Monday 4 March 2013

Deadly plane crash in DR Congo's Goma

Deadly plane crash in DR Congo's Goma It came down in the city centre shortly before it was due to land in bad weather at Goma airport.
A government spokesman said no-one appeared to have died on the ground as the plane fell in an empty area. Earlier reports suggested as many as 30 people had died.
DR Congo has a poor air safety record.
Its airlines have been banned by the European Union from flying into EU airspace.Two years ago, 74 people were killed in a crash at the airport in the central city of Kisangani.
Last year, President Joseph Kabila's personal adviser, Augustin Katumba, was killed in a crash in the city of Bukavu.

Wednesday 20 June 2012

The Cairo Thousands of Egyptians gathered in Cairo's

The Cairo Thousands of Egyptians gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square Tuesday night to protest what they call a coup by Egypt's military rulers and show their support for the Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate.
Conflicting reports about the health of ousted President Hosni Mubarak overshadowed the protest, as one news agency reported he was clinically dead, which the military quickly denied.
"He is not clinically dead as reported, but his health is deteriorating and he is in critical condition," Gen. Mamdouh Shahin, a member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, told CNN.
Conflicting reports about whether Mubarak has died
"They're playing with us," one Tahrir Square demonstrator said. "All of the sudden, all of this? If he's really dead, it's God's will. I would hope he lives to see the new president."

More wind and heat could hamper Colorado wildfire fight

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CNN Forecasters are expecting warmer than normal temperatures and gusty winds Tuesday in a northern Colorado area already ravaged by a wildfire, not a good combination for the legion of firefighters trying to extinguish the blaze.
The High Park Fire had consumed 59,500 acres of woodland by Tuesday, but it was about 50% contained, authorities reported.
Tuesday's forecast by the National Weather Service is similar to Monday's blazing heat and winds that whipped up the blaze.

The Japan's exports surge 10%

The Japan's exports have risen the most in 17 months easing concerns about the impact of a global slowdown on the Japanese economy.
Exports rose 10% in May from a year earlier, boosted by a 38% jump in deliveries to the US.
Shipments to China, Japan's biggest trading partner, also rose for the first time in eight months.
Japan's export-dependent economy relies heavily on demand from markets such as the US, Europe and China for growth.
Meanwhile, imports also rose by a better-than-expected 9% during the month, which analysts said was a sign that domestic demand may also be picking up.

North Carolina zoo elephant may get contacts

The Officials at the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro and the North Carolina State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine are considering giving an elephant at the zoo contact lenses after he had a second cataract surgery in six months earlier in June.
The 38-year-old African bull elephant, C’sar, weighs 12,000 pounds and has been at the zoo since 1978.
Now officials are considering whether contact lenses would help C’sar’s vision even more.
Zookeepers say C’sar had become lethargic because he couldn’t see well and officials had worried they might have to euthanize him. But he improved greatly after the first cataract surgery, encouraging the veterinarians to consider further procedures.

Tuesday 19 June 2012

15 things your walk reveals about

The Walk into an exam room and a trained eye can tell a lot about you in seconds: Your stride, gait, pace, and posture while walking can reveal surprising information about your overall health and well-being.
"Many physicians are keenly aware, when they see someone walking down the street, what their diagnosis might be, whether their underlying health is good or bad, and if not good, a number of tip-offs to what might be wrong," says Charles Blitzer, an orthopedic surgeon in Somersworth, New Hampshire, and a spokesperson for the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons.
Find out what the following 15 walking styles may signal about your health.
The 10 Best Cities for Walking Walking speed is a reliable marker for longevity, according to a University of Pittsburgh analysis of nine large studies, reported in a January 2011 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association. The 36,000 subjects were all over age 65. In fact, predicting survival based on walking speed proved to be as accurate as using age, sex, chronic conditions, smoking, body mass index, hospitalizations, and other common markers. It's especially accurate for those over age 75.

The Raising Of Olympia: Keri-Anne Payne

Champion Open water swimmer Keri Anne Payne 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, silver medal, but things could have been very different, when the disappointing finish in the 2006 Commonwealth Games left in his questioning of her in the future.
Payne wanted to walk away from the sport, when the Commonwealth Games produced not medal. Always have been, and are being pushed to the limits of the fourth place itself, is not sufficient, the swimmer. It was some time before he seemed back to his training for the 2008 Beijing Games, are you ready.His mother, Pat after the Commonwealth Games, the fourth, he was very disappointed, for himself, "remember. "We thought was great, but he is not."As his mum had to sit and have a shoulder to cry, someone to talk to and help him return to his training, and back to the competitive side. "Pat Payne looks overloaded, such as Lisette through Hyde Park, imagining his daughter to arrive in August for his 2012 London Games "it is Avery's iconic place, Hyde Park. It is difficult to concentrate even sometimes. Knowing what he has gone through, how he has worked, it has digital Eclipse, the whole family really wracking. "Keri Anne Payne and his wish to repeat his triumph in Beijing are, if he reaches the 10 k Open water race silver medal.When he won a silver medal in the open bottles of champagne at into the street and We danced I woke up all! , "says Pat Payne. He adds, looking forward to August is awesome. "for all of his work in the future, in conjunction with the.