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As the mosquito-borne Zira virus monopolizes the attention of Brazil's government and media, adding to the burden of the dengue epidemic, researchers are offering a method to blood banks that wish to screen transfusion blood for pregnant women and in cases of intrauterine transfusion. There is a suspicion that Zika could cause foeatuses to develop microcephaly, a condition in which babies are born with small heads and brains. The initiative is led by São Paulo's blood bank Fundação Pró-Sangue/Hemocentro, with support from the research foundation Fapesp. Headed by molecular biologist José Eduardo Levi, it is making available a method that uses real-time polymerase cha…

Foreign and defence ministers of the leading international states are meeting in Munich and Brussels following the collapse of the latest round of peace talks

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration experiment announces the first direct observation ofgravitational waves. LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves from Merging Black Holes

Warren Truss, the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, announces his resignation as the leader of the National Party of Australia. (ABC News Australia)

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius announces his resignation. President Francois Hollande says he will nominate Fabius to lead the country's Constitutional Council. (NPR) (UPI)

Suspected Islamist militants attack a customs post in the town of Mopti, central Mali, killing two civilians and a customs officer. (Reuters)

A school teacher in Saudi Arabia shoots and kills six of his colleagues with least two more people were wounded in the attack. (IB Times) (FOX News)

A yellow fever outbreak has killed 37 people in Angola since December 2015. (AAP via News Limited)

At least 52 inmates are killed in a riot and fire that broke in a prison in Mexico. (FOX News)

The Boxer is a German-Dutch multirole armoured fighting vehicle designed to accomplish a number of operations through the use of installable mission modules. It is produced by the ARTEC GmbH (ARmoured vehicle TEChnology) industrial group, and the programme is being managed by OCCAR (Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation). ARTEC GmbH is seated in Munich, its parent companies are Krauss-Maffei Wegmann GmbH and Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles GmbH (RMMV) on the German side,[2] and Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehciles Nederland B.V. for the Netherlands.[3] Other names are GTK (Gepanzertes Transport Kraftfahrzeug; armoured transport vehicle) Boxer and MRAV for Multirole A…

An Indonesian Air Force plane on a routine training flight crashes into a house in the city of Malang in the East Java province, killing four people and injuring one. (International Business Times)

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) reportedly take control of the Menagh Military Airbase in the northern Aleppo Governorate after Ahrar ash-Sham, Levant Front and Free Syrian Army fighters withdraw amid Russian airstrikes. (Al Masdar News)

South Korea starts withdrawing its nationals from the Kaesong Industrial Region in protest to recent actions by North Korea. (Yonhap)

Still looking for a good source to quote other than CNN

Two Harford County Sheriff's Office deputies are killed in a shootout with a suspect in Abingdon, Maryland. (RT)

North Korea reportedly executes Ri Yong-gil, Chief of the General Staff of the Korean People's Army on charges of corruption, according to South Korean media. (BBC)

The FBI, in armored vehicles, closes to within 50 yards (40 meters) of the last four anti-government militants occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Negotiations to end the standoff without violence continue. (Reuters) (OregonLive)

The Parliament of Australia considers the Turnbull Government's proposed legislation to legalize the growing of marijuana for medical use. The bill is expected to pass. (AP via The Washington Post) (Japan Today)

The owners of Liverpool F.C. scrap a controversial £77 ticket pricing plan for the 2016–17 season following a backlash by the club's supporters and a mass walkout during last week's game with Sunderland A.F.C. at Anfield. (Sky News)

At least two Turkish Army soldiers are killed in clashes with Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) insurgents in the southeast Şırnak Province. (Rudaw)

At least six people are killed and more than 30 injured in a twin suicide attack in Cameroon near the border with Nigeria. (IB Times) (Newsweek)

Two female suicide bombers kill more than 60 people at a camp for displaced people in Dikwa, Nigeria. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters) (ABC News)

Republican Party presidential candidate Carly Fiorina suspends her campaign following a disappointing finish in the New Hampshire primary. (USA Today)

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie suspends his campaign for the Republican Party nomination for President of the United States. (CNN) (BBC)

Adair Turner former head of the U.K.'s Financial Services Authority, warns against the growth of peer-to-peer lending, telling the BBC that the practice will cause grave losses over the next five to ten years. (BBC)

China reports first case of Zika virus disease in a man who had traveled to Venezuela. (ABC News)

A pregnant Australian woman in the state of Queensland tests positive for the Zika virus. (ABC News Australia via MSN)

Proven oil reserves: 297,170 MMbl (#1 in the world; 20% of world reserves) Oil production: 3 MMbl/day (3.56% of world production) GDP (nominal) per capita: $7,576 (#76 in the world) Population: 30,206,307 (#44 in the world; %0.42 of world population)... https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Venezuela-not-a-lot-richer-given-that-its-sitting-on-the-worlds-largest-oil-reserves-and-has-a-population-of-only-30-million I like how he concludes his essay. "And the last thing that I'll leave you with is the wealth of the Chavez family: $550 million . So much for Socialism."

"The notion of mass "increasing" with velocity is an outdated one. Under current definitions of "mass", mass doesn't increase at all with velocity; instead, it is an intrinsic property of the object in question, which is the same in all reference frames. ... If you're inside your rocket ship traveling at 99.99% of the speed of light relative to Earth, you wouldn't be able to tell you were moving at all without looking out the windows (or at your instruments, etc.) Specifically, you would not somehow have more trouble moving because of your increased inertia, and you would not see time slow down for yourself. It's only observers on Earth who would see your time slow d…