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A submersible that takes tourists to the Titanic shipwreck has gone missing off the North American coast in the Atlantic.

The operator, OceanGate, says it's exploring and mobilising "all options to bring the crew back safely"

The Boston coast guard tells the BBC it is leading the search operation

It is not known how many people are on board - or precisely where the vessel is

According to the firm, the vessel has "life support" for 96 hours for a crew of five

The wreck sits around 3,800m (12,500ft) below sea level at the bottom of the ocean

It is located around 600km (370 miles) off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.

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What is the Titan submarine?

The Titan is a five-person submersible, to descend to depths of 4,000 metres

Its dimensions are 670 cm x 280 cm x 250 cm
It has "life support" of 96 hours for a crew of five
It travels at three knots - that's around 3.5 miles per hour
Aside from taking divers to the wreck of the Titanic, it's used for site survey and inspection, research and data collection, film and media production, and deep sea testing of hardware and software

It's equipped with an integrated platform which the submarine launches from and returns to before and after each dive
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-65953941

Ungwai tribe, Niger East, Niger State.

Allah is the Greatest.

"It is He Who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon; all (the celestial bodies) swim along, each in its rounded course" (Qur'an 21:33).

"The heavens, We have built them with power. And verily, We are expanding it" (Qur'an 51:47).

Lawyers who are impatient and greedy. Lawyers indeed!

We are waiting for rain, for winter, for God' - Fighting a megafire in France

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cpsprodpb/F6EB/production/_126311236_dsc02388-nc.png Hervé Trentin, right, and Christophe Dubois. "This fire is engraved in my mind forever," Trentin said.

Hervé Trentin, a 34-year veteran of the Gironde fire department, stood on the edge of a charred section of forest wiping tears from his cheeks. It was the second time Trentin had cried that morning.

"I'm sorry," he said, composing himself. "This is our forest. It is heart-breaking to watch it burn."

Trentin and his small team were moving around an area south of the French city of Bordeaux, in the Gironde region, on Saturday morning, trying to stay ahead of a megafire.

Their job was to burn the forest, to create firebreaks - a tactic they had trained for years to master and which put them in a small band of firefighters in the region capable of doing the job. But Trentin also grew up just down the road, and it was making him emotional setting his home soil alight.

"It's hard for me to think that I will not see this forest again like it was," he said. "I'm 53 years old, and this forest will need more than 30 years to recover."


https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cpsprodpb/1450B/production/_126311238_dsc02416-nc.png Hervé Trentin wept as he described watching his home region on fire. "It is heartbreaking to watch it burn." he said.

Trentin has a three-year-old daughter, and when he thinks about the future of the forest he thinks about her too. "I wonder what will happen," he said, looking up towards the tops of the trees and beyond to the sky. "I don't want to say our future looks like what we are living this summer, but... you know."

The people of Gironde had barely had time to catch their breath since the last megafire, in July, which burned about 14,000 hectares in the same area. That blaze had appeared to be under control, but the heat was still in the earth - a so-called "zombie fire" that will re-emerge in persistent dry conditions and accelerates new fires.

Trentin worked the July fire too, up to 48 hours straight among the flames. "I had never seen such a huge fire," he said. "I remember the big fires in 91 and 97 but they didn't spread that fast." Somehow the new fire was worse. The vegetation was drier than ever. "Even the hardwoods burn like straw," Trentin said. "Usually we use the hardwoods to help us against the fire."

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cpsprodpb/ACB3/production/_126311244_dsc02598-nc.png Smoke from nearby fire in a forest in Gironde, near Bordeaux

On Saturday morning, Trentin's small crew of specialists was burning sections of forest around several family homes, to protect them. They work by torching sections ahead of the blaze, to remove the flammable material.

It is so dry in Gironde that the flames they light can sweep along the long burn sections in seconds and rip up tree trunks to head height. The firefighters can only do this work when the wind is low, to minimise the risk of their counter-fires spreading, but they cannot control the wind.

Last Tuesday night, Trentin and his team were carrying out a controlled burn near the village of Hostens when the wind turned on them. The first sign was the feeling of cool air rushing past their legs, he said, creating the sensation of a breeze. It was the fire sucking air towards it as it approached.

The men moved quickly into an area that they had already burned and dropped to their knees. They tried to breathe calmly amid the thick smoke. The flames could easily surround them. "We had lost control of the situation," Trentin said. "We knew the fire was coming."

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cpsprodpb/0C8B/production/_126311230_dsc02286-nc.png Firefighters prepare to extinguish tactical blazes near Hostens

Later that night, Dubois worked lighting counter-fires along a highway until 4am. Their hours were dictated by the whims of the fire, he said.

"If you don't have a passion for this work you cannot do it. We may seem like tough guys but we are sensitive. We have a passion for the forest, for nature. It is painful to watch it burning, and painful to burn the pines ourselves to save it."

After a hard morning creating firebreaks around several houses, Dubois and the team headed back to a base camp where there are hundreds of firefighters at any given time. Between the members of the team, there are decades of experience performing tactical burning.

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cpsprodpb/14123/production/_126311228_dsc02225-nc.png Firefighters plan over a map on Saturday, near the edge of the wildfires in Gironde

As they ate, they talked about the rate they had lost ground to the fire that past week - about 6,200 acres in one night alone.

"I have been a firefighter for 40 years and I had never seen such a fire," said Jean-Pierre Le Cunff, tactical fire chief for the Haute-Garonne region, who has two sons in the force. "We are waiting for rain, for snow, for winter, for God," he said.

There was no disagreement that the climate was changing for the worse. "We talk about global warming of course," Le Cunff said. "We see it, we feel it. This year, it is striking. In the mountains there is no glacier any more, everything is dry, the herds have nothing to eat."


https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cpsprodpb/1073/production/_126311240_dsc02540-nc.png Flames lick along the set perimeter of a tactical fire near Hostens

After lunch, the team was called to an area of forest on the outskirts of Belin-Beliet, an abandoned village that was burned badly in July and again in August. They set a large tactical fire only about 25 metres from a house, to protect it after the owner called to say a new fire had broken out on her land.

Firefighters had already told Claudie Decourneau to leave home when the July fire brought towering flames near her perimeter fence, but she declined. On Saturday, she stood and watched as they burned yet more of her land, where she rears livestock to live off and sells her wood.

"I don't want to leave my animals, and I feel more useful here because I can watch for new fires," Decourneau said. But she wept as she watched Trentin and Dubois and the team burn the land. On Friday, her power died. "I am afraid of losing everything," she said. "We will not give up but it is very hard. Pines take many years to grow."

The heat was fierce as Ducourneau's land burned. When the flames licked up the trees the firefighters moved quickly to douse them, but the area would be left completely charred. The rich forest reduced to a wasteland.

When the burning part was over, and the air full of smoke, the firefighters pulled back to their trucks, and talk turned to the coming night. A storm was forecast - high winds, maybe lightning, but little rain.

"It is frightening," Trentin said. "We don't know if there will be rain. If there is wind, and lightning, the fire will get worse."

The storm was forecast to roll in about midnight. About 11pm, the lightning and thunder began, but so did the rain.


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62539385

What's causing the delay? Also at the federal level? Payment of July salaries was delayed in some states too.

I'm interested.

A traffic offender and car hijacker was captured on CCTV and was later arrested by the police after hijacking many cars. All his attempts to escape from being nabbed failed.

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-EGG0uLttw

We pray for quick and safe return of the remaining abductees

Another treasure has been discovered! Thanks to Almighty Allah.

JazakaLlahu Khairan

APC has now finally resolved to using football delay tactics and mind games in politics. This happens when you are not confident in your own self.

Anton wrote. “We invite you, for example, to accompany your message with a photo of you wearing the jersey in question.” .

See this silly request/command.

This Anton and the board members of FFF must be dictators. They are the real dictators, but they and their governments use the media to label others as dictators.

New lies have just been concocted again by these murderers all in the guise of escaping punishment.

Javelin and Javelina . New prospective names for Ukrainian male and female twins.

Omniman:
so Islamabad is actually a location. And here I thought someone was playing with words to spite a religion.

blacknoir:
Even me o Islam is bad

essentialone:
The most honest capital city in the world is:

Islam-a-bad

matiandu:
Sorry folks,I repent from been a muslim just bcus of a particular capital in a muslim nation like pakistan (Islamabad).
Put the blame on muhammad. [color=#990000][/color]

The name Islamabad simply means City of Islam, or City of Peace. The name was chosen for the city to reflect the country's ideology.

Many Pakistani and Indian cities like Jacobabad, Hyderabad also have the same suffix added to them.

UncleKoboko:
The name Islamabad means City of Islam. It is derived from two words: Islam and abad. Islam refers to the religion of Islam, Pakistan's state religion, and -abad is a Persian suffix meaning cultivated place, indicating an inhabited place or city.

Google is not your enemy.

Thanks OP.
Educate them please because they are showcasing their ignorance.


Over sixty cities also have similar names.

Cities/Population
1. Hyderabad, India = 6,809,970 (2011)
2. Ahmedabad, India = 5,633,927 (2011)
3. Faisalabad, Pakistan = 3,203,846 (2017)
4. Ghaziabad, India = 2,658,525 (2011)
5. Hyderabad, Pakistan = 1,734,309 (2017)
6. Faridabad, India = 1,404,653 (2011)
7. Aurangabad, India = 1,175,116 (2011)
8. Allahabad, India = 1,117,094 (2011)
9. Islamabad, Pakistan = 1,014,825 (2017)
10. Moradabad, India = 889,810 (2010)
11. Firozabad, India = 603,797 (2011)
12. Faizabad, India = 557,875 (2011)
13. Khorpramabad, Iran = 373,416 (2016)
14. Jalalabad, Afghanistan = 356,275 (2014)
15. Nizamabad, Telangana, India = 311,152 (2011)
16. Wazirabad, Pakistan = 299,751 (date unknown)
17. Sikandrabad, India = 294,898 (2011)
18. Hafizabad, Pakistan = 245,784 (2017)
19. Sadiqabad, Pakistan = 239,677 (2017)
0. Najafabad, Iran = 235,281 (2016)
21. Secunderabad, India = 213,698 (2011)
2. Abbottabad, Pakistan = 208,491 (2017)
23. Jacobābād, Pakistan = 191,076 (2017)
4. Leninabad (known as Khujand since 1991),
Tajikistan = 181,600 (2015)
5. Mahabad, Iran = 168,393 (2016)
6. Wazīrābād, Pakistan = 128,090 (2017)
27. Nazrabad, Iran = 119,512 (2016)
8. Hoshangabad, India = 117,988 (2011)
9. Adilabad, India = 117,167 (2011)
30. Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan = 109,200 (2009)
31. Hārūnābād,Pakistan = 107,898 (2017)
32. Jehanabad, India = 103,28 (2011)
33. Aurangabad, Bihar, India = 102,244 (2011)
34. Shahabad, Gulbarga, India = 96,583 (2011)
35. Muzaffarabad, Pakistan = 96,000 (2010)
36. Parsabad, Iran = 93,387 (2016)
37. Eslamabad-e Garb, Iran = 90,559 (2016)
38. Najibabad, India = 88,535 (2011)
39. Humnabad, India = 84,561 (2011)
0. Shahabad, Hardoi, India = 80,226 (2011)
41. Zahirabad, India = 71,166 (2011)
2. Vikarabad, India = 53,143 (2011)
43. Aliabad-e Kabul, Iran = 52,838 (2016)
4. Mustabad, India = 49,879 (date unknown)
5. Asadabad, Afghanistan = 48,400 (date unknown)
6. Koda Jahanabad, India = 45,410 (2011)
47. Fayzabad, Afghanistan = 44,421 (2006)
8. Shahabad Markanda, India = 42,607 (2011)
9. Dowlatabad, Isfahan, Iran = 40,945 (2016)
0. Jalalabad, India = 39,525 (2011)
51. Aurangabad, West Bengal, India = 39,261 (2011)
2. Allah Abad, Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan = 37,500
(1998)
53. Shamsabad, India = 33, 144 (2011)
4. Shahabad, Rampur, India = 32,015 (2011)
5. Sadabad, India = 31,737 (2001)
6. Sabirabad, Azerbaijan = 30,612 (2018)
57. Hajjiabad, Hormozgan, Iran = 28,977 (2016)
8. Mahmudabad, Iran = 27,561 (2006)
9. Jafrabad, India = 25,081 (2001)
0. Shabad, India = 25,000 (2011)
61. Fazelabad, Golestan, Iran = 19,461 (2016)
2. Feyzabad, Razavi Khorasan, Iran = 18,120 (2016)
63. Jalalabad, Bijnor, India = 16,113 (2001)
4. Karimabad, India = 16,000 (1996)
5. Fyzabad, Trinidad & Tobago = 13,099 (2011)
6. Nizamabad, Uttar Pradesh, India = 12,096 (2011)
67. Khorpramabad, Maznaran, Iran = 11,542 (2016)
68. Ordubad, Azerbaijan = 10,372 (date unknown)

Let me check something.


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Starboytwo:
Pakistan capital always get me.

Islamabad

The name Islamabad simply means City of Islam, or City of Peace. The name was chosen for the city to reflect the country's ideology.

Many Pakistani and Indian cities like Jacobabad, Hyderabad also have the same suffix added to them.


Over sixty cities also have similar names.

Cities/Population
1. Hyderabad, India = 6,809,970 (2011)
2. Ahmedabad, India = 5,633,927 (2011)
3. Faisalabad, Pakistan = 3,203,846 (2017)
4. Ghaziabad, India = 2,658,525 (2011)
5. Hyderabad, Pakistan = 1,734,309 (2017)
6. Faridabad, India = 1,404,653 (2011)
7. Aurangabad, India = 1,175,116 (2011)
8. Allahabad, India = 1,117,094 (2011)
9. Islamabad, Pakistan = 1,014,825 (2017)
10. Moradabad, India = 889,810 (2010)
11. Firozabad, India = 603,797 (2011)
12. Faizabad, India = 557,875 (2011)
13. Khorpramabad, Iran = 373,416 (2016)
14. Jalalabad, Afghanistan = 356,275 (2014)
15. Nizamabad, Telangana, India = 311,152 (2011)
16. Wazirabad, Pakistan = 299,751 (date unknown)
17. Sikandrabad, India = 294,898 (2011)
18. Hafizabad, Pakistan = 245,784 (2017)
19. Sadiqabad, Pakistan = 239,677 (2017)
0. Najafabad, Iran = 235,281 (2016)
21. Secunderabad, India = 213,698 (2011)
2. Abbottabad, Pakistan = 208,491 (2017)
23. Jacobābād, Pakistan = 191,076 (2017)
4. Leninabad (known as Khujand since 1991),
Tajikistan = 181,600 (2015)
5. Mahabad, Iran = 168,393 (2016)
6. Wazīrābād, Pakistan = 128,090 (2017)
27. Nazrabad, Iran = 119,512 (2016)
8. Hoshangabad, India = 117,988 (2011)
9. Adilabad, India = 117,167 (2011)
30. Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan = 109,200 (2009)
31. Hārūnābād,Pakistan = 107,898 (2017)
32. Jehanabad, India = 103,28 (2011)
33. Aurangabad, Bihar, India = 102,244 (2011)
34. Shahabad, Gulbarga, India = 96,583 (2011)
35. Muzaffarabad, Pakistan = 96,000 (2010)
36. Parsabad, Iran = 93,387 (2016)
37. Eslamabad-e Garb, Iran = 90,559 (2016)
38. Najibabad, India = 88,535 (2011)
39. Humnabad, India = 84,561 (2011)
0. Shahabad, Hardoi, India = 80,226 (2011)
41. Zahirabad, India = 71,166 (2011)
2. Vikarabad, India = 53,143 (2011)
43. Aliabad-e Kabul, Iran = 52,838 (2016)
4. Mustabad, India = 49,879 (date unknown)
5. Asadabad, Afghanistan = 48,400 (date unknown)
6. Koda Jahanabad, India = 45,410 (2011)
47. Fayzabad, Afghanistan = 44,421 (2006)
8. Shahabad Markanda, India = 42,607 (2011)
9. Dowlatabad, Isfahan, Iran = 40,945 (2016)
0. Jalalabad, India = 39,525 (2011)
51. Aurangabad, West Bengal, India = 39,261 (2011)
2. Allah Abad, Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan = 37,500
(1998)
53. Shamsabad, India = 33, 144 (2011)
4. Shahabad, Rampur, India = 32,015 (2011)
5. Sadabad, India = 31,737 (2001)
6. Sabirabad, Azerbaijan = 30,612 (2018)
57. Hajjiabad, Hormozgan, Iran = 28,977 (2016)
8. Mahmudabad, Iran = 27,561 (2006)
9. Jafrabad, India = 25,081 (2001)
0. Shabad, India = 25,000 (2011)
61. Fazelabad, Golestan, Iran = 19,461 (2016)
2. Feyzabad, Razavi Khorasan, Iran = 18,120 (2016)
63. Jalalabad, Bijnor, India = 16,113 (2001)
4. Karimabad, India = 16,000 (1996)
5. Fyzabad, Trinidad & Tobago = 13,099 (2011)
6. Nizamabad, Uttar Pradesh, India = 12,096 (2011)
67. Khorpramabad, Maznaran, Iran = 11,542 (2016)
68. Ordubad, Azerbaijan = 10,372 (date unknown)

Soon .
How soon?

Good one

JetStar:
It is because of Chinese money that's why they banned him. Stop spewing ignorance. China is the biggest market in the world.

.

Stop wandering in the desert of ignorance.


But they can take serious actions against their biggest and largest importer of energy and oil(even though they know how important the product they get from them is) because the lives of the affected people in Europe worth it, while that of the Uighur minority do not worth anything and hence do not want to risk the "biggest market".



Are you still a slave of your colonial master in this 21st century? I don't know why some people are hypocrites

That's the double standard from the white fascists and supremacists. When an African or Asian nation is oppressed it is fine, but when a westerner or a white nation is oppressed they retaliate and cry for freedom they didn't ask for others who do not share similar skin colour like them.

They believe their Europe and their West should never witness war of any kind, but they happily invade and launch a full-scale war on continents/nations other than theirs, destabilize them and kill the leaders of the nations they invaded.

But they should remember that nothing lasts forever.

I'm against the recent happenings in Europe - the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, but Africans should learn from the hypocrisy of the West - people whom you think are fighting for your interest. They only do that at the front of the camera and nowhere else.

JazakumuLlahu Khairan

#240

Average Nigerians are really suffering in this country. So sad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0OQVYdjXBU&feature=emb_rel_end

Good news

Only fools believe in pastors' guess games and predictions so-called prophecies.

BlackSpanner:
Please, someone should update me. Which month is the Federal government removing this subsidy?

The FG first announced that it would be by June 2022.

chigator2:
These fanatics again.... Hold your high horses.

Why are you guys trying to imply silly religious narratives into these report.

For your information, Islam didn't Invent or even Introduce non-Interest finance to the world.
Even Muhammad came to meet non-Interest finance practiced in his time.
In Medieval Europe Usury was a Sin/Crime for Christians. It was only allowed for Jews who could only practice such to only non-Jews.
Later, The Medici's adopted the trade and rose to power in Europe.

So it's nothing new or original to Islam that you should brag or blab about. It shouldn't even be addressed as Islamic finance rather Non-Interest/Ethical Finance
No system is perfect as some naive people claim.

Islamic finance differs on 2 major concepts:
1. Shariah Permissible/Ethical Investing
2. Profit/Loss Sharing

This does not magically delete the inherent risk in the business invested on. The business can fail woefully causing deeper losses for the lender than on the other hand, the flip side is that both parties share losses.
Hence
Ethical Finance is more sustainable and ensures the lender is a partaker of the risk so lending is more vetted rather than careless lending.
On the other hand, Interest charging finance offers more time value for the lended money while sacrificing sustainability.

The Oversubscribing of Sukuk Bonds is also simply a feature of expanding Capital that is seeking returns. Capital is flowing about and needs returns so any available sustainable opportunity is a good bet.

It doesn't mean anyone wants to shout Allahu Akbar, pray 5 times or blow up stuff with you

The fact still remains that Islamic banking is the best. Prophet Muhammad condemned and banned the usury-based finance system he met when he was sent to the world as God's Prophet and Messenger. He practised and preached a non-interest finance system during his life time and it's the legacy of that that brought about the present non-interest finance or Islamic banking the world is seeing today.

So you know that usury is a sin for Christians. Yes, you are right. It's a sin, not for only Christians but for all mankind.

So my question is why are you Christians still dealing with usury?

Islamic banking is the best! Many have committed suicide because of indebtedness caused by interest rate, brought about by Western banking system. Islam is the only system that can solve the world's problems.

drlateef:
I am very sure majority of subscribers will be Christians.

Undoubtedly, they are! But you know what..... they used to be the first to condemn anything Islamic, even though they will benefit from it (e.g this sukuk bond).

Also, don't forget that they attacked this very bond they will benefit from, the time the government revealed its plan for it.

chigator2:
For your information, Islam didn't Invent or even Introduce non-Interest finance to the world.
Even Muhammad came to meet non-Interest finance practiced in his time.
In Medieval Europe Usury was a Sin/Crime for Christians. It was only allowed for Jews who could only practice such to only non-Jews.
Later, The Medici's adopted the trade and rose to power in Europe.

Tranquility4u:
The fact still remains that Islamic banking is the best. Prophet Muhammad condemned and banned the usury-based finance system he met when he was sent to the world as God's Prophet and Messenger. He practised and preached a non-interest finance system during his life time and it's the legacy of that that brought about the present non-interest finance or Islamic banking the world is seeing today.

So you know that usury is a sin for Christians. Yes, you are right. It's a sin, not for only Christians but for all mankind.

So my question is why are you Christians still dealing with usury?

chigator2, has been dodging my question. I just can't help it. I must drag you to the front page for the world to see your hypocritical religion because your hypocrite self has shunned my simple question regarding why you Christians or the Christian world deal with the usury/interest even though it is a sin according to your Bible. Not even one Christian church, home or abroad, has ever preached against usury, and your Bible is against it. They are even the biggest actors in usury, very greedy and uncompassionate people. So are you guys not flouting the rules and commands of your scripture?