Italy earthquake: Death toll rises to at least 159
From BBC At least 159 people have been killed and 368 injured in an earthquake that hit a mountainous area of central Italy, civil protection officials say. The magnitude-6.2 quake struck at 03:36 (01:36 GMT), 100km (65 miles) north-east of…
Scientists say we’ll only get one year to prepare if a super-volcano erupts
By Simone M Scully From Business Insider Super volcanic eruptions are so catastrophically powerful that they could devastate the entire planet. In a worst case scenario, these kinds of eruptions can eject 1000s of cubic kilometers of magma and ash…
Italy might be next domino to fall after UK vote to leave EU
By R Williams From Newsmax “The next referendum to be held in the EU takes place in Italy in October,” Wolfgang Munchau, co-founder and director of Eurointelligence, writes in the Financial Times. “It is not about the union but about…
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BBC’s Rupert Wingfield-Hayes and team expelled from North Korea From BBC Rupert Wingfield-Hayes and the team were in North Korea ahead of a rare ruling party congress BBC correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes and his team have been expelled from North Korea…
food theft ‘not a crime’ if hungry
Italian court rules food theft ‘not a crime’ if hungry From BBC The court found that the homeless man was acting “in a state of need” so his actions could not be considered offences Stealing small amounts of food to…
WikiLeaks exposes countries that use controversial ‘FinFisher’ surveillance tech
By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai From Mashable WikiLeaks published a batch of documents and files pertaining to the controversial surveillance technology company FinFisher, including a list of its customers and actual copies of its spyware. The release, the fourth one in the…
Cayman Islands: Zika Virus Update-Monday 21st March, 2016 – No confirmed cases locally
From Cayman Islands Public Health Department Acting Medical Officer of Health, Dr Samuel Williams-Rodriguez has provided an update on the current status of the Zika virus outbreak in the Caribbean region and the Americas. The update follows confirmation on Friday…
Ice man Otzi
Scientists can now 3d print Otzi the mummified ice man By John Biggs From TechCrunch Otzi, for those not up on their 5,300-year-old mummified men, died and was frozen in the Alps near Hauslabjoch on the border between Austria and…
Direct flights resumed between Italy and Camaguey in Cuba
HAVANA, Cuba (ACN) — With the arrival of 130 Italian travelers on January 1 at the Ignacio Agramonte International Airport in Camagüey, Cuba, the link between that city and Italy – one of the main countries sending tourists to this…
1912-1938 Traveling with the Paneths
By Alex Q. Arbuckle From Mashable An intimate, colorful record of a family on the move 1913 Paneth’s wife Else on their honeymoon in Cairo. IMAGE: FRIEDRICH PANETH/ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY/SSPL/GETTY IMAGES 1924 “Eva, Heinz and Else sitting on a wall.”…
