# Wetenskaplikes in Frankryk het die boustene van die merkwaardige verskeidenheid voëlsang ontdek, wat een van die mees verfynde vorms van klank-kommunikasie in die natuur is. ‘n Navorsingspan het meer as 100-duisend klanke van drie-duisend voëlspesies ontleed en bevind almal bestaan uit agt basiese klankpatrone. ‘n Belangrike bevinding is die omgewing waarin voëls ontwikkel, vanaf […]
# Die Filippynse Kuswag beskuldig sy Chinese ampsgenoot dat hy weer waterkanonne afgevuur het op regeringskepe, die derde voorval tussen die twee lande in die Suid-Chinese See hierdie week. ‘n Chinese vaartuig het tot binne sewe meter van ‘n Filippynse vissersboot beweeg in die Scarborough-rif in die Filippyne se eksklusiewe ekonomiese sone, wat ‘n ernstige […]
# Die Kanadese eerste minister, Mark Carney, sê hulle sal steeds met Amerika onderhandel oor ‘n nuwe handelsooreenkoms, maar kan reageer as nuwe dreigende tariewe in werking tree. President Donald Trump se administrasie het nuwe tariewe van 50-persent op ‘n reeks Kanadese goedere aangekondig wat vanaf 19 Augustus sal geld. Carney sê as ‘n ooreenkoms […]
# Kaapstad is aangewys as een van die wêreld se mooiste plekke om in te woon. ‘n Wêreldwye studie plaas die Moederstad agtste op ‘n lys van bestemmings met unieke en ontwerpgerigte verblyf. Dis die hoogste posisie in Afrika en plaas die stad onder die wêreld se mees gesogte reiservarings. Die navorsing het luukse verblyfkeuses […]
# Die Amerikaanse Weermag het sy aanvalle op Iran vir ‘n 13de agtereenvolgende nag voortgesit, en vier mense is volgens berigte dood. Amerika se Sentrale Bevel sê Iranse militêre bevelsentrums, bergingsgeriewe vir hommeltuie, kommunikasie-netwerke, kuswaarnemingsposte en maritieme vermoëns is geteiken. Volgens die Weermag sal dit Iran se bedreiging vir burgerlike seevaarders en handelskepe in die […]
# Scientists in France have discovered the building blocks of the incredible diversity of birdsong, regarded as one of the natural world’s most sophisticated forms of sound-based communication. A team analysed over 100-thousand songs from three-thousand bird species and revealed they are all composed of eight fundamental types of sound that the researchers call motifs. […]
# The Philippine Coast Guard has accused its Chinese counterpart of firing water cannon at government vessels today, the third confrontation between the two countries in the South China Sea this week. It says a Chinese vessel at the Scarborough Shoal in the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone came within seven metres of a Philippine fisheries […]
# Cape Town has earned itself a place among the globe’s most beautiful places to stay. A global study has ranked the Mother City as the eighth most beautiful destination for design-led accommodation, the highest-ranked in Africa and placing it among some of the planet’s most sought-after travel experiences. The research analysed luxury accommodation listings […]
# Canadian prime minister Mark Carney says they will continue to negotiate a new trade deal with the US, but is willing to respond should the new threatened tariffs come into effect. President Donald Trump’s administration announced new 50-percent tariffs on a range of Canadian goods from the 19th of August. Carney says everything’s on the […]
