, according to Canadian randomized and placebo-controlled trial on 872 adults with sepsis who were receiving vasopressor therapy in the intensive care unit
Low butyrylcholinesterase levels linked to 1.3 times increased risk of sudden infant death syndrome according to Australian study comparing blood samples from 655 healthy children, 26 who died of Sids and 41 who died of other causes, the enzyme plays a major role in the brain's arousal pathway and a deficit might reduce an infant's ability to wake or respond to the external environment such as overheating or a blanket over the face
Pack of orcas attack and kill blue whales, some push the blue whale under water while other attack the head and tongue, three killings documented, marine ecologist Robert Pitman comments that it is amazing to see the biggest apex predator taking down the biggest prey
New insect species Phlogis kibalensis of the leafhopper family identified in western Uganda's rainforest by British scientist Dr Alvin Helden, the 6.5mm long male has distinctive metallic sheen, pitted body and leaf shaped reproductive organs, first Phlogis genus sighting since 1969
Chinese nuclear fusion reactor research facility in Anhui runs at 70 million degrees Celsius for over 17 minutes which lays a solid scientific and experimental foundation towards the running of a fusion reactor, according to researcher Gong Xianzu at the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Nasa launches USD 10 billion James Webb Space Telescope on to its one-million-mile voyage into solar orbit to give widest ever spectrum view to be able to peer back in time 13.5 billion years to a point within a 100 million years of the Big Bang, lifted off from European Space Agency's base in French Guiana
Researchers discoveres well-preserved 72-to 66-million-year-old embryo inside 17-cm long fossilised dinosaur egg, found in the rocks of Ganzhou in southern China and belongs to toothless theropod dinosaur group called oviraptorosaur, the embryo posture is similar to that seen in modern-day bird embryos