Just 10 years are left to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals – and as one of the few sectors with links to all 17, the mining industry has a significant role to play in contributing to their achievement. But as the new report “Mining and the SDGs – a 2020 status update” reveals, the sector as a whole is falling short. Read more
SONNING NEAR LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (OCTOBER 8, 2017) (UK POOL) – British Prime Minister Theresa May has signalled that she could sack Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, a Sunday newspaper said, as she tries to reassert her authority after a series of political disasters. Continue reading
Singer Troy Gentry, of country music group Montgomery Gentry, died in a helicopter crash in New Jersey on Friday, the band’s website said. The singer was 50. Linda So reports. Continue reading
A 3 mile-wide asteroid will drift past Earth more than 18 moon-lengths away, making it the largest to do so since researchers began tracking such close encounters. Continue reading
New research by the Harvard Medical School has found a possible link between exposure to nighttime light and breast cancer in younger women who smoke. Continue reading
(WARNER BROS.) – Christopher Nolan’s WW2 drama ‘Dunkirk’ is projected to bring in another $28.3 million to top the North American box office for a second weekend. The film has already earned $50.5 million, according to boxofficemojo.com.
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On April 21 Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, turns 91 years old.
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Europe’s aviation regulator and a pilots’ group says the decision by U.S. and British authorities to ban certain electronics from passenger cabins creates another risk: Fires in the cargo hold. Mia Womersley reports. Continue reading
SpaceX to launch two paying customers on a tourist trip around the moon next year.
WEFLIVE 365 aggregates and analyses Twitter conversations.
Twitter data is tracked on two distinct ways:
Top participants are made up exclusively from delegates and participants of WEF events. The list will initially include those from Davos 2017, and will be updated with participants from each regional event (e.g. WEF India).
Stats, Heat map, Top tweets, Top articles, are tracked based on keywords used in tweets from anywhere in the world.