Here is how Maureen remembers it. It was a weekend – and this she knows because she was not in school. She was eight years old, you see, and that is how eight-year-olds break down days of the week. Her father had just come back from another…
The Verge
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Elizabeth Lopatto
– Sep 19, 2019, 6:00 AM
Money and power are clarifying agents: they tell you who people are. Jeffrey Epstein liked to describe himself as a “science philanthropist,” and academics liked to take his money. Among them was Joichi Ito, who stepped down on…
Talk about a horse of another color—a zebra foal with a dark coat and white polka dots has been spotted in Kenya 's Masai Mara National Reserve. Photographer Frank Liu was on the search for rhinos recently when he noticed the eye-catching…
It seems like only yesterday when one of the innovators from our inaugural list in 2015, warned the audience at a Quartz event in Nairobi that we shouldn't “ fetishize entrepreneurship.” The context was discussing the many programs in…
Reuters
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Ahmad Sultan Abdul Qadir Sediqi
– Sep 19, 2019, 1:12 AM
JALALABAD/ KABULJALALABAD/ KABUL (Reuters) - At least 30 civilians were killed and 40 injured in an air strike conducted by the Afghan security forces, backed by U.S. air support, in eastern Afghanistan, officials said on Thursday. The attack, on…