It was found in the freezer that also stored food for human consumption In a shocking discovery, environment health inspectors found a dead lion in a restaurant freezer in west Sussex. The frozen corpse was found stuffed next to the food, which was due to be served to customers, reported Mirror The restaurant owner was […]

Forty years ago Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia was overthrown. It was a blow for all Rastafarians, who revere him as a god – and for those Rastafarians who had emigrated to Ethiopia, life suddenly got more difficult. In 1948 Emperor Haile Selassie gave 500 acres (200 hectares) of land at Shashamene, 150 miles (225km) […]

Memory specialist SanDisk has created an SD card with 512 gigabytes (512GB) of storage space – the highest capacity ever released. The card, which is the size of a postage stamp, will go on sale for $800 (£490). The launch comes a decade after the firm released a 512-megabyte (MB) SD card with one-thousandth of […]

The Public Service Employees Transport Service Enterprise (PSETSE), which was established last year with the aim of providing free transportation services for government employees, announced that it is commencing a trial transportation service as of Monday with over 50 buses. According to Director General of the Enterprises, Dereje Woldeyohannes, the trial of transportation service will […]

A 24-year-old Chinese woman recently went to the hospital complaining of dizziness and nausea. She was most likely not prepared for the cause of the discomfort. The otherwise healthy grown woman does not have a cerebellum. Amazing—it’s the ninth case in medical history. That’s right. The cerebellum is a fairly sizable part of the brain—the […]

The Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority announced its hope that UNESCO will remove the Simien Mountains National Park from endangered heritages list by 2015. The Park inscribe in UNESCO’s world heritage list in 1978 has been one of the word heritages in danger since 1996. UNESCO has put four benchmarks set to be fulfilled for the […]

You’re covered with itchy red welts while your friends seem blissfully unbitten. What’s the deal with that? First of all, it’s not in your head. Mosquitoes really do prefer some people to others, says Dr. Jonathan Day, a medical entomologist and mosquito expert at the University of Florida. And that time your grandmother told you […]

The horrifying case of Zheng Yanliang epitomizes the health care crisis in the world’s most populous nation In the early hours of April 14, 2012, Zheng Yanliang cut off his right leg. Racked by pain from arterial thrombosis, but unable to pay for the surgical amputation he needed, the corn farmer severed his limb with […]

Hundreds of thousands of Catalans packed the streets of Barcelona on Thursday to demand the right to vote on a potential split from Spain, their ambitions boosted by an independence referendum scheduled for next week in Scotland. Participants dressed in red and yellow, the colours of the Catalan flag, and lined up along two of […]

Aidarous Abdella, a 53-year-old taxi driver from Lilburn, picked up a fare early Sunday morning in DeKalb County. He dropped the female passenger off at her boyfriend’s home in Gwinnett and, when an argument ensued, attempted to intervene. #He was killed in the melee, gunned down while trying to help someone in need. #That’s the […]

The former Olympic and World Athletics Champion, Haile Gebrselassie, has been confirmed as a Keynote Speaker at the upcoming Africa Hotel Investment Forum that will be held in Addis Ababa from the 29th September to 1st October. The main organizer of the Forum, Bench Events, told Dire Tube earlier today that Halie will be interviewed […]

The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) unveiled its assessment of human rights protection in the country in 2013. The commission looked into relevant practices of 170 police stations in Addis Ababa which constitute 15% of the country’s total number of police stations. The assessment report indicates that there is an improvement in the legal process […]

Being bullied regularly by a sibling could put children at risk of depression when they are older, a study led by the University of Oxford suggests. Around 7,000 children aged 12 were asked if they had experienced a sibling saying hurtful things, hitting, ignoring or lying about them. The children were followed up at 18 […]

In June, Sheila Sillery-Walsh, a British tourist visiting the historic island-prison of Alcatraz in San Francisco, claimed that she captured an image of a ghost in a picture she snapped on her iPhone. In the frame of what was otherwise supposed to be a picture of an empty prison cell was a blurry black and […]

Ethiopian immigrant to Manchester reveals how she overcame ‘hostility’ and stigma Jalene* is a young migrant from Ethiopia who, when offered a visitor visa to the UK, jumped at the chance to gain a good education in a Western country that would welcome her with open arms. Or so she thought. Four years on, Jalene […]

In a dark barn on a farm on the outskirts of Vienna, Andreas Gugumuck is preparing the “love room” for the multiple guests that come to stay. His role is to provide atmospheric lighting, and a steady supply of snacks for those visitors who want to take a break from being amorous with numerous partners. […]