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Harriet Tubman to appear on $20 bill WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Treasury Department has selected Harriet Tubman, an African-American who helped thousands of enslaved Africans in America to freedom, will replace the slaveholding U.S. President Andrew Jackson on the center of a new $20 note. Alexander Hamilton will remain on the face of the […]

Google to train 1 million Africans to boost jobs By Loni Prinsloo and Jeremy Kahn Bloomberg Google Inc. is scaling up its digital skills training programs to accommodate a million Africans in the next year, aiming to deal with high unemployment numbers on the continent. In partnership with Livity Africa, Google plans to train 300,000 […]

Dubai plans world’s tallest skyscraper, beating the Burj Khalifa The new tower will be “a notch” taller than the world’s tallest skyscraper, Burj Khalifa, developer says. Associated Press and Agence France-Presse Dubai is reaching for the sky once again, with the developer of the world’s tallest building vowing to build an even taller tower bedecked […]

IOC workshop gives Candidate Cities 2024 valuable insight into IBC/MPC, Olympic Village 2024 Bid Cities: Los Angeles (United States), Rome (Italy), Budapest (Hungary) and Paris (France) International Olympic Committee April 8, 2016 The International Olympic Committee (IOC) yesterday concluded a successful two-day workshop with the Candidate Cities 2024, dedicated to the Olympic Village, the International […]

Venues of the 2016 Summer Olympics Rio de Janeiro – Games of the XXXI Olympiad RIO DE JANEIRO 2016 OLYMPICS 5th August – 21st August Source: Rio 2016 Sustainability was the theme as the Olympic Aquatics Stadium for the Rio 2016 Games was officially unveiled on 8 April 2016. The arena for swimming and water […]

2015 World’s Busiest Airports- Release Date: April 04, 2016 ACI releases preliminary world airport traffic rankings Airports Council International (ACI) Release Date: April 04, 2016 MONTREAL – Based on reports from 1,144 airports worldwide, ACI’s preliminary passenger traffic results for the most-travelled airports in 2015 reveal that the top spot continues to belong to Atlanta-Hartsfield-Jackson […]

China: Shanghai Disneyland is set to open on June 16, 2016 Xinhua SHANGHAI- Tickets for Shanghai Disneyland, Disney’s first theme park on the Chinese mainland, went on sale on March 28, about two and a half months ahead of the resort’s opening on June 16. Shanghai Disneyland Park, located in Chuansha New Town of Pudong […]

Temple University scientists eliminate HIV-1 from genome of human T-cells Building on their groundbreaking research, Temple University scientists make another breakthrough in a potential cure for HIV. Temple Now- Temple University March 21, 2016 In 2014, a team of researchers in the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University became the first to successfully […]

Foreign firms in Zimbabwe have till April 1, 2016 to sell shares to blacks or close RT News Companies owned by foreigners face closure unless they sell or give up 51 percent of their shares to black Zimbabweans by April 1, 2016 announced Indigenization Minister Patrick Zhuwao. “Comply by that date or close shop, comply […]

President Barack Obama visits Cuba- A look back at African populated Cuba President Barack Obama arrived in Cuba on March 20, 2016. With this visit President Obama is the first sitting U.S. president in 88 years to set foot on the island nation. The last sitting president to visit the country was Calvin Coolidge, who […]