Archive For: The Crunch
Mar 14, 2016 Thai elephants recently joined the annual polo tournament in Bangkok as the event heads into its 14th year. The event, which is organized as a charity aimed to provide elephants with medical attention, featured twenty elephants and ten polo teams competing in the 14th King’s Cup Elephant Polo Tournament. One of the tournament ... Read More
Mar 14, 2016 Triple World Cup soccer winner Pele recently put up about 2,000 items for auction, including his three World Cup medals and a one-of-a-kind Jules Rimet trophy. According to auctioneers, the exhibit could fetch up to one million dollars. In his first ever auction of career memorabilia, the Brazilian is selling off his 1,000th ... Read More
Mar 11, 2016 Helm, an initiative aimed at improving accessibility and providing workplace training for physically challenged persons, recently set up shop in Egypt. The organization, whose name translates to “dream”, won first prize in a social entrepreneurship competition hosted by MIT University in 2013 and was awarded the Rise Egypt two-year-long fellowship from Harvard ... Read More
Mar 11, 2016 International Women’s Day celebrations in Central African Republic recently brought together Christian and Muslim women from across the capital Bangui. Hundreds of women came out to celebrate the day, which is marked around the world. However the celebrations in Bangui stood as a symbol of unity as both Christian and Muslim women ... Read More
Mar 11, 2016 The first of five matches between Google’s artificial intelligence software and the world champion of an ancient Chinese board game called Go, Lee Sedol, recently held in Seoul. Go, which is popular in China, South Korea and Japan, is a strategy board game in which two players place black and white pieces ... Read More
Mar 11, 2016 Chief designer of China’s Manned Space Program, Zhou Jianping, recently revealed that China’s first orbiting space station will be finished around 2020. He went on to add that China’s second orbiting space lab Tiangong-2 will be sent into space in the third quarter this year and the country will launch the Shenzhou-11 ... Read More
Mar 11, 2016 Authorities recently searched the offices of France’s soccer federation for documents in support of a Swiss investigation into former FIFA President Sepp Blatter. According to the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland, the operation was linked to a 2 million Swiss franc payment at the heart proceedings against Blatter. Swiss prosecutors ... Read More
Mar 11, 2016 After taking part in the Rio Grand Slam tourney, Chinese beach volley baller expressed their satisfaction with the playing field and facilities. The Rio leg of the International Volleyball Federation world also doubled up as a ground test for this summer’s Olympic Games. Speaking after the game, Yue Yuan, a Chinese beach ... Read More
Mar 10, 2016 South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma recently held bilateral meetings with his Nigerian counterpart as part of a two-day state visit to Nigeria. During the visit, discussions on how to increase economic activity between the two nations and the multi-million dollar fine imposed by Nigeria on South Africa telecoms MTN took center-stage. Speaking ... Read More
Mar 10, 2016 An elephant stuck in deep mud in central Kenya was recently freed following extensive efforts from conservationists to rescue the animal, whose population in the wild is seriously threatened by poachers. The 20-year-old male elephant, which had been trapped overnight in the mud of a dried up well, was pulled free using ... Read More
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