2015-05-25 Uganda Health

The Guardian   

German (65) gives birth to quadruplets   
Irish Independent
A 65-year-old teacher from Berlin has given birth to quadruplets after a pregnancy that was widely criticised by medical professionals because of her age, Germany's RTL television said yesterday.
Mother, 65, gives birth to quadruplets   Times LIVE
Grandmother gives birth to quads   Daily Mail
Report: German grandmother, 65, gives birth to quadruplets   CNN

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Stuff.co.nz   

UK research into Facebook users shows we're all desperate, vain jerks   
Stuff.co.nz
What you chose to put on Facebook could reveal some uncomfortable truths about your personality. Why do some people update Facebook by writing about a party they went to last night, while others share a great article they found? That question has lead a ...

2015-05-25 Uganda Science

Grand Forks Herald   

Mind-controlled prosthetic limbs allow precise, smooth movement   
Grand Forks Herald
Patient Erik Sorto takes a drink in this handout photo taken April 2015, provided by Lance Hayashida/Caltech. REUTERS/Spencer Kellis and Christian Klaes, Caltech/Handout via Reuters. Mind-controlled prosthetic limbs allow precise, smooth movement.
Paralysed man Erik Sorto gets to hold beer thanks to robotic arm and 'mind control'   Metro
Mind-Controlled Robot Arm Lets Paralyzed Man Drink A Beer On His Own   Huffington Post
New neural implant reads a person's intentions to control robotic arm   Ars Technica (blog)
New Zealand Herald   
gulfnews.com   
Washington Post   
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Stuff.co.nz   

It's finally 2015 - man breaks hoverboard record   
Stuff.co.nz
Catalin Alexandru Duru becomes the first person ever to break the Guinness World Records Title for the Farthest journey by hoverboard. It's finally 2015! This is the year that Marty McFly travelled to in Back to the Future II; this is, for real, the future. Hence ...

2015-05-25 Uganda Sports

Volleyball: Vision and KAVC win opening games of the season   
NTV Uganda
Vision volleyball club beat Ndejje 3-1 in the ladies fixture while KAVC had to endure all the five sets to beat Nkumba in the men's game. An error occurred. Unable to execute Javascript. Reigning national women and men's champions Vision and Kampala ...

2015-05-25 Uganda Entertainment

Exploring Kisoro's Batwa trail   
NTV Uganda
The Batwa Trail in Mgahinga National Park in Kisoro District has proved to be one of the outstanding tourism products for Uganda expected to boost the volume of tourists destined for the country.

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Sydney Morning Herald   

Tomorrowland review: George Clooney eyes the future in antidote to dystopia   
Sydney Morning Herald
TOMORROWLAND. Movie session times · Full movies coverage. Tomorrowland is a big, bold, confusing folly of a film – designed by Disney as an antidote to the dystopian futureworlds that the box-office has been feeding on in recent years. A young ...

2015-05-25 Uganda Technology

East African Business Week   

Addis talks target ICT bottlenecks   
East African Business Week
KAMPALA, Uganda - Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is the key to improving education which will boost economic growth across Africa. However, there is still widespread reluctance among teachers, trainers and managers to abandon ...

2015-05-25 Uganda Business

spyghana.com   

Uganda Women earning significantly from steel industry   
spyghana.com
Having worked for Sembule Steel Mills, for five years, she realized that there was an opportunity for one to earn from a steel industry. When the company developed some problems, she decided to venture into her won business of making steel products for ...

2015-05-25 Uganda World

New York Times   

John F. Nash Jr., Math Genius Defined by a 'Beautiful Mind,' Dies at 86   
New York Times
John F. Nash Jr., a mathematician who shared a Nobel Prize in 1994 for work that greatly extended the reach and power of modern economic theory and whose long descent into severe mental illness and eventual recovery were the subject of a book and a ...

2015-05-25 Uganda Africa

Winnipeg Free Press   

Inside Burundi's attempted coup   
Independent
Apart from fears Burundi could return to another civil war similar to the 13-year long one that ended in 2006, many point to the Burundi instability as a reminder of what danger lurks when leaders seek to unconstitutionally cling onto power. Nkurunziza is just ...

2015-05-25 Uganda Uganda

New Vision   

Hundreds commemorate 49 years since Lubiri siege   
New Vision
Retired Namirembe bishop Samuel Balagadde Sekadde (middle) led the prayers at Lubiri on Sunday. (Credit: Norman Katende). mail. img. newvision. mail; img. By Norman Katende KAMPALA - Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II has appealed to his ...