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At least 150 people, including women and children, were abducted with one person killed in a coordinated attack by gunmen on four villages in Nigeria’s northwest Zamfara state, residents said on Saturday. Kidnapping for ransom has become rife in northwestern Nigeria in recent years where armed gangs, often referred to locally as bandits, have targeted villages, schools, and travellers, demanding millions of naira in ransom and making it unsafe to travel by road or to farm in some areas. The Zamfara police spokesperson did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment on the attack, which took place late on…
One of the amazing abilities of the James Webb Space Telescope is not just detecting the presence of far-off planets, but also being able to peer into their atmospheres to see what they are composed of. With previous telescopes, this was extremely difficult to do because they lacked the powerful instruments needed for this kind of analysis, but scientists using Webb recently announced they had made a rare detection of methane in an exoplanet atmosphere. Scientists studied the planet WASP-80 b using Webb’s NIRCam instrument, which is best known as a camera but also has a slitless spectroscopy mode which…
Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has extended the working hours of the Dubai Metro for the Dubai Run, which is set to take place on Sunday, November 26. The Dubai Metro’s working hours will be from 3am to 12 midnight on Sunday, RTA said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday. Participants taking part in the run can reach the World Trade Centre Metro Station for the 5km race and the Emirates Towers Metro Station for the 10km race, it said. The Dubai stretch of the UAE’s busiest highway will transform into the world’s largest running track…
An Indian-origin student in Australia is in a medically induced coma after he was assaulted and a suspect has been taken into custody and charged with criminal assault, according to a media report. The student, who has not been identified, is in his 20s. He is pursuing a master’s degree at the University of Tasmania. The incident took place on November 5 at a precinct in Tasmania and the victim had ‘extra jural bleeding’ that caused his brain to shift, Sydney-based Special Broadcasting Service reported. According to reports, his right lung collapsed and he had to undergo brain surgery, a…
Thanksgiving is over. The turkey has been eaten, those pumpkin pies are long gone, and now there’s a seemingly endless parade of football games, Black Friday deals that are just out of reach, and the scary prospect of traveling back home at one of the most crowded times of the year. One positive aspect of this holiday season is that it gives you more time to watch all those movies that are sitting in your Netflix queue. Digital Trends has rounded up the 10 best movies (plus one additional one for the kids) streaming on Netflix right now. The list…
Participating publishers and authors at the seven-day Al Ain Book Festival noted that there has been greater awareness among parents to encourage a culture of reading among children. This year’s edition, held under the theme ‘All Eyes on Al Ain’, offered more than 60,000 book titles by 150 exhibitors, all in a cultural atmosphere hosted by nine key locations across the city of Al Ain till Saturday. According to participating publishers, children’s books topped the list of best-sellers at the festival organised by the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre (ALC), followed by novels, educational, history, and heritage books. Leading publishers…
After seven weeks of bombardment stopped in Gaza for a truce, Tahani Al Najjar used the calm on Saturday to return to the ruins of her home, smashed by an Israeli air strike that she said killed seven of her family and forced her into a shelter. More than 24 hours into the four-day pause in fighting, thousands of Gaza residents are making that same difficult journey from communal shelters and makeshift encampments to discover what has become of their homes. “Where will we live? Where will we go? We are trying to collect bits of wood to build a…
Researchers have detected one of the highest-energy particles ever falling to Earth. Cosmic rays are high-energy particles that come from sources in space such as the sun, but this recent detection is more powerful than anything that can be explained by known sources in our galaxy or even beyond. The particle had an energy of 2.4 x 1020eV, which is millions of times the energy of the particles produced in a particle collider. The detection was made in May 2021 using a facility called the Telescope Array, located near Salt Lake City in Utah. It has 500 surface detectors which…
The Abu Dhabi Winter Shopping Season returns by offering residents and tourists fun activities, festive celebrations, activations, shop-and-win opportunities, and mega sales at malls and shopping centres in the emirate till January 31, 2024. Between December 1 and 28, Bawabat Al Sharq Mall is giving customers a chance to enter the big draw on an all-new MG ZS EV 2024 electric car upon shopping for Dh200 from any store, or for Dh400 at Carrefour. The name of this year’s lucky winner will be announced on December 29. All F&B outlets at the mall are included in the ‘shop and win’…
Iran has executed a 17-year-old convicted of murder, two rights groups said on Saturday, expressing outrage that the country continues to hang people for crimes committed as minors. Hamidreza Azari was executed on Friday in prison in the eastern town of Sabzevar in Razavi Khorasan province, the Norway-based Hengaw and Iran Human Rights (IHR) groups said in separate statements. Persian-language satellite TV channel Iran International also reported the execution, saying Azari was the only child in his family and despite his age had already a few years ago started working as a scrap worker. Citing documents they had seen, both…