Nigeria: Why Nigeria needs a national DNA databank

The need and importance of a national Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) databank for a rapidly growing nation like Nigeria cannot be overemphasized. DNA databank has shown to be very useful in almost...

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Georgian/Abkhazian war of 1992-1993: Burying son a ‘dream come true’ for mother

Engineering student Giorgi Popkhadze was 23 when war broke out in his home town of Sukhumi in 1992. Like his fellow-students, neighbours and friends, Giorgi stayed in Sukhumi throughout the 1992-1993...

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Father erects statue for daughter missing since 2011 tsunami

Since Norio Kimura cannot be with his youngest daughter, who was swept away by the tsunami of March 11, 2011, he has erected a small stone deity on a hillside to watch over her and keep her company...

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Death toll in Argentina gas explosion at 21; no more people missing and search called off

Rescue workers searching the rubble of an apartment building destroyed by a gas explosion last week in Rosario, Argentina’s third-largest city, on Monday found three more bodies, bringing the confirmed...

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Four still missing at Kulda open cast mines

The rescue team on Monday did not recover more bodies from the coal heap of Kulda open cast mines in Sundargarh district. "We had made a list of missing persons from nearby villages and four among...

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