This life reconstruction shows what the “Baby Yingliang” dinosaur embryo might’ve looked like inside its egg. Lida Xing A life-reconstruction illustration shows a small animal in a tight tuck, legs pulled up, back curved, beaked head bent toward its tail. This is Baby Yingliang, a nickname given to a remarkable fossilized dinosaur embryo found inside…
An SMS message is received on a Motorola RAZR handset. Photo by Scared Poet/Wikimedia Commons Dec. 21 (UPI) — The world’s first Short Message Service text message sent to a mobile phone, “Merry Christmas,” sold Tuesday at the Aguttes auction house in Paris for $120,600. Vodafone programmer Neil Papworth, now age 51, sent the 15-character…
Dec. 21 (UPI) — South Korean singer Minho is back with new music. The 30-year-old K-pop star, a member of the boy band SHINee, released a single and music video for the song “Heartbreak” on Tuesday. The “Heartbreak” video shows Minho work with a virtual version of himself as he sings about his lingering feelings…
Dec. 21 (UPI) — Officials from the San Antonio Police Department said Tuesday that the search for a missing 3-year-old is ongoing. Lina Sadar Khil was last seen at 5 p.m. on Monday around the 9400 block of Fredericksburg Road wearing a red dress, a black jacket, and black shoes. Lina has brown eyes, straight…
The Office of the Special Prosecutor report on the the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office handling of the case of former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett (shown at trial) was released Monday. File Photo by Tannen Maury/EPA-EFE Dec. 21 (UPI) — A special prosecutor’s report found “operational failures” in Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s office’s…
Ethan Jan, of Redlands, Calif., unofficially broke the Guinness World Records for fastest time to solve a rotating puzzle cube while juggling and fastest time to solve a rotating puzzle cube upside-down. Photo by Pexels/Pixabay.com Dec. 21 (UPI) — A California teenager with a talent for solving Rubik’s cubes unofficially broke two world records by solving…
When Covid-19 broke out in Rwanda, different businesses halted operations consequently affecting sources of income for many people who had jobs including Visually Impaired people. Massage therapy business is among the most affected businesses as it was restricted severally yet the business has been increasingly viable for visually impaired people. Beth Gatonye, founder of Seeing…
The centre noted that Monday’s new cases raised Nigeria’s total infections to 225,255 while the fatality toll now stands at 2,985. The fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has continued its rage in Nigeria as the country, on Monday, recorded 1,368 new infections. The latest statistics released by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)…
REPORTS from South Africa indicate that President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration is fighting hard to keep Zimbabweans domiciled in South Africa there despite Tswane threatening to send them packing. The South African government has indicated it will not be renewing the temporary work permits given to Zimbabweans based there, implying hundreds of thousands will have to…
ZANU PF is struggling fend off nagging interference by its senior officials accused of meddling in the ongoing restructuring exercise and trying to influence the outcome of upcoming provincial elections. This was disclosed by former Zanu PF Mutasa South legislator, Irene Zindi Sunday as she rapped the former executives for interfering with internal elections. The…
