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Agricultural training institute in Dinagat Islands receives dev’t grant

      A training institute in Surigao del Norte has received an-almost half-a-million-peso development grant for the upgrading of its facilities. The development grant amounting to P497,850 was provided by MASHAV, Israel’s agency for international development cooperation, to the Sogbohan Agri-Training Institute on Dinagat Islands. MASHAV’s main objective is to help MASHAV course graduates to develop their existing ideas to a level of sustainability and maturity on an economic basis. In SATI, the only agriculture training center in […]

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Phone makers take aim at ailing Samsung with new handsets

by Daniel SILVA / Erwan LUCAS Agence France-Presse China’s Huawei, LG and other phone firms unveiled new smartphones on Sunday as they tried to capitalize on Samsung’s withdrawal of its flagship device after faulty batteries led several of the handsets to catch fire. Samsung, the world’s largest mobile phone maker, had no device of its own to show at the week-long Mobile World Congress, the phone industry’s largest annual trade fair, in Barcelona in northeastern […]

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Huawei takes aim at ailing Samsung with new smartphone

BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) — China’s Huawei unveiled a new smartphone with a better camera on Sunday as it tries to fill the void left by Samsung’s withdrawal of its flagship device due to problems with the battery. Huawei’s P10 and the larger P10 Plus, launched on the sidelines of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the world’s biggest annual phone expo, feature dual Leica rear camera lenses, a longer-lasting battery and fingerprint sensor system. “The […]

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‘Ring of fire’ eclipse delights Africa, South America

by Leo RAMIREZ Agence France Presse SARMIENTO, Argentina (AFP) — Stargazers applauded as they were plunged into darkness Sunday when the moon passed in front of the sun in a spectacular “ring of fire” eclipse. Astronomers and enthusiasts in Argentina were among the first to see the so-called annular eclipse as it crossed South America shortly after 1200 GMT, on course for Africa. Staring up through special telescopes, protective glasses or homemade cardboard pinhole devices, […]

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Unusual Warm Winter Weather in Denver, Colorado this February

by Marie A. Dumayac Eagle News Service Colorado DENVER, Colorado, USA – (Eagle News) — Denverites enjoyed a warm weather on February 2017, hitting high 60’s (19 degree C), mid-70’s (23 degree C), and even an 80 degree F (27 degree C). Denver also set the highest temperature ever recorded in four days of February (10th, 15th, 16th, 21st). On February 23rd, a day after a high of 57 degree F (14 degree C), and […]

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3D ‘bone maps’ could spot early signs of osteoporosis

DUBLIN, Ireland (Reuters) — Identifying tiny cracks in a person’s bones could act as an early warning sign for more serious degenerative bone diseases, according to researchers from Ireland. Chemists from Trinity College Dublin, in collaboration with scientists from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), have developed a biologically safe ‘nanoagent’ that binds to the cracks in a bone, even if the crack is just a few microns in diameter – less than […]

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Soccer-playing bumblebees get goal-scoring buzz

LONDON, England (Reuters) — Using sweet treats and patient coaching, scientists in London have taught a group of bumblebees how to play football. The study at Queen Mary University of London saw a number of bees trained to move a small yellow ball to a circled location in order to score a goal and get a sugary reward from scientists. The sporting prowess shows a sophisticated level of learning, the scientists said, with previous studies […]

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Versace gets political with defiant defense of feminism

by Ella IDE Agence France Presse MILAN, Italy (AFP) — Italy’s fashion queen Donatella Versace sent a message to women everywhere Friday with a show that screamed defiance at attempts to turn back the clock on feminism. Supermodels Gigi and Bella Hadid, Kendell Jenner and Behati Prinsloo strutted on a runway with athletic  autumn-winter 2017 looks that positively oozed glamor. “This is a collection about the power of women, and women who know how to […]

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French army groom eagles to down drones

Amid the risk of drones being used to snoop or carry out attacks on French soil, the air force groom eagles to take down the unmanned aircraft mid-flight. In this video, four golden eagles are being trained for the job at Mont-de-Marsan in southwestern France. (AFP VIDEO)

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‘Ring of fire’ eclipse treat for southern skygazers

by Mariëtte Le Roux Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — A spectacular “ring of fire” solar eclipse Sunday will regale skygazers in South America and southern Africa, with seafarers in the nearby Atlantic getting a front-row view too, astronomers say. The eclipse — during which the Sun will all but disappear as the Moon crosses its path — will be most visible in a 100-kilometre (62-mile) band cutting through Chile, Argentina, Angola, Zambia and […]

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U.S.-born panda Bao Bao arrives at her new home in China

CHENGDU CITY, SICHUAN PROVINCE, China (Reuters) — Female Giant Panda Bao Bao arrived at her new home in southwestern China’s Sichuan province late on Wednesday (February 22), after leaving the National Zoo in Washington D.C., United States. The panda experienced a 16-hour flight in the crate and was then carried into a van directly from Chengdu’s Shuangliu airport to the Dujiangyan Base of China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda (CCRCGP), where she […]

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Bees can learn to roll a ball for food: study

by Kerry SHERIDAN Agence France Presse MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Entice them with a sweet reward and bumblebees can be trained to roll a ball into a goal, revealing unexpectedly complex learning abilities for an insect, researchers said Thursday. The findings in the US journal Science offer the first evidence that bees can learn a skill that is not directly related to their typical duties of foraging for food. Even more, bumblebees appeared to […]

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