BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 23. The official exchange rate of the US dollar and euro against Azerbaijani manat as of December 23, 2022, is set at 1.7 and 1,8028 manat, respectively, Trend reports via Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA). The manat rate to other global currencies for Friday according to the CBA: Currencies 1 US dollar USD 1,7 1…
BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 23. An aircraft of the Qantas Airways has made an emergency landing at the Heydar Aliyev International Airport in Baku, Trend reports citing the press service of airport. The airline’s Airbus A380, en route Singapore-London, requested an emergency landing at the Baku airport due to smoke in the cargo hold. The plane landed safely at…
Canada’s Western Hudson Bay polar bear population has fallen 27% in just five years, according to a government report released this week, suggesting climate change is affecting the animals. Every autumn, the bears living along the western edge of the Bay pass through the sub-Arctic tourist town of Churchill, Manitoba, as they return to…
The combination of the COVID-19 pandemic and high levels of opioid overdose deaths drove life expectancy in the United States down for the second consecutive year in 2021, with a child born in that year expected to live 76.4 years, the lowest figure since 1996, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control…
A former judge of the Supreme People’s Court, the highest court in China, is calling for the suspension or revocation of cases against some 80 people found guilty of violating “zero-COVID” policy regulations since the advent of omicron, a less deadly variant that began spreading in December 2021. China implemented the zero-COVID policy in…
Russia’s space agency said it is considering a plan to send an empty spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) to bring home three crew members ahead of schedule, after their Soyuz capsule sprang a coolant leak while docked to the orbiting outpost. Roscosmos and NASA officials said at a news conference Thursday they continue…
If not Elon, then who? That’s a question many are contemplating since Elon Musk, Twitter’s CEO, said this week he was actively looking for a new leader to run the social media network. Musk’s proclamation comes after more than 10 million respondents said in a Musk-created Twitter poll that he should resign. Musk followed up…
