Blue Origin, the company founded by American businessman Jeff Bezos, is all set for a space mission on Tuesday. The passengers include Bezos, his brother, an 82-year-old aviation pioneer and a teenage tourist.The capsule is entirely automated, unlike Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic rocket plane that required two pilots to get him to space earlier this month.Explained: How to become a space tourist and the costAhead of the ambitious mission, Bezos appeared on CBS’ ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ where he told the fellow travellers to “sit back, relax, look out of the window, just absorb the view outside”.The Blue…
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Thailand plans to use more Chinese-made vaccines to fill the gap in supply from AstraZeneca Plc, with the country kicking off a world-first mixed dose regime amid an unprecedented flareup in its Covid outbreak.Thai health officials began administering Astra vaccine on Monday as the second shot to recipients of Sinovac Biotech Ltd.’s first jab to boost the defense against the more contagious delta variant that’s seen driving daily caseload to as high as 20,000 by next month. Under the revised vaccine regime, Thailand will use five million Sinovac shots per month, according to Opas Karnkawinpong, director-general of the Department of…
The two nations’ vessels have been locked in a standoff in the South China Sea for months Bloomberg | | Posted by Shanza Khan PUBLISHED ON JUL 19, 2021 04:40 PM IST The Philippines Coast Guard said it drove away a Chinese warship in the South China Sea, in another sign of tension between the two nations in the disputed waters.In a statement Monday citing a July 13 report, the Coast Guard said it had sent a verbal challenge to Chinese warship spotted at Marie Louise Bank. The Chinese vessel eventually moved away from the area, the statement said.The foreign…
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is not changing the norms at a contested site in Jerusalem to allow Jewish prayer there, his office said Monday, walking back comments that sparked angry reactions a day earlier.Bennett, Israel’s new premier, had raised concerns on Sunday when he said Israel was committed to protecting “freedom of worship” for Jews at the hilltop compound. Under a long-standing practice, Jews are allowed to visit — but not pray — at the site, which they revere as the Temple Mount and which Muslims hold sacred as the home of the Al Aqsa Mosque.Palestinians and the site’s…
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who is self-isolating after coming in contact with UK health secretary Sajid Javid, who tested positive for Covid-19, urged caution as the legal lockdown restrictions come to an end in England on ‘Freedom Day’.“If we don’t do it now we’ve got to ask ourselves, when will we ever do it? This is the right moment. But we’ve got to do it cautiously. We’ve got to remember that this virus is sadly still out there. Cases are rising, we can see the extreme contagiousness of the Delta variant,” he saidThe UK government has decided to implement…
The bus had left the city of Sialkot and was traveling on Taunsa Road; its destination was the city of Dera Ghazi Khan in eastern Punjab province, said senior police officer Hassan Javed. AP | , Multan PUBLISHED ON JUL 19, 2021 01:54 PM IST A speeding bus carrying mostly laborers traveling home for a major Muslim holiday rammed into a container truck on a busy highway in central Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 28 people and injuring 40, police and rescue officials said.The bus had left the city of Sialkot and was traveling on Taunsa Road; its destination…
Urian B., Tech Times 19 July 2021, 04:07 am (Photo : Screenshot From Pxhere Official Website) Crypto Whale Spotted Buying 30,000 Coins Adding to Wealth of 144,000 Coins Across 18 Wallets | Opportunity to Buy at 9% Down? Crypto whale spotted buying a massive 30,000 Bitcoins adding to the whale’s total wallet wealth of 144,000 $BTC. The coins were spread across 18 different wallets. Is it the right time to buy? Crypto Whale Spotted Buying Massive Amounts of Bitcoin According to CoinGape, $BTC has been trading under pressure over the past week and is now somehow consolidating around the leveling…
Brian Chesky, as of writing, is currently worth $10.3 billion, according to Forbes. It’s no surprise, especially given the huge world-wide success of Airbnb. Running an app that houses room and home rentals has not always been in the cards for Chesky. In fact, he started off as a designer. Brian Chesky: The Industrial Designer Brian Chesky has always been interested in art since he was young. According to a profile done by the Business Insider, Chesky was an avid artist who liked to draw and would even design Nike sneakers. He would also draw replicas of paintings and design…
Muslim pilgrims ascended Saudi Arabia’s Mount Arafat on Monday in the high point of this year’s hajj, being held in downsized form and under coronavirus restrictions for the second year running.Just 60,000 people, all citizens or residents of Saudi Arabia, have been selected to take part in this year’s hajj, with foreign pilgrims again barred.The mask-clad faithful, who had spent the night in camps in the Valley of Mina, converged on Mount Arafat where it is believed the Prophet Mohammed delivered his final sermon, for the most important of the hajj rituals.Worshippers will assemble on the 70-metre (230-foot) high hill…
A man in Spain was offboarded from a train by other passengers who were angry that he was not wearing a mask. In a recent video shared by News For All on Twitter, the man can be seen being handled by a bunch of angry passengers.The World Health Organization (WHO) recently said that there is a “strong likelihood” of more virulent and dangerous variants of the coronavirus emerging in the days ahead, which may be more challenging to tackle. At such a time, following Covid-appropriate behaviour such as wearing masks and maintaining social distance has become even more important.The video…