World temperatures hit a record high for the third year in a row in 2016, creeping closer to a ceiling set for global warming with extremes including unprecedented heat in India and ice melt in the Arctic, U.S. government agencies said on Wednesday.
Thursday, January 19, 2017
Rolls-Royce apologises in court after settling bribery case
Settlement of £671m means engineering giant will avoid being prosecuted by anti-corruption investigators in UK, US or Brazil
The engineering giant Rolls-Royce has apologised after it was found to have paid bribes including a luxury car and millions of pounds’ worth of cash to middlemen to secure orders in six countries, including Indonesia, Russia and China.
Britain’s leading multinational manufacturer made the admissions on Tuesday at the high court in London, a day after it was revealed that it would pay £671m in penalties to settle long-running corruption allegations. In a statement read out in court, the firm said it “apologised unreservedly for the conduct which has been uncovered”.
Wole Soyinka confirms he destroyed his green card after Trump win
The Nobel laureate, who threatened to destroy his green card last year, confirmed he has done so as an act of protest before 20 January’s inauguration ceremony.
After threatening to do it a week before the US presidential elections last November, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has confirmed he has destroyed his green card because Donald Trump won.
Soyinka, the first African writer to be awarded the Nobel prize in literature, was jailed twice for his criticism of the Nigerian government during the 1960s, famously composing protest poems on toilet paper from his cell in solitary confinement. In 1994, Soyinka’s passport was confiscated by the de facto president Sani Abacha after he urged Nigerians to not pay taxes, as their money would aid the military. After years of living in voluntary exile and teaching overseas, Soyinka eventually sought refuge in the United States that same year, with the help of former US president Jimmy Carter. He later received a death sentence in absentia in 1997, from the regime under Abacha.
Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Pentecostal church looks to white Britons to boost congregations
Redeemed Christian Church of God is on ‘reverse mission’ to spread word in UK and plans to open another 100 churches
The UK’s biggest and fastest growing Pentecostal church is embarking on an ambitious expansion programme in 2017, in part aimed at attracting white Britons to join its black majority congregations.
The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), which already has almost 800 places of worship in the UK, plans to open another 100 next year, according to one of its leading pastors.
Eight charts that show 2016 wasn't as bad as you think
Deaths in conflict have fallen (slightly), emissions have not risen for a third year and fewer people are dying from disease
2016 is likely to be remembered as an annus horribilis for so many reasons that it’s tempting to think everything is doomed.
But things are not always as they seem. There are silver linings. You just have to look hard to find them.
MMM ‘removes’ all payment requests
MMM Nigeria, the most popular ponzi scheme in the nation, says it has removed all requests for payment on the system, but it has by no means cancelled them.
In a statement yesterday, the scheme explained that “although some people called it ‘cancelled’, the truth of the matter is that it was only removed not canceled.
“Please note that the GH orders were not cancelled because if cancelled, you will see it at the right hand side as deleted. It was removed because of the following reasons:
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