Cindy Alverez

Singapore Executed Its First Woman In 18 Years For Drug Trafficking, Since Yen May Woen In 2004. Saridewi Binte Djamani, 45, Was Hanged For Possessing 30.72 Grams Of Heroin. But Anti-Death Penalty Advocates Argue That Such Law/Punishment Is Inhumane And Doesn’t Deter Drug Use Or Availability, As A Study In The Philippines Has Found.

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Scientists Can Observe Oceanic Crust Forming In The East African Rift Valley As The Valley Continues To Mature, With Further Splits, From Its Relatively Early Stage Of A Plate Boundary Divergence. The Rift, In 5 -10 Myrs, Could Give Rise To Coastlines In Countries Like Kenya And Uganda, As Eastern Africa Separates From The Rest Of The African Continent.

Michelle Yeoh, A Malaysian, Made History As The First Asian Woman To Win The Best Actress Award In The 95-Year History Of The Oscars. She Won, In Her First Ever Nomination, At The 2023 Oscars, For Her Performance In The Movie, “Everything Everywhere All At Once.” The Movie Also Made History As The First Science Fiction Film To Win Best Picture

Adiah And Adrial Nadarajah, According To The Guinness World Records, Are The World’s Most Premature Twins. The Canadian Siblings Were Born At 22 Wks– 126 Days Early, Surpassing The Previous Record Of 125 Days Early Birth Set In 2018 By Identical Twins Kambry and Keeley Ewoldt In Iowa, US. A Full-Term Pregnancy Is Usually 9 Months (39 Wks).

Doctors From Two Countries, For The First Time In History, Used Virtual Reality During The Successful Separation Of 3-Year Old Twins, Bernardo And Arthur Lima, Who Were Born With “Fused Brains”. The 27-Hour Operation, Involving More Than 100 Medics, Took Place At The Instituto Estadual do Cerebro Paulo Niemeyer In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Aminata Touré Has Again Made History After Being Sworn In As The First Minister Of African (Mali) Origin In Germany. Ms. Touré, Age 29, Was Appointed As Minister For Social Affairs, Youth, Family, Senior Citizens, Integration And Equality In Schleswig-Holstein, Which Is One Of The 16 States Of Germany, With The Capital City As Kiel.

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Emily Whitehead, Who Was Diagnosed With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia At The Age Of 5 Years Old, After 2 Years Of Unsuccessful Chemotherapy And Rapidly Declining Health, Became The First Child To Receive The CAR T-Cell Therapy At Children’s Hospital Of Philadelphia. Emily Is Now Celebrating 10 Years Of Being Cancer Free. Cool!

The 9 Babies Born On The Same Day Of May 2021, Are Said To Be In Perfect Health Condition As They Celebrate Their First Birthday. The 9 Babies, 5 Girls And 4 Boys, Broke The Guinness World Records For The Most Babies Delivered In A Single Birth. The Babies Were Birthed In Morocco By A Malian Couple, Abdelkader Arby & Halima Cissé

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A New Study Of About 405,981 British Adults Indicates That Walking Faster Could Add 20 More Years To A Person’s Biological Age. The Researchers Discovered That Walking Faster, Regardless Of Other Physical Activities, Could Lead To Longer Telomeres, Which Are The Protective “Caps” On The Ends Of The Chromosomes That Help Stabilize The DNA.

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Researchers May Have Discovered A Well Preserved Dinosaur Leg, Still Covered In Flesh, In The Tanis Fossil Site In North Dakota, USA. But This Fossil Is Unique As It’s Speculated To Be The First Discovery Of A Dinosaur That Was Killed And Entombed On The Exact Day Of The Cataclysmic Asteroid Strike ~66 Myrs Ago.

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