With showers of blue sparks the great European expresses slid into Geneva’s railway station last week, and out of the windows came the bags & brief cases of many a diplomat. Both the Council and the General Assembly of the League of Nations were reopening. As usual, the statesmen did not wait for the gun. Hardly had they shaken hands with their favorite concierges before they were padding about the corridors, lobbying in each other’s bedrooms.

Mark Zielinski knew he was onto something when his mice stopped sleeping. Normally, the animals woke and slept on a 12-hour cycle. When the lights were on in the lab, the mice were active. When it went dark on a timer, down they went. But Zielinski, who teaches psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, had recently tweaked their schedule to keep the mice up past their bedtime. Zielinski and his colleagues would rustle the bedding in the mice’s cages to keep them from dozing off when they started to display the telltale signs of sleepiness—drooping lids, sluggish walk, EEG readings showing their brain activity was waning.

Ongoing Fireworks Displays Have Sparked Some Scary Conspiracy TheoriesBy Amber GarrettUpdated June 22 2020, 3:05 p.m. ET Source: istock, twitterAcross New York City and in other large metropolitan areas of the U.S., residents have been having a lot of trouble sleeping lately. Aside from worries over police violence and a pandemic, people have been reporting loud and constant fireworks displays at all hours of the night.  While this is known to happen the week leading up to the Fourth of July and a few days after, it's been going on for weeks.

The Imo State born actress was aged 56, and was survived by six girls and a son. The actress who resided in Enugu State, passed away at the University Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Enugu State, after a fibroid operation. ADVERTISEMENT Ekeocha was popular for movies including "Worlds Apart," "Price of the Wicked," "Ifeonye Metalu," "Torn at War," "Men at War" among others. May her soul continue to rest in peace.

Boko Haram have cut off another section of the 330 kilovolts Damaturu-to-Maiduguri transmission line barely 48 hours after the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) restored power to Maiduguri, Borno State. The latest power cut was confirmed to DailyTrust in a text message on Saturday by a senior official of TCN. “After concerted effort by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) to restore power to Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, insurgents bomb tower 152 and 153 on Damaturu – Maiduguri (Molai) 330kv line at around 5:56am on 27th March 2021, putting Maiduguri and its environs out of power supply again,” the official said.