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-Toyin Owoseje | Toyin Reports The 552-carat yellow diamond was found at Diavik Diamond Mine, northeast of Yellowknife. The largest diamond ever found in North America has been unearthed in Canada. (Dominion Diamond Mines) The 552-carat yellow diamond was found at Diavik Diamond Mine, northeast…

-Karen Weintraub | Independent Uk The trumpeter swan was on the brink of extinction 50 years ago. But restoration efforts in Ontario have helped the species make a comeback throughout Canada and the United States, writes Karen Weintraub Bev Kingdon rattles off the names of…

A “conditional” movement control order in Malaysia will allow restaurants and most shops to reopen, and for offices to restart. Kuala Lumpur – More than 340,000 people have signed a petition by Saturday evening (May 2) urging the Malaysian government to continue with its movement…

-Straight Times Experts said India’s strength is the capability to scale up production quickly and at a low cost. NEW DELHI -More than half a dozen companies and research institutes in India have joined the international race to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus as…

-Tom Barnes | Independent Uk Experts say level of carbon dioxide in atmosphere could lead to conditions comparable with three million years ago. Man-made climate change could turn Antarctica green, with plants colonising the land as ice sheets shrink, scientists have warned. Experts believe clues…

-A Current Affair Staff Residents of a regional town in Victoria have managed to take their community from nearly perishing to truly prospering by banding together. Lockington, a town in northern Victoria with a population of less than 1000 people, was looking down the barrel…

–Jackie Mansky | Smithsonianmag .com Historian Camilla Townsend separates fact from fiction, as a new documentary premieres about the American Indian princess. Pocahontas wasn’t even a teenager when John Smith claims she saved him from execution. Whether the story happened the way Smith tells it—or…

-Dr. Obianma Onya It is crystal clear that there’s insincerity in the handling of the Covid-19 scourge in Nigeria. From the federal government and the presidential task force to the NCDC and a good number of state governors who are adept at politicizing everything including…

-Hameed Ajibola Jimoh Esq There is a saying that ‘you cannot eat your cake and have it’ meaning that it is commonsensical that when one eats his cake and finishes it, he cannot still have the same cake at his disposal. However, this paper is…