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Drones

Walmart mistakenly prices DJI Inspire 2 and Spark drones starting at $17.99

Early Friday morning, retail behemoth Walmart offered up deals that were so unbelievable, they seemed too good to be true. Eagle-eyed shoppers took advantage of the lowest prices they've ever seen assigned to the DJI Spark Fly More bundle, priced at $17.99, …

bubmagAugust 17, 2019

Global Warming

Alaska Records Its Warmest Month Ever

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska has been America’s canary in the coal mine for climate warming, and the yellow bird is swooning. July was Alaska’s warmest month ever, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Sea ice melted. Bering Sea fi…

bubmagAugust 17, 2019

Chinese Economy

What’s Wrong With the Global Economy?

As growth downshifts, even little miracles are disappearing. Before the 2010s, it was common for one in every five economies to be growing at 7 percent or more annually. Now, among the worlds 200 economies, just eight, or one in 25, are on track to grow 7 per…

bubmagAugust 17, 2019

Water Pollution

Will take concrete decision for timely payments to MSMEs: Nitin Gadkari

Delayed payments is a major headache for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Union MSME minister Nitin Gadkari said here on Saturday, adding that he was trying to find a solution to this issue. Speaking at a convention of 'Laghu Udyog Bharti', an RSS-linked…

bubmagAugust 17, 2019

Hrant Dink

Date Night: Djivan Gasparyan’s Music Is Quiet and Intimate.

— Buy it on Amazon. DATE NIGHT: Over the weekend, I saw birds flying south. The days were hot, but the nights were cooler. And different these are nights to acknowledge that in a dangerous, cruel season, we have one another, and that is everything. This mus…

bubmagAugust 17, 2019

Paris

French waiter shot dead for being ‘too slow with sandwich’

Bobigny (France) (AFP) - A customer shot a waiter dead at an eatery on the outskirts of Paris, apparently enraged at being made to wait for a sandwich, a source close to the investigation said Saturday. The waiter's colleagues called police after he was shot…

bubmagAugust 17, 2019

Times Square

Chrome Face Masks and Hyperrealistic Oil Portraits by Kip Omolade

Diovadiova Chrome Karyn X, Oil on canvas, 48 x 48 in. All images via Kip Omolade Brooklyn-based artist Kip Omolade (previously) uses molding, casting, and painting techniques to create detailed masks and large-scale hyperrealistic portraits. Contrasted again…

bubmagAugust 17, 2019

BUK-Missile

NGOs Call on JIT to Stop Upcoming Trial on MH17 Downing in Ukraine, Citing ‘Flawed’ Investigation

Earlier, German private detective Josef Resch offered to present his potentially ground-breaking findings, based on witness testimonies, and documents previously thought lost to the Dutch-led Joint Investigation Team (JIT) that probed the incident. However, t…

bubmagAugust 17, 2019

Checkpoint

30 years on, an ultra-marathon to remember Berlin Wall victims

Where guard towers and barbed wire once stood, runners pouned the 160 km path along the former Berlin Wall on Saturday. Around 500 runners, started the 8th edition of the Berlin Wall Race, ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Walls demise this November. Wit…

bubmagAugust 17, 2019

Economic Bubble

Easier access to cheap money isn’t going to save us from a financial crash

OPINION: We are a decade into a global economic experiment that is certain to fail. This will come as a surprise to the likes of Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr, who recently told Jack Tame: "economic growth will be picking up." He's wrong. When the wh…

bubmagAugust 17, 2019

Walmart mistakenly prices DJI Inspire 2 and Spark drones starting at $17.99

Alaska Records Its Warmest Month Ever

What’s Wrong With the Global Economy?

Will take concrete decision for timely payments to MSMEs: Nitin Gadkari

Date Night: Djivan Gasparyan’s Music Is Quiet and Intimate.

French waiter shot dead for being ‘too slow with sandwich’

Chrome Face Masks and Hyperrealistic Oil Portraits by Kip Omolade

NGOs Call on JIT to Stop Upcoming Trial on MH17 Downing in Ukraine, Citing ‘Flawed’ Investigation

30 years on, an ultra-marathon to remember Berlin Wall victims

Easier access to cheap money isn’t going to save us from a financial crash

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