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New Zealand has tightened work visa rules in response to "unsustainable" migration levels, say authorities.Low-skilled a...
08/04/2024

New Zealand has tightened work visa rules in response to "unsustainable" migration levels, say authorities.

Low-skilled applicants now have to fulfil English-language requirements and are allowed to stay on for three years - down from five previously.

"Getting our immigration settings right is critical to this government's plan to rebuild the economy," said Immigration Minister Erica Stanford.

A near-record 173,000 people migrated to New Zealand last year.

Under the tightened rules, applicants for most work visas now have to fulfill requirements for skills and work experience.

Employers are responsible for ensuring that migrants meet the specified requirements before offering them a job.

The Indian government has so far rescued 250 citizens in Cambodia who were forced to run online scams.They were promised...
02/04/2024

The Indian government has so far rescued 250 citizens in Cambodia who were forced to run online scams.

They were promised jobs but "forced to undertake illegal cyber work", India's foreign ministry said.

Recent reports have said more than 5,000 Indians stuck in Cambodia were forced to operate cyber-fraud schemes.

Hundreds of thousands of people from around the world are estimated to have fallen prey to human traffickers running job scams in South East Asia.

Victims, mostly young and tech-savvy, are promised jobs and then lured into illegal online work ranging from money laundering and crypto fraud to so-called love scams, where they pose as lovers online.

The release of Netflix's series 3 Body Problem has been watched millions of times around the globe since its release lat...
01/04/2024

The release of Netflix's series 3 Body Problem has been watched millions of times around the globe since its release late last month.

It has even found an audience in China where Netflix is unavailable, sparking much chatter among viewers of the series.

But many fans of the three-book series, credited with propelling China's nascent science fiction genre after its publication in 2008, have also been paying attention to a court room in Shanghai where one of the key players behind the adaptation was sentenced to death just a day after the show's release.

"In my opinion, they're all co-discoverers of the North Pole, all six of them," said Harris. "Those four guys are finall...
29/03/2024

"In my opinion, they're all co-discoverers of the North Pole, all six of them," said Harris. "Those four guys are finally getting the recognition they deserve."

Meanwhile, in Brunswick, Maine, the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum is currently moving buildings. The museum belongs to Bowdoin College, alma mater to both Peary and fellow Arctic explorer Donald Baxter MacMillan. Since it opened in 1967, the museum has showcased Henson artefacts, including archival photos, a sledge he built himself and a rare television interview from the 1950s. Patrons have always been welcomed with painted portraits of Peary and MacMillan, positioned side-by-side at the entrance. However, when the new space opens in May 2023, it will have an important addition: an enlarged photograph of Henson, dressed in his trademark furs, displayed next to them.

"Another world's accomplishment was done and finished," wrote Henson in his 1912 memoir, A Negro Explorer at the North P...
28/03/2024

"Another world's accomplishment was done and finished," wrote Henson in his 1912 memoir, A Negro Explorer at the North Pole. "And as in the past, from the beginning of history, wherever the world's work was done by a white man, he had been accompanied by a colored man."

Yet Henson's moment of glory was short-lived. For the next century, historians would be sceptical about Henson, who returned to the United States at the height of Jim Crow hostility. Peary wrote an effusive foreword to Henson's book, arguing that "race, color, or bringing-up, or environment, count nothing against a determined heart, if it is backed and aided by intelligence". Still, Peary gladly received most accolades for reaching the Pole, while Henson's name faded from the public eye.

Peary was the established leader of these expeditions, raising money and organising teams. Henson accompanied Peary on e...
18/03/2024

Peary was the established leader of these expeditions, raising money and organising teams. Henson accompanied Peary on every journey but one, spending years of his life in the field. In Greenland, Henson bonded with the Inughuit, the northernmost people in North America and part of the Greenlandic Inuit peoples; he learned to build igloos and sledges, and he became fluent in the Inuktun language. He hunted polar animals with a rifle, a life-saving skill when provisions ran low. Most impressively, Henson learned the art of mushing.

"He is a better dog driver and handles a sledge better than any man living, except some of the best hunters," Peary wrote of Henson. "I couldn't get along without him."

The sign is topped with a photograph of Henson wrapped in furs, a hood pulled over his head. His brow is soberly furrowe...
05/03/2024

The sign is topped with a photograph of Henson wrapped in furs, a hood pulled over his head. His brow is soberly furrowed, and he wears a bushy mustache. His appearance fits the archetype of the polar explorer in every way but one: Henson was Black.

"As a kid growing up in school, I never heard of Matthew Henson," said JR Harris, who is also African American and serves on the board of directors of the Explorers Club, which has inspired some of the world's greatest adventurers. "A lot of people assume that Matthew Henson was somebody I looked up to back in the day, and that's just not true. All we heard was that the North Pole was discovered by Robert Peary."

Located just outside Washington DC in Montgomery County, Maryland, the 116-acre Matthew Henson State Park Stream Valley ...
13/02/2024

Located just outside Washington DC in Montgomery County, Maryland, the 116-acre Matthew Henson State Park Stream Valley Park is a leafy, wooded oasis surrounded by suburban sprawl. As you enter, the hum of traffic soon fades away, and all hikers, joggers and bikers can see are grass and trees. A 4.2-mile paved trail gently curves through the forest, before an elevated wooden boardwalk carries it above a wetland. Birds chirp overhead, and deer and wild turkeys are a common sight.

On the wall of a tiny one-room museum in Worcester, Massachusetts, there's a black-and-white photo taken in 1901 of a ma...
01/02/2024

On the wall of a tiny one-room museum in Worcester, Massachusetts, there's a black-and-white photo taken in 1901 of a man hunched over on his racing bicycle, eyes trained on the photographer. His fingers are clenched over the drop bars, his muscles bulging within his wool sweater and you can feel the intensity of his gaze.

Today, most people likely have no idea who this man is, but Marshall "Major" Taylor wasn't just a world champion at a time when cycling was one of the most popular international sports; he was also the first African American global sports superstar.

The Ariane-6 is intended to be at least 40% cheaper than the Ariane-5 but remains an "expendable" design - a new rocket ...
17/01/2024

The Ariane-6 is intended to be at least 40% cheaper than the Ariane-5 but remains an "expendable" design - a new rocket is needed for every mission.

It will operate in two configurations. One will incorporate two solid-fuel side boosters for lifting medium-sized satellites. The other will have four strap-on boosters to lift the heaviest spacecraft.

The core stage is supplemented with a second, or upper, stage that will place the payloads in their precise orbits. For these deployments, Ariane-6 will have an additional engine called Vinci that can be stopped and restarted several times.

This will be important for the delivery into space of large networks, or constellations, of satellites - a key trend of the moment. Of the 28 Ariane-6 launches so far ordered, 18 will be for Amazon.com's Kuiper system, which aims to launch thousands of spacecraft to provide internet connections around the world.

The mid-2024 target was set following a successful long-duration demonstration firing of the new rocket's core power uni...
09/01/2024

The mid-2024 target was set following a successful long-duration demonstration firing of the new rocket's core power unit: the Vulcain-2 engine.

This was conducted on a dummy rocket. The first flight model will now be shipped from Europe to French Guiana to begin the inaugural flight campaign, which will begin in April.

Europe used to be the dominant force for the launch of large satellites. For almost 30 years, the Ariane-5 was a popular choice for telecommunications companies wanting to put spacecraft high above the Earth.

But the vehicle's position was eventually undercut by US entrepreneur Elon Musk, whose re-usable Falcon-9 rockets can now loft payloads for significantly lower prices.

Europe's next-generation heavy-lift rocket, Ariane-6, looks set to make its maiden flight in mid-2024.The target launch ...
25/12/2023

Europe's next-generation heavy-lift rocket, Ariane-6, looks set to make its maiden flight in mid-2024.

The target launch date was announced by Josef Aschbacher, the director general of the European Space Agency (Esa).

It follows successful tests on an engineering model of the 62m-tall (203 ft) vehicle on a new pad at the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana.

Ariane-6 development has cost in the region of €4bn (£3.5bn) and is four years behind schedule.

Its delay has added to a profound crisis in Europe, severely limiting the continent's ability to get satellites into orbit.

Europe essentially has no launch service currently, after retiring the previous-generation rocket, Ariane-5, in July; and being forced to suspend operations of its medium-lift vehicle, Vega-C, following a series of flight failures.

Ariane-6's debut cannot come soon enough.

"Assuming everything goes nominal, without any major hiccup, we expect that Ariane-6 will have its inaugural flight between 15 June and 31 July next year," Dr Aschbacher told reporters.

"I think it's really fundamental that we regain our foothold on the launcher landscape, and now with a good path to the inaugural flight we are a good way there."

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