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HH Receives Vice President of Amazon Web Services’ Worldwide Public Sector  HH Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Representative of His Majesty the King for Charity Works and Youth Affairs and President of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sports received in his office Ms Teresa Carlson, Vice President of Amazon Web Services’ Worldwide Public Sector in the presence of HH Shaikh Faisal bin Rashid Al Khalifa, member of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sports Head of the Coordination, Execution and Follow-up Committee as well as HE Mr Aymen bin Tawfeeq Almoayed, Minister of Youth and Sports Affairs. During the meeting, HH Shaikh Nasser pointed out that…

Ministry of Labour, Amazon Web Services and BCCI Join the Programme HH: the Programme in Line with the Royal Vision to Extend Training Opportunities for Bahraini Youth HH Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Representative of His Majesty the King for Charity Works and Youth Affairs and President of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sports announced the launch of “Furas” (Opportunities) program which will provide the Bahraini youth with vocational opportunities in an effort to improve the youth and sports sector. The new initiative is part of the “Estijaba” (Response) program and will be overseen by the Ministry of Youth…

A boy from Ohio had the “worst birthday ever” after his school lunch was taken away because of an unpaid balance on his account. Jefferson Sharpnack told his grandmother, Diane Bailey, that he was denied his lunch tray when he went to check out. Instead of getting the cheesy breadsticks he had picked out, he was given a piece of cheese and bread by the lunch staff at Green Primary School in Uniontown, Ohio. It all happened on his ninth birthday, in front of other students in the lunch line, because of a $9 debt, according to Bailey. Green Local…

Rats can be taught to play hide and seek — and they squeal with joy when they win, scientists have found. Both wild and domesticated animals have been known to play, but neuroscientists from Berlin’s Humboldt University wanted to know more about the topic after hearing from pet owners and vets that rats seemed to be engaging in more complex forms of play. “It has long been known that rats engage in simple forms of play — rough and tumble — but we wanted to know if they could do more complex games, like hide and seek,” neurobiologist Michael Brecht, an author of…

Two relatively medium-sized asteroids will fly safely past Earth overnight Sept. 13-14 (Eastern U.S. time). NASA is tracking the objects, but orbit calculations ruled out any chance that the objects could pose a threat to our planet. “These asteroids have been well observed—once since 2000 and the other since 2010—and their orbits are very well known,” said Lindley Johnson, planetary defense officer, and program executive for the Planetary Defense Coordination Office at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. “Both of these asteroids are passing at about 14 lunar distances from the Earth, or about 3.5 million miles away, but small asteroids pass by…

BRAVE Combat Federation, the fastest-rising MMA organization in the world, returns to Abu Dhabi for a special fight night featuring the biggest Arab MMA stars and the best international fighters in the promotion’s roster. BRAVE CF 27 takes place at the Mubadala Arena, on October 4th, and BRAVE CF fans can catch a special early bird offer for tickets. BRAVE Combat Federation and its two ticketing platforms, Virgin Tickets and e-Ticketing, are offering a special discount for early bird tickets, with 20% off the original price. The offer will stand until September 20th, and fans can go to both companies’ websites…

Its size and surface gravity are much larger than Earth’s, and its radiation environment may be hostile, but a distant planet called K2-18b has captured the interest of scientists all over the world. For the first time, researchers have detected water vapor signatures in the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar system that resides in the “habitable zone,” the region around a star in which liquid water could potentially pool on the surface of a rocky planet. Astronomers at the Center for Space Exochemistry Data at the University College London in the United Kingdom used data from NASA’s Hubble Space…

NASA has selected three proposals for concept studies of missions that could help us better understand the dynamic space weather system driven by the Sun that manifests near Earth. The proposals examine what drives different parts of that system and ultimately could help us predict and mitigate its effects on spacecraft and astronauts, as NASA’s Artemis program looks to send the first woman and the next man to the Moon by 2024. “NASA’s research to understand the space we travel through relies on exploring key details about a vast system from the Sun, to Earth, to the edges of the solar system,”…

The skeletal remains of a man who went missing 22 years ago have been found thanks to one armchair detective who noticed his submerged car in a lake while browsing Google Earth. William Moldt vanished in 1997 at the age of 40, according to the Palm Beach County sheriff’s office. A spokesman for the office said a previous resident of the Grand Isles neighborhood in Wellington, Florida, where Moldt also lived, had been checking the area on Google Earth when he zoomed into the lake and saw what looked like a car. The former resident contacted a current homeowner, who used…

Boris Johnson was confronted by disgruntled members of the public during a visit to Rotherham on Friday. The Prime Minister was approached by an angry resident as he toured a market in Doncaster, who took him to task over his government’s claims that “austerity is over”. “People have died because of austerity,” the woman said, “And you’ve got the cheek to come here and tell us austerity’s over and it’s all good now.” The Prime Minister appeared to struggle to answer the woman, before eventually insisting that he would be ploughing investment into the North. During a speech later in the…