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Sick internet 'troll' who posted vile messages and videos taunting the death of teenagers is jailed for 18 WEEKS

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Sick internet 'troll' who posted vile messages and videos taunting the death of teenagers is jailed for 18 WEEKS

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On Facebook, a man made hateful and vicious comments about teenagers who had killed themselves or committed suicide. His comments sparked outrage among the victims' families. He was found guilty of sending malicious messages and sentenced to 18 weeks in prison. The Daily Mail's headline contains the emotive adjectives "sick", "vile" and "taunting", which expresses obvious disgust. The Daily Mail also includes far more details about the messages and videos Sean Duffy posted. It is more descriptive (including swear words used by him) and goes into greater detail about the videos and messages. It places more focus on the crime committed rather than the punishment imposed. I believe that the Daily Mail emphasized more on the emotional aspect of the story and creating an outrage tone in places because  they appeal to the reader’s sense of outrage by being more explicit and emotive.

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Sick internet 'troll' who posted vile messages and videos taunting the death of teenagers is jailed for 18 WEEKS

An internet 'troll' who posted vile abuse on Facebook memorial sites dedicated to dead children was jailed yesterday.

Sean Duffy caused 'untold distress' by mocking a 15-year-old schoolgirl who committed suicide, leaving obscene messages and videos on a condolence page set up by her family.

The 25-year-old - the son of a BBC comedy writer who worked with Terry Wogan - also hijacked tribute websites of three other children he had never met.

In one of the first cases of its kind, the autistic loner was sentenced to 18 weeks behind bars and banned from using social networking sites for five years.

He had admitted he was hooked on the sick craze of 'trolling' - where internet users deliberately leave abusive and bullying comments on networking sites.

Yesterday one of his victim's parents hit out at Facebook, calling on the website to do more to tackle the problem after it emerged that one girl wrongly accused by others of posting the messages had attempted suicide.

The teenager took a drug overdose, but survived to see her innocence proved when Duffy was arrested earlier this year.

Reading magistrates heard how the alcoholic, who suffers from Asperger's Syndrome - a form of autism in which sufferers have difficulties with communication and social interaction - trawled the internet looking for tribute sites.

He targeted Natasha MacBryde, who threw herself under a train close to her home in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, on Valentine's Day this year.

The next day, Duffy trashed her Facebook memorial page, branding the public schoolgirl a 'spoiled little ****'.

He attached to her tribute site another Facebook page entitled Tasha MacTank Engine featuring a video in which the face of the Royal Grammar School Worcester pupil was put on a train with the theme to Thomas the Tank Engine playing in the background.

Prosecuting, Joanne Belsey said Natasha's father Andrew felt physically sick by the 'cowardly and nasty' abuse which 'added to the horror of dealing with the death of their beautiful daughter'.

'He could not believe that anyone would stoop to such depths,' she said. 'It was virtual bullying.'

Duffy also created a Facebook page attacking 14-year-old Lauren Drew, who died in January following an epileptic fit at her home in Gloucester.

Fuelled by alcohol, he cruelly targeted her grieving mother, impersonating her dead daughter on the website, saying: 'Help me Mummy, it's hot in Hell.'

Speaking outside court, her father Mark called for social networking sites to take more responsibility for content.

He said: 'Facebook is very hard to get hold of in this situation. You can report these things but there's no one to actually speak to.

'It comes up, it's removed and then it reappears. These days children live on Facebook, it's their lives and they're just so vulnerable.'

Duffy also targeted a site for 16-year-old Hayley Bates, of Biddulph, Staffordshire, who died in a car crash on the M6 last September, while in another case he created a page called 'Jordan Cooper rest in pieces' for a 14-year-old who was stabbed to death in Newcastle upon Tyne, in February.

The loner, who lives on benefits in Reading, was caught only when Miss MacBryde's family alerted police, who were able to trace the false email accounts he used.

He pleaded guilty to two counts of sending malicious communications, relating to Miss MacBryde. Three further offences were taken into consideration.

Trolling is an offence under the Malicious Communications Act, which carries a maximum penalty of six months in prison.

Sentencing him yesterday, magistrate Paul Warren said: 'The offences are so serious only a custodial sentence could be justified.' Dressed in a checked shirt and jeans, Duffy remained expressionless as he was led to the cells.

The Mail can reveal that his father is John Duffy, 54, who wrote for Terry Wogan's Radio 2 Breakfast show and found success when a spoof Twitter account he set up parodying Cheryl Cole - called 'Cheryl Kerl' - became a hit.

Mr Duffy said his son left the messages because he wanted attention. 'He was getting a response and a reaction from doing it,' he said. 'He didn't understand the far-reaching implications of what he was doing.'

Facebook said last night: 'There is no place for trolling on Facebook. When abuse is reported to us, we react swiftly, and we will disable accounts that are found to be in breach of our terms.'

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Sick internet 'troll' who posted vile messages and videos taunting the death of teenagers is jailed for 18 WEEKS

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An internet 'troll' who posted vile abuse on Facebook memorial sites dedicated to dead children was jailed yesterday. Sean Duffy caused 'untold distress' by mocking a 15-year-old schoolgirl who committed suicide, leaving obscene messages and videos on a condolence page set up by her family.

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Teacher made jokes about rape, claims student in video

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This article is about how a physical education teacher of a secondary school made lewd jokes about rape to his students during class. The Free Malaysia Today (FMT) news outlet has written a very concise and factual headlines, which shows they are being straightforward. This article not only quoted the student's comments on how she felt, but also the comments made by several parties, such as the school counsellor, education minister and also the All Women's Action Society (AWAM). The comments of our education minister and AWAM being quoted make the article even better as it shows that this issue has been raised to higher authorities and conveys the message whereby we should not make lewd and inappropriate jokes on rape as it is not a laughing stock. Furthermore, educators must become a good example for their students and lose their narrow mindset on issue as this.

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PETALING JAYA: A physical education teacher made jokes about rape during a class on sexual harassment yesterday, a 17-year-old secondary school student has claimed in a video clip which went viral on social media.

In response to the teenager's video on Twitter, former education minister Maszlee Malik urged the principal of the school, which is in Selangor, to take the matter seriously and open an investigation into the student's claim.

"Rape is not a joke. Teachers should focus on safety, not the other way around," he said.

The girl's father, Saiful Nizam Abdul Wahab, was quoted by Malaysiakini as saying he would lodge a police report tonight and meet officials of the school next week.

The education ministry told FMT that the video has been shared with the ministry's top management and the complaints' section for further action.

The student confirmed in a chat message to FMT that she had posted the video on TikTok in which she said that her teacher had been explaining sexual harassment to the class before the conversation turned into jokes that became "weirder and more lewd".

She told FMT: "I felt so violated and scared. These boys are going to be adults one day, and they are joking about rape."

In the video, she said the jokes had arisen after discussion "about how there are a lot of laws protecting minors from sexual abuse or sexual harassment".

"And then he said, 'If you (students) want to rape, don't rape someone under 18. Rape someone over 18'."

The student said the girls in the class were quiet, but the boys were laughing "as if it was so funny raping someone".

She also alleged that the teacher said boys who were raped did not report it because "it felt good".

The video has received nearly 160,000 views, 4,500 retweets and 3,690 likes since it was posted to the student's Twitter page at 6:03am today.

The student said she messaged the school's counsellor about the incident, and the counsellor apologised for the teacher's actions but also said that it was "normal" for male teenagers (students) to make such crude remarks in jest.

"Instead, female teenage students are a bit sensitive and emotional, that's natural," said the counsellor, according to a screenshot of a text message to the student which she posted on her Twitter account.

The All Women's Action Society (AWAM) has called the incident "completely unacceptable" and condemned teachers who have "this rape-supportive mindset".

"The youth need to speak up about this and we love that (she) is doing exactly that. Call rape-apologists out, guys."

AWAM has also asked her to get in touch as they want to use her story to spread further awareness about the culture of sexual harassment in schools.

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Teacher made jokes about rape, claims student in video

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PETALING JAYA: A physical education teacher made jokes about rape during a class on sexual harassment yesterday, a 17-year-old secondary school student has claimed in a video clip which went viral on social media.

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I warned Bersatu leaders about Umno but they ignored me, says Dr M

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This article was published by New Straits Times (NST) with a catchy headline to grab the attention of the readers. However, as a reader myself, I find this article to be poorly written and less informative. This is due to the fact that they did not conquer the article mostly with the 5W and 1H (what, where, when, why, who and how). First of all, they mentioned that Dr. Mahathir allegedly forewarned regarding BERSATU's coalition with Barisan Nasional (BN) party will only do harm, however they failed to mention what harm did Dr. M claimed that bound to happen and they have only mentioned along the lines that BN is "far stronger" which lacks eloquence in their writing. Furthermore, they wrote that BERSATU was also facing political crisis with several other parties, like PAS without any context of answering the question why. As a reader, I believe there are many holes that are not filled in this article and when reading this, more questions are raised than answered.

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I warned Bersatu leaders about Umno but they ignored me, says Dr M | New Straits Times

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LANGKAWI: Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said adverse effect faced by parties that collaborated with Umno was expected.

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Malaysia ex-PM Najib served with bankruptcy notice over $535m tax bill

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Asia One has reported that the former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has been issued with a bankruptcy notice for failing to pay more than $400 million (S$535 million) in unpaid taxes, a development characterized by the ex-prime minister as an effort to ruin his political career. This is a well-written article as they have covered on the prior charges faced by Najib Razak, such as money laundering and corruption to give a context to the reader on what has led him to the current situation. This article also has dug deeper to find out his point of view on why he thinks that he was issued with such lawsuit. As mentioned, Najib Razak posted a post on his Facebook account that he believed the circumstance of the notice was connected to a month ago's choice by his political party, the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), to quit helping out Malaysia's current Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin's government in forthcoming elections. This shows to the readers that Asia One has tried to look into his point of view also without being biased.

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KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's former prime minister Najib Razak has been served with a bankruptcy notice for failing to pay more than $400 million (S$535 million) in unpaid taxes, a move that the ex-premier described as an attempt to destroy his political career.

Najib, who lost a historic election in 2018, is facing dozens of corruption and money laundering charges over the suspected theft of billions of dollars from 1Malaysia Development Berhad, a state fund he co-founded.

He has denied wrongdoing and on Monday launched a court appeal to set aside his conviction and 12-year jail sentence in a 1MDB-related case.

Last year, a Malaysian court ordered Najib to settle 1.69 billion ringgit ($409.80 million) in unpaid taxes accumulated between 2011 and 2017 while he was still in office, including penalties and interest.

Najib, in a Facebook post late Tuesday, said officials from the Inland Revenue Board had issued a bankruptcy notice to him over the unpaid tax bill on Monday, shortly after his appeal hearing.

Najib said he believed the timing of the notice was linked to last month's decision by his political party, the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), to stop cooperating with Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin's government in upcoming elections.

If declared bankrupt, Najib said he would lose his seat as a member of parliament and would not be able to stand as an election candidate.

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"I will not bow to individuals who abuse the laws of this country to oppress me on the basis of politics and greed to cling to power," he said, adding that he had asked his lawyers to obtain a stay order on the notice.

Muhyiddin's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A spokesman from the revenue board declined comment.

UMNO unexpectedly returned to power last year as part of a coalition that nominated Muhyiddin to become prime minister, after the previous coalition government led by veteran leader Mahathir Mohamad fell apart.

Despite the charges against him, and though he no longer leads UMNO, Najib has enjoyed a resurgence in popularity and maintains an active social media presence, particularly on Facebook where he has over 4 million followers, more than any other Malaysian politician.

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KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's former prime minister Najib Razak has been served with a bankruptcy notice for failing to pay more than $400 million (S$535 million) in unpaid taxes, a move that the ex-premier described as an attempt to destroy his political career.

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Report: 30 more Selangor schools ordered shut due to Covid-19

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Report: 30 more Selangor schools ordered shut due to Covid-19

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The headlines of this article says it all as it brings to the readers' attention that previously schools has been shut down and now the number has increased. This article was written in a report form whereby they have given the numbers of schools along with names of all 30 schools. The collected data provided is very crucial in a report article to ensure the readers receive factual information on what's happening around them. Moreover, they have also cited Malaysiakini in the article to give proper credit to the author of the information. This article is a well-written report and as a reader while reading this, I can imagine how shutting down schools can very much affect the education of the younger generation and the importance of following the SOP to curb the spreading of this deadly virus and putting an end to this pandemic.

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KUALA LUMPUR, April 28 - The Selangor Education Department has directed another 30 schools in the state to close from today due to the presence of Covid-19 cases.

In a report by Malaysiakini, the circular sent to the principals said the closure would be for two days beginning today and ending tomorrow (April 29).

"The Selangor Education Department has received reports that there are incidents of Covid-19 cases in your schools.

"Therefore, your school is ordered to close for two days on April 28 and 29. The closure is to allow for screening of close contacts and risk evaluation by the district health department," the department said in its circular.

The circular also asked the schools to ensure sanitisation works are conducted, adding that if schools would like to extend their closures, they would need to discuss it with the district health officer to determine the need of the extension.

The circular also contained the names of the 30 schools ordered to close, with five in Klang, three in Kuala Selangor, three in Sepang, seven in Petaling Perdana, two in Gombak, three in Petaling Utama and seven in Hulu Langat.

The schools are SJKC Perempuan, SJKC Tshing Nian, SJKC Ying Wah, SMK Tengku Ampuan Jemaah, SK Klang, SMK Raja Muda Musa, SJKC Chung Wah, SK Sungai Burung, SMK Putra Perdana, SMK Cyberjaya, SK Sungai Rawang, SMK Bandar Puchong Jaya A, SK Setia Alam, SJKC Shin Cheng (Harcroft), SMK Puchong Perdana, SK Pusat Bandar Puchong 2, SMK Seri Kembangan SJKC Yak Chee, SK Sg Pelong, SK Hulu Klang, SJKC Damansara, SJKC Sungai Buloh, SMK Kelana Jaya, SK Sungai Ramal Dalam, SK Bukit Raya, SK Dusun Nanding, SJKC Batu Sebelas, SJKT Ladang Rinching, SK Desa Baiduri, and SK Bandar Baru Bangi.

On Monday, the Selangor Education Department ordered 79 schools to close after a rise in Covid-19 cases in the education sector.

Later that day, Senior Education Minister Datuk Mohd Radzi Md Jidin said that school sessions will be held online for two weeks after the Hari Raya holidays through the home-based teaching and learning method (PdPR).

He said the decision was made to avoid the risk of Covid-19 infections in schools after the school holidays to celebrate Aidilfitri scheduled from May 7 to 15 for group A schools and May 8 to 16 for group B schools.

Group A schools refer to schools in Johor, Kedah, Kelantan and Terengganu, while Group B schools refer to schools in remaining states.

He said after the PdPR period, students will continue their term holidays from May 28 to June 12 for group A schools and May 29 to June 13 for group B schools.

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KUALA LUMPUR, April 28 - The Selangor Education Department has directed another 30 schools in the state to close from today due to the presence of Covid-19 cases. In a report by Malaysiakini, the circular sent to the principals said the closure would be for two days beginning today and ending...

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Coronavirus: Should university students get a refund?

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Coronavirus: Should university students get a refund?

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Since the pandemic started, everybody was crammed into their homes with implementing lockdowns. It has been a difficult year for every individual, including students. BBC News has invited two struggling students to provide their insights on this situation, which helps the article to be well articulated. BBC has quoted Sam McKenzie's words in bold and larger size, quote "We've been screaming for support", and I believe the word "screaming" is be sole word that would provoke the angry and sad emotions of the readers as it displays the student's unheard voices. Besides Sam, Robbie Denby was also interviewed and he raised his concerns as a biomedical sciences student that he only spent 2 hours in lab by far this year (2021). Furthermore, they have also covered several aspects in this article, for instance regarding the online petition started by students of UK, calling for their tuition fees to be cut down; if there's any other options other than a refund and also what is likely to happen if such action is done. Overall, this article is very lucid and informative.

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It's been a tough year for students. Almost all lectures and other teaching have moved online and the university experience, for many, has shrunk to staring at a laptop in their bedroom.

Hardship funds and partial rent rebates have helped some financially. But many students still feel the £9,250 yearly tuition fee in England is too much for what they've experienced in the pandemic.

So should students get compensation?

'We've been screaming for support'

Sam McKenzie's last year of university has been spent inside his student flat, an experience that's left him feeling isolated and overlooked.

"We've been screaming for support since the first term, there's such anger in students," he says, "but there's been such a lack of response that everyone's grown more angry."

Sam fears he will graduate with a history degree having had just three hours of face-to-face teaching this year.

"I fear for a future that is very much impacted," he says. "Our immediate future is looking very bleak. We are looking at a graduate jobs market that is more oversaturated, while there are fewer opportunities than ever."

Robbie Denby, another student, is in the second year of a biomedical sciences degree, which should give him hundreds of hours of hands-on laboratory experience. But so far this year, he says he's been in the lab for just two hours.

Robbie lost his pub job when it closed in lockdown. He says he understands students aren't the only ones having a hard time. But he argues they will be paying via student loans for a long time to come - and will miss out on an opportunity they only get once.

"The worry about that, is that when I apply for a role in a clinical environment, it could be that I don't have the confidence to perform certain aspects of that job."

"Universities seem to have got off lightly still charging students the full amount and not looking at how different their year is for each student this year. I think some sort of compensation needs to happen."

Is a refund realistic?

Robbie isn't the only person calling for compensation for students.

An online petition, calling for tuition fees to be cut from £9,250 to £3,000, has received more than 500,000 signatures. And while the National Union of Students has not called for tuition fee rebates, or a reduction in fees, it is pressing for the creation of hardship funds to be large enough to meet demand.

In Northern Ireland, students are to get a £500 payment from the devolved government because of the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

So what are the chances of compensation in England?

Well it won't come from universities because they don't have the cash, is the verdict of one expert in student finance.

Dr Gavan Conlon is an economist specialising in the student loan system in England. His team at London Economics calculated what it would cost for universities to give a fee refund for just one student year group.

"If universities were asked to repay £1,000 to all first year students it would cost the sector about £375m," he says. "To put it into context, it's about 3% or 4% of total income associated with teaching for that cohort. So it's a huge amount of income."

If the government was to offer the payment, it would cost less as they already pick up the bill for loans that are written off.

But slightly reducing the tuition fee loans of students would only benefit those who go on to be the highest earning graduates - those who fully repay their loan. Most graduates, around 85%, would simply go on making their repayments until the balance gets written off after 30 years.

So is there another option?

"Students have been victims of this pandemic too", says Professor Robert Van de Noort, vice chancellor at the University of Reading. He is one of a group of vice chancellors who has called for interest on student loans to be scrapped for the duration of the pandemic.

It's a largely symbolic gesture because, like fee rebates, it would only ultimately help the highest earning graduates - those who ultimately pay off all their loan.

Professor Van De Noort says he also wants ministers in England to look carefully at the £500 cash payments given in Northern Ireland. For him, however, the bottom line is universities can't do more, after losing money during the pandemic.

In March, last year, things looked grim at the University of Reading. It was facing losses including catering, conferences and letting out student accommodation during the summer Reading Festival. "Our reasonable worst case scenario came down to a loss of £100m of income over a three-year period."

The university started negotiations to ask staff to take a pay cut to avoid redundancies - a step that so far hasn't been needed as the university dug into reserves and completed a sale of some land.

Professor Van de Noort says his university will weather the financial pressures, but warns: "What I can see is a number of mergers between smaller and larger universities - where the smaller is no longer financially stable - and potentially with colleges."

The financial collapse of a university in England is unlikely to be allowed, but some will have gone into the red further as a result of losing money in the pandemic.

Education Secretary Gavin Williamson wrote recently to the Office for Students, which is the regulator in England, recognising that some students are worried about the quality of their tuition. He instructed the OfS "to take swift action where it is clear that quality and academic standards have dropped".

In the meantime, a further £50m pounds from the government is going into hardship funds, bringing the total in England for this year to £70m.

Instead of tuition fee rebates or reductions, the National Union of Students wants to campaign for the return of maintenance grants.

Tuition fees in England have been frozen at £9,250 for four years, a real terms cut for universities, as inflation has made it worth less for them.

This autumn the government is due to say what will happen next with fees in England, a prospect that makes universities nervous about their finances at the best of times.

This time the long-term decisions will be made as a generation of students continue to call - and exert political pressure - for the immediate impact of the pandemic to be recognised.

Robbie says the experience of the pandemic has made students feel they need to speak up. "I think if anything this year has shown the amount paid needs to really be up to scratch for the amount of support students are getting, whether that's mental health, hands on experience, online lectures or lectures in person."

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It's been a tough year for students. Almost all lectures and other teaching have moved online and the university experience, for many, has shrunk to staring at a laptop in their bedroom. Hardship funds and partial rent rebates have helped some financially.

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Nasa's Mars helicopter succeeds in historic first flight

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This article is on how Nasa successfully flew its tiny helicopter Ingenuity on Mars, the first powered flight on another planet. It contains many comprehensive and descriptive information on the landing of the helicopter and also pertaining the NASA's hardships to launch it to Mars. Apart from the straightforward headlines, the author also has included selected data that supports well the article and presents it in a clear, well-organized way. The author has also provided precise timeframe and also explained well the emotions of engineers of NASA of before, during, and after of the launch of the helicopter to Mars. On the whole, the article is aptly written and coherent.

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Nasa successfully flew its tiny helicopter Ingenuity on Mars early Monday, the first powered flight on another planet and a feat a top engineer called "our Wright brothers' moment."

At 3:34 am Eastern Time (0734 GMT), the four pound (1.8 kilogram) rotorcraft lifted off, hovered 10 feet (three meters) above the Martian surface, then came back to rest after 39.1 seconds.

Data and images from the autonomous flight were transmitted 173 million miles (278 million kilometers) back to Earth where they were received by NASA's array of ground antennas and processed more than three hours later.

Engineers were tensely watching their screens at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, where the mission had been designed and planned for the past six years.

They broke into applause as one of them read off a checklist of tasks Ingenuity had achieved and concluded: "Ingenuity has performed its first flight - the first flight of a powered aircraft on another planet."

Ingenuity quickly sent back a black-and-white image from its downward pointing navigation camera, showing its bug-like shadow cast on the surface.Then came a choppy colour video from the Perseverance rover showing Ingenuity on the ground, in flight, and then once again at rest.

More images and a smoothed-out video are expected to follow.

"We've been talking so long about our Wright brothers' moment on Mars, and here it is," said lead engineer MiMi Aung to her team, as she doled out virtual hugs.

The first powered flight on Earth was achieved by the Wright brothers in 1903 in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.A piece of fabric from that plane has been tucked inside Ingenuity in honour of that feat.
Technology demonstration
NASA had originally planned the flight for April 11 but postponed it over a software issue that was identified during a planned high-speed test of the aircraft's rotors.

The issue was later resolved through the help of a software update and tweak in coding.Ingenuity traveled to Mars attached to the underside of Perseverance, which touched down on the planet on February 18 on a mission to search for signs of extraterrestrial life.

Ingenuity's goal, by contrast, is to demonstrate its technology works, and it won't contribute to Perseverance's science goals. But it is hoped that Ingenuity can pave the way for future flyers that revolutionise our exploration of celestial bodies because they can reach areas that rovers can't go, and travel much faster.

"We don't know exactly where Ingenuity will lead us, but today's results indicate the sky - at least on Mars - may not be the limit," said acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk.

The flight was challenging because of conditions vastly different from Earth's - an atmosphere that has less than one percent the density of our own, and gravitational pull of only a third.

That made it necessary for Ingenuity's rotors to achieve around 2,500 revolutions per minute, roughly five times greater than helicopters achieve on Earth.

As well as high-tech components, the aircraft contains many off-the-shelf smartphone parts that were tested in space for the first time on this mission.
Next flight soon
Ingenuity was deployed to its "flight strip" on April 3 and is now in the 16th sol, or Martian day, of its 30-sol (31-Earth day) flight test window. The team will continue to receive and analyse data in the coming days, then formulate a plan for the second flight, which would be no earlier than April 22.

"We will take a moment to celebrate our success and then take a cue from Orville and Wilbur regarding what to do next," said Aung."History shows they got back to work - to learn as much as they could about their new aircraft - and so will we." - AFP Relaxnews

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Nasa successfully flew its tiny helicopter Ingenuity on Mars early Monday, the first powered flight on another planet and a feat a top engineer called "our Wright brothers' moment." At 3:34 am Eastern Time (0734 GMT), the four pound (1.8 kilogram) rotorcraft lifted off, hovered 10 feet (three meters) above the Martian surface, then came back to rest after 39.1 seconds.

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Genetically modified mosquitoes to be released in Florida after years of planning

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Florida will begin releasing genetically modified mosquitoes as part of its efforts to monitor one of the disease-carrying populations of the biting insect. The author has pointed out that this is not the first time Florida state has come up with a solution to kill disease-transmitting mosquito species. Prior to this, they had done programs on male mosquitoes that carried bacteria called Wolbachia in 2017 and 2018. In addition, the author has also stated facts on how disease-transmitting mosquitoes have affected new born babies with birth defect in Brazil and Portugal. The conclusion, however, is slightly imprecise; the last paragraph of the article is just a description on the result of genetically modified mosquitoes have impacted in Brazil and does not seem to conclude the text in a logical way on the result in Floride.

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Florida will begin releasing genetically modified mosquitoes this week as part of its efforts to control one of the disease-spreading species of the biting insect.

The state will release almost 144,000 nonbiting male mosquitoes in the coming weeks engineered by the British firm Oxitec that are meant to mate with biting females, with any resulting female offspring unable to survive.

The project was approved after years of public comment and official review.

"As we are seeing development of resistance to some of our current control methods, we are in need of new tools to combat this mosquito," Andrea Leal, executive director of the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District said in a press release.

The project is meant to control the population of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which can spread dengue fever, Zika virus and yellow fever, as well as heartworm to pets and animals.

"The Aedes aegypti mosquito makes up about 4 percent of the mosquito population in the Keys but is responsible for virtually all mosquito-borne diseases transsmitted to humans," the mosquito control district said.

The project was approved by the Environmental Protection Agency and an advisory board of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.

It isn't the first time that Florida authorities have authorized novel methods to kill this disease-transmitting mosquito species.

One program released male mosquitoes carrying a bacteria called Wolbachia, which rendered their offspring nonviable, in Key West in 2017 and in Miami in 2018.

Key West has been eyeing the use of such mosquitoes since 2012, NBC News reported, due to an outbreak of dengue fever - but today the threat posed by the Aedes aegypti is even bigger.

In 2016, the Zika virus, a pathogen once thought harmless and mostly confined to Asia and Africa, began to spread via Aedes aegypti mosquitoes across the Western Hemisphere.

Soon, people in places such as Brazil and Puerto Rico began to give birth to babies with the now-characteristic birth defects caused by infection with the virus during pregnancy.

That year, Oxitec's small experiment in Brazil found the genetically modified mosquitoes reduced target mosquito populations by 80 percent, NBC News reported.

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Genetically modified mosquitoes to be released in Florida

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Florida will begin releasing genetically modified mosquitoes this week as part of its efforts to control one of the disease-spreading species of the biting insect. The state will release almost 144,000 nonbiting male mosquitoes in the coming weeks engineered by the British firm Oxitec that are meant to mate with biting females, with any resulting female offspring unable to survive.

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India tops 200,000 dead as virus surge breaks health system

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The coronavirus has claimed the lives of 200,000 people in India, as a crippling wave of new infections rips through dense cities and rural areas alike, overwhelming health-care systems on the verge of collapsing. This article has mentioned the devastating number of people died― 3293 people―in just a week. The author has also reported on the number of new infections discovered. Furthermore, the author has also covered the issue on the prediction of how the disease might have spread rapidly in such short period of time by stating health experts claimed that huge gatherings during Hindu festivals and mammoth election rallies in some states have accelerated the unprecedented surge. Additionally, they have also posted a video of overseas news channel reporting on the recent outbreak and also includes the reporter stating that various countries are sending help to India to provide aid, which might give a sense of hope to the readers that other countries are willing to risk their lives for the Indian citizens to fly over there to help them as much as they need to curb this issue. The author finally concluded the article with an emotional dialogue quoting one of the Covid-19 victim's father, Radha Gobindo Pramanik, quote "Before I could understand anything, she collapsed in the arms of her husband." This article is well articulated and eloquently written by stating facts and also provoking the emotions of the readers.

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The health ministry reported a single-day record 3,293 COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing India's total fatalities to 201,187, as the world's second most populous country endures its darkest chapter of the pandemic yet.

The country also reported 362,757 new infections, a new global record, which raised the overall total past 17.9 million. The previous high of 350,000 on Monday had capped a five-day streak of recording the largest single-day increases in any country throughout the pandemic.

India, a country of nearly 1.4 billion people, is the fourth to cross 200,000 deaths, behind the United States, Brazil and Mexico. And as in many nations, experts believe the coronavirus infections and fatalities in India are severe undercounts.

The first known COVID-19 death in India happened on March 12, 2020, in southern Karnataka state. It took five months to reach the first 50,000 dead. The toll hit 100,000 deaths in the next two months in October 2020 and 150,000 three months later in January this year. Deaths slowed until mid-March, only to sharply rise again.

For the past week, more than 2,000 Indians have died every day.

India thought it had weathered the worst of the pandemic last year, but the virus is now racing through its population and systems are beginning to collapse.

Hospitalizations and deaths have reached record highs, overwhelming health care workers. Patients are suffocating because hospitals' oxygen supplies have run out. Desperate family members are sending SOS messages on social media, hoping someone would help them find oxygen cylinders, empty hospital beds and critical drugs for their loved ones. Crematoriums have spilled over into parking lots, lighting up night skies in some cities.

With its health care system sinking fast, India is now looking at other nations to pull it out of the record surge that is barreling through one state and then another.

Many countries have offered assistance, including the U.S., which has promised to help with personal protective equipment, tests and oxygen supplies. The U.S. will also send raw materials for vaccine production, strengthening India's capacity to manufacture more AstraZeneca doses.

Health experts say huge gatherings during Hindu festivals and mammoth election rallies in some states have accelerated the unprecedented surge India is seeing now.

They also say the government's mixed messaging and its premature declarations of victory over the virus encouraged people to relax when they should have continued strict adherence to physical distancing, wearing masks and avoiding large crowds.

The national capital New Delhi is in lockdown, as are the southern states of Maharashtra and Karnataka. Some other states, too, have enforced restrictions in an attempt to curb the spread of the virus.

India has also called on its armed forces to help fight the devastating crisis. India's chief of Defense Staff, General Bipin Rawat, said late Monday that oxygen supplies would be released from armed forces reserves and its retired medical personnel would join health facilities to ease the pressure on doctors.

Meanwhile, India's vaccination program appears to be struggling. So far nearly 10% of the country's population have received one jab, but just over 1.5% have received both vaccines.

Indians 18 and older will be eligible for a vaccine from Saturday.

Meanwhile, the loss of lives is accelerating.

Radha Gobindo Pramanik is among the countless Indians who lost a family member to the virus. His daughter, Navanita Paramanik Rajput, died on April 18.

At first, Rajput complained of colds and fever. But when the 37-year-old's oxygen levels started to drop, her father and husband decided to take her to a government hospital.

Pramanik said she came out of the ambulance smiling but by the time her husband finished filling the hospital registration form, her daughter was gasping for breath.

"Before I could understand anything, she collapsed in the arms of her husband," Pramanik said, sobbing.

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Associated Press writer Biswajeet Banerjee reported from Lucknow.

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The health ministry reported a single-day record 3,293 COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing India's total fatalities to 201,187, as the world's second most populous country endures its darkest chapter of the pandemic yet. The country also reported 362,757 new infections, a new global record, which raised the overall total past 17.9 million.

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Covid vaccine: Sore arm and headache most common side effects

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The world is in the midst of a COVID-19 pandemic. With the arrival of the first batch of Covid-19 vaccines in countries all over the world, many are eager to know what happens next and when they can get their shots. However, it has been said that Covid vaccine may bring side effects to individuals. The article stated that the most common side effects of the vaccine would be a sore arm, fever, headache and more. Meanwhile, the author has also asserted that researchers of an app, called ZOE Covid Symptom Study reported fewer reactions of the side effects, which shows the readers that the vaccine can be trusted despite the side effects. This article would have been better if the author has interviewed few of the vaccinated people to see if the alleged side effects are true and does not harm or deteriorate their health in any way. Despite all that, the article has provided enough data on the clinical trials of the vaccine tested on people that might convince readers to get vaccinated. The style used to write is mildly complicated with the jargon terms, yet precise and accurate.

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By Rachel Schraer
Health reporter

The most common side effects of the Covid-19 vaccines are pain or tenderness at the injection site - in other words, a sore arm - a UK study has suggested.

Roughly one in four people had wider effects like fever, headache, nausea and fatigue.

But these only lasted on average for one day.

Researchers involved in the ZOE Covid Symptom Study app saw fewer reactions than were seen in clinical trials.

Confidence in the vaccines has continued to grow since the end of last year, with more than 80% saying they believe the vaccines are safe and effective, compared with about 70% who said the same towards the end of 2020, according to a survey of 5,000 people.

The survey, run in association with the National Institute for Health Research, found twice as many people say they want to have the vaccine as soon as possible - although the number of people saying they would actively prefer the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has fallen.

The ZOE study researchers looked at self-reported symptoms in 627,383 people using their app in the eight days after being vaccinated.

About 70% of people having the Pfizer jab had some reaction around where the needle went in, including pain, tenderness, redness or swelling, compared with just under 60% for the AstraZeneca jab.

The trend was reversed for those reactions that affect the whole body rather than just the site of the injection.

For the AstraZeneca jab, 34% had some "systemic" (whole body) reaction like headache, tiredness or chills. For the Pfizer vaccine this was only 14% after the first dose and 22% after the second.

The most common of these side effects was a headache.

'Mild and short-lived'

The study's lead scientist, Prof Tim Spector of King's College London, said these findings should reassure people the after effects of the vaccine are "usually mild and short-lived".

But he pointed out there was a wide range of responses to the vaccine, just as there was to the virus, depending on age and sex among other things.

The study did not look at what happened after a second dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab since hardly anyone had received it at the time of the study, which went up to 10 March.

Among all vaccinated users of the ZOE symptom app, one in four (25%) had one of these whole body reactions and two-thirds (66%) had a local reaction.

Women, people under 55 and those who had a Covid infection in the past were all more likely to experience side effects.

In the final stage of the Pfizer vaccine's clinical trials, roughly 77% of people had pain at the injection site compared with just under 30% in this study, while the proportion of people experiencing fatigue and headache was three to five times smaller.

For AstraZeneca, roughly half as many people had a whole body reaction like fever or fatigue as was recorded in clinical trials.

This may be because people in the clinical trials were younger and healthier, or because people enrolled in the trial of an experimental vaccine might be more nervous and so more likely to identify symptoms, Prof Spector suggested.

Dr Cristina Menni from King's College London, lead author of the paper, said the results supported the safety of both vaccines and should "help allay safety concerns of people willing to get vaccinated".

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By Rachel Schraer Health reporter The most common side effects of the Covid-19 vaccines are pain or tenderness at the injection site - in other words, a sore arm - a UK study has suggested. Roughly one in four people had wider effects like fever, headache, nausea and fatigue.