There’s a strange forest in Poland that’s filled with crooked…: Registration will allow you to post comments on GreenwichTime.com and create a GreenwichTime.com Subscriber Portal account for you to manage subscriptions and email preferences. There's a strange forest in Poland that's filled with crooked trees – and no one can explain how it got that …
The way history is taught in South Africa is ahistorical — and that’s a problem: History textbooks suggest that in 1994 when formal apartheid and racial exclusion ended, so did prejudice and racism. United Nations Photo/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND History may soon be a compulsory school subject until Grade 12 in South Africa. A task team …
Mary Magdalene – another Easter Jesus film that’s bad news for Judaism: Jesus and Mary, as portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara in Mary Magdalene. Transmission Films Easter is the season when Christians remember the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It’s also a season when Hollywood turns its attention to releasing biblically-themed films. …
We’ve come up with a TB test that’s cheaper, quicker and more accurate: Shutterstock Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease that kills more people due to a bacterial infection than any other disease in the world. In 2016, the World Health Organisation reported over 10 million new infections and 1.7 million deaths. In South Africa, TB …
Barrel Of Monkeys’ that’s Weird, Grandma: Stories for…: Barrel of Monkeys is pleased to present THAT'S WEIRD, GRANDMA: Stories for Change, an evening of stories showcasing the fascinating, poignant and often hilarious ideas students have for the change they'd like to see in their lives and their communities. The stories are created during Barrel of …
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Europe is training military forces in weak states – and that’s seriously risky: Within hours of the death of Guinea’s president in 2008, four officers trained by the German military launched a coup d’état. Led by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, who proudly wore the red beret and insignia of a German paratrooper, the plotters communicated …
Kogi traces strange disease that’s killed 62 to gastroenteritis: It is reported that more than 62 persons have been killed in two weeks when the situation came to limelight, but Kogi State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Saka Audu, said on Sunday that the casualty is exaggerated. He said the figure was given by local leaders …
Little prospect of regime change in Russia short of a popular uprising – and that’s unlikely: Niocr25/Shutterstock Vladimir Putin’s power in Russia can often look unassailable. However much Western media might champion potential opponents, the president maintains a tight grip, and it’s easy to see why. Any successor to Putin who was not a puppet …
Kenya’s post-election violence: the harm that’s been done to children: A child's exposure to violence can lead to lasting physical, mental, and emotional harm. Georgina Cranston/Reuters Kenya’s recent general election was held amid political tension and fear. Election violence is not new to the East African country. About 1,100 people, including children, died in the …
South Africa in the news: Pick n Pay announces profits warning, but that’s not what’s shocked SA: Most of South Africa’s retailers have flagged lower or stagnant profits as consumer confidence and business sentiment plumb multi-year lows amid political turmoil. Pick n Pay, which employs around 35,000 people, said the cost of the retrenchments will …
That’s Weird Grandma: Attack of the Phantom of the BBQ and more…: The cast of That's Weird Grandma: Attack of the Phantom of the BBQ performs sketches inspired by the writing of students in area schools. The show ends Monday 7/17. : Weird News Have you tried: Sailing in Africa ?
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Artificial environments are turning the world outside in, but that’s no way to save the planet: justinjlaw/Flickr, CC BY When meltwater breached the global seed bank near Svalbard in May, after unusually warm weather, it served as a stark reminder of the need to safeguard humanity’s future in the face of increasing turbulence. Buried 130 …
Samsung Electronics Delivers Air Conditioning that’s Effective in Summer and Winter: Specialised appliances are able to heat rooms faster, more efficiently and more cost effectively than most heaters JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – 24 May, 2017 – Samsung Electronics South Africa has vast experience in the development of air conditioning and has long been committed to …
Zuma’s speech: the story of a country that’s fallen for the ‘politics of the belly’: President Jacob Zuma during his 2017 state of the nation address to a joint sitting of the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces. Reuters/Sumaya Hisham South Africans have yet again been treated to a grotesque bastardisation of the …
Behind the conflict in central Kenya that’s costing lives and hitting tourism: Many pastoralists in central Kenya lost access to their ancestral pasture lands in the early 20th century. Reuters/Siegfried Modola Armed pastoralist groups have, over the past few months, forcefully moved their livestock herds onto ranches or conservancies in Laikipia, central Kenya. Property has …
Strange bedfellows? That’s an understatement in Billerica: Selectman George Simolaris and resident Jack Morris, the former town health director, had a heated argument over the new high school. “We were going to go toe-to-toe,” Simolaris, now running for state representative, recalled last week. : Weird News Trump’s bizarre claim that the Clinton email controversy is …