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Quiz1Former All White Tim Brown is the co-founder of which company?
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Golfing for Trump South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is refreshing his golf skills in preparation for Donald Trump’s presidency, picking up the clubs for the first time in eight years, Yoon’s office confirmed yesterday. The move is emblematic of a new approach taken by world leaders, who are jockeying for ways to connect with the US President-elect, who famously values personal diplomacy. In a briefing with reporters Tuesday, a senior South Korean official said he did not know how hard Yoon practiced golf but noted that Trump is an avid and regular golfer. South Korean media reported Yoon went to a golf course days before last week’s US election, as well as at the weekend. Turbulent flight Eleven people — five passengers and six crew — were injured when a Lufthansa flight from Buenos Aires to Frankfurt hit severe turbulence while crossing the Atlantic, the airline said. “The safety of the flight was not in jeopardy at any time,” an airline spokesperson said. The injured received medical treatment immediately after the aircraft landed safely at its planned destination yesterday. The Boeing 747-8 had been carrying 329 passengers and 19 crew members. The turbulence was brief and occurred in an intertropical convergence zone, the company said. In May, a passenger died of a suspected heart attack and 30 were injured when a Singapore Airlines passenger plane was severely jolted by an air pocket over the Irrawaddy Basin in Myanmar. Space novel wins A British author inspired to write a novel about space by watching livestreams from the International Space Station during lockdown has won the Booker Prize. Samantha Harvey received the £50,000 ($107,000) literary award for Orbital, a “space pastoral” praised by the judges as a “beautiful and miraculous” work. The novel is set over 24 hours and told from the point of view of six astronauts orbiting the Earth. Harvey did her research online, spending time on the Nasa website and reading astronauts’ journals. But the majority of her time was spent watching livestreamed footage. At 136 pages, Orbital is the second-shortest Booker winner in history, four pages longer than Penelope Fitzgerald’s 1979 winner, Offshore.
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It could be a seven-year wait for people who bought a house at the peak of the market to not face a loss when they sell, CoreLogic says.
- Observer absent from first meeting
Wellington’s new Crown observer has prompted questions about his whereabouts on his first day in the job, with councillors surprised by his absence at a briefing yesterday morning.
- Anglican church leader Welby finally resigns
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has resigned “in sorrow”, saying he had failed to ensure there was a proper investigation into allegations of abuse by a volunteer at Christian summer camps decades ago.
- How Archbishop chosen
Who appoints Justin Welby’s successor?
- Keeping the faith in keeper
Gary Stead has backed Tom Blundell to end his form slump, as the Black Caps’ home test series against England ticks closer.
- Govt inaction ruins promise on pines
Despite election plans to restrict the conversion of farmland into exotic pine forests for the purpose of carbon farming, the National-led Government has done the opposite.
- Seaweed in feed can cut methane
Anew study has found using whole Asparagopsis seaweed as a cattle feed additive is significantly more effective at reducing methane emissions than using bromoform, the aquatic plant’s primary active compound, on its own.
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