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The National eLearning Center is holding the conference, with the participation of national and international experts.

Two mild earthquakes hit the Arabian Gulf, 190 km northeast of the coastal city of Khafji, without any effects on the Saudi borders

The conference will be held under the patronage of Minister of Education and Chairman of the Center Dr. Hamad Bin Mohammed Al-Sheikh.

Washington and Lee University has been selected as the new academic home of the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty.

Chandra Jayarantne, a former head of Sri Lankas Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and governance activist has proposed a reforms and taxes for next years budget as the country is in the grip of severe monetary instability, trade controls and a budget deficit.

Commander of the international space station. he joins me now from toronto. great to you on the show. i do want to get your take on this journey, this mission. what are your thoughts this hour? >> it was such a delightful relief to see them safely come back down through the atmosphere, to see four parachutes open and to have that beautiful close-up view of them splashing down into the atlantic. we havent landed a spaceship in the atlantic since apollo 9 when rusty schweiker was flying. really ni...

Exploration is going? >> when i was born, no one had flown in space. this entire human capability is younger than i am. so its happening quite quickly. in day-to-day life you maybe take it for granted. but we have gone from ships that could just barely do it, and several of which killed the astronauts on board, where it required the best test pilots in the world just to be able to make these machines work, to now to the point where the technology is so advanced, theres been so much money put int...

Possible conditions. crushing heat hand brutal cold on terrain that you can barely walk on. they do it because this is all about testing the limits of human capability. i think as the investigation moves forward here, jake, there will be a lot of focus on the weather forecast, what people knew and should have known hand whether or not there was a sufficient way for them to get out of the circumstance, because i can assure you in some of these raises you may even want to drop out at 30 to 35 mile...

The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated the livelihoods of many South Africans and as has happened time and time again in times of economic strain, the poor and unskilled suffer the most. The number of unemployed South Africans rose by 2.2 million to 6.5 million people altogether, between the second and third quarters of 2020. With the economy slipping deeper into recession, 2021 will be another difficult year. How must the world of work change to raise productivity and keep people economically ac...

Shana: there was a "new york times" article there they have this culture that was going to be used for good, but its used by individuals looking to exploit it. howie: that suggests its beyond the human capability to control this. the companys overriding principle has been to make money. they say its a platform for everybody and lets keep the cash registers ringing. carley: i want to say something about the money aspect of this. one of the reasons mark zuckerberg and facebook executives may not h...