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Saudi man ‘accidentally’ buys $300m planes for son A father in Saudi Arabia has set the standards for parents buying birthday presents for their children when he accidentally purchased two Airbus A350-1000s after searching for small scale models of the plane for his son. The Saudi man, who remains unnamed and is an investor in the kingdom’s energy sector, was searching for small models of the plane as a birthday gift for his son who is a big fan of aviation. When he called the world’s second biggest aerospace company Airbus to obtain the model planes, however, his lack of verbal clarity in the English language made communication between him and company difficult. “They asked so many questions about interior and exterior, I just thought they make very accurate scale models,” the Saudi was reported as saying. When the price of around $365 million was presented to the man, it did not seem to deter him, saying that “I got lost in currency conversions, I thought it was a bit exp...
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The  Aluu Four lynching  was a  necklace lynching  that involved four young men, Ugonna Obuzor, Toku Lloyd, Chiadika Biringa, and Tekena Elkanah, all students of the  University of Port Harcourt . They were all lynched after they were falsely accused of theft in Aluu, a community in  Ikwerre  local government area,  Rivers State ,  Nigeria  on 5 October 2012. Chiadika Biringa, Lloyd Toku Mike, Tekena Erikena and Ugonna Obuzor were all friends, first sons of their parents, and students of  University of Port Harcourt . The four students were also occasional roommates. Ugonna sometimes spent the night with Tekena who lived outside the campus because his residence on campus was broken into multiple times. Ugonna had a debtor called Bright who was owing him some undisclosed amount of money which bothered him much. In time, Ugonna managed to find out Bright's particular location. He sought the help of his cousin Lloyd, childhood and ...
          Canada bans HK consulate staff fromChina The Canadian Consulate in Hong Kong says local staff would not be allowed to leave the city on official business, following the detention of a British Consulate worker in mainland China. It didn't say whether the travel restriction was related to the detention of Simon Cheng Man-kit, who went missing two weeks ago after he went on a business trip from Hong Kong's high-speed rail terminal to Shenzhen, a mainland city just across the border from the semi-autonomous territory. "At present, locally engaged staff will not undertake official business travel outside of Hong Kong," the Canadian Consulate said in a statement. The Chinese government's announcement this week that Cheng had been detained has stoked tensions in Hong Kong, which has been gripped by more than two months of anti-government protests sparked by outrage over proposed legislation that would have allowed some criminal suspects to be sent...
Google says its YouTube streaming video service disabled 210 channels appearing to engage in a coordinated influence operation around the Hong Kong protests. The announcement comes days after Twitter and Facebook said they dismantled a similar campaign originating in mainland China. "This discovery was consistent with recent observations and actions related to China announced by Facebook and Twitter," said Shane Huntley, one of Google's security leaders, in a blog post. But he stopped short of identifying the origin of the channels. Twitter and Facebook on Monday said the channels they removed had engaged in a state-backed effort by China to undermine the protests in Hong Kong through posts calling participants dangerous and vile extremists. The protests, which have presented one of the biggest challenges for Chinese President Xi Jinping since he came to power in 2012, began in June as opposition to a now-suspended bill that would allow suspects to be extrad...
NIGERIAN SCAMMER FBI BUST: 80 DEFENDANTS IN US, NIGERIA CHARGED IN CYBERFRAUD CONSPIRACY TO STEAL MILLIONS Thursday, August 22, 2019 7:55PM CT Federal prosecutors announced a 252-count indictment that accuses 80 people in the U.S. and Nigeria of participating in a "massive conspiracy to steal millions of dollars through a variety of fraud schemes." LOS ANGELES -- After search warrants were executed at multiple locations across L.A. County on Thursday morning, federal prosecutors announced a 252-count indictment that accuses 80 people in the U.S. and Nigeria of participating in a "massive conspiracy to steal millions of dollars through a variety of fraud schemes." The defendants allegedly laundered the funds through a Los Angeles-based money laundering network. Eleven of them were arrested Thursday in Southern California, while three others were taken into custody elsewhere in the U.S., according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of ...
Alpha Jetman Blows the Doors of Possibility Wide Open WRITTEN BY  DR. LYNDA Can you imagine actually  becoming  the plane? Yves Rossy created a winged jetpack that enables him to  take to the sky with the freedom of a bird , awarding him the accurate moniker of  Jetman.  And let me tell you, seeing a human body flying right next to full metal jets has completely shaken up what’s possible! Source:  Airborne-Films // YouTube Yves Rossy is just one of those great people who must never have heard  “it can’t be done”. We thank both  Airborne Films – Jetman  (what beautiful work) and  XDubai  (leading out on the edges) for bringing us some of the Jetman story in the videos below! Via:  Airborne-Films   1 The marvel of this leap in aviation is incalculable. I’m not sorry to admit that my sense of possibility was expanded by watching this and that I shed a little tear. Just imagine the thoug...
[  BUSINESS  ] Bill Gates Drinks Sewage: Introducing the Omni Processor WRITTEN BY  DR. LYNDA On January 22, 2015, Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, came on the set of  The Tonight Show  with all-around funnyman Jimmy Fallon, with a simple proposition for Fallon: let’s each drink a glass of water. Simple right? Oh… here’s the catch: one of the glasses contained bottled water, while the other was very recently fresh  sewage , filtered using Gates’ latest philanthropic effort, the Omni Processor. Let’s watch the fun results as they played out on  The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon : Via: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon   1  Omni Processor Water Purifier In retrospect, it seems incredibly obvious that the solution to the question, “how do we get potable water to all of  Africa ?” ended up being this process which involves no advanced technology, just...