2015-02-24 Namibia Health

Sydney Morning Herald   

Eating peanuts early could prevent allergy, study shows   
Sydney Morning Herald
Miami: A study has found that, contrary to previous advice, feeding foods containing peanuts to babies before 11 months of age may help prevent allergies, echoing some of the findings of Australian researchers. The findings in the New England Journal of ...

2015-02-24 Namibia Science

New Era   

Public servants urged to pull their weight   
New Era
SWAKOPMUND – Public and civil servants should not only sit in offices nor should they attend workshops for the mere sake of attending them, but must gear their efforts towards service delivery, Deputy Prime Minister, Marco Hausiku, has said. The outgoing ...

2015-02-24 Namibia Sports

Times LIVE   

Barcelona ignore crisis talk as they aim to take down City again   
Herald Scotland
'BARCELONA IN CRISIS...' began a headline in an English national news website on Sunday morning reporting on the club's Nou Camp defeat to Malaga the previous night. 'BARCELONA IN CRISIS...' began a headline in an English national news website ...

2015-02-24 Namibia Entertainment

Kazenambo Fights for Botswana Descendants   
New Era
Swapo member of parliament Kazenambo Kazenambo has called on government to take a serious look into all complexities surrounding the citizenship status of returnees of Namibian origin from Botswana. "It is hypocrisy of the highest order on our part that ...

2015-02-24 Namibia Technology

Wired   

Google Guns for Apple in Mobile Payments Race   
New York Times (blog)
Technology companies have spent years trying to persuade people to put away their credit cards and pay with mobile phones instead, but consumers have mostly shrugged. Now, with the release of Apple's Apple Pay application, the race to replace credit ...

2015-02-24 Namibia Business

Wall Street Journal   

US investigating big banks on possible precious-metal price rigging - WSJ   
Reuters
Feb 23 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are investigating at least 10 major banks for a possible rigging of precious-metals markets, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people close to the inquiries ...

2015-02-24 Namibia World

Zee News   

Top UK officials Jack Straw, Malcolm Rifkind exposed in sting, deny 'cash for ...   
Zee News
London: Former British foreign secretaries Jack Straw and Sir Malcolm Rifkind on Monday sought to defend themselves after they fell for a sting laid by journalists and were caught on tape offering their services to private firms in return for cash. While Jack ...

2015-02-24 Namibia Africa

UN News Centre   

Technology boost for UN peacekeepers 'essential' in rapidly evolving, complex ...   
UN News Centre
23 February 2015 – From the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to the Central African Republic (CAR), United Nations' peacekeeping missions must make greater use of technological advances in order to better confront the dynamic challenges of the ...

2015-02-24 Namibia Namibia

News24   

Swapo warns against land mass action   
News24
Windhoek - The ruling Swapo party has warned that planned youth mass action this week - by applying for plots for housing - might disrupt peace and stability in Namibia. "The position of the Swapo Party on this issue is that these efforts to disrupt peace and ...