Why crypto creators want to stay anonymous By: AFP/APP on February 18, 2022Paris: The two lifelong friends from Florida never sought the limelight, but then they built a multi-million-dollar empire selling digital art and people wanted to know who they were. Under the pseudonyms “Gargamel” and “Gordon Goner”, they created the “Bored Ape Yacht Club”, a collection of 10,000 cartoons of apes with various hairstyles and outfits. […]
Ingebrigtsen breaks 1500m indoor world record By: AFP/APP on February 18, 2022Liévin, France: Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen broke the world indoor record in the 1500m when he ran 3min 30.60sec on Thursday in Lievin in northern France. The Norwegian cut 0.46sec from the record set three years ago by Ethiopian Samuel Tefera, who was second on Thursday in 3:33.70. It was the 21-year-old Ingebrigtsen’s first world […]
Sustainable designs to take centre stage at London fashion By: AFP/APP on February 18, 2022London: Emerging and sustainable designers will get a chance to shine at London Fashion Week from Friday with major brands such as Burberry, Victoria Beckham and Vivienne Westwood either absent or sticking to digital formats for the five-day catwalk extravaganza. Burberry said without explanation it would hold a live show in March that is not […]
Australian scientists flag 45,000 vulnerable marine species By: Xinhua/APP on February 16, 2022SYDNEY: A team of marine experts at the University of Queensland (UQ) have compiled a list of more than 45,000 at-risk species, showing the extent of the impact that global warming and other factors pose to marine life. The study, published in the Ecological Society of America (ESA) journal and released to the public on […]
African films make waves at Berlinale festival By: AFP/APP on February 15, 2022Berlin: African films are enjoying a high profile at this year’s Berlinale festival, with debuts from South Sudan and the Central African Republic (CAR) turning heads along with a new take on “Nollywood”. While there are no African films in the main competition at Europe’s first major film festival of the year, several documentaries and […]
Key US-Canada border crossing reopens after Covid protests By: AFP/APP on February 14, 2022Windsor, Canada: A major US-Canada border crossing reopened late Sunday almost a week after it was forced shut by truck driver-led protests against coronavirus restrictions, prompting police to quell the demonstration with a series of arrests. The blockading of the Ambassador Bridge, which handles an estimated 25 percent of trade between the two countries, had […]
Hopes for recovery in focus at Asia’s biggest airshow By: APP on February 14, 2022Singapore: Asia’s biggest airshow takes place in Singapore this week with the aviation sector hoping 2022 marks a turning point in a region where tough curbs have left coronavirus-battered airlines struggling to recover. The event, which takes place every two years and kicks off on Tuesday, brings together hundreds of airlines, plane manufacturers and other […]
UN ‘encouraged’ by US move to free half of $7 bln in frozen Afghan funds for aid By: APP on February 12, 2022UNITED NATIONS: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is “encouraged” by Friday’s US decision to free up half of $7 billion in frozen Afghan assets to help the suffering people, while holding the rest to satisfy lawsuits against the Taliban from victims of terrorism, a UN spokesman said. “I think we have said on several occasions […]
World must ‘change track’ to protect oceans from climate crisis: UN chief By: APP on February 12, 2022UNITED NATIONS: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on the international community to “change track” in protecting the ocean from the climate crisis. Global warming, biodiversity loss and pollution are a triple crisis facing the planet, he said in a video message to the One Ocean Summit taking place in the northern French coastal […]
Australia warns koalas ‘endangered’ as numbers plunge By: AFP/APP on February 11, 2022Sydney: Australia officially listed koalas across a swathe of its eastern coast as “endangered” on Friday, with the marsupials fighting to survive the impact of bushfires, land-clearing, drought and disease. Conservationists said koala populations had crashed in much of eastern Australia over the past two decades, warning that they were now sliding towards extinction. Environment […]