When Disaster Strikes!
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Ransomware Attacks Around the World Grow By 50%
Ransomware attacks on businesses around the world rose 50% last year, research into successful cyber-breaches shows. Its popularity means malware is now responsible for 51% of all the incidents...
Bangladeshi Girl With Three Legs ‘walks, Runs’ After Australia Surgery
A toddler born with three legs -- because body parts of a twin had grown inside her -- was returning home to Bangladesh Friday after complex and rare surgery in Australia enabled her to walk and run,...
Macedonia Parliament Stormed By Protesters In Skopje
Protesters stormed into Macedonia's parliament on Thursday after an ethnic Albanian was elected as speaker. A brawl broke out injuring at least 10 people, including the Social Democrat leader Zoran...
UK ‘Iron Man’ Demonstrates Flying Suit
A British inventor, who built an Iron Man-style flight suit, has flown it at the Ted (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference in Vancouver. Richard Browning's short flight took place outside...
Thai Folk Music Strikes A Global Chord
Hipsters in flowing skirts and crop tops sway to the Thai band's hypnotic groove at an exclusive music festival in Thailand, while a clutch of cleaning staff quietly look on from the fringes. "I had...
Embrace Ghana Internet Exchange – Businesses Urged
The Ghana Internet Service Providers Association (GISPA) has urged all domestic corporate businesses and academic institutions to embrace the Ghana Internet eXchange (GIX) by connecting their traffic...
Turkey Suspends 9,000 Police In Crackdown
Turkey’s police force has suspended more than 9,000 officers over alleged links to the US-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen. It said the action had been taken on the grounds of national...
Chancellor Merkel Warns UK On Scope of Talks With EU
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says some British people have "illusions" about discussing the UK's future ties with the EU at the same time as nailing down the UK's Brexit terms. The future...
Over 200 Stranded Nigerians Repatriated From Libya
253 Nigerian nationals stranded in Libya have been returned back home with the help of the United Nations migration agency International Organisation for Migration (IOM). An Airbus A333-200 airplane...
Congolese Plantation Sprouts Art Centre To Help the Poor
There is no tap water, electricity or shops in Lusanga, a Congolese town once known as Leverville where the Dutch-British conglomerate Unilever long ran a profitable palm oil plantation. But the...
Tunisian Coastguard Tackles High-Speed Smugglers
Dimming the lights on their patrol boat, Tunisian coastguards stand in silence scanning the sea for speedboats on clandestine missions to and from Italy. Smuggling gangs are using high-performance...
Film Festival Spotlights Racism In France
Alexandre Amiel was alarmed when his 11-year-old son asked the day after the attacks on Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Jewish supermarket in Paris: "Why do they hate us?" The veteran filmmaker's answer...
Distressed Companies To Benefit From GHC220m Rescue Package
The government, through its National Industrial Revitalisation Programme (NIVP) has provided GH?220 million to revive distressed but viable local companies across the country. The programme, which...
Distressed Companies To Benefit From GHc220m Rescue Package
The government, through its National Industrial Revitalisation Programme (NIVP) has provided GH?220 million to revive distressed but viable local companies across the country. The programme, which...
Jewish Community Lives On
In a remote corner of the Indonesian archipelago, a modest synagogue stands in a tiny Jewish community that has found acceptance despite rising intolerance in the world's most populous...
Manchester United Drumbeat Booms For Flagging Guardiola
Jose Mourinho has an opportunity to score a seismic victory over his old foe Pep Guardiola when his Manchester United side visit misfiring Manchester City on Thursday. Guardiola oversaw a one-sided...
In Muslim Indonesia, Tiny Jewish Community Lives On
In a remote corner of the Indonesian archipelago, a modest synagogue stands in a tiny Jewish community that has found acceptance despite rising intolerance in the world's most populous...
Turkey Suspends More Than 9,000 Police Officers Over ‘Gulen Links’
Turkey's police force has suspended more than 9,000 officers over alleged links to the US-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen. It said the action had been taken on the grounds of national...
Artist of the Year So Far
So we decided to audit every entertainer's showbiz account in order to determine the most outstanding act for the first quarter of the year. We know the criteria for this are relative. Not all of us...