Zuckerberg is to donate $3 billion for disease eradication

Facebook founder mark and priscillia Zuckerberg are donating $3 billion for biohub research center. This donation is aimed at eradicating all diseases by the end of the century through basic research.

The donations will be on projects to create a cell atlas, a cell atlas is a map of cells controlling the body's major organs, and the infectious diseases initiative to develop new tools, test, vaccines and strategies for fighting diseases such as HIV, EVOLA and ZIKA.
The hope of this research is for scientific breakthrough similar to those created by the invention of microscope and DNA sequencing in the past.

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3 months old baby girl eaten live by giant rats in South Africa

A three months old baby girl has been eaten by giant rats in katlehong South Africa . The mother of the child 26 was said to have left the baby at home and went out to party with the twin brother to the deceased child . The police have arrested her on charges of child neglect , eye witnesses say the child's eyes , tongue and fingers were eaten off including some of her body parts . The remaining twin boy lucky is with the father and is now being taken care of by his father's new girlfriend .

Apple tops global brands ranking for 2016

Reports by consultancy interbrand have seen apple on top of the annual global brands ranking for 2016. The United States tech giant apple was named world most valuable company with a value of over $178 billion. Google is the second runners up with a value of over $133 billion, other companies making the top 10 in the world are Coca-Cola 3rd position, followed by Microsoft, Toyota, IBM, Samsung, Amazon,Mercedes and general electronics.

FREED NIGERIAN CHIBOK SCHOOLGIRL MISSES MILITANT HUSBAND

The first Nigerian schoolgirl from Chibok to be rescued from boko Haram says she misses the father of her baby, a suspected Islamist militant. In her first interview since being found with her baby in may, Amina Ali Nkeki told reuters she also wanted to go home to Chibok a town in the north. She and her child are being held in the capital, Abuja, for what the government of Nigeria calls a restoration process. More than 200 girls were kidnapped from a school in Chibok North-east Nigeria in April 2014. The abduction led to the #bringbackourgirls campaign, that was supported by United States first lady Michelle Obama and Pakistani activist malala yousafzai. The boko Haram group has wage a violent insurgency for several years in North-east Nigeria in its quest for Islamic rule.

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