Suspended Spanish Football Federation President Angel Maria Villar has resigned from his role as vice-president of FIFA and UEFA.
He and his son,Gorka were arrested earlier this month as part of a corruption investigation.
Villar,who denied all the allegations,has been suspended for one year by the Spanish Football Federation.
''Villar will no longer have any official functions at our organisation'' UEFA said on Thursday.
''In view of the ongoing court proceedings in Spain,we have no further comments to make on this matter.''
UEFA said its president,Aleksander Ceferin,had accepted Villar's resignation and had thanked him for his years of service to European Football.
Villar,a former Athletico Bilbao and Spain midfielder,had headed the Spanish Football Federation for 29 years,Juan Luis Larea has been named interim president.

Cristiano Ronaldo's stunning last season saw him win the 2017 Best FIFA men's player of the year trophy as Real Mardid dominated a star-studded awards ceremony in London on Monday,AFP reports.
The Portugese ace,who has scored 44 goals in just 48 games for club and country so far this calendar year,played a major role in Real winning both La Liga and the Champions League.
He scored twice in a 4-1 win over Juventus in the continental final at Cardiff's millenium stadium on June 3.
Real boss Zinedine Zidane took over the corresponding manager of the year award,with the Spanish giants providing five players in the FIFA team of the year.
This year he saw off competition from long standing Barcelona rival Lionel Messi and PSG'S Neymar,with former Manchester United favourite Ronaldo receiving his trophy from Argentina great Diegp Maradona and Brazil's Ronaldo in a star-studded ceremony at the London palladium theatre.
Zidane won out ahead of Chelsea's Antonio Conte and Juventus Massimiliano Allegri to be crowned men's coach of the year after becoming the first man to oversee a successful defence of the European Cup in the Champions League era.
Real's superb campaign was recognised in a FIFA 11 that featured Ronaldo and club-mates Toni Kroos,Luka Modric,Marcelo and Sergio Ramos.
The team was completed by goalkeeper of the year Gianluigi Buffon.Leonardo Bonucci,Dani Alves,Andres Iniesta,Messi and Neymar.
Veteran Juventus and Italy shot-stopper Buffon topped a three-strong shortlist for the goalkeeper award ahead of Real's Keylor Navas and Bayern Munich's Manuel Neuer.
Monday also saw the Puskas award for the best goal of 2017 go to Arsenal's Olivier Giroud.
The France striker received the award named in honour of Hungary great Ferenc Puskas for a spectacular ''scorpion-kick'' against Crystal Palace in January.
The Frenchman's flicked volley with his left foot that went in off the crossbar won ahead of goals from Venezuela's Deyna Castellanos,18,and South African goalkeeper Corcarine Masuluke.
Meanwhile tournament hosts the Netherlands' achievement in winning their first major female football title,the 2017 Women's European Championships,was recognised with Women's Coach of the year and player of the year awards for Sarina Wiegman and Lieke Martens respectively.
Wiegman and Martens were unable to receive their awards in London as the Netherlands are playing Norway on Tuesday.



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Basketball's world governing body,FIBA has given Nigeria up till November 30,2017 to resolve the leadership dispute in the Nigeria Basketball Federation,NBBF or face dire consequences.
Secretary General of FIBA,Patrick Baumann,in a letter addressed to leaders of the two parties involved in the dispute,Tijani Umar and Musa Kida instructed both parties to resolve it either through a ''new election or [preferable] through amicable solution under the auspices of the Nigeria Olympic Committee,before 30 November 2017''.
The world governing body further stressed that in the event that the dispute remains unresolved after the deadline,that the ''NBBF willbe subject to the possibility of sanctions,including without limitation,a suspension of the membership with FIBA''.
It added that regardless of any sanctions,it will appoint a task force that will take any appropriate measure[s] in the interest pf basketball in Nigeria.

The National Emergency Management Agency,NEMA,on Wednesday said it had received another batch of 121 stranded Nigerians from Libya.
The Zonal coordinator of NEMA,Suleiman Yakubu,received them on behalf of the federal government,enjoining them to learn from their unpleasant experiences in the course of their sojourn.
The News Agency of Nigeria,NAN reports that NEMA had on August 29 received another batch of 139 returnees from Libya.
NAN reports that the total number of Nigerian returnees brought back from Libya by the International Organisation for Migration [IOM] from February,2017 to date is 2,638.

Tyson Fury has appeared to announce his retirement once more as he wants to receive a date for the resumption of his UK Anti-Doping hearing.
The former world heavyweight champion 28,had been targeting a come back fight next July,having vacated WBA and WBO titles he held last October after admitting using cocaine to cope with depression,after which the British Boxing Board of Control [BBBC] suspended his boxing licence.But having previously announced his decision to retire from the sport last October,Fury has now cast doubt over his future once more after posting a message on social media on Wednesday night in which he claimed he had reached ''the end''.
The UKad panel was due to fule on allegations Fury and his cousin and fellow heavyweight Hughie Fury tested positively for nandrolone in 2015.Both men have strongly denied any wrong doing and they were not charged with an anti-doping offence until June 24,2016,the same day Tyson Fury postponed a rematch with Klitscko because of a sprained ankle.

A 14bn pounds class action lawsuit against mastercard has been thrown out by the competition appeal tribunal.
The former financial ombudsman,Walter Merricks,had claimed that 46 million consumers had been overcharged by mastercard over a 16-year period.
But the court ruled that the case could not proceed through a collective-or class-action.
The ruling was welcomed by mastercard,which said the claims were completely unsuitable.
The tribunal found that even if a loss had been suffered,and could be estimated across the whole class,there was no way any individual could receive compensation equal to the loss that he or she had actually suffered.
The case was filed in september 2016,and followed a European Court of Justice [ECJ] ruling against the level of so-called interchange fees-the amounts that retailers have to pay on debt and credit cards.
It related to the fees charged by mastercard between 1992 and 2008.
''We welcome the competition Appeal Tribunal's Judgement refusing certification'',said a spokesperson for mastercard.
''As set out in mastercard's arguments to date,we believe that the claims were completely unsuitable to be brought under the collective actions regime''.
Interchange fees have since been capped by the European Union.

yes i am a graduate of zoology from nnamdi azikiwe university,awka,anambra state.i am 30 years old,.i don't know.if i am eligible for nysc.

Audi is the latest German carmaker to offer a free software upgrade for its diesel vehicles in an effort to improve the vehicle's emissions.
Thousands of luxury British vehicles are to be recalled amid a scandal over 'fake' emission results.
Mercedes was the first manufacturer to offer a software upgrade to three million of their cars earlier this week.
Almost every diesel model mercedes-benz sold in Britiain over the past six years is believed to be affected.
The upgrades are expected to cost the German car firm 195million pounds.
Audi's software emissions upgrade is targeted towards its luxury top-and estate,saloon and suv models.
The recall affects cars fitted with six-and eight-cylinder [v6 and v8]diesel motors meeting the Euro 5 and Euro 6 emissions standards.
According to some sources,models built by porsche and volkswagen are also set to be recalled.
Official figures by Audi reveal how many British cars will be affected have not yet been confirmed.

WAshington:The Trump administration notified congress on wednesday that it was putting $255million in military assistance to Pakistan into the equivalent of an escrow account that Islamabad can only access if it does more to crack down on internal terror networks launching attacks on neighbouring Afghanistan.
The dueling messages sent to Pakistan-promoting aid but attaching strings if the country's counter terror efforts fall short-are part of an increasingly confrontational in an alliance that has been strained.
The United States has provided Pakistan more than $33billion in aid since 2002.But the annual funding has declined in recent years as Washington became increasingly disenchanted with Pakista's quiet support for the Haqqani network and the Taliban,whose attacks have been responsible for the deaths of American troops in Afghanistan.
Still,American officials have long recognized that Pakistan has tried to crack down on terror groups,and PALYS AN IMPORTANT ROLE FACILITATING supply shipments to the United States military in Afghanistan.
Last week,in announcing his new strategy for the war in Afghanistan,president Trump excoriated Pakistan.
State Department officials said that Mr Trum's promised changes would bring explicit conditions on military aid.once Pakistan more aggressively pursues the Taliban and Haqqani network,the aid will be released -a determination to be made by secretary of state Rex.W. Tillerson,officials said.
Last week,Mr Tillerson suggested that the United States's patience with Pakistan was nearing a breaking point.
Critics of American aid to Pakistan said the administration was still not being tough enough.
The $255million in military assistance was the largest portion of $1.1billion in aid authorized by congress in 2016 that also included money for counter narcotics operations and health initiatives.if the state department had failed to notify congress in the next few weeks of its intention to spend the money,it would have been returned to the United States Treasury.
Rather than lose such a carrot,Trump administration officials said they wanted to use the money as incentive for Pakistan to change its behavior.By effectively putting the funds into escrow,the Trump adminstration also allows its own ongoing review of its policy toward Pakistan to continue unaffected by aid concerns,official said wednesday.
The Obama administration tried to use the sale of eight new f-16 fighter jets to Pakistan in the same way to persuade Pakistan's government to better police its border with Afghanistan.congressional strings on the deal made it less attractive to Pakistan.
Mr.Trump's explicit call for India to become more engaged in Afghanistan demonstrated that Washington's long history balancing the two south Asian rivals has tipped in India's favor,which has deeply alarmed Islamabad.
But the Trump administration can afford to ignore Pakistan and its nuclear arsenal,which has served as a source for nuclear materials sent to Iran,North Korea and Libya.

hello my name is christopher ben okoye i am 3o years old a graduate of zoology from nnamdi azikiwe university awka,anambra state i want to inquire about the age limit of one going for nysc.

zimbabwe's state-owned airline has laid off 200 workers,roughly half of its staff,with immediate effect.
the job losses are part of a turn around strategy to bring struggling air zimbabwe back to profitability from a $300m[230m pounds] debt.
last month the eu banned it from using its airspace,citing safety concerns.
there have been major changes at the national airline since president robert mugabe's son-in law took over as chief operating officer last year.



'struggling to keep afloat'
''we were overstaffed by a lot and we are also trying to weed out people without the right qualifications'',the airline's chairwoman chipo dyanda said on wednesday.
''the retrenchment is meant to give space to the airline so that can redeploy the money saved back into the company.
an air zimbabwe spokesperson told state media that management has also been trimmed from 28 to 12 and the finance department from 36 to 17.
the airline has struggled to keep afloat over the last decade and plans to carry out a restructuring exercise that will include retraining for all staff,including top management.
unconfirmed reports say that a name change is also in the pipeline-a move many people is an attempt to ring-fence the airline's debt and reduce the threat of creditors seizing the planes.
the bbc's shingai nyoka in harare says that president mugabe is a frequent flier on the airline,often leasing out the largest plane for state visits and private medical visits to the far east.
in may,president mugabe said that zimbabwe was the most-highly developed country in africa after south africa,he denied that the country was in a fragile state.
zimbabwe has been struggling to pay its civil servants recently and is ranked 24th on the undp's human development index for africa.

on the evening of 14 july 2016,a 19 tonne cargo truck was deliberately driven into crowds of people celebrating bastille day on the promenade des anglais in nice,france,resulting in the deaths of 86 people and the injury of 458 others.the driver was mohamed lahouaiej-bouhlol,a tunisian resident of france.the attack ended following an exchange of gun fire,during which lahouaiej-bouhlol was shot and killed by police.
isil claimed responsibility for the attack,saying lahouaiej[bouhlol answered its ''calls to target citizens of coalition nations that fight the islamic state'' on 15 july,francois molins,the prosecutor for the public ministry,which is overseeing the investigation,said the attack bore the hallmarks of jihadist terrorism.
on 15 july,french president francois hollande called the attack an act of islamic terrorism,announced an extension of the state of emergency [which had been declared following the november 2015 paris attacks]for a further three months,and announced an intensification of french air strikes on isil in syria and iraq.france later extended the state of emergency until 26 january 2017.
the french government declared three days of national mourning starting on 16 july.thousands of extra police and soldiers were deployed while the government called on citizens to join the reserve forces.
on 21 july.prosecutor francois molins said that lahouaiej-bouhlol planned the attack for months and had help from accomplices.by 1 august,six suspects had been taken into custody on charges of ''criminal terrorist conspiracy'',three of whom were also charged for complicity in murder in relation to a terrorist enterprise.on 16 december three further suspects,allegedly involved in the supply of illegal weapons to lahouaiej-bouhlol.were charged.the attack was been classified as jihadist terrorism by europol.

leading his first commemoration of the solemn 9/11 anniversary,president donald trump said that ''the living breathing soul of america wept with grief'' for each of the nearly 3,000 lives that were lost on that day 16 years ago.
addressing an audience at the pentagon,one of three sites attacked on sept.11,2001,trump used the anniversary to sternly warn terrorists that ''america cannot be intimidated ''.
he said those who try are destined to join a long list of vanquished enemies ''who dared to test our mettle''.
trump and first lady melania trump observed a moment of silence at the whitehouse on monday at the exact moment that a hijacked aeroplane was slammed into the world trade center.the trumps bowed their heads and placed their hands over their hearts as ''taps'' rang out across the south lawn.
they were surrounded by whitehouse aides and other administration officials in what has become an annual day of remembrance.
nearly 3,000 people were killed when hijackers flew commercial aeroplanes into new york's world trade center,the pentagon and a field near shanksville pennsylvania.
trump,a native new yorker who was in the city on 9/11,said the attack was worse than the japanese pearl harbor during world war 2 because it targeted civilians.
he vowed that it would never be repeated.
trump also offered words of comfort the many whose loved ones perished in the attacks.
trump has a checkered history with 9/11.he frequently uses the attack to praise the city's response has also made unsubstantiated claims about what he did and saw on that day.
trump often lauds the bravery of new york police fighters,fire fighters and other emergency responders who rushed to the twin towers to help as an example of the resilience of the city where he made a name for himself.

a chechen gunman and four accomplices have been given long jail sentences for the killing of leading russian opposition figure boris nemtsov near the kremlin.
zaur dadayev was jailed for 20 years by a moscow military court while the others were given 11 to 19 years.
a vocal critic of president vladimir putin,nemtsov,55,was shot dead in february 2015.
his family fear the person who ordered the murder may never be caught.
they say until then the case will not be solved.their lawyers believe senior figures with in chechnya who are loyal to the russian leader may be behind the killing.


in the court room
the small military courtroom was packed for the verdict,the men themselves in handcuffs inside a glass cage that soon began to steam up from the heat.
everyone stood as the judge took half an hour to read his verdict.
the five men were passive at first.then they smirked and laughed openly as their verdicts were announced.
they had made their final speeches to the court on wednesday.warning that people would ''answer'' for imprisoning them unjustly,and proclaiming that only allah would be their judge.



killer's 'confession'
dadayev is a former member of the elite northern battalion in the northern caucuses republic of chechnya,a unit that came under the command of chechen strongman ramzan kadyrov.
the court stripped dadayev of his rank of lieutenant and removed an earlier award for bravery.ranovosti,reported.although he confessed to the killing,russia's human rights council said that was likely to have happened under the torture.
two brothers,anzor and shadid gubashev,were jailed for 19 and 16 years respectively.while dadayev was said to have fired the gun,anzor gubashev was accused of driving him to and from the crime scene.
tamerlan eskerkhanov was given 14 years ans khamzat bakhayev 11.they and shadid gubashev were convicted of preparing the murder.
another suspect said to have taken part in the killing,beslan shavanov,died as police tried to arrest him.



a powerful opposition voice
boris nemtsov rose to political prominence in the 1990s as a liberal reformer and deputy prime minister prime minister under president boris yeltsin.
his political fortunes waned when vladimir putin took over the presidency but he became an important opposition force as anti-putin protests erupted in 2011.
he was openly critical of russia's involvement in eastern ukraine after the annexation of crimea in 2014.
on the evening he was shot,in february 2015,he had given a radio interview accusing the president of lying over russia's military take over of crimea and backing a protest march two days'later.
as he and his ukrainean girlfriend crossed the bolshoi moskvoretsky bridge before midnight he was hot severla times in the back.
prosecutors said nemtsov's killer had been promised 15m roubles [$249,169.44] to carry out the killing.

a new zealand woman has died on the caribbean territory of sint maarten after the blast from a powerful jet engine knocked her to the ground.
the incident happened at the famous juliana international airport,which is just metres from the beach.
beachgoers can walk up to the airport fence as planes take off.
police said the 57-year old woman had been holding on to the fence before the force of the jet engines threw her backwards,causing serious injury.
she was taken to hospital for treatment,but died later.



danger signs
the particular stretch of beach on the dutch territory is popular with tourists,partly because the planes fly extremely low over the sand before landing.
the beginning of the runway is just 50m [160ft] from the fence on maho beach,and about the same distance to the waterline.




what is a jet engine air blast like?
there are prominent warning signs in the area instructing beachgoers not to stand near the fence because of the dangerous air blasts.
despite the danger,a number of videos circulating online show tourists clinging to the fence to prevent being swept away-and in some cases,almost being lifted off the ground.

sleep is a naturally recurring state of mind and body,characterized by altered consciousness,relatively inhibited sensory activity,inhibition of nearly all voluntary muscles,and reduced interactions with surroundings.it is distinguished from wakefulness by a decreased ability to react to stimuli,but is more easily reversed than the state of being comatose.sleep occurs in repeating periods,in which the body alternates between two distinct modes known as non-rem and rem sleep.
although rem stands for ''rapid eye movement'',this mode of sleep has many other aspects,including virtual paralysis of the body.a well-known feature of sleep is the dream,an experience typically recounted in narrative form,which resembles waking life while in progress,but which usually can later be distinguished as fantasy.
during sleep,most of the body's systems are in an anabolic state,helping to restore the immune,nervous,skeletal,and muscular systems;these are vital processes that maintain blood memory,and cognitive performance and play a large role in the function of the endocrine and immune systems.the internal circadian clock promotes sleep daily at night.the diverse purposes and mechanisms of sleep are the subject of substantial ongoing research.the advent of artificial light has substantially altered sleep timing in industrialized countries.
humans may suffer from various sleep disorders,including dysosomnias,such as insomnia,hypersomnia,narcolepsy,and sleep apnea;parasomnias,such as sleepwalking and rem behaviour disorder,bruxism,and circadian rythm sleep disorders.

the eu proposed disciplinary measures against greece when its deficit balloned after the financial crisis.
years of austerity have seen the country repair its finances and last year it posted a small budget surplus.
the european commissioner for economic affairs,pierre moscovia,said it was a ''very symbolic moment'' for greece.
member states still need to approve the ending of the so-called excessive deficit procedure.
greece is likely to be in deficit again in 2017,but it will be comfortably within the eu limit of 3% of gdp.
although the government's finances have improved,greece still has huge debts and many economists question whether the country will ever be able to pay them off.
the years of austerity have hurt the economy and contributed to an unemployment rate of 21.7% -the highest among european union member states.
the greek economy is expected to grow by 2.2% this year,above the eurozone average.if restrictions are lifted,the country will be able to resume selling government debt,or bonds.

the giant block is estimated to cover an area of roughly 6,000sqkm,that's about a quarter the size of wales.
a us satelite observed the berg on wednesday while passing over a region known as the larson ice shelf.scientists were expecting it.they 'd been following the development of a large crack in larsen's ice for more than a decade.
the rift's propagation had accelerated since 2014,making an imminent calving ever more likely.
the more than 200m-thick tabular berg will not move very far,very fast in the short term.but it will need to be monitored.currents and winds might eventually push it north of the atlantic where it could become a hazard to shipping.
an infrared sensor on the american space agency's aqua satelite spied clear water in the rift between the shelf and the berg on wednesday.the water is warmer relative to the surrounding ice and air-both of which are sub-zero.
''the rift was barely visible in these data in recent weeks,but the signature is so clear now that it must have opened considerably along its whole length'',explained prof adrian luckman,whose project midas at swansea university has followed the berg's evolution most closely.
the new larsen berg is probably in the top 10 biggest ever recorded.
the largest observed in the satelite era was an object called b-15.it came away from the ross ice shelf in 2000 and measured some 11,000sqkm six years later,fragments of this super-berg still persisted and passed by new zealand.

the us federal reserve announced it was raising short-term interest rates by a quarter percentage point on wednesday as the central bank continued to unwind the huge economic stimulus plan brought in after the great recession.
after a two-day meeting,the fed raised the target range of the federal funds rate from 1% to 2.5%,the third consecutive quarterly increase.the move follows a record run of jobs growth in the us that driven the unemployment rate down to its lowest level in 6 years.
''information received since the federal open market committee met in may indicates that the labor market has continued to strengthen and the economic activity has been rising moderately so far this year,the fed said in a statement.
the committee signaled that more rises were on the horizon and that it ''expects that economic conditions will evolve in a manner that will warrant gradual increases in the federal funds rate''.
the fed also put out a statement about its plans to unwind its gigantic bond portfolio,bought as part of its bid to restart the economy after the 2007-09 recession.
in the wake of that recession,the fed went on an enormous spending spree,buying its bonds in order to keep interest rates down and encourage spending to kickstart the economy.after three rounds of so-called quantitative easing,the fed acquired $4.5tn worth of bonds,including $1.8tn in mortgage securities.

the marchers are fighting turkey's erosion of democracy,the failed coup last july saw rogue soldiers bombing government buildings and riving tanks into civilians killing more than 260.
since then,over 50,000 people have been arrested and 140,000 dismissed or suspended.
there is a widespread feeling that the government has seized the chance to crush all opponents,not just alleged coup supporters.
among the marchers was ulas bayraktar,a former political science professor at mersin university in southern turkey.in april,he was fired by a government decree.
he was one of the 1,100 academics who had signed a petition calling on the government to cease armed conflict in kurdish-dominated areas-and paid the price for dissent.
a kilometre-long turkish flag was unfurled along the motor way,held aloft by participants for the final stretch of the way.
protests here have come and gone over the years and the opposition is notoriously fractured.but this simple movement has gained momentum,with a feeling that the marchers have finally found a positive and peaceful way to challenge an increasingly authoritarian government.
along the motorways and hills of the route between ankara and istanbul,a glimmer of optimism has been kindled.
for the organisers and the marchers,the task now is to build on it if they are to pave on alternative road ahead for turkey.

the mexico-united states barrier is a series and fences along the mexico-united states border aimed at preventing illegal crossings from mexico into the united states.the barrier is not one continuous structure,but a grouping of relatively short physical walls,secured in between with a ''virtual fence'' which includes a system of sensors and cameras monitored by the united states border patrol.as of january 2009.u.s.customs and border protection reported that it had more than 580miles [93km] of barriers in place.the total length of the continental border is 1,989miles [3,201km].

a gig economy is an environment in which temporary positions are common and organizations contract with independent workers for short-term engagements.
the trend toward a gig economy has begun.a study by intuit predicted that by 2020,40 percent of american workers would be independent contractors.
there are a number of forces behind the rise in short-term jobs.for one thing,in this digit age,the workforce is increasingly mobile and work can increasingly be done from anywhere,so that job and location are decoupled.that means that freelancers can select among temporary jobs and projects around the world,while employers can select the best individuals for specific projects from a larger pool than that available in any given area.
digitization has also contributed directly to a decrease in jobs as software replaces some types of work and means that others take much less time.other influences include financial pressures on businesses leading to further staff reductions and the entrance of the millenial generation into the workforce.the current reality is that people tend to change jobs several times throughout their working lives,the gig economy can be seen as an evolution of that trend.
in a gig economy,businesses save resources in terms of benefits,office space and training.they also have the ability to contract with experts for specific projects who might be too high-priced to maintain staff.from the perspective of the freelancer,a gig economy can improve work-life balance over what is possible in most jobs.ideally,the model is powered by independent workers selecting jobs that they're interested in,rather than one in which people are forced into a position where,unable to attain employment,they pick up whatever temporary gigs they can land.
the gig economy is part of a shifting cultural and business environment that also includes the sharing economy,the gift economy and the barter economy.

amnesty international [community known as amnesty or ai] is non-governmental to have over 7 million members and supporters around the world.
the stated objective of the organisation is ''to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end abuses of abuses of human rights,and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated.
amnesty international was founded in london in 1961,following the publication of the article ''the forgotten prisoners'' in the observer on 28 may 1961,by the lawyer peter benenson.amnesty draws attention to human rights abuses and campaigns for compliance with international laws and standards.it works to mobilize public opinion to put pressure on governments that let abuse take place.amnesty considers capital punishment to be ''the ultimate,irreversible denial of human rights''.the organisation was awarded the 1977 nobel peace prize for its ''campaign against torture,and the united nations prize in the field of human rights in 1978.
in the field of international human rights organisations,amensty has the third longest history,after the international federation for human rights and broadcast name recognition,and is believed by many to set standards for the movement as a whole.

the young and old working together helps benefits to the communities.at the same time,young and old gain an appreciation from one another.
from arts programs to community gardens,there are many ways that different generations can come together as a team.
1.habitat intergenerational program
this helps to rejuvenate a pond,restoring walking traits,and using native plants to create wildlife habitat areas at schools.
2.dialogue across the ages:
this is a forum where people share and listen to each other from young to the old.
3.youth and elders program
this involves self-esteem,respect for others,life skills and academic skills,and the older sdults receive companionship,intellectual stimulation and the chance to feel useful.

the department for international development [dfid] is united kingdom government department responsible for administering overseas aid.the goal of the department is ''to promote sustainable development and eliminate world povery''.dfid is headed by the united kingdom's secretary of state for international development.the position is held since 14 july 2006 by priti patel.in a 2010 report by the development assistance committee ]dac],dfid was described as ''an international development leader in times of global crisis''.the uk aid is often used to publicly acknowledtge dfid's development programmes are funded by uk tax payers.
dfid's main programme areas of work are education,health,social services,water supply and sanitation,government and civil society,economic sector [including infrastructure,production sectors and developing planning],environmental protection,research,and humanitarian assistance.
in 2009/10 dfid's gross public expenditure on development was 6.65bn pounds.of this 3.96bn pounds was spent on bilateral aid [including debt relief,humanitarian assistance and project funding ]and 2.46bn pounds was spent on multilateral aid [including support to the eu,world bank,un and other related agencies].although the department for international development's foreign aid budget was not affected by the cuts outlined by the chancellor for the exchequer's 2010 spending review,dfid will see their administration budgets slashed by approximately 19 percent over the next four years.this would mean a reduction in back-office costs to account for only two percent of their total spend by 2015.
in june 2013 as aprt of the 2013 spending round outcomes it was announced that dfid's total programme budget would increase to 10.3bn pounds in 2014/15 and 11.1bn pounds in 2015/2016 to help meet the uk government's committment to spend 0.7% of gni [gross national income] on oda [official development assistance].dfid is responsible for the majority of uk oda;projected to total 11.7bn pounds in 2014/15 and 12.2bn pounds in 2015/16.
the national audit office [nao] 2009 performance management review looked at how dfid has restructured its performance management arrangements over the last 6 years.the report responded to a request from dfid's accounting officer to re-visit the topic periodically,which the comptroller and auditor general agreed would be valuable.the study found that dfid had improved in its general scrutiny of progress in reducing poverty and of progress towards divisional goals,however noted that there was still clear scope for further improvement.
in 2016 dfid was taken to task with accusations of misappropriation of funding in the british overseas territory of montserrat.whistle blower sean maclauglin commenced legal action against the department in the eastern carribean court questioning the dfid fraud investigation process.

the united states agency for international development [usaid] is the united states government agency which is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid.
president john f.kennedy created usaid from its predecessor agencies in 1961 by executive order.
usaid's programs are authorized by congress supplements through directions in annual funding appropriation acts and other legislation.although it is technically an independent agency.usaid operates subject to the foreign policy guidance of the president,secretary of state,and the national security council.
usaid operates in africa,asia,latin america,the middle east and eastern europe.


goals
responding to president babrack obama's pledge in his 2013 state of the union address to ''join with our allies to eradicate extreme poverty in the next two decades'', usaid has adopted as its mission statement ''to partner to end extreme poverty and to promote resilient,democratic societies while advancing the securityand prosperity of the united states''.
usaid's decentralized network of resident field missions is drawn on to manage u.s. government [usg] programs in low-income countries for a range of purposes
disaster relief
poverty relief
technical cooperation on global issues including the environment
u.s. bilateral interests
socioeconomic development


global issues
technical cooperation between nation is essential for addressing a range of cross-border concerns like communicable diseases,enviromental issues,trade and investment cooperation,safety standards for traded products,money laundering,and so forth.the usg has specialized agencies dealing with such areas,such as the centers for disease control and the environmental protection agency.usaid's special ability to administer programs in low-income countries supports these and other usg agencies' international work on global concerns.


environment
among these global interests,environmental issues attract high attention.usaid assists project that conserve and protect threatened land,water,forests,and wildlife.usaid also assists projects to reduce green house-gas emissions and to build resilience to the risks associated with global climate change.u.s. environmental regulation laws require that programs sponsored by usaid should be both economically and environmentally sustainable.

the japan international coopearion agency is a government agency that coordinates official developemnt assistance [oda] for the government of japan.it is chartered with assiting economic and social growth in developing countries,and the promotion of international cooperation.
in october 2003,sadako ogala,former united nation high commissioner for refugess,became the president.it has been led by professor shinichi kitaoka,the former president of the international university of japan.

the european space agency is an intergovernmental organisation of 22 member states dedicated to the exploration of space.
established in 1975 and headquatered in paris,france.esa has a worldwide staff of about 2,000 and an annual budget of about 52.5billion euros/us$5.77billion [2016].
esa's space flight programme includes human spaceflight [mainly through partcipation in the international space station programme],the launch and operation of unmanned exploration missions to other planets and the moon,earth observation,science and telecommunication,designing launch vehicles;and maintaining a major spaceport,the guiana space centre at kourou,french guiana.the main european launch vehicle ariane5 is operated through arianespace with esa sharing in the costs of launching and further developing this launch vehicle.
the agency's facilities are distributed among the following centres:
esa science observation missions at esa centre for earth observation in frascati,italy;
esa science missions are based at estec in noordwijk,netherlands;
esa mission control [esoc] is in darmstadt,germany;
the european astronauts centre [eac] that trains astronauts for future missions is situatedin cologne,germany.
a research institute created in 2009,the european centre for space applications and telecommunications [ecsat],is at harwell,england.
and the european space astronomy centre [esac] is located in villanueva de le canada,madrid,spain

the international space station [iss] is a space station,or a habitable artificial satelite,in low earth orbit.its first component launched into orbit in 1998,and the iss is now the largest human-made body in low earth orbit and can often be seen with the naked eye from earth.the iss consists of pressurised modules,external trusses,solar arrays,and other components.iss components have been launched by russian proton and soyuz rockets,and american space shuttles.
the iss serves as a microgravity and space environment research laboratory in which crew members conduct experiments in biology,human biology,physics,astronomy,meteorology,and other fields.
the station is suited for the testing of spacecraft systems and equipment required for missions to the moon and mars.the iss maintains an orbit with an altitude of between 330 and 435km [205 and 270mi] by means of reboost maneuvres using the engines of the zvezda module or visiting spacecraft it completes 15.54 orbits per day.

the chinese large modular space station,is a planned space station to be placed in low earth orbit.the planned chinese space station will be roughly one-sixth the mass of the international space station and half the size of the decommissioned russian mir space station.the chinese station is expected to have a mass between 60 and 70 metric tons.operations will be controlled from the beijing aeronautic command and control center in china.the planned launch date of the core module,the tianhe-1 [''harmony of the heavens''],is around 2019.in 2017,the chinese launched the tianzhou-1 [''heavenly vessel''] cargo spaceship,which is based on the tiangong 1 and 2 space laboratories.

DRONE FOOTAGE CAPTURES THE MOMENT OF A WHALE APPEARS TO PLAY WITH A POD OF DOLPHINS OFF THE COAST OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIA HAS SAID IT WANTS TO BE THE FIRST IN LINE TO SIGN A NEW TRADE DEAL WITH THE UK AFTER BREXIT EVENTUALLY HAPPENS.
AUSTRALIA WILL BE READY FOR A TRADE DEAL WITH THE UK SOON AFTER BREXIT,BUT WILL TRY TO DO ONE WITH THE EU FIRST,SAID MALCOLM TURNBULL,THE COUNTRY'S PRIME MINISTER,AFTER TALKS WITH THERESA MAY IN DOWNING STREET.
IN A JOINT PRESS CONFERENCE,THE UK AND AUSTRALIAN LEADERS EXPRESSED ENTHUSIASM FOR AMBITIOUS DEAL AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AFTER THE UK LEAVES THE EU.
SPEAKING ALONGSIDE MAY IN DOWNING STREET,TURNBULL SAID AUSTRALIANS ''DO NOT MUCK AROUND'' WHEN IT COMES TO FREE TRADE,WHICH HE SAID WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE NATION'S PROSPERITY.
''AS BRITAIN MOVES TO COMPLETING ITS EXIT FROM THE EU,WE STAND READY TO ENTER INTO A FREE TRADE AGREEMENT WITH THE UK AS SOON AS THE UK IS ABLE TO DO SO'',HE SAID.
''ONCE BREXIT IS ACHIEVED,WE LOOK FORWARD TO SPEEDILY CONCLUDING A FREE TRADE AGREEMENT.AT THE SAME TIME,WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE EARLY CONCLUSION OF A FREE TRADE AGREEMENT WITH THE EU.''
TURNBULL SAID HE HOPED THE EU DEAL COULD BE FINALISED BEFORE THE EXPECTED DATE OF BREXIT IN MARCH 2019.
AND ASKED HOW QUICKLY A UK AGREEMENT COULD FOLLOW,HE SAID :''AS SOON AS POSSIBLE WE MOVE QUICKLY.AUSTRALIANS ARE FLEET OF FOOT,WE DON'T MUCK AROUND,WE ARE VERY SIMPLE.SO WE WILL MOVE AS QUICKLY AS THE UK IS ABLE TO MOVE''.
ALTHOUGH THE UK IS UNABLE TO COMPLETE ITS OWN TRADE DEALS BEFORE LEAVING THE EU IN MARCH 2019,MINISTERS ARE ABLE TO LAY THE GROUNDWORK FOR AN AGREEMENT,WITH LIAM FOX,THE TRADE SECRETARY,PLANNING TO VISIT AUSTRALIA FOR PRELIMINARY TALKS IN THE COMING MONTHS.