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- Monarch wanted to manage the islet of Piel, in the United Kingdom, a few hundred meters off the coast of southern Cumbria: according to a tradition that has lasted for almost 190 years, in fact, the chosen one – or the chosen one – will be granted the title of “King” or “Queen”. And there are already about 190 people – reports the BBC – who have come forward from all over the world. In addition to this small strip of land of just 20 hectares that rises in Morecambe Bay and houses the ruins of an ancient castle and six holiday cottages, the future “King” or the future “Queen” will have to know how to manage the only pub. of the island – the Ship Inn, founded in 1836 – which they will receive under a ten-year concession contract from the district of Barrow, to which the island belongs. The royal title will then be bestowed on the chosen person and his coronation will take place by pouring alcohol on his head.
- Gruesome footage showed the husband grinning as he held a knife in one hand and carrying what was said to be his wife’s decapitated head in the another. The incident has shocked many people in Iran where the legal age for marriage are 13. ‘A human being was decapitated, her head was displayed on the streets and the killer was proud,’ said the reformist daily Sazandegi. ‘How can we accept such a tragedy? We must act so that femicide does not happen again.’ Lawyer Ali Mojtahedzadeh, in the reformist paper Shargh, blamed ‘legal loopholes’ for ‘paving the way for honour killings’. The victim was just 12 when she was married to the man – who is also her cousin – and had a three-year-old son by the time she was killed.
- NASA has hailed progress in developing “quiet” supersonic travel technology on January 25. Together with Lockheed Martin, the US space agency is working on a new jet capable of surpassing the speed of sound without generating the infamous sonic boom.’ Called X-59, the new jet is being developed by Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works in Palmdale, California. Any object traveling through the atmosphere faster than the speed of sound generates a shock wave that translates into a loud sound similar to an explosion or a thunderclap called a sonic boom, which affects vast, often heavily populated areas many kilometers away from the aircraft itself.
- French President Emmanuel Macron has claimed a breakthrough in the tense standoff between Russia and Ukraine, taking credit after supposedly obtaining guarantees from his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that the situation will not escalate further, following a crunch summit between the two heads of state. Speaking to journalists in Kiev ahead of talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday, Macron claimed that he has secured what he sees as a pledge from Moscow on the matter. “I obtained that there will be no degradation nor escalation,” he said. “My aim was to freeze the game, to prevent an escalation and open up new perspectives… this objective for me is fulfilled.”
- Chipmaker Nvidia became the seventh-largest US company on Monday as it overtook Facebook parent Meta for the first time, according to Dow Jones Market Data. The ramp up of Nvidia’s Ampere graphics processing unit (GPU) is still “early in its cycle,” according to Wells Fargo analyst Aaron Rakers, as quoted by Market Watch. Meta reported a weaker-than-expected outlook last week, which sent its shares diving nearly 20% after hours. It has warned that the rest of the year is shaping up to be a choppy one as it deals with “macroeconomic challenges” and continues its long-term strategic shift “towards building the metaverse.”
- A British man who was detained in the United Arab Emirates in January 2019, and who claims he was tortured after going on holiday there, was given High Court approval late last month to seek legal action against the head of Interpol. Ali Issa Ahmad, a Sudanese-born British citizen, sued Major General Ahmed Naser Al-Raisi, who was appointed the new president of Interpol last November, for complicity in torture, along with six other government officials. At the time of the alleged incidents, Al-Raisi was inspector general of the UAE’s Ministry of Interior and was in charge of overseeing prisons and police.
- A judge in Ottawa has issued a 10-day injunction order for some parts of the Canadian capital, which requires truckers not to use their horns as an act of protest. This will not infringe on their right to protest against mandatory vaccination against Covid-19, Justice Hugh McLean decided. “Tooting a horn is not an expression of any great thought I’m aware of,” the judge said during a hearing on Monday as cited by Canadian media. The rule will remain in place until at least February 16, when the court is to convene again after a period of adjournment to further discuss the issue.
- [Always “rules for thee but not for me”] Prominent political Twitch streamer Hasan ‘HasanAbi’ Piker has drawn the ire of the internet after splurging $200,000 on a brand-new Porsche Taycan, while simultaneously criticizing capitalism and teaching his audience about socialism. Piker is well known for his streams in which he educates his audience on the ideas of socialism and shares his pro-communist, anti-capitalist political views. Piker even sells merchandise with slogans like Make The Rich Pay.
- The monstrous megalodon, believed to be the largest shark that ever existed, might’ve looked nothing like they’ve shown us, a new study has revealed. In fact, the paper by the American shark researchers, recently published in Historical Biology journal, insists that “all previously proposed body forms of Otodus megalodon should be regarded as speculation from the scientific standpoint.” “This new study shows that there are currently no scientific means to support or refute the accuracy of any of the previously published body forms of O. megalodon,” lead author Phillip Sternes, a PhD candidate at the University of California, Riverside, said in a press-release.
- Duden – a dictionary that has earned the status of the ‘gold standard’ for the German language – has landed in hot water with its advisory describing the word ‘Jew’ as problematic. In its printed and online editions, the dictionary says that the designation ‘Jew’ can “occasionally be perceived as discriminatory” due to the association with its use by the Nazis. The dictionary then advises using some replacement words instead, which include “Jewish people, Jewish fellow citizens or people of the Jewish faith.” The suggestion did not sit well with Germany’s Jews. The nation’s Central Council of Jews criticized the supposedly “tolerant” initiative by saying that it is itself much more discriminatory than the word it sought to replace. “For me, the word ‘Jew’ is neither a swear word nor discriminatory,” the Central Council’s head, Josef Schuster, said on Monday, adding that their association is called the Central Council of Jews and not of “Jewish fellow citizens” for a reason.
- A team of four received a permit to dive below 30 metres; this would be the first research at Lake Cheko at such depth. ‘Lake Cheko is 54-metres deep. The team of researchers aim to study how thick the lake bottom’s sediments are, and take primary samples. The data they’ll gather will be analysed and passed on to geologists. We are not speaking about the search of any celestial body at this stage’, Evgenia Karnoukhova, the senior inspector at the Tungussky reserve, said. The so-called Tunguska event, nearly 109 years ago, is still a challenge for modern science, and the subject of sharp disagreement among researchers. In 2012 a research team from Italy’s University of Bologna led by Luca Gasperini pointed to a small bowl-shaped 500-metre diameter Lake Cheko as the impact crater. It is located some 8 km from the supposed ground zero of the Tungiska Event. They also concluded there is dense stony matter beneath the floor and sediment, the ‘remnant’ of the exploding meteorite.
- A group of scientists has claimed that the Earth could in a little over a decade be hit by a “mini ice age” that would freeze major rivers. The startling prediction is based on a mathematical model of the Sun’s magnetic energy which also suggests that Earth’s temperature will start dropping in 2021. The plummeting temperature will then lead to something called the “Maunder minimum”, which is referred to a previous mini ice age that occurred between 1646 and 1715, turning London’s Thames into a frozen river, scientists claimed. The latest research, led by maths professor Valentina Zharkova at Northumbria University, is built on a previous research that predicts the movements of two magnetic waves produced by the Sun. It also foretells rapidly decreasing magnetic waves for three solar cycles that will begin in 2021, and last for as many as 33 years. According to the model, the two magnetic waves will become increasingly offset during Cycle 25, which peaks in 2022. During Cycle 26 between 2030 and 2040, the waves will become out of sync, causing reduction in solar activity by as much as 60 percent.
- A mountain-sized rock buried under the coast of southern Japan could be acting as a magnet, or a “lightning rod” for earthquakes in the region, a new study led by researchers from the University of Texas has claimed. A 3D visualisation of the subsurface rock, known as Kumano Pluton, shows that it has been “diverting tectonic energy into points along its sides where several of the region’s largest earthquakes have happened”, as per researchers. The high-definition 3D model shows the Pluton as a red bulge near the Nankai subduction zone, which is on Japan’s southern coast. The 3D model of the Pluton has also shown that it diverts buried groundwater into the Earth’s interior.
- Cancelling the Nord Stream 2 pipeline will only cost Russia money, but will really hurt Germany and US Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) cannot make up the shortfall, analysts said. Germany is caught between intense US pressure to join in on imposing new economic sanctions on Russia and its own natural interest in having good relations with Moscow and importing much needed energy, former Canadian diplomat Patrick Armstrong pointed out.
- Prince Andrew’s lawyers are reportedly searching for female victims of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in a bid to portray his accuser Virginia Giuffre as a sex trafficker. Carolyn Andriano claims she was recruited by Giuffre, nee Roberts, at 14 and trained to give sexual massages, and says the now-38-year-old should receive the same sentence as Maxwell. But this strategy could backfire badly for the prince, as Andriano recently corroborated claims that Giuffre had sex with Andrew at Maxwell’s London home when she was just 17. A source familiar with the duke’s strategy told The Times: “It’s potentially a double-edged sword.”
News Burst 9 February 2022
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