Author: Steven Sahiounie

Egypt’s Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMS) announced today that the general consumer price index for the entire country reached (137.2) points in October 2022, representing a (2.5 percent) increase over September 2022.The main reasons for this increase are price hikes in the vegetable category (7.6%), dairy, cheese, and eggs (5.7%), meat and poultry (3.4%), cereals and bread (1.6%), ready-made clothing (2%), the goods and services used in home maintenance (1.9%), outpatient services (2.8%), newspapers, books, and stationery (30.5%), and higher education (15.1%). Moreover, the annual inflation rate was 16.3% in October, up from 7.3% compared to the…

A federal judge in the state of Texas has blocked United States President Joe Biden’s hallmark plan to forgive thousands of dollars in student debt. The Thursday ruling from District Court Judge Mark Pittman, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, comes as the programme was already on hold pending a separate federal lawsuit brought by six Republican-led states: Arkansas, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and South Carolina. “In this country, we are not ruled by an all-powerful executive with a pen and a phone. Instead, we are ruled by a Constitution that provides for three distinct and independent branches of government,” Pittman wrote in…

The United Kingdom’s economy shrank in the three months to September at the start of what is likely to be a lengthy recession, underscoring the challenge for finance minister Jeremy Hunt as he prepares to raise taxes and cut spending next week. Economic output shrank by 0.2 percent in the third quarter, Friday’s official data showed.But it was the first fall in the gross domestic product (GDP) since the start of 2021, when the UK was still under tight coronavirus restrictions, as households and businesses struggle with a severe cost-of-living crisis. The UK’s economy is now further below its pre-pandemic…

Scientists at the S.P. Korolev Samara National Research University have proposed a new, highly efficient approach to spacecraft control. According to them, they found a physical mechanism for trajectory self-correction during complex maneuvers that helps avoid undesirable course changes and unnecessary fuel consumption.Any object in zero gravity in its natural state orbits around the nearest celestial body, simultaneously rotating around its own center of mass. In order to travel in space, it is necessary to construct a trajectory for the vehicle so that it is composed of motions in different orbits within a star system, specialists explained.The calculation of the…

NASA has already sent a few robots to Mars, but so far the payloads have been limited to around 1.5 tons, roughly the weight of a small car. For a mission involving humans, a much larger payload would be required, around 20 tons.NASA has launched an inflatable saucer that acts as a heat shield, potentially allowing far larger payloads to be landed on Mars and other space objects with a significant atmosphere.When objects land on a planet or moon with an atmosphere, the speed of the object and the friction of the atmosphere create a massive amount of heat. That…

The first “carbon neutral” World Cup was built from scratch by what one expert calls “a big oil company dressed up as a country.” It will bring a million fans via airplane to a petrostate that emits more carbon per capita than any other nation on Earth. Qatar, in preparing the 2022 World Cup, has genuinely impressed some climate scientists and activists with eco-friendly innovations. But its grand proclamations of sustainability and climate neutrality have been dogged by criticism of its carbon accounting and, most of all, by these inherent contradictions. The tournament itself, organizers say, will have a net-zero impact on the environment — “though quite…

The men’s World Cup trophy grins at Yunus Musah every time the buoyant American teenager whips out his phone. He made it his screensaver some two years ago, around the time he debuted for the U.S. men’s national team at age 17. He kept it there, as daily motivation, as he turned 18 and 19, and as the real thing came into focus. He became a USMNT regular; they qualified for the World Cup; “and now that we are qualified, you’re just kind of waiting,” Musah said in August. Waiting, beaming and dreaming. But in the meantime, on Spain’s sunny southeastern coast, at Valencia, the La Liga club he…

CNN — Tesla drivers will soon be able to take a video call directly from their vehicle’s touchscreen dashboard, Zoom announced Tuesday. The video call provider announced on Tuesday during its annual Zoom (ZM)topia conference, where it typically teases new features to support remote calls, that its software is coming to Tesla (TSLA)’s built-in infotainment center. In a pre-recorded demo video shown at the event, a Tesla (TSLA) driver is seen taking a Zoom (ZM) call while recharging her vehicle. After this story initially published, the company told CNN Business the car will need to be parked show video; when the vehicle is in motion, only audio will be…

NEW YORK — New coach, same result in a New York basketball rivalry that’s become no rivalry at all. Kevin Durant had 29 points, 12 rebounds and 12 assists, becoming the first player since Michael Jordan to score at least 25 points in his team’s first 12 games, and the Brooklyn Nets routed the Knicks 112-85 on Wednesday night after making Jacque Vaughn their head coach. It was the second romp in the last four games for a Nets team that has responded so well to Vaughn that it decided not to pursue suspended Boston Celtics coach Ime Udoka. “We don’t want this to be…

NEW YORK — Karel Vejmelka made 24 saves for his first shutout of the season and the Arizona Coyotes beat the New York Islanders 2-0 on Thursday night. Travis Boyd and Jack McBain scored in the third period as the Coyotes won their third straight to begin an NHL record-tying 14-game road trip. “You’re seeing a team right now that’s willing to go to battle for each other, willing to play the right way for 60 minutes,” Boyd said. “Some people might be shocked by it, but we’ve got a lot of belief and we’ve got a lot of pride in our room.…