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While you were sleeping: TGIF 21 April
Terror attack hits Paris, US mulls Assange arrest, and world to march for science.
TGIF, 21 April 2017
“In the end, we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand and we will understand only what we are taught.”
Baba Dioum
STORY OF THE DAY
ANC succession: ‘Nice Guy’ Ramaphosa needs to rediscover the fiery activist original
By RANJENI MUNUSAMY
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa appears to be finally dipping his toe in the presidential campaign pool, suggesting – albeit gingerly – what the priorities of a post-Zuma government might be. “We will not compromise on our fight against corruption, patronage or rent-seeking. We will also not allow the institutions of our state to be captured by anyone – be
Terror suspect in Champs-Elysees shoot-out
A known terror suspect was shot dead in a shooting on Paris’s Champs-Elysees, but killed one and injured two others. The 39-year-old suspect opened fire on a police van, killing one officer before attacking other policemen nearby. Locals and tourists alike scattered as shots rang out.
The United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions stated on Thursday that the arrest of WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange is a “priority”. Holed up in the Ecuadoran embassy since 2012, Assange and his organisation recently released a large collection of information on the methods of CIA digital surveillance. Regardless, Ecuador’s diplomatic waltz with Assange could get a little faster in
World march for science to go ahead
A global march for science is scheduled to go ahead tomorrow, Saturday. Organisers insist the march, which will promote the role of scientific research informing and guiding national policy, is not about a specific wide-bodied presidential cheese
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth turns 91 today. The world’s longest-reigning monarch will oversee the usual gun salutes at London Tower Bridge and Hyde
IN NUMBERS
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The percentage of Korean men who have lost their virginity to prostitutes.
FACTS OF THE DAY
Today in 1918 the Red Baron is shot down and killed.
Gingers have a resistance to electrical pain, but a lower threshold for thermal pain. This is due to a mutation of their melanocortin 1 receptor.
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