Turkey's soft-spoken Kemal Kilicdaroglu takes on powerful Erdogan
Kemal Kilicdaroglu has mounted the strongest election challenge to Turkey's leader so far.
2023-05-16 19:29
Vodafone axing 11,000 jobs as UK wireless carrier aims to cut costs, boost growth
Wireless carrier Vodafone says it’s laying off 11,000 workers as part of a major revamp aimed at cutting costs and boosting flagging financial performance
2023-05-16 19:15
Gunman who killed 3 and injured others in New Mexico appears to have roamed a neighborhood and fired at random, police say
The teenage gunman who killed three people and wounded six others in New Mexico appeared to target victims at random as he roamed a neighborhood, using at least three guns -- including an AR-15-style rifle -- to fire at homes, cars and other targets before police shot him dead, authorities said.
2023-05-16 18:55
Wagner chief Prigozhin claims in video US citizen died fighting in Bakhmut
The leader of the Russian private military company Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, claimed a US citizen died in the embattled Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, in a video posted on the Wagner Telegram group on Tuesday.
2023-05-16 18:29
Twitter objects to Turkish court orders after pre-election warnings
ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Twitter said it had filed objections to Turkish court orders requesting a ban on access to some accounts
2023-05-16 18:22
WHO warns against bias, misinformation in using AI in healthcare
The World Health Organization called for caution on Tuesday in using artificial intelligence for public healthcare, saying data
2023-05-16 17:59
Martha Stewart, 81, becomes oldest Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover star
The businesswoman says she wants to inspire other women, adding: "This is kind of historic."
2023-05-16 17:49
Aid groups brace for 'large-scale loss of life' in Myanmar as details emerge of Cyclone Mocha's destruction
Rescue groups are bracing for "a large scale loss of life" in Myanmar, one aid agency has warned, after powerful Cyclone Mocha slammed into its west coast, ripping down houses and uprooting trees in one of the strongest storms to ever hit the country.
2023-05-16 16:53
Panicked 911 calls capture chaos during the Texas mall massacre that left 8 dead
Panicked 911 calls from an Allen, Texas, outlet mall captured moments of chaos and terror as the nation's second-deadliest mass shooting so far this year unfolded, with eight killed and others wounded within minutes.
2023-05-16 15:28
Bangladesh rocked by power cuts as deadly cyclone hits gas supply
By Ruma Paul and Sudarshan Varadhan DHAKA Bangladesh faced its worst power cuts in over seven months as
2023-05-16 14:53
Global executions at highest rate for five years - Amnesty report
Iran, Saudi Arabia and Egypt carried out 90% of the 883 recorded in 2022, Amnesty International says.
2023-05-16 14:46
Flooding the Sahara desert proposed as radical climate change solution
It might sound more like the kind of idle daydream billionaires like Elon Musk would have, but could flooding the Sahara actually be the best way of tackling climate change in the future? The idea of creating a new “sea” in Africa is being discussed, and it’s not the first time that the notion of a great oasis in the Sahara has been discussed among the scientific community. As the ongoing climate crisis continues to worsen, the notion of flooding vast areas of the desert is being returned to once again [via IFL Science]. A new “sea” was first proposed following the study of the Messinian salinity crisis – which saw a dried-out area of the Mediterranean rejuvenated by the Zanclean flood, reconnecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean around 5.33 million years ago. Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Given how the Mediterranean was transformed by the flood, the idea of flooding the Sahara to achieve similar results has been thrown around in the scientific community as far back as 1877, the Scottish engineer Donald McKenzie suggested flooding the El Djouf basin in Western Africa. The idea is now returning to popularity as the world looks for solutions to the climate crisis. One proposal centres on the Middle East’s Dead Sea and flooding the area using water from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea Depression. A vast sea in Africa could represent a hugely innovative step towards tackling climate change and fostering a new hub of life – but even the people suggesting work such a project acknowledge just how expensive and dangerous it is. Even Y Combinator is a US startup accelerator who has described “desert flooding” as “risky, unproven, even unlikely to work”. Only time will tell whether the notion of a new sea in the Sahara coud ever work, or whether it’ll remain the stuff of dreams. Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.
2023-05-16 14:19