US nuclear submarine collides with 'unknown object': there are wounded
Fifteen American sailors received minor injuries after the submarine collided with an "unknown object" while diving into the waters of the South China Sea. Writes about this BBC. The USS Connecticut boat collided with the object back on Saturday, October 15. American officials said that ...
How many nuclear warheads each of the countries that have them, and what will happen if they all explode
The State Department has released the number of nuclear warheads in the United States arsenal. This data was released for the first time since the presidency of Donald Trump (since 2016). He banned the publication of such information, writes Voice of America. As of September 30, 2020 at ...
NATO excludes 8 Russians from mission for 'secret espionage'
On Wednesday, October 6, it became known that NATO (North Atlantic Alliance) expelled eight members of the Russian mission in the military alliance, claiming that they were secretly working as intelligence officers. The Alliance also halved the Moscow team capable of working at NATO headquarters. Writes about this AP ...
Facebook has one of the biggest disruptions in history: what caused it
Facebook crash yesterday (October 4th) became one of the largest in history. The outage affected billions of people, and it's not just direct Facebook users, TSN reports. The global Facebook outage that took place on Monday October 4th became ...
Pandora Papers: Journalists Uncover Secret Offshores of Politicians, Stars and Businessmen Around the World
The Pandora Papers, the largest offshore data leak in history, reveals the financial secrets of the rich and powerful, The Guardian reports. Secret deals and hidden assets of some of the world's richest and most powerful people have been revealed in the largest offshore...
A very effective drug for COVID-19 has been created in the United States: just a few pills are enough
An experimental drug prevented half of the COVID-19 infections that would otherwise have resulted in hospitalization. This study offers the prospect that the disease could soon be treated with pills. More details were told by the USA Today edition. The antiviral drug molnupiravir, manufactured by Merck & Co. and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics ...
Mixed drugs: at least one baby was accidentally injected with the vaccine against COVID-19
On Thursday, September 23, Turkish social media users were furious at statements by Ege University School of Medicine professor Zafer Kurugöl, who said that children, including infants, were accidentally vaccinated against COVID-19 in Izmir province. Writes about this Duvar ...
Day without food and water: British Airlines flight survived two emergencies and was late by 28 hours
Hundreds of British Airways passengers from Pakistan eventually arrived at London Heathrow Airport, almost 28 hours late after an unscheduled landing in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. What happened, said the Independent. Flight BA260 from Islamabad to London Heathrow Airport ...
Zoologists are puzzled: bees have killed dozens of rare penguins
Bees have bitten to death rare penguins in Africa, according to the BBC. Sixty-three endangered African penguins died from bee stings near Cape Town. Spectacled, or donkey, penguins nest on the southwestern coast of Africa, which is washed by cold ...
Britain indicted third suspect in Skripal poisoning
Britain has indicted a third suspect in the poisoning of a former employee of the Russian GRU Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, according to the BBC. For the first time, the British police officially named the name of the third Russian who, according to law enforcement agencies, was involved in the poisoning of the former GRU officer Sergei ...