Source: Government of Yukon. The Klondike gold fields of Canada’s far north west territory of Yukon delivered miners a pleasant surprise when they uncovered the mummified body of a baby woolly mammoth. On June 21, workers were excavating an area of permafrost near the Eureka Creek in the Tr’oendek Hwech’in Traditional Territory when the mummy…
Source: Bongbong Marcos, Twitter. The son of former Filipino President Ferdinand Marcos Sr has been sworn into office saying he wants to do “well” for his country. The 64-year-old who goes by Bongbong Marcos won last month’s election with 31 million votes, equivalent to 58.77 per cent of total votes to make him the 17th…
“Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced the first phase of its national monkeypox vaccine strategy, a critical part of its monkeypox outbreak response,” The White House said on Wednesday. The US has announced that eligible people will be able to receive a monkeypox vaccine as cases continue to rise around the world. President Joe Biden and…
Scott Hines has been sentenced to jail, having stolen more than $360,000 over a 10-year period. Scott Hines, a former ANZ financial advisor was sentenced to three years and five months in jail after it was found he stole money from a client. He pleaded guilty to three charges of obtaining a financial advantage by…
Filippino was the son of Fra Fillipio Lippi, a painter of the Quattrocento who was also a priest. Source: Dawsons. Evaluators were shocked when they were sent to appraise the estate of a 90-year-old woman and discovered a 16th century masterpiece. The Antiques Roadshow’s Siobhan Tyrell was doing a valuation on the contents of a…
The report alleges that six UNRWA teachers engaged in conduct that encouraged the death of Israeli’s. Source: UNRWA, Twitter. Teachers working for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) have been suspended while their alleged actions are under review. A report released by UN Watch detailed that several teachers working for…
The ban is set to come in late 2023. The state government has added more items to the list of single-use plastics that are set to be banned by 2026. Microbeads, polystyrene packing peanuts and plastic-stemmed cotton buds will be phased out of Queensland by September 1, 2023, according to the government who also listed…
When Joe Biden became US President, he said that he would recommit to the 2015 deal. Source: Shutterstock. Iranian ambassador to the UN Majid Takht Ravanchi said that they were open to indirect talks with the US to re-establish the 2015 nuclear deal that went pear-shaped. Speaking to the UN Security Council on Thursday, he…
The test is an effort to change the trajectory and learn what could be a very important skill for protecting the planet. Source: Wikimedia Commons. In less than 90 days, NASA will ambitiously attempt to smash a spacecraft into an asteroid to re-route it. The plan is called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) and…
The 32-year-old Belgian born terrorist was a devout follower of ISIS. Source: DOCUMENT HET NIEUWSBLAD. One of the 2015 Paris attacks terrorists was sentenced to full life in jail after he was found guilty of murder and attempted murder. Abdeslam will serve the sentence without any chance of parole and he is the last survivor…