Yesterday, the UK’s highest court ruled that Ms Begum should
not be granted leave to enter the UK to pursue her appeal against the
deprivation of her British citizenship.
The Supreme Court unanimously held that the Court of Appeal was wrong to find that Ms Begum should be allowed to enter the UK to pursue her appeal against the removal of her British citizenship
Butch Cassidy and his Wild Bunch. Front row,
left to right: the Sundance Kid, the Tall Texan, Butch Cassidy; Standing:
William 'News' Carver and Kid Curry. Fort Worth, Texas, 1900.
President Macron has been blamed for
contributing to the poor image of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in France THOMAS COEX/AFP/GETTY
President Macron
has said he would take the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in comments widely seen
as an attempt to overcome French hostility towards the Anglo-Swedish jab.
Macron made the remarks after claims that he had contributed to the poor image of the vaccine in France when he claimed last month that it was “quasi-ineffective” for those over the age of 65.
Emma Coronel Aispuro,
31, the wife of the Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán is
now in a high security prison in Colorado. She was charged with conspiracy
to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana in the US. If convicted, she could face 10 years in
prison.
Authorities are hoping that with his wife now in jail, Chapo will strike a deal to tell all if they let her go,
February 27
Why Famous: Steinbeck's work sought to detail the
rural working class in America and their economic and social conditions.
His most famous work "The Grapes of Wrath", published in 1939,
followed a family of Oklahoma tenant farmers escaping the dust bowl for
California and won the Pulitzer prize in 1940.
His other works included "Of Mice and Men" (1937) and "East of
Eden" (1952). Many of his works were filmed in his own lifetime, with James
Dean making his starring debut in "East of Eden".
Navalny lawyer Vadim Kobzev said he had arrived at the remand prison to
meet his client only to be told that he was no longer there. According to Mr Kobzev, at the prison they
would not tell him to which prison camp the opposition activist had been taken.
Earlier this month a Moscow court converted a 2014 suspended sentence for embezzlement into a prison term.
A Liberal adviser working for Craig Kelly alleges she was sexually harassed regularly by office manager Frank Zumbo in the MP’s private Sydney office.
………….In
2017, with the stress of the alleged sexual harassment at work, and the stress
of a difficult relationship outside the office, the adviser ended up in
hospital suffering from anxiety and severe stomach pains.
“Whenever
I’d go into work, we’d end up yelling. And just the thought of having to go in
and have the one-on-one talks with him,” she said. “I couldn’t face getting out
of bed. They said it was stress and anxiety that was causing me to have severe
(stomach) pains.”
She
confronted Mr Zumbo at least once in 2017 and accused him of sexually
assaulting her, but he allegedly threatened to sack her and say that her claims
were as a result of being terminated.
She
said she wanted to leave but she alleges that Mr Zumbo told her she wouldn’t
get another job in politics if she left the office. “He told me I wouldn’t,”
she said.
“He
said ‘if you leave this office, that will be it; I know people and you don’t
have a career unless it’s with me’.’’ ……………….
The body part of missing businesswoman Melissa Caddick has been found on the NSW South Coast
more than three months after she disappeared from her home in Sydney's eastern
suburbs.
The 49-year-old did not
take her mobile phone, wallet or keys when she left her Dover Heights home to
go for a run, just before sunrise on November 12.
Ms Caddick had not been
seen since.
Prior to her
disappearance, her eastern suburbs home was raided by investigators from the
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).
ASIC alleged she was
misappropriating millions of dollars through her financial services company,
Maliver, and operating without a licence.
Seen above are two opalised fossil shells
found in Coober Pedy, Australia. The name Coober Pedy comes from the Aboriginal
words kupa pity and means "white man in a hole" because the opals are
collected in mines. These opals were first discovered in 1915 by an
accident when a teenage boy found a few rocks while his father and he were
looking for gold. The opalescent play-of-color
in these gems can be seen In this video.
Some of the equipment at the Finlay
Institute of Vaccines in Havana might be considered outdated elsewhere in the
world but the science taking place behind its white-washed walls is cutting
edge. Researchers are working long shifts on Cuba’s best shot to solve its
coronavirus crisis….
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-56069577
Felicisima de la Fuente, a 106 year old resident, watches a special theatre show for residents and nursing home workers who have achieved immunity against the coronavirus after receiving the second dose of Pfizer-BioNTechn vaccine in Madrid, Spain, February. Reuters/Sergio Perez
Reuters Wednesday 23 February 2021
A view inside the Saint-Jean-Baptiste au Beguinage church where illegal migrants, asking to be regularised by the Belgian government to have access to healthcare, reside amid the coronavirus outbreak in Brussels, Belgium
A traveller at a government-designated quarantine hotel near Heathrow airport
Photograph Jonathan Brady/PA
Triumph the koala explores with his new prosthetic foot. Carers at Friends of the Koala found a local dentist to make the foot for the five year old animal which was born with the defect.
Photograph: James D Morgan/Getty Images
A visitor photographs Botticelli's The Birth of Venus at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Photo: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP/Getty Images
1956 Nikita Khrushchev denounces Joseph Stalin at
the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Why Famous: First Secretary of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union from Joseph Stalin's
death in 1953 to 1964.
Khrushchev was responsible for the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union,
supporting the early Soviet space program and for several relatively liberal
reforms in areas of domestic policy. These were often ineffective, especially
in agriculture.
Khrushchev ordered major cuts in conventional forces, hoping to rely on
missiles and nuclear weapons to defend the Soviet Union. He also lead the USSR
during the Cuban missile crisis which these policies helped cause.
Khrushchev's party colleagues removed him from power in 1964, replacing him
with Leonid Brezhnev.
Reuters/Tuesday February 23
Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies inspect the vehicle of golfer Tiger Woods who was rushed to hospital after suffering multiple injuries after it was involved in a single-vehicle accident in Los Angeles, California. Photo: Reuters/Gene Blevins
Sheriff Alex Villanueva told reporters during a Facebook Q&A there was no indication Woods was impaired by alcohol or any other substances at the time of the incident, which is why no tests were taken and why no criminal charges will be laid. “He was lucid, no odour of alcohol, no evidence of any medication, narcotics or anything like that,” Villanueva said. “That was not a concern so no field sobriety test and no drug expert needed to respond. This is what it is — an accident.
Maxwell was born in France and grew up in Oxford.
Ghislaine Maxwell has offered to renounce her British and
French citizenship to assure a New York judge that she will not flee if she is
granted bail.
Lawyers for Maxwell made the offer to Judge
Alison Nathan yesterday in a third attempt to secure her release from the
Brooklyn jail before her trial later this year. She has been held since last
summer, accused of grooming minors for Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex
offender. She denies any wrongdoing.
The
case of two aged care residents mistakenly being given four times the
recommended dosage of the Pfizer
COVID-19 vaccine in the first week of Australia's rollout is not
without precedent, but nor is it a cause for panic.
Federal
Health Minister Greg Hunt said the pair — an 88 year old man and a 94
year old woman – were being monitored and were "showing no signs at all of
an adverse reaction".
In
Germany's Pfizer vaccine rollout, eight
aged care workers received up to five times the recommended dose of
the Pfizer jab. Four
were later hospitalised after developing flu-like symptoms.
The doctor has been stood down.
Health Minister, Greg Hunt
A Queensland doctor has been stood down after giving an incorrect dose
of the Pfizer vaccine to two elderly patients.
Health Minister Greg Hunt has revealed an 88-year-old man and
94-year-old woman were given an overdose at Holy Spirit aged care home at
Carseldine, Queensland, on Tuesday.
Mr Hunt said both patients were being monitored but had not shown signs
of an adverse reaction.
The contractor has now stood down the doctor who administered the dose,
after a nurse realised the mistake.
Defence Minister Linda Reynolds has been admitted to hospital and will
take immediate medical leave.
After 10 days of sustained pressure over her handling of an alleged rape
in her office in 2019 she will now not front up to Parliament for the rest of
the week.
Last week Liberal Party staffer Brittany Higgins alleged she was raped at Parliament House in Senator Reynolds’ ministerial office by a colleague in March 2019.
Ms Higgins claimed she felt forced to choose between reporting it to the police or keeping her job.
A spokeswoman for Senator Reynolds said this morning: “This follows advice from her cardiologist relating to a pre-existing medical condition.”
“As a precautionary measure, Minister Reynolds has this morning been admitted to a Canberra Hospital.
February 24
1868 US House of
Representatives vote 126 to 47 to impeach President Andrew Johnson
Political Party: Democratic
Political Titles: Vice President,
Governor of Tennessee
Why Famous: Johnson became President after Lincoln's
assassination in 1865. Johnson's presidency began the period of Reconstruction
in the South, after the Confederacy was defeated and restored to the Union.
His opposition to rights for African Americans in the aftermath of the Civil
War is widely criticized and he is generally regarded as one of the worst
presidents in American history.
This tribute to doctors and nurses who have died is located on the facade of the Medical College of Peru
(CMP) began at the beginning of June 2020 with just 45 portraits, but since
then it has not stopped growing to unsuspected limits and has already reached
almost three hundred.
On average, every two days the Medical College must post a new portrait of a colleague who could not defeat the virus, that is the average mortality of Peruvian doctors since the health emergency began on March 6, 2020, when detected the first case.
Facebook has
lifted its ban on news after it blocked Australian users from sharing or
viewing local or international news content, as a protest against paying for
news.
The pages will return in coming days, and are as a result
of ongoing discussions between the company’s boss Mark Zuckerberg and Treasurer
Josh Frydenberg.
The tech giant has called a truce with the Morrison
government, which is hopeful Facebook will now move quickly to sign commercial
deals with news businesses.
Mr Frydenberg has now reached an agreement with Facebook
to amend the law - after days of negotiations with Mr Zuckerberg - which is
expected to pass the parliament this week.
1954 1st mass inoculation against Polio with the Jonas Salk vaccine takes place at Arsenal Elementary School in Pittsburgh
Why Famous: Discovered and developed the first successful inactivated polio vaccine.
When the Salk vaccine was introduced, polio was considered the most frightening public health problem of the post-war United States.
He was uninterested in personal profit and when asked in a televised interview who owned the patent to the vaccine, Salk replied: "There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?
Born: October 28, 1914
Birthplace: NYC, New York, USA
Generation: Greatest Generation
‘I’m so proud of Brittany for her courage and determination,’ David Sharaz, says. ‘Unfortunately the events of this last week haven’t been without consequence for Brittany, her family and myself.’ Photograph: David Sharaz
Brittany Higgins’ partner has been forced to abandon his job over fears he will be frozen out by ministers as payback for the crisis now engulfing the government.
Higgins’ partner, David Sharaz, says his job in Canberra, where he handled federal government clients for
a media analytics company, is no longer tenable.
His resignation is yet another sign of the way that parliament’s power dynamics can work to discourage the reporting of sexual assault.
The Australian government
will stop all advertising on Facebook while the platform blocks news for
Australians.
Google has
reportedly spent more than $60 million on deals with news publishers, the kind
of deals Facebook is seeking to avoid.
Edvard Munch’s first painted version of The Scream includes a faint inscription, circled, which has now been analysed by experts using infrared scans. BORRE HOSTLAND/THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NORWAY
For a century the graffiti was thought to have been the
scream of a critic offended by the “abnormality” of Edvard Munch’s art.
A conservation project on The
Scream has, however, confirmed that Munch himself scrawled “can only
have been painted by a madman” in pencil on his most famous painting.
Infrared scanning of the first painted version of the artwork has drawn a match between the tiny lettering and documents written by the Norwegian artist. Source: The Times
The results show that MDMA-assisted therapy is potentially more effective than any current treatments used to treat alcoholism.
After many years of stagnated research, many recreational drugs are being revisited to test their viability in treating PTSD, anxiety, and other serious ailments, and the party drug known as MDMA, or 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, is one of them.
The research, published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, reports on a landmark clinical trial, showing the untapped potential for MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in treating those with alcohol addiction. While small, it is the first to test MDMA therapy as a treatment for addiction.
https://interestingengineering.com/world-first-trial-shows-mdma-could-be-used-to-treat-alcoholism
Moody Jacobs shows
a giant bruise on the side and hip of his patient, Ann Hodges, in 1954, after
she was struck by a meteorite.
PHOTOGRAPH BY JAY LEVITON, TIME
& LIFE PICTURES/GETTY IMAGES
The only human hit by a
meteorite: Ann Elizabeth Hodges, 30 November 1954 at 6:46 pm (she survived).
On a clear afternoon in Sylacauga, Alabama in 1954, Ann was napping on her couch covered by quilts when a softball size hunk of black rock broke through the ceiling, bounced off a radio and hit her in the thigh, leaving a large bruise.
Source: Reddit
Brittany Higgins
A
third woman alleges she was sexually assaulted almost five years ago by the
same former Morrison government adviser accused of the 2019 rape of a female
colleague in Parliament House.
The
woman, a Coalition volunteer during the 2016 election campaign, alleged she was
assaulted after a night drinking with the then political staffer.
The
woman, who spoke on condition of anonymity but supported her allegations with a
statutory declaration, said she was barely out of school when she went out with
campaign volunteers just days before the election.
Source: The Australian
Motorcyclists ride on the Champs Elysees during a day of protest organised by the Federation of Angry Bikers, demanding the right to drive in between lanes of cars. Photo Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty Images
Australian Law: State of NSW
Lane filtering is where a motorcycle rider moves past stationary or slow moving vehicles
safely at a speed of 30km/h or less. Lane filtering is legal in NSW. Lane splitting is where a motorcycle rider moves past vehicles at an unsafe speed of more
than 30km/h. Lane splitting is illegal.
The statue is an iconic symbol of Wall
Street.(AP: Mark
Lennihan)
The artist who sculpted Charging Bull, the bronze statue in New York
which became an iconic symbol of Wall Street, has died in his hometown in Italy
at age 80 on Friday evening.
Di Modica
had installed the bronze bull sculpture in New York's financial district without
permission on the night of December 16, 1989.
He left Sicily, at age 19 for Florence, where he studied at the Fine
Arts Academy.
At the
time of his death, he was working on prototypes for a twin horse sculpture he
planned to make for his home town.
Israel has finally launched a “Green Pass” certificate - a pass back to a
normal life. But it’s easily forged.
Bar-Zik explained that the QR code on the Health Ministry “green pass” has no encryption, and corresponds directly to a string of text, with the holder’s personal information, including name, ID number, and date of vaccination, identical to the text printed on the pass itself.
“Whoever scans the false pass will see the exact same details as are printed on the pass, and there are already tens of thousands of people forging,” Bar-Zik exclaimed.
