s Paralympic committee led to the Botswana National Olympic Committee (BNOC) withdrawing its support. "We stopped our support for the Paralympic team because of an irregularity on their side," said Tuelo Serufho, chief executive officer of the BNOC. "They approached us for financial support and we initially agreed but then we had to withdraw. "If they wanted to go ahead without our support, that is...
s poor live in middle-income countries (MICs), compared with only 7% in 1990. He called this "a startling shift" and defined what he called a "new bottom billion", responding to Paul Collier's work a few years before calling on the international community to focus strongly on the roughly 1 billion people living in countries that were failing to take off economically. However, I have been worried by...
s most powerful radio telescope Australia and South Africa will share the location of the world's most powerful radio telescope , a scientific consortium has announced. The €1.5bn (£1.2bn) Square Kilometre Array, or SKA, has been hailed as one of the biggest scientific projects of the 21st century. "We have decided on a dual site approach," said the SKA chairman, John Womersley, at a press conference...