Burundi: Former Prime Minister sentenced to life in prison

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​africa news​​​ Burundi's Supreme Court sentenced former prime minister Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni to life in prison on Friday (Dec. 08). He was convicted on charges including attempting to overthrow →

Technology is stealing your time in ways you may not realise – here’s what you can do about it

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​conversation​​​ Technology is supposed to make our lives easier. Smart phones provide a palm-size window to the world, enabling us to do almost anything at the touch of a button. Smart homes look →

Israel-Hamas war live: Palestinians slam US for sinking UN ceasefire call

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al jazeera By Virginia Pietromarchi and Usaid Siddiqui Palestinian officials slam US veto of UN Security Council resolution urging an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza as “disastrous” and “a →

Uncanny valley: What’s the latest TikTok makeup trend?

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​al jazeera​​​ By Sarah Shamim Pasty skin, empty eyes and slightly misshapen features against delirious music tracks – it’s the recent Tik Tok trend with a dose of disconcerting strangeness. →

US' 'fighting a proxy war to avoid a real NATO-Russia war' rhetoric is absurd

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​global times​​​ While the US is running out of money to support Kiev in its war with Moscow, in despair, President Joe Biden has turned to a seeming alarmist talk to "scare" Congress into paying →

Google's Gemini launch tells Chinese AI developers: latecomers can bridge gap with determination

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​global times​​​ By Liu Caiyu While OpenAI has been continuously iterating and gaining widespread attention in the past few months, Google finally dropped a bombshell by unveiling its long-awaited →

Here are the richest countries in Africa

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​africa news​​​ It is Nigeria, a country in West Africa, which stands out as the most powerful economy on the continent. With a GDP estimated at $477 billion in 2022, Nigeria is at the top of the →

A maverick physicist is building a case for scrapping quantum gravity

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​science news​​​ By Emily Conover A rift runs deep through the heart of physics. The general theory of relativity, which describes gravity, clashes with quantum physics. In an effort to seal that →

Mandatory health checks and probationary periods: MEPs vote on EU driving licence rules

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​brussels times​​​ By Isabella Vivian The European Parliament's Transport Committee backed new EU driving licence rules on Thursday to improve road safety, including updated validity limits and →

Tyranny Comes to Main Street

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​american conservative​​​ by James Bovard Americans today have the “freedom” to be fleeced, groped, wiretapped, injected, censored, injected, ticketed, disarmed, beaten, vilified, detained, and maybe →

America’s Destructive Education System

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​american thinker​​​ By Alexander G. Markovsky In 1983, the Reagan administration published a report titled “A Nation at Risk: The Imperative of Education Reform.” The report warned that the decay of →

The Government Controls You by Lying About Its Policies And Laws

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​american thinker​​​ By Allan J. Feifer Mark Twain once said, “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” More than one reader has told →

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