This pretty uni student - who created a 'Star Wars'-style lightsaber for her engineering thesis - has found out that the tech which she harnessed is set to be used for pioneering eye surgery. In December, student Aleksandra Fliszkiewicz created the ‘laser saber’ as part of her engineering thesis at…
Picture Credit: CEN A Bolivian senator has been accused of inventing a village to pocket over half a million GBP to carry out an imaginary farming project for a non-existent indigenous community. According to local media, the director of the Indigenous Fund in Bolivia Rafael Quispe accused the Movement of…
Picture Credit: AsiaWire/@ChefJGourmet A kindhearted chef at a five-star Abu Dhabi hotel has launched an initiative where leftover restaurant food is donated to animal shelters and stray cats and dogs. The head chef at the plush Hotel Fairmont Bab Al Bahr in the city of Abu Dhabi on the northern…
Story By: Koen Berghuis, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News Video Credit: CEN/Waldrappteam LIFE This heartwarming footage shows zookeepers convincing 29 endangered chicks they are their parents as they feed, pet, talk to and play with the birds before they migrate. Anne-Gabriela Schmalstieg and Helena Wehner both work…
Story By: Ana Lacasa, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: CEN A 12-year-old boy has been killed during a group homework assignment when a classmate was playing around with a rifle in the house and accidentally shot him in the face. The incident took place around 10.30am in Tabacundo in the northern Ecuadorian canton of Pedro Moncayo when six students…