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By Jonathan O’Callaghan Millions of observers will watch next week’s American solar eclipse from the ground. But a few lucky Nasa flight crews will get a much closer view. When a total solar eclipse crosses North America on Monday 8 April, an estimated 31 million people will be in its path – watching. Many more are likely to travel for the ...

By Nadine Yousif,BBC News The first man to receive a genetically modified kidney transplant from a pig has been discharged from hospital.  The 62-year-old was sent home on Wednesday, two weeks after the ground-breaking surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).  Organ transplants from genetically modified pigs have failed in the past.  But the success of this procedure so far has ...

https://bbc.com/africalive Kenya’s largest public referral hospital has announced that it will dispose hundreds of unclaimed bodies currently at its morgue if family members will not collect them. “Interested members of the public are therefore requested to identify and collect the bodies within seven days, failure to which the hospital will seek authority from the courts to dispose of them,” the ...

https://www.dw.com/en/florida-six-week-abortion-ban-to-take-effect/a-68715511 Abortion after 15 weeks was already banned in Florida, with the state’s top court ruling that it was constitutional in response to a lawsuit. That paves the way for a six-week ban to take effect within 30 days. The Florida Supreme Court on Monday upheld a ruling that triggers a six-week ban on abortion in the state. The case centered around ...

By Myles Bonnar & Calum McKay,BBC Scotland Jade Skea was a teenager when she first met charismatic street trader Kim Avis. She did not know it would bring her into a decade-long, controlling and abusive relationship with him and land her at the centre of a story that involved a fake death plot, an international manhunt and a high court ...

By Lipika Pelham,BBC News Six people are missing and presumed dead after a container ship hit the landmark Francis Scott Key Bridge in the US city of Baltimore. The Coast Guard said it had suspended its search and begun a recovery effort. Several vehicles were crossing the bridge, which is more than 2.6km (1.6 miles) long, when it collapsed after ...

According to DW Africa, British-Zimbabwean pastor Uebert Angel Mudzanire has announced an online course on performing miracles. The course will cost around $1200. He encouraged interested parties to register quickly, stating that spots were filling up quickly.

Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun will step down from the embattled plane maker at the end of the year after a series of mishaps at one of America’s most storied manufacturers. Board Chair Larry Kellner has also told the company he doesn’t plan to stand for re-election. Boeing also said Monday that Stan Deal, president and CEO of its commercial airplanes ...

By:Nutifafa Bequine The 13th African games came to a close on Saturday, 23rd March, 2023 in a colorful ceremony after three weeks of thrilling sporting activities involving 54 nations. In a closing speech, the President of Ghana, His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo announced that the facilities used for the games will be used as nucleus for university of sports ...

By Associated Press CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA —  The southern African nation of Malawi has declared a state of disaster over drought in 23 of its 28 districts and the president says it urgently needs more than $200 million in humanitarian assistance, less than a month after neighboring Zambia also appealed for help. Malawi is the latest country in the region ...