Greece is a beautiful country.

But Greek is such a hard language to learn. Can you understand the writing on those food items?

There are a lot more photos linked to this story. This thread deserves Explorers style coverage.

The 5g conspiracy theories are among the most dangerous spreading among the ignorant, vulnerable and uneducated right now.

ps. The UK has a working 5G network in many cities now.

proffemi:

He probably takes us for people who need to do some Google searches before flaring up .
Craters of different sizes are possible. Nonsense? Hardly. Why do you non-experts find it so easy to reject expert opinion? The only problem is the fact that his theory flies in the face of what the policemen (dunno if they were eye-witnesses) said. Otherwise, his analysis checks out.

A proper academic does not rely on google search.

Just because a prof says something does not mean he is right - science is full of disagreements. And you already discredited him. What riled me was not the prof, but the sensationalist headline designed to stoke up unnecessary panic.... 'ARE WE SAFE? FIRST OCCURRENCE IN NIGERIA? HOW DANGEROUS?' sml...

What is this nonsense? Meteorites almost always burn up as soon as they reach the earth's atmosphere. If they don't then it would be a hell of a bigger impact than that. What does he take us for?

To those harping on about the pictures from Lagos - yes that is a nice gesture - but look at the size of it? It is just a wedding marquee with a few beds in it. What is the population of Lagos?

Open your eyes! Unless 100s more of these are built, it is just a PR stunt.

Nbote:
And my useless country cannot boast of up to 30 working ones nationwide... Infact there are only 3 in the Teavhing Hospital in Abuja and despite d pressing needs for it and upgrades to d heath care facilities, d useless govt is still intent on remaining useless

This is definitely a serious issue. The government needs to act now.

The UK government has ordered 10,000 ventilators from Dyson to help deal with the coronavirus crisis.

The firm, headed by British inventor Sir James Dyson, said it had designed a new type of ventilator in response to a call on behalf of the NHS.

The order is still subject to the devices passing stringent medical tests but that is expected to happen quickly.

Dyson has had hundreds of engineers working round the clock to design the ventilators from scratch.

Blitz spirit

It hopes to build the ventilators at scale from its UK base in Wiltshire - using aircraft hangars that were used to stuff parachutes in the World War Two.

However, the blitz spirit the company is keen to channel will not produce immediate results.

It is thought that even if regulatory approval is forthcoming, it could take a couple of weeks to move from prototype to the device being made in significant scale.

What is a ventilator?

A ventilator is a machine that helps a person breathe by getting oxygen into the lungs and removing carbon dioxide.

Ventilators can be used to help a person breathe if they have lung disease or another condition that makes breathing difficult. They can also be used during and post-surgery. A tube, connected to a ventilator machine, is placed in a person's mouth, nose or through a small cut in the throat (called a tracheostomy)

In the meantime, the government has told the BBC that is "picking the low-hanging fruit" by buying as many existing models as it can.

Currently, the NHS has just over 8,000 ventilators, the government thinks it can procure a further 8,000 from existing domestic and international suppliers.

It estimates that the NHS will need at least 30,000 to deal with the potential flood of virus victims.

However, NHS Providers chief executive Chris Hopson told the BBC's Today programme: "We need to remember that this is a marathon, not a sprint.

"When it comes to miles eight to 10, those ventilators that are currently being procured and ordered from around the world will be very helpful, although the lack of ventilation available right now is a real issue."

By way of comparison, the state of New York has targeted the same number of 30,000 required ventilators, even though it has a population one third the size of the UK's.

Not the only game in town

The race has been on for weeks to produce tens of thousands of ventilators to keep people with Coronavirus-related breathing difficulties alive.

In one corner is vacuum and hairdryer maker, Dyson.

It's working with The Technology Partnership, a medical company based in Cambridge - but it's not the only game in town.

In the other corner - a consortium of manufacturing companies including Airbus and GKN, which makes parts for cars and planes.

The approaches of these two groups are very different.

Dyson insiders have told the BBC they have a working prototype, designed and built from scratch, which has been tested on humans and is "ready to go".

The consortium of medical, military and civil engineering companies - which includes Airbus, Meggit, GKN and others - is working to ramp up the production of an existing design.

Meanwhile, the German engineering firm Bosch has said it would develop an automated test for Covid-19 that can give results in less than two and a half hours.

It says that it intends to roll the new test out in April in Germany, with other countries following later.

Usually, these processes would take months or even years.

It is a measure of the current emergency that the decision making process has been reduced to days.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52043767

Tip for future: always tilt your phone so photos are landscape. That way 3/4s of the photo aren't tarmac.

No close ups? How rubbish is strewn will determine its beauty.

This is how proper countries raise income, transparently and without the need for bribes.

This money not only cuts pollution but helps to fund the London transport network, which is incredible. Buses, trains, metro, river boats...n there is not one part of that city not covered by it. No excuse for these thieves to waste our money on chauffeur driven cars everywhere.

TobiAbuja:
Some parents must be worried that their kids will fall behind. Will never happen here.

Not in a million years.

The FA says the decision is to "mitigate against any potential risks" after a study into football and neurodegenerative disease.

Primary school children have been banned from heading in football training in England, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

The Football Associations of each country announced the ban on Monday and said a "graduated approach" will be taken to heading in training in under-12s to under-16s football.

The ban does not apply to matches because of the limited number of headers which occur in youth games.

The announcement comes after a study showed former footballers were three-and-a-half times more likely to die of neurodegenerative disease than members of the general population of the same age.

The decision to update the guidelines has been taken to "mitigate against any potential risks", the FA said.

The guidance has been produced in parallel with UEFA's medical committee, which is seeking to produce Europe-wide guidance later this year.

Dawn Astle, who has campaigned for restrictions on heading at all levels of the game, welcomed the news as an important first step.

Her father Jeff Astle was a professional footballer who died in 2002 of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, which the coroner ruled had been caused by repeated heading of a football.

She said: "We must take early steps to avoid exposing children's brains to risk of trauma and by saying there's no heading in training for primary school children is a really sensible way to make the game we all love safer for all those involved."

Professor Willie Stewart, the lead academic on the FIELD study into neurodegenerative disease, also welcomed the move but said ultimately the game's governing bodies must go further.

"A lot more research is needed to understand the factors contributing to increased risk of neurodegenerative disease in footballers," he said.

"Meanwhile it is sensible to act to reduce exposure to the only recognised risk factor so far. As such, measures to reduce exposure to unnecessary head impacts and risk of head injury in sport are a logical step.

"I would, however, like to see these proposals introduced as mandatory, rather than voluntary as present, and a similar approach to reduce heading burden adopted in the wider game of football, not just in youth football."

FA chief executive Mark Bullingham said: "This updated heading guidance is an evolution of our current guidelines and will help coaches and teachers to reduce and remove repetitive and unnecessary heading from youth football.

"Our research has shown that heading is rare in youth football matches, so this guidance is a responsible development to our grassroots coaching without impacting the enjoyment that children of all ages take from playing the game."


https://news.sky.com/story/primary-school-children-banned-from-heading-in-football-training-11942145

More photos from the floods...

1. Upton,Worcestershire
2. Worcester, Worcestershire
3. Delivery van in river
4. 800 year old Church

Those are quite some photos.

You missed UK from this list. 200-300 citizens being repatriated.

Brits and Australians returning from Wuhan to their home countries are to be quarantined for 2 weeks. Will Nigeria do this too?

It's very hard to find this kind of perspective on the internet. Really interesting video - good work!

I like the little mini-video at the end. Do you know what the kid was saying? Youtube auto-translate not helpful!

"you can use Restylane (freestyle?) even though I p****d in my arch if Bobby even sure the rest mine"

This article is a rip off from one currently trending BBC top 10 most read. Not even a reference that it came from there.

Nigerian bloggers.....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-50459821

This link has a fuller story with more pictures.

Over a billion animals have been killed. It's vast.

What about other parts of Australia?

In the capital Canberra - an administrative region surrounded by NSW - bushfire smoke meant air quality there was rated the third worst of all major global cities on Friday, according to Swiss-based group AirVisual.

An elderly woman died after being exposed to the smoke as she exited a plane at Canberra airport, local reports say. Australia Post has suspended deliveries in the city "until further notice".

The university campus of Australian National University has been closed until 7 January as a "precautionary measure".

Two regions of Western Australia (WA) were also facing catastrophic fire danger on Thursday, and parts of South Australia were expected to see extreme conditions on Friday.

Meteorologists say a climate system in the Indian Ocean, known as the dipole, is the main driver behind the extreme heat in Australia.

However, many parts of Australia have been in drought conditions, some for years, which has made it easier for the fires to spread and grow.


Final Picture:

Allison Marion, her two sons Finn and Caleb and their family dog were among 4,000 stranded in Mallacoota in Victoria's far east as a horrific bushfire closed in on the town on Tuesday.

Fleeing the seaside town in an aluminium power boat in a thick red haze, Ms Marion said she took a jarring photo of 11-year-old Finn steering the boat with a smoke mask to 'record our story for our family'.

Finn, meanwhile, said escaping the burning inferno behind them was 'pretty scary', but was happy his family are now safe.

His picture has also featured on news websites and newspapers around the road, but Finn told 9News his new fame was not a priority to him.

'I'm not really fussed, it's just a photo,' he said. 'We were just worried about getting away from the fire and just being safe.'

The image has since been splashed across the front pages of newspapers both in Australia and internationally as the world watches on at the unprecedented bushfire crisis.

The family's home was spared by the blaze, which mercifully also missed the rest of her street.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7846457/Tourists-stranded-bushfire-ravaged-Mallacoota-freed-Navy.html

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has come under attack for his response to the fires.

He was heckled by angry locals in Cobargo, New South Wales, and had to cut short his visit to the fire-hit town.

In a news conference on Friday, he said he understood people's anger and that they had "suffered a great lot" and were "feeling very raw".

Mr Morrison has also faced criticism for his climate change policies, with many saying urgent action must be taken.

But he insists that Australia is meeting the challenge "better than most countries" and fulfilling international targets.

Opposition Labor leader Anthony Albanese said the government was not doing enough.

Mr Morrison was earlier criticised for going on holiday to Hawaii as the bushfire crisis worsened. Public anger at his absence eventually forced him to cut that trip short.

Analysis

There's never a single reason why wildfires escalate and, in the case of Australia, a perfect storm of factors is involved.

The country regularly sees fires but they are usually centred on bushland while the current blazes are striking forests, which burn hotter and higher so are harder to tackle.

There's plenty to ignite. A programme to create firebreaks - deliberately clearing vegetation to prevent it from catching fire - has unfolded less quickly than hoped. It's slow, labour-intensive work, and expensive too.

On top of all this, a pattern of unusually dry weather over the past three years culminated in the driest spring on record at the end of last year.

That left many areas vulnerable to fire, particularly when 2019 also proved to be Australia's hottest on record - and warmer conditions cause more evaporation, adding to the risk.

All this has sharpened Australia's divisions over climate change. A coal-rich economy that depends on fossil fuels faces new questions about its own hand in raising temperatures.

Victoria's Premier Daniel Andrews declared a state of disaster for six areas and resorts, including Mallacoota.

"Some people will want to go, some people will be happy to stay," he said of the evacuation.

High temperatures and strong winds are forecast for the weekend, leading to what officials call "widespread extreme fire danger".

In other parts of Victoria, people were urged to evacuate by road in convoy. There were also large queues at railway stations.

"It is forecast we will see dry thunderstorms coming across the state and the potential of lightning strikes," Andrew Crisp, emergency management commissioner for Victoria, warned on Friday.

He called on people to leave as soon as possible.

"This is your opportunity to get out," he said. "It is not just the fires we know [about]. It is the new fires that might start today."

Thousands of people are also fleeing parts of neighbouring New South Wales, where a week-long state of emergency is in force.

Since September fires have killed at least 20 people in the two states and dozens remain missing.

The fires have so far destroyed more than 1,300 homes.

The Australian navy has evacuated around 1,000 tourists and residents who were trapped in the fire-ravaged town of Mallacoota on the Victoria coast.

Throughout Friday, landing vessels took people to two ships - MV Sycamore and the much larger HMAS Choules.

A local MP, Darren Chester, called it an "unprecedented mass relocation of civilians".

Some 4,000 residents and tourists fled to the beach on Monday night, when racing bushfires encircled the town.

The evacuees will be taken to Western Port, the navy said - around 16 hours' voyage down the coast.

With roads cut off, the military evacuated around 60 people by helicopter on Thursday. The air has so far been too smoky for further air evacuations.

The evacuation was voluntary. By Thursday night, 963 had signed up for the boats, with a few more doing so on Friday morning, Commander Scott Houlihan said.

The larger ship, HMAS Choules, has a "few hundred beds". Further trips are possible, depending on demand.

The evacuees were allowed to take their pets on the ship.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-50975266
Pics: Daily Mail

Clever boy at the end.

Your channel is really coming along nicely. I recommend checking out Bald and Bankrupt on Youtube. He is in a very different situation to you (he travels mostly Russia for fun), but his subscriber number counts for itself.

This should be an Explorers topic. Where are all the photos?

At least a lot of those stolen items are on display in a museum and open to the public. If they weren't taken, they'd be melted down, in an oga's house or lost. Don't fool yourselves.

At the beginning of this month, the UK's terror threat level had been lowered from "severe" to "substantial" for the first time in five years. It meant an attack was considered to be likely instead of highly likely.

The police and the security services have foiled 25 suspected terrorist attacks since Khalid Masood killed four people when he ploughed his car through pedestrians on Westminster Bridge before stabbing to death PC Keith Palmer as he guarded parliament.

Mr Basu said: "As you would expect, due to the nature of the incident, we responded as though it was terrorist-related. I am now in a position to confirm that it has been declared a terrorist incident.

"Officers from the Met's Counter Terrorism Command are now leading this investigation. I must stress, however, that we retain an open mind as to any motive."

He warned that extensive cordons were likely to remain in place for some time - and urged the public to stay away from the area.

In the hours after the terror attack, London Mayor Sadiq Khan praised the "breathtaking heroism" of the passers-by who risked their lives to detain the attacker.

Mr Johnson paid tribute to the bravery of the emergency services and the public.

"Anybody involved in this crime and these attacks will be hunted down and will be brought to justice," he said.

Mr Johnson chaired a meeting of the government's emergency committee Cobra on Friday night and has cancelled his campaigning for the general election while he deals with the fallout from the attack.

The incident comes nearly two-and-a-half years after the 2017 London Bridge terror attack. Eight people were killed and 48 others were injured when a van was driven into pedestrians on the bridge, with the van's occupants running into Borough Market and stabbing people in restaurants and pubs.

Witness Celia Sodera was on the top floor of a bus when she saw a plain clothes police officer and members of the public taking the knife from the attacker.

She told Sky News: "We saw six people keeping someone on the floor. At one point someone said 'he has a knife'. And we thought, 'oh my god this guy was going to stab someone' because we saw people running away.

"Then the police came and finally they removed the knife, then they shot the guy.

"He was still alive and he tried to pull the black jacket off so I was able to see the vest he was wearing and it seemed like a very scary device, a bomb device."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8b-i_o1SdM

Pics: Usman Khan and general scenes from the event.

This is the moment where three citizens attacked convicted terrorist Usman Khan, 28, after he went on a stabbing spree on London Bridge yesterday that killed two and injured three. As you can see from the pictures, the three team up and confront the attacker with their makeshift weapons.

Twitter video link:
https://twitter.com/mrdanwalker/status/1200690348625944577

Moment police shot the terrorist (viewer discretion advised):
https://twitter.com/AWESOME_BILAL_/status/1200752481262850053

What happened?

Two members of the public - a man and a woman - were killed in the terror attack on London Bridge on Friday afternoon, police have confirmed.

Three others - a man and two women - were also injured and remain in hospital, Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said.

One is in a critical but stable condition, another is stable, and the third suffered less serious injuries.

Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick praised the "extraordinary courage" of members of the public who tackled the offender. It has since emerged that one of those who pinned him down was an off-duty plain clothes police officer.

he attacker, who has been named by police as 28-year-old convicted terrorist Usman Khan, was shot dead at point-blank range by police. He appeared to be wearing a fake suicide vest.

Mr Basu said in a statement: "The circumstances, as we currently understand them, are that the attacker attended an event earlier on Friday afternoon at Fishmongers' Hall called 'Learning Together'.

"We believe that the attack began inside before he left the building and proceeded onto London Bridge, where he was detained and subsequently confronted and shot by armed officers."

Source: https://news.sky.com/story/police-dealing-with-incident-on-london-bridge-amid-reports-of-shots-fired-11873505

More in next post.

Very nice, it looks like affordable housing for Danes too.