Thursday, November 14

Month: December 2022

Elon Musk dethroned as world’s richest person

Elon Musk has been dethroned as the world's richest person after the top spot was usurped by Bernard Arnault, the French tycoon behind luxury goods powerhouse LVMH. The Tesla CEO and Twitter owner had held the position on Forbes' rich list since September 2021, after his wealth overtook Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. At the height of his success the billionaire businessman was worth as much as $US340 billion (A$496 billion) but a scandal-plagued year - marked by his controversial acquisition of the social media platform, increasing espousal of Far Right views and Tesla losses - has had a drastic impact on his fortune. READ MORE: Officers 'fired upon' almost immediately after arriving at property According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index the 51-year-old is estimate...
Australian citizen and former US pilot faces charges over training Chinese military aviators

Australian citizen and former US pilot faces charges over training Chinese military aviators

Australian citizen and former US Marine pilot Daniel Duggan, who was arrested earlier this year in New South Wales, is accused of breaking American arms control law by training Chinese military pilots to land on aircraft carriers, according to an indictment unsealed by a US court. The 2017 indictment, released last Friday by the District of Columbia court, said "Duggan provided military training to PRC People's Republic of China) pilots" through a South African flight school on three occasions in 2010 and 2012. It lists unnamed co-conspirators including one South African and one British national who were executives of "a test flying academy based in South Africa with a presence in the PRC," and a Chinese national who acquired military information for the Chinese military. ...
Why fusion could be a clean-energy breakthrough

Why fusion could be a clean-energy breakthrough

The major advance in fusion research announced in Washington overnight was decades in coming, with scientists for the first time able to engineer a reaction that produced more power than was used to ignite it. Using powerful lasers to focus enormous energy on a miniature capsule half the size of a BB, scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California started a reaction that produced about 1.5 times more energy than was contained in the light used to produce it. There are decades more to wait before fusion could one day — maybe — be used to produce electricity in the real world. READ MORE: Officers 'fired upon' almost immediately after arriving at Queensland property Fusion technology has taken a major leap forward. (AP) But the promise of fusio...
Ukraine war: Odesa and Melitopol under attack

Ukraine war: Odesa and Melitopol under attack

The Ukrainian army said it shot down 10 drones on Saturday but another five had hit energy facilities, leaving some 1.5 million people without power. Later on, the exiled Ukrainian mayor of Melitopol said a strike had been carried out on the Russian-held city. Images shared by a Russian-installed official there show a big fire. Russia's drone attack on the Ukrainian port city of Odesa saw Moscow fire Iranian-made drones at key infrastructure, Ukrainian officials said. "The situation in the Odesa region is very difficult," President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly video address. "Unfortunately the hits were critical, so it takes more than just time to restore electricity. It doesn't take hours, but a few days." Since Octobe...
Peru’s new president swears in her cabinet with anti-corruption pledge

Peru’s new president swears in her cabinet with anti-corruption pledge

Peru’s newest president, Dina Boluarte, swore in her cabinet on Saturday just three days after becoming the country’s first female head of state, and asked each minister to pledge not to be corrupt while in office. The 17 ministers picked by Boluarte, who on Wednesday was elevated from vice-president to replace the ousted Pedro Castillo as the country’s leader, will be key to further inflaming or calming a South American country experiencing a seemingly endemic political crisis. Boluarte presented her centrist government amid demonstrations across Peru calling for her resignation and the scheduling of general elections to replace her and Congress. She asked each of the nine men and eight women to swear or promise to perform their duties “loyally and faithfully without committing acts of...
Ukrainian, Russian Nobel Peace winners slam Putin’s ‘insane’ war

Ukrainian, Russian Nobel Peace winners slam Putin’s ‘insane’ war

Following the awards ceremony in Oslo, the recipients of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize took turns criticising Russia’s continuing war in Ukraine. Jailed Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski, the Russian organisation Memorial, and the Ukrainian Centre for Civil Liberties were announced as the recipients in October, and recognised for their work in documenting war crimes, human rights abuses and the abuse of power. The Peace Prize is awarded annually on December 10, the day Alfred Nobel died in 1896, and the recipients will share the prize which is worth nearly $1m. Al Jazeera talked to Natallia Pinchuk, Bialiatski’s wife, who attended the ceremony on behalf of her jailed husband. “Ales and we all realise how important and risky it is to fulfil the mission of civil rights defender...
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