Sweden creates USD 1 mn prizes for food solutions

Stockholm: Sweden has created two USD 1 million prizes for solutions to feed billions of people, as climate change threatens the world’s food supply, organisers said Thursday. “The new Food Planet Prize is designed to contribute to this goal,” Johan Rockstrom, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Research in Germany who will co-chair the prize jury, said in a statement. AFP

Silicon Valley inventor of ‘cut, copy and paste’ dies

San Francisco: Silicon Valley on Wednesday mourned a pioneering computer scientist whose accomplishments included inventing the widely relied on “cut, copy and paste” command. Bronx-born Lawrence “Larry” Tesler died this week at age 74, according to Xerox, where he spent part of his career. AFP

Asian elephant in Argentina packs trunk for Brazil trip

BUENOS AIRES: Mara, the elephant, is packing for what may be the final trip of her 54-year life spent globe-trotting from India to Germany before joining circuses in Montevideo and Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she has been for the last 25 years. Mara’s road trip will take almost a week in an overland convey, during which she will be housed in a huge box and accompanied by caretakers. Reuters

Iranian headscarf campaigner calls for vote boycott

Geneva: Anti-headscarf campaigner Shaparak Shajarizadeh once believed in the potential for change in Iran, but is now so despondent she is calling for a boycott of Friday’s parliamentary elections in the Islamic Republic. Shajarizadeh became a dissident in 2018 when she was arrested for repeatedly removing her headscarf in public. AFP