Italian giants Juventus hand colourless Chelsea first Champion League loss at home in Turin
Chelsea have suffered their first Champions League defeat of the season at the hands of Italian giants Juventus, with a fine Federico Chiesa strike just 10 seconds into the second half enough to give the Old Lady a 1-0 win in Turin. After a narrow 1-0 victory over Russian side...
Guinea junta bars members from running in next elections, declares third of cabinet to be women
Guinea’s governing junta has announced that its members are barred from standing in the next national or local elections, and that it will agree on the length of transition to elections with an 81-member Transitional National Council (TNC). Earlier this month the leader of the September 5 coup, Mamady Doumbouya,...
After scoring first goal, hungrier Lionel Messi challenges his PSG strike partners to raise their game
Lionel Messi has challenged his Paris Saint-Germain strike partners Neymar and Kylian Mbappe to raise their level of play as a trio after the Argentinian opened his goal-scoring account for PSG on Tuesday night. The 34-year-old curled in a sublime goal to finish the scoring in a 2-0 win over...
PhD ladder: Ashamed, some Western universities are taking steps to close undergraduate racial award gap
When it comes to explaining the awards gap in undergraduate degrees in the United Kingdom as a whole, student experience might be a factor because Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) students often report experiencing racism on campus, and feeling that they do not fit in or that it’s not...
Why universities in the West must decolonise curricula to remove biases that impede Black students’ progress to PhD
Black students face barriers progressing to PhD programmes, and experience other career setbacks, because they are more likely to receive lower undergraduate degree classifications than their white peers, an analysis by a leading UK university has found. The study, based on exam and coursework data, and published in the journal...
Drone reforestation: Flying Forests plans to plant trees in East Africa and Panama
Like other companies involved in drone reforestation, DroneSeed is reluctant to say how many trees it has planted to date. The company would not disclose the names of customers but says it is working with three of the five largest timber companies in the US, as well as non-profit conservation...
As onslaught of climate change driven by wildfires deepens, companies adopt drone reforestation
Last year’s Castle Fire in California’s Sierra Nevada is estimated to have killed more than 10 per cent of the world’s giant sequoias, the tallest trees on earth. Sequoias can live through many fires over life spans that last thousands of years; their bark is fire-resistant and they rely on...
Taliban revenge: Ex-members of ousted Afghan government, military allege retributions took place
Hundreds of social media posts have been shared featuring grainy mobile phone footage purportedly of armed men searching houses, beating people in the streets and bundling them into cars in Afghanistan. Several former officials of the ousted Afghani government, military personnel and others close to the fallen government have alleged...
Taliban vowed no revenge, an Afghan family details their experience under the new rulers
When the Taliban won back control of the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar last month, they set out to settle a score with an old foe. As they searched for prominent local politician Ajmal Omar, who had helped drive the militants out of a Nangarhar district a year earlier and...
African countries face serious political unrest as rising food prices hit the roof – ISS Africa report
African Governments must act fast to ensure their people are fed and avoid conflict the continent cannot afford, Institute for Security Studies Africa (ISS Africa) reports. In its September report, ISS Africa observes that since the onset of Covid-19, global food prices have rocketed, putting pressure on the world’s most...
