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Chinese Astronauts Return After Longest Ever Manned Space Mission

Two Chinese astronauts have completed the country’s longest manned space mission and successfully returned home after spending 30 days in space on board the Tiangong-2 space laboratory orbiting the earth. Taikonauts Jung Haipeng and Chen Dong returned to earth on board the Shenzhou 11 spacecraft, landing safely in China’s northern region of Inner Mongolia on Friday.

Forget Weather, Kenyan GDP Threatened By "Marauding Monkeys"

Forget Weather, Kenyan GDP Threatened By "Marauding Monkeys"

In developed countries (like America) with sophisticated capital markets, complex adaptive supply chains, and experienced PhD economists running the economy, it is the weather that is to blame when data disappoints and throws cold water on a status-quo-maintaining narrative. But in Kenya, there is a force far greater than Mother Nature when it comes to potentially destroying the economy... the vervet monkey!!

Monkey Knocks Out Kenya’s Power Grid

A monkey has been blamed for a nationwide blackout across Kenya. A wayward primate fell onto a transformer at the Gitaru Power Station and tripped the circuit at around 11.30am Tuesday . The whole of Kenya was without power for a few hours causing paralysis across the nation. Gitaru Power Station is the largest hydroelectric station in East Africa.  The Daily Record reports: KenGen released a statement explaining the power blackout, and the unusual reason for it.

The US Is Dumping Hazardous Electronic Waste Into Asia

The US Is Dumping Hazardous Electronic Waste Into Asia

US exports of goods and services may be decreasing, but one export that appears to be hanging in there is hazardous electronic waste.

According to a recent investigation conducted by the Seattle-based e-waste watchdog group Basel Action Network (BAN), much of the hazardous electronic waste discarded in America is not being recycled properly - and by not recycled properly he means dumped in a junkyard in southeast Asia.

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