Army chief sacked as the Taliban take 9 of Afghanistan’s 34 provincial capitals
The Taliban continue their rapid advance across Afghanistan. Nine out of thirty-four provincial capitals have fallen to them in recent weeks (ref. 1). Almost two-thirds of the nation is now…Read more →
Debt ceiling forces US Treasury to take extraordinary measures to avoid a default
A temporary Act of Congress initiated by Donald Trump that allowed the US Treasury to borrow beyond a debt ceiling of $22 trillion expired at the end of July (ref.…Read more →
Biden ends America’s combat mission in Iraq after 18 years
Joe Biden has decided to formally end America's combat mission in Iraq by the end of 2021 (ref. 1). America invaded Iraq in 2003 to dethrone Saddam Hussein, a secular…Read more →
Floods and landslides as record-breaking rain falls on Maharashtra in India
Non-stop rain over the last forty-eight hours has flooded five districts of the state of Maharashtra in India (ref. 1). This is the heaviest rain the area has seen in…Read more →
Zhengzhou Henan in China floods as the area sees heaviest rain in 60 years
Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province, China, witnessed an extraordinary amount of rainfall, apparently the heaviest in sixty years (ref. 1). This, immediately after western Germany saw its heaviest downpour…Read more →
Worst floods in 60 years hit west Germany the day Merkel visits White House
The worst floods to hit Germany in sixty years began on 15 July, the same day that Angela Merkel visited the White House to meet with Joe Biden, to discuss…Read more →
Lebanon, gripped by shortages and hyperinflation, still without a government
Saad Hariri, the prime minister designate of Lebanon and a Sunni Muslim, has just resigned (ref. 1) after failing to reach an agreement with Michel Aoun, the president of Lebanon…Read more →
Scientists propose gene editing SARS-COV-2 with a CRISPR antiviral to stop it
Scientists at Australia's Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity and Australia's Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre have designed a CRISPR tool to recognise the virus SARS-COV-2 and then cut it…Read more →
The virus SARS-COV-2 that causes COVID-19 has a proofreader, yet it mutates?
Apparently, the virus SARS-COV-2 that causes the disease COVID-19 has a proofreading mechanism (ref. 1). No natural occurring RNA virus has such a thing! The common cold, the flu, polio,…Read more →
Dinosaurs never existed, evolution is nonsense, and palaeontology is rife with fraud
The idea that dinosaurs once roamed this world is a lie. Fossils of dinosaurs are fake! Every dinosaur skeleton you see in a museum is largely plaster, a product of…Read more →