Новости за 02.08.2020

President Cyril Ramaphosa says the country could have experienced dramatic loss of life and an uncontrolled increase in Covid-19 infections.

Digitises 5 lakh files, 12 lakh documents online using RailTel’s platform

Students of classes 7 and 8 will get the books first

BBNaija 2020 housemate, Prince Nelson Enwerem, turned 25 on August 2, 2020, and his beautiful family celebrated with a lovely cake and cute photos. Read more.

Sushant Singh Rajput’s friend Siddharth Pithani has said the actor had called him a few days after the New Year and wanted him to come back to him so that the two could start a new venture and live away from city life.

A highly evening-perfumed plant that immediately comes to mind is Cestrum nocturnum, known in Cyprus as ‘Pakistani Nights’, but originally from the West Indies. It is sometimes known as the ‘Night-flowering Jessamine’, although it is not related to that family, but is a member of the Solanaceae family, so take...

GREEN BAY, WI - The Dock Spiders (19-12) extended their win streak to six games following their commanding 11-4 win over the Green Bay Booyah (14-17) ... - Northwoods Fond du Lac Dock Spiders

The Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland (MASI) and the Irish Refugee Council have again raised concerns about residents of direct provision centres sharing living spaces, following reports of more than two dozen cases of Covid-19 at one centre linked to a cluster at a Kildare factory.

Victoria's disease detectives are trying to trace the origin of almost 800 mystery coronavirus cases amid warnings the number will rise.

Researchers behind one of two Russian candidate vaccines against the coronavirus undergoing the approval process in that country say they plan to launch production in November.

As arranged marriages, inextricably woven into India's societal fabric, come under the scanner with a new Netflix show ''Indian Matchmaking'', more and more couples are making sure love happens before they finally say ''I do''.

TEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu railed on Sunday at swelling protests against his rule, saying they are egged on by a biased media that distorts facts and cheers on the demonstrators. Netanyahu has faced a wave of protests in recent weeks, with demonstrators calling for the long-serving, indicted leader to resign

Collingwood are in trouble. At the end of round nine they're outside of the top eight, and just lost their first of four matches in 14 days across three states, going down by 12 points to Fremantle.

In an interview with Sport, Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu has ruled out the club moving to bring Neymar back from Paris Saint-Germain or to sign Lautaro Martinez from Inter Milan this summer. Apparently, there will be no big-money signings, and goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen won’t be going anywhere. Neymar left the Camp Nou for […]

Max Verstappen says Racing Point stand-in Nico Hulkenberg "deserves" to be in F1 and Lewis Hamilton has hailed him as a "great driver".

LA CROSSE, WI - The Woodchucks fell to the La Crosse Loggers on Saturday night, 14-3. It was the fifth straight loss for Wisconsin.The Chucks scor... - Northwoods Wisconsin Woodchucks

As many as 1,23,317 patients have recovered, migrated or been discharged while the number of active cases stood at 10,356.

Black Live Matter march from Clapham Common (led by Iman, the Forever Family Force and the Slow Boys, on motorbikes) to join the Stop the Maangamizi: Afrikan Emancipation Day Reparations Rebellion in London, UK on August 1, 2020. They aim to lock-down Brixton because “WE/they are not being HEARD” in their demand for the UK Government to establish the All-Party Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry for Truth & Reparatory Justice. (Photo by Guy Bell/Alamy Live News)

Beijing (XNA) Aug 03, 2020
Although launched more than one month ago, the official operation of the 55th and last satellite of the Beidou-3 Navigation Satellite System was formally announced by President Xi Jinping at a ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday. Which makes the BDS system one of the four global navigation systems providing global navigation and positioning services; the other thr

Madrid, Spain (SPX) Aug 03, 2020
Hisdesat and XTAR have announced that they have completed a transaction whereby Hisdesat purchased the communications satellite, XTAR-EUR. XTAR-EUR is positioned at 29 degrees east longitude and provides commercial X-band coverage over a wide geographic region from eastern Brazil and the Atlantic Ocean, across Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia to as far east as Singapore.

Baltimore MD (SPX) Aug 03, 2020
At the heart of every white dwarf star - the dense stellar object that remains after a star has burned away its fuel reserve of gases as it nears the end of its life cycle - lies a quantum conundrum: as white dwarfs add mass, they shrink in size, until they become so small and tightly compacted that they cannot sustain themselves, collapsing into a neutron star. This puzzling relationship

Amsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Aug 03, 2020
New results from the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) show that the universe is nearly 10 percent more homogeneous than the standard model of cosmology (Lambda-cold dark matter) predicts. The latest KiDS map was made with the OmegaCAM on ESO's VLT Survey Telescope at Cerro Paranal in Northern Chile. A group of astronomers led from institutes in the Netherlands, Scotland, England and Germany have descri

Riverside CA (SPX) Aug 03, 2020
Our solar system has one habitable planet - Earth. A new study shows other stars could have as many as seven Earth-like planets in the absence of a gas giant like Jupiter. This is the conclusion of a study led by UC Riverside astrobiologist Stephen Kane published this week in the Astronomical Journal. The search for life in outer space is typically focused on what scientists call the "habi

Baltimore MD (SPX) Aug 03, 2020
Jupiter, named for the king of the ancient Roman gods, commands its own mini-version of our solar system of circling satellites; their movements convinced Galileo Galilei that Earth is not the center of the universe in the early 17th century. More than 400 years later, astronomers will use NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to observe these famous subjects, pushing the observatory's instruments t

Washington DC (Sputnik) Aug 03, 2020
While engineers, astronomers and even sociologists are working diligently to address the issues preventing humanity from reaching distant planets, one problem has long remained unattended - how to defend cosmic pioneers from one of humanity's biggest space hazards - rampant radiation. While the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster was a tragic event for thousands of people, it might have done