Samoura: Fifa keen to save football from coronavirus

Samoura: Fifa keen to save football from coronavirus

Fifa Secretary General Fatma Samoura took part in the closing session of the World Football Summit today to discuss issues that ranged from disruption, wokeness and the impact of the Fifa Covid-19 Relief Plan on global football. In an interview with South African broadcaster Carol Tshabalala, Fatma Samoura spoke about...

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Firing director of Homeland Security crosses a line – even for Trump

Firing director of Homeland Security crosses a line – even for Trump

Within minutes of Donald Trump tweeting that he had fired Christopher Krebs as the director of the Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity agency on Tuesday night, Twitter slapped on a warning label that the accompanying claim about electoral fraud “is disputed.” The disinformation warning was, in some ways, a fitting...

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Ghanaian environmentalist bags this year’s Goldman Environmental Prize

Ghanaian environmentalist bags this year’s Goldman Environmental Prize

 The world’s foremost award honouring grassroots environmental activists, the Goldman Environmental Prize, was this year bagged by Ghanaian environmental champion Ezekiel Chibeze. The selection panel cited Chibeze’s commitment to pushing for good governance in Ghana’s environmental sector and leadership in Ghana, across Africa and globally. The Goldman Environmental Prize is...

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Forgetting may make your mind more efficient

Forgetting may make your mind more efficient

Memory palaces provide imaginary architectural repositories for storing and retrieving anything you would like to remember. Sixteen centuries ago, St Augustine spoke of “treasures of innumerable images” stored in his “spacious palaces of memory.” But twenty-first century scientists who study memory have identified an important point to remember: Even the...

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