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The World Health Organization has declared the new coronavirus outbreak in China a public health emergency of international concern.
Coronaviruses are zoonotic, meaning they are transmitted between animals and people. The animal source of the new type of virus has not been identified.
There have been several epidemics stemming from animal sources in recent history.
Below, we take a look at some of the most serious outbreaks, their source, when they first emerged, and how deadly they are.
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Pope: May we offer wealth of charity, share our bread, multiply love.
Pope Francis presides at Mass in St. Peter's Basilica on the World Day of the Poor. He recalls the journey of Jesus who "became poor in order to make us rich" and our own life journey in which we are called to "offer the wealth of charity, share our bread and multiply love."
In his homily during the Mass for the World Day of the Poor taking place in Saint Peter's Basilica, Pope Francis reflected on two aspects of the Sunday Gospel reading recounting the parable of the talents: the journey of Jesus and the journey of our lives.
Talents given according to the ability of each
Describing the journey of Jesus in his incarnation, resurrection and ascension into heaven, Pope Francis said Jesus has left us his "wealth", recalling the Eucharist, his words of life, "his holy Mother to be our Mother", and the gifts of the Holy Spirit. He explained how all of these gifts or "talents" are freely offered so that we can continue His work on earth in our own "personal mission that the Lord entrusts to us in our daily lives, in society and in the Church.
Earth to warm up to 2.9C even with current climate pledges:
UN warns world ‘out of road’ for limiting warming to 1.5C ahead of COP28 meeting in Dubai.
The world’s emissions-cutting pledges are nowhere near enough to curb the effects of climate change, with Earth on track for warming
a potentially catastrophic 2.9C (5.2F) this century, the United Nations
has warned.
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP)’s annual Emissions Gap report, published on Monday, assesses countries’ promises
to tackle climate change against
the action needed.
US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin has made a surprise visit to Kyiv where he unveiled a new military aid package for Ukraine worth $100m.
Austin, on his first trip to Kyiv since April 2022, met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as well as Defence Minister Rustem Umerov and Commander-in-Chief General Valerii Zaluzhnyi on Monday and promised the long-term support of the United States.
WHO sees ‘concerning’ COVID trends before winter as hospitalisations rise
The UN health agency says many countries stopped reporting COVID data and called for more vaccinations and surveillance.
vaccine Preliminary data suggests that existing vaccines will give protection against the BA.2.86 subvariant.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned of “concerning” COVID-19 trends in advance of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, calling for increased vaccinations and surveillance.
While figures are “limited” because many countries have stopped reporting coronavirus data, the United Nations health agency estimated that hundreds of thousands of people globally were currently hospitalised with the virus.
“We continue to see concerning trends for COVID-19 ahead of the winter season in the Northern Hemisphere,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told an online news conference on Wednesday.
“Deaths are increasing in some parts of the Middle East and Asia, intensive care unit admissions are increasing in Europe and hospitalisations are increasing in several regions,” he said.
Tedros noted, however, that only 43 countries – less than a quarter of the 194 WHO member states – are reporting COVID-19 deaths to the agency, and only 20 provide information about hospitalisations.
“We estimate that there are hundreds of thousands of people in hospital now for COVID,” said Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s technical lead on COVID-19.
“That is a worry given that when we get to colder months, in some countries, people tend to spend more time indoors together, and viruses that transmit through the air like COVID will take advantage of that,” she added.
With influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, also circulating, Van Kerkhove stressed the importance of testing and vaccination.
Will COVID-19 ever go away?
Tedros said while there is not currently a single dominant COVID-19 coronavirus variant worldwide, the EG.5 Omicron subvariant is on the rise.
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Scorching October puts 2023
on track to be hottest year in 125,000 years!
Scientists say climate change is driving heatwaves across the planet, toppling previous records with alarming frequency.
European scientists say 2023
is on track to be the hottest year on record after temperatures soared across the planet in October.
The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S),
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hotter than the previous record
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International Coffee Day:
Where does your caffeine fix come from?
Brazil is the world’s largest producer of coffee, producing about one-third of global supply.
How is coffee produced?
Coffee consumption is thought to have its origins dating back as far as the ninth century in the region that is now Ethiopia in East Africa, where wild coffee plants grew naturally.
The invigorating drink then spread to other regions across the Arabian Peninsula, such as Yemen and by the 15th century, coffee cultivation and preparation methods had developed to become an integral part of the culture.
Coffee trade expanded across the Middle East and made its way to Europe by the 17th century through trade routes across Italy.
Although they may resemble beans, “coffee beans” are actually the seeds of the coffee fruit which are found in pairs inside a red coffee cherry. It takes about three to four years for a coffee plant to bear its first harvest.
New location: TV series "Un passo dal cielo"
Right after starting with the 6th season of the TV series with Daniele Liotti, “Un passo dal cielo”, it has been announced
that the new location will be Lake Misurina in nearby region
of Veneto.
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Lake Pragser Wildsee
Lake Prags with Mt. Seekofel
Lake Prags
This was confirmed by Lux Vide production house: “We have produced 5 seasons in Hochpustertal and have realised an excellent TV series. We just felt like at home.”
From the famous Lake Prags, the 6th season moves to Lake Misurina next to the famous Three Peaks in the neighbouring province of Belluno.
True fans can reach the new location in a few minutes by car from Hochpustertal. There, they will have the possibility to meet their stars.
However, the reasons this change of location are not obvious. The audience has always been fascinated about the breath-taking panoramas and landscapes of Hochpustertal. For sure, many people have spent their holidays in the surrounding villages of Lake Prags during the last years. Unfortunately, the masses of people did not have always positive effects on nature.
Maybe, these dreamlike places will become again the location for TV series and films.
In his latest Power On newsletter, Gurman said Apple is testing a Mac under model identifier "Mac 15,12" that includes eight CPU cores (consisting of four efficiency cores and four performance cores), 10 graphics processor cores, and 24GB of RAM.
The machine is said to be running macOS Sonoma 14.1, the first point update of Apple's forthcoming operating system, and given the similar specifications to the base M2 Mac mini (bar the existing model's 8GB RAM as standard), Gurman believes it represents a next-generation Mac mini.
In his latest newsletter, Gurman repeated that he expects the first M3-powered Macs to debut as early as October. However, based on previous reporting, he does not expect the Mac mini to be one of the first models with the M3 chip. They are likely to be the 13-inch MacBook Pro, 13-inch MacBook Air, and 24-inch iMac.
Gurman last month said that he did not expect a new Mac mini to emerge until late 2024 at the earliest. If the developer logs do indicate Apple is testing an M3 Mac mini, that could mean we could see it sooner than previously expected. That said, the latest Mac mini models are less than a year old, having been introduced in January 2023.
The M3 chip is widely expected to be fabricated using TSMC's 3nm process for significant performance and power efficiency improvements compared to the 5nm-based M2 chip in existing devices.
How the Apple iPhone 15 price compares
with all previous iPhones
iPhone 15 ($799 – $1099)
iPhone 15 Plus ($899 – $1199)
iPhone 15 Pro ($999 – $1499)
iPhone 15 Pro Max ($1199 – $1599)
What has changed?
The iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus will use last year’s A16 Bionic chip, while the iPhone 15 Pro and the Pro Max will be powered by the new 3nm process, A17 Pro chip.
The biggest change this year is how the phones will be charged. To comply with European legislation, Apple has adopted the USB-C charging standard, replacing the existing Lightning port. The new cable should improve data transfer speeds and help consumers cut down on having to buy different chargers for different devices.
How much more expensive are today’s iPhones?
The tradition of presenting the newest iPhones each year has continued since the late Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs, announced the first iPhone in 2007. The era-defining piece of technology has become the world’s most popular smartphone and Apple’s best-selling product.
The first iPhone released retailed at a whopping $499. However, the following year, Apple’s revamp of the iPhone 3G was far more affordable at $199.
The prices of iPhones stayed steady after the 2009 release of the iPhone 3GS. That was until the release of the iPhone 5c which hit the market in 2013 with more vibrant colours and a friendlier $99 price tag. The product marked the cheapest iPhone in history.
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With gradually increasing prices and the market’s need for a tech-filled phone, iPhone prices climbed up the ladder since the rollout of the Plus models–the bigger and more expensive silhouette designed to carry a bigger screen.
It wasn’t until 2017 that Apple surprisingly released the new iPhone X and brought the prices of iPhones to new heights. The $999 price tag was formidable for many, but more started to adapt.
At $799, the entry-level iPhone 15 shares the same starting price as the past three models, from the iPhone 12 (2020) to the iPhone 14 (2022).
Scholz: if others withdraw, Germany will send more aid to Ukraine
Budget talks continue, German Chancellor confident of agreement.
He also reiterated that Germany must be ready to continue aid efforts to Kiev until 2025. "If necessary, and if others withdraw, we should be able to make a possibly even larger contribution."
LONDON — The first transatlantic flight using 100% sustainable aviation fuel departed London for New York on Tuesday as the industry seeks to prove the viability of greener air travel.
Virgin Atlantic’s Boeing 787 is burning a blend of 88% waste fats supplied by AirBP, and 12% synthetic aromatic kerosene made from plant sugars.
Test flight VIR100, which is not carrying paying passengers, departed London Heathrow for New York JFK at 11:49 a.m. U.K. time (6:49 a.m. ET), according to Flightradar24 data. It is due to land shortly before 2 p.m. ET.
Sustainable aviation fuel — also known as SAF — is an umbrella term for non-fossil-derived fuels, including biofuels derived from plant or animal materials, municipal waste and agricultural residues.
It still produces emissions, but proponents argue the overall “lifecycle emissions” from the fuel are significantly lower than from regular petroleum-based fuel.
Ex-Dire Straits singer Mark Knopfler to sell guitar collection for charity.
‘I’ll be sad to see them go but we’ve had wonderful times together,
’ says musician ahead of London auction.
Mark Knopfler has said he wants to let his guitars have new adventures with new owners as he announced the sale of a collection of the instruments spanning his five-decade career.
Knopfler, who made Dire Straits one of the the biggest bands in the world, is to sell 120 of his guitars and amps at Christie’s in London in January, with 25% of the proceeds going to charity.
The singer-songwriter said that wherever he went he still crossed streets to gaze at guitars in the windows of music shops – just as he did when he was growing up in the north-east of England.
“I’ve done that since I was a little kid,” he said. “I’ve lived with this love affair for over 60 years.”
The time had come, he said, “to take some of these treasured six-string companions out of their cases and leave them in the care of Christie’s to allow them to have new adventures with new owners.
“I’ll be sad to see them go but we’ve had wonderful times together and I can’t play them all.”
Knopfler, 74, was born in Glasgow and moved as a child to Blyth in Northumberland. He went to grammar school in Newcastle and told the BBC he would spend hours looking at the displays in JG Windows in the city’s Central Arcade, dreaming of the day he could have a guitar.
“I can still remember the first time I plucked up enough courage to pick one off the wall, with trembling fingers,” he said. “It was a Spanish guitar, and one of the Geordies in the shop said: ‘If you drop that, I’ll drop you’. I didn’t even know how to play. I was just desperate to have it in my hands.”
The guitars being sold range in estimate from £300 to £500,000.
Christie’s said the highlight of the sale, with an estimate of £300,000-500,000, was Knopfler’s 1959 vintage Gibson Les Paul Standard, which he used on his Sailing to Philadelphia tour in 2001 and Kill to Crimson tour in 2008.
It’s described as “true collector’s instrument, with a beautifully faded cherry-red sunburst finish”.
Also up for auction is a 1983 Les Paul that Knopfler used to record two of Dire Straits’ best-known songs: Money for Nothing and Brothers in Arms. He also used it on stage at Live Aid in 1985 when Sting sang vocals on Money for Nothing. The instrument has an estimate of £10,000-£15,000.
Some of the guitars will go on tour to New York in December before the sale in London on 31 January. The charities benefiting are the British Red Cross, Tusk and Brave Hearts of the North East.
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Angkor Wat (/ˌæŋkɔːr ˈwɒt/; Khmer: អង្គរវត្ត "Temple city/city of temples") is a temple complex in Cambodia and the largest religious monument in the world by land area, measuring 162.6 hectares (1.626 km2; 402 acres).
The temple was built at the behest of Suryavarman II[7] in the early 12th century in Yaśodharapura (យសោធរបុរៈ, present-day Angkor), the capital of the Khmer Empire, as the state temple for the empire.[8][9] Originally constructed as a personal mausoleum for Suryavarman, dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu in the early 12th century, it was converted to a Buddhist temple towards the end of the 12th century.[9][10]
Angkor Wat combines two basic plans of Khmer temple architecture: the temple-mountain and the later galleried temple. It is designed to represent Mount Meru, home of the devas in Hindu and Buddhist cosmology. Unlike most Angkorian temples, Angkor Wat is oriented to the west. Scholars are divided as to the significance of this. The temple is admired for the grandeur and harmony of its architecture, extensive bas-reliefs, and statues of Buddhas and Devas that adorn its walls.
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