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While you were sleeping: 11 May 2016

South Africa

South Africa, World

While you were sleeping: 11 May 2016

By John Stupart
11 May 2016
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Rousseff in impeachment appeal drama, Hyperloop gets French, and world's oldest axe fragment unveiled.

“The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.”

 – Barbara Taylor Bradford

 

Story of the Day

Madonsela: ‘You don’t need to throw stones anymore’ 

Burning schools is never justified. That was Public Protector Thuli Madonsela’s message on Tuesday, speaking at the Nelson Mandela Foundation. The threat of violence has gone beyond protest and into Madonsela’s life recently, but her message remains the same: we must pursue lawful, democratic means of confronting the country’s challenges. By GREG NICOLSON.
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While you were sleeping

Rousseff makes last ditch appeal

Not one to go down without a fight, Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff has lodged an appeal with the Supreme Court against her impending impeachment vote. The Brazilian senate will vote on the matter on this week, and could possibly reach a verdict by Thursday. Read more
 

Sanders seizes Virginia

Bernie Sanders continues to nip at Hillary Clinton’s heels, taking the state of Virginia with a margin of at least 11 percent. The unchallenged Donald Trump won in West Virginia and Nebraska. Although Clinton is virtually guaranteed the Democratic vote, Sanders’ persistence continues to challenge several Clinton policy problems. Read more
 

France backs Hyperloop

The French National Rail Company has announced, through Hyperloop, their backing of the supersonic transportation project. Hyperloop achieved $80 million in a second round funding, with progress on a working prototype going well. It’ll still be years before you can be jettisoned across the world in a tube though. Read more
 

World’s oldest axe fragment found

A rock flake belonging to a piece of an axe has been found in Australia. The fragment is believed to be from a period of human arrival around 50,000 years ago. This discovery could imply that humans moving out of Africa and the Middle East invented the axe only once settled in Australia. Read more
 

In Numbers

99.7
The vaccination rate of Mississippi. The highest rate in the United States.

Facts of the Day

Today in 1997 saw Deep Blue defeating chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov. It was the first such triumph of a supercomputer over a human in chess history.

Fact of the day: A submerged submarine has only ever once deliberately destroyed another submerged submarine.

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